A week in review

Michelle and I met on Wednesday and caught up on life and our knits. She's making this great lace sweater from the Spring 2007 Filatura di Crosa book. This book has launched a lot of projects among the stitch and chat knitters.

She's knitting it in Karabella Vintage Cotton in a lovely rose color.

I'm using the vintage cotton for my starry night shawl (which I am nearly done). There are 600 stitches in the lace ruffle! Then there is some unique finishing to be done in cleaning up the ends. I've already picked out the yarn I want to make it in for the winter; Blue Sky Alpaca Silk yarn. We had our last class with Jane Elliott this week. She brought in a new design which was, of course, fantastic. We all bought a pattern and discussed what yarn we wanted. Check the Knitting Central blog for a picture (it's not up yet, so check back periodically). Jane continues to be one of my favorite designers. She is so creative and fun to be around.

On Friday I met up with Angela, Danni, Elizabeth, and Sara. I haven't seen Danni since Knit Together went out of business. We met when she was working on a sweater for her son. She's working on a lace scarf from an Ann Norling pattern. Danni wants to try out new stitches. We worked up a pattern for a cable scarf to be knit in Manos Cotton Stria. It was great to see her again.

I brought Elizabeth yarn she had been waiting for to continue work on her Brilla sweater (also from the Spring 2007 Filatura book.

Elizabeth made further headway on the dog afghan, she's more than halfway done with the dog motif squares.

Angela and I met up a little early to get perspective on where she was with two works in progress. Now she's back on track with them and plans on finishing them so she can start the Rowan sweater from this Spring/Summer book. It's the same sweater that Sheilah and Theresa are making only she's making hers in cream, light blue and dark blue. I think it will come out being very crisp looking.

Sara completed the front on her husband's sweater and was delighted! She's two sleeves away from finishing and moving onto something for her!

We got to talking about books. Danni is in a book club and offered the following titles:

Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants: A Novel

Namesake
The Namesake: A Novel

The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner