9-16-17 as of this date: 238 Volunteer hours and 53 donated items
Old Business:
Reminder of Andrée's October Fest, Sat. 10-14-17, 11a.m. to 4pm
You are asked to bring a dish, preferably from German cuisine, as well as your knitting. Email Andrée for directions to her house. Since it's way out in the country, plan on at least an hours drive to get there. Car pooling is recommended, both to facilitate parking and because you'll need a navigator to find your way there.
Although we are quite happy at our current location, it's always best to have a few options in the wings. If you know of a spacious place with good parking, central Hanover location, and availability for the third Sat. of each month, who will be happy with the token donation we can make, please bring the information to any meeting.
-Request: We are in the process of planning our schedule for 2018. If you have anything particular you'd like to learn or offer to teach, if you know of a potential guest presenter or site for a field trip, please share the relevant details at the October 21st or Nov. meetings.
TIp: Ravelry is offering a new service to facilitate finding yarn shops as you travel. Check it out! :-)
Re: our Oct. 21st meeting
It will be a simple sit 'n knit, as so many of us have too much knitting to do and too little time to do it! This will be the perfect time to find help with something that's been giving you trouble. Pull out something from that pile of unfinished projects and get it moving in the direction of finished!
Show 'n Tell:
- Suzanne K. has finished an interesting small crescent shawl in wine and deep pink. It's unique feature is the brioche edge. The pattern
name is Panopoly and it can be found on Ravelry. It also features a "tab" cast one, which Suzanne has agreed to teach us all at a future
meeting. This cast-on creates a delicate open effect edge. Can't wait to learn how to add that to other patterns!
- Corky has finished her Entrelac scarf, just in time to use as a model as she demonstrates to us today how to do entrelac. Tip: BLocking
makes a big difference in the finished product as it will help all the separate blocks lay down and unify. A busy knitter, Corky has also made
washcloths to donate, and a crescent scarf, Boom, found on Ravelry.
- Suzanne T. showed us her delightfully whimsical Halloween pumpkin.
- Mary showed us her latest, a top-down T-shirt sweater with raglan sleeves, in a color-changing cotton. She got the yarn from a favorite
shop in Charlottesville, Wally's.
- Martha shared some tips on using tension thimbles when using multiple threads.
- Andrée, who is still working her way through a collection of unfinished projects, showed us her current on the needles, a gorgeous smoke
grey lace triangle shawl, the perfect accessory for the holiday season coming up. Can't wait to see it when it's done!
- Jennifer: It's time to celebrate! The 64 square afghan is finally finished. Well, the squares are finished. Now it's just the small thing of
putting them all together.
- Suzanne S. is putting to the needles a project using the yarn she dyed a lovely pink, at our July workshop with Kristina Parker.
- Elaine B. showed the shades of pink, mermaid lapghan she knit for her daughter. On her needles are more Christmas gifts using Irish knit
stitches. She also dressed 2 stuffed toys for donation.
PROGRAM: Entrelac knitting presented by Corky
After seeing the lovely scarf she knit with variagated blue-green yarn, we were all expecting to find a complicated process to get to such a result. She surprised us when said said it's really quite easy, once you get used to the turning method to make each row of the box and how to turn it to pick up the next box. ...just short rows with a twist! She shared this YouTube site that she found helpful: http://verypink.com/ . In addition to the same scarf pattern she made, she gave us the pattern for a girl's hat. The best tip, however, was the site for a 'universal entrelac chart' made by Planet Purl, a useful tool to enable the knitter to keep straight which boxes come next: http://www.planetpurl.com/planetpurl/images/partyline/entrelac_class/PQP_universal_entrelac_instructions.pdf . You can read the universal directions, or just scroll down to the chart at the end of the directions.
Old Business:
Reminder of Andrée's October Fest, Sat. 10-14-17, 11a.m. to 4pm
You are asked to bring a dish, preferably from German cuisine, as well as your knitting. Email Andrée for directions to her house. Since it's way out in the country, plan on at least an hours drive to get there. Car pooling is recommended, both to facilitate parking and because you'll need a navigator to find your way there.
Although we are quite happy at our current location, it's always best to have a few options in the wings. If you know of a spacious place with good parking, central Hanover location, and availability for the third Sat. of each month, who will be happy with the token donation we can make, please bring the information to any meeting.
-Request: We are in the process of planning our schedule for 2018. If you have anything particular you'd like to learn or offer to teach, if you know of a potential guest presenter or site for a field trip, please share the relevant details at the October 21st or Nov. meetings.
TIp: Ravelry is offering a new service to facilitate finding yarn shops as you travel. Check it out! :-)
Re: our Oct. 21st meeting
It will be a simple sit 'n knit, as so many of us have too much knitting to do and too little time to do it! This will be the perfect time to find help with something that's been giving you trouble. Pull out something from that pile of unfinished projects and get it moving in the direction of finished!
Show 'n Tell:
- Suzanne K. has finished an interesting small crescent shawl in wine and deep pink. It's unique feature is the brioche edge. The pattern
name is Panopoly and it can be found on Ravelry. It also features a "tab" cast one, which Suzanne has agreed to teach us all at a future
meeting. This cast-on creates a delicate open effect edge. Can't wait to learn how to add that to other patterns!
- Corky has finished her Entrelac scarf, just in time to use as a model as she demonstrates to us today how to do entrelac. Tip: BLocking
makes a big difference in the finished product as it will help all the separate blocks lay down and unify. A busy knitter, Corky has also made
washcloths to donate, and a crescent scarf, Boom, found on Ravelry.
- Suzanne T. showed us her delightfully whimsical Halloween pumpkin.
- Mary showed us her latest, a top-down T-shirt sweater with raglan sleeves, in a color-changing cotton. She got the yarn from a favorite
shop in Charlottesville, Wally's.
- Martha shared some tips on using tension thimbles when using multiple threads.
- Andrée, who is still working her way through a collection of unfinished projects, showed us her current on the needles, a gorgeous smoke
grey lace triangle shawl, the perfect accessory for the holiday season coming up. Can't wait to see it when it's done!
- Jennifer: It's time to celebrate! The 64 square afghan is finally finished. Well, the squares are finished. Now it's just the small thing of
putting them all together.
- Suzanne S. is putting to the needles a project using the yarn she dyed a lovely pink, at our July workshop with Kristina Parker.
- Elaine B. showed the shades of pink, mermaid lapghan she knit for her daughter. On her needles are more Christmas gifts using Irish knit
stitches. She also dressed 2 stuffed toys for donation.
PROGRAM: Entrelac knitting presented by Corky
After seeing the lovely scarf she knit with variagated blue-green yarn, we were all expecting to find a complicated process to get to such a result. She surprised us when said said it's really quite easy, once you get used to the turning method to make each row of the box and how to turn it to pick up the next box. ...just short rows with a twist! She shared this YouTube site that she found helpful: http://verypink.com/ . In addition to the same scarf pattern she made, she gave us the pattern for a girl's hat. The best tip, however, was the site for a 'universal entrelac chart' made by Planet Purl, a useful tool to enable the knitter to keep straight which boxes come next: http://www.planetpurl.com/planetpurl/images/partyline/entrelac_class/PQP_universal_entrelac_instructions.pdf . You can read the universal directions, or just scroll down to the chart at the end of the directions.