The Shawl--Liz in Diamonds

Well I forgot to post the shawl that I finished and blocked 2 days before our son's wedding. I really loved how this came out and will defintely use Jaggerspun again for another shawl. Such lovely yarn.

And I named her "Liz in Diamonds", it was lovely with my little black dress.

Wow--Back in Gear

Well, I haven't updated our blog in quite awhile. Was so surprised to see the last time I had posted.

Been traveling for the last 2 months in our RV, then hafter getting home we took off for about a week up to Camp Ronald McDonald doing all kinds of different tasks to get the camp ready for the Winter. This was our 2nd time there this year and we will be back up in the Spring. Hopefully, the winter will not be that harse, but already see there will be some staining that I will be working on. It is such a wonderful endeavor and we feel really good doing this kind of volunteer work. Roberta has been in France for awhile and others of us have just been real busy.

So now that I am back, I'll share with you what I just finished. It is a cowl that I knitted up. Now, I must get back to finishing the Felted Purse for Violeta's GD and the sweater for my daughter in-law.

Fall is coming up, but you sure wouldn't realize it with our warm weather. Looking forward to seeing the girls this coming Thursday, I sure have missed them.

Have a good week and here is a pic of the cowl:

The New Year Is Here

Well, all of us in our knitting group survived the holidays with our families, friends and other loved ones. Our get together's have been a little small but we are slowly increasing in numbers now that the holidays have passed.

Over the holidays, Adrienne and I got to see Mary Ann #1 (remember the story about our group having 3 Mary Ann's). She and her hubby were up for New Year's so as she was close by, "A" and I went over and saw her for a couple of hours. It was great seeing her and we talked about getting a trip together to go down and see her. She'll be back up in March, so hopefully we can all get together then.

About 3-5 of us are knitting up the Origami Pullover sweater. This project will take us many months to finish. We call this knit, our mindless project, as it is K1,P1 throughout the whole project. We knit up 2 pieces and then put together. We have all decided this will be the project we take with us on trips and/or when we are getting bored with what we are already working on. Plus, you can have a couple of sips of wine while you are knitting this one up, just don't do a P when you are suppose to do a K, haha!!!

One of our knitters will be heading out to NY in the next week and will be gone for about 3-4 weeks. Her husband is having surgery, so we are all wishing them a safe trip and successful surgery.

Another knitter (Bev) just had a new granddaughter born in December. Her parents named her Hazel and she is just a little cutie. Bev's oldest daughter is expecting her first child around the late February/early March time frame, so Bev will have 3 Grandchildren in her family.

I'm going to start taking some pictures and posting them on our blog to share with everyone.

Looking forward to what we will all be knitting up this year.

Huffington Post---Am I A Artsy/Crafty Crazy Because of Ravlery

First off, I will offer this up, I am a member of the Ravelry.com community. With this said, yesterday while reading through Huffingtonpost.com, they had an article about the craziest/zaniest on line social networks. Yep, you got it, Ravelry was listed in this article. They labeled the members of Ravelry as "Artsy-Crafty" people who knit or crochet. Well, I defintely do not consider myself as "artsy-crafty" but rather someone who likes to take what I would call "a couple of skiens of yarn and knit it into something that comes out as a hat, scarf, shawl,sweater and/or sock. It is amazing sometimes how the yarn and/or color knits up into a finished project. And I have participated in test knits for designers which have challenged and enhanced my knitting skills.

Back to Ravelry, yes it is a social network, but it is not just about knitting, crocheting and/or designing. It is a place where people have come together because of a common interest which is knitting, crocheting and/or designing a pattern. On this site, there are groups (which it is your choice to join or not) who participate in Mug, Wine and/or Yarn Swaps, Crock Pot Recipes/topics, Politics, Techniques and also where designers look for individuals to test their patterns before they are published. Now I have only listed a small number of these groups, because there are many.

People have what is called a "Ravatar" which is their ID and they can be pretty unique. It is interesting to see the pictures and/or characters people will use along with their rav name.

What I like about Ravelry, is that you connect with people all over the world, yes we cross state and country borders. People are not judged by their appearance, economic standing, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc, etc. Some might consider this community kind of "high schoolish", but I do not as I remember in high school, if you weren't this or that you might not be allowed into this or that group. However, this does not mean there are not individuals you come across that may not like you or you may not like them, well you just don't connect and/or converse with them.

Considering Ravelry just passed their 1M mark (yes Million), there must be a whole lot of "artsy/crafty, crazy/zany poeple" out there and I am glad to be part of this community.

I'm Back and So are the Girls

Well we got back from our long trip over to Europe and the cruise in late October.

The first Thursday, I headed over to the knit shop and no one was there except Adrienne. So her and I had a chance to visit and talk about my trip.

With the weather getting a little cooler and all, more knitters are starting to show up. As I had Chloe with me this past week, we didn't stay over at the knitting shop that long. But we did pick out some "bright pink" yarn for her 1st knitted sweater from Grandma. It was great seeing everyone starting to come back and doing their knitting of their projects.

Last week, I took a purse class presented by Lorna Miser. Lorna used to own "Lorna's Laces". She just published a new book and after meeting her, learning some new techniques for lining purses and all bought a copy of her book. Yes, she signed it as well. Lorna is a pretty cool person and has lots of patience. Our group had a great time with her. So now I have a new project on my needles, a sweater for Chloe from Lorna's book. As Chloe's favorite color is "pink" having to do figure out where I want to place the pattern of reverse ss on the sweater. Can't wait to see how it comes out. I'm also knitting up a "test hat" for someone as well.

My Hot Red Lacy Tank Top

Everyone, well I finished the tank top. It is packed in the suitcase and on its way to Europe with us!!!!!

Wanted to share the finished project with all with you.

See you all in 2 months!!!!

Summer Is Almost Over

Well we have been getting together over the last couple of weeks. Some weeks our group has been small and some weeks we've had a large turn out. With everyone and their summer vacation plans we have been doing pretty good finishing our knitting projects.

A couple of us bought the Origami Kit so would expect that we will be knitting this up in a couple of months.

I'm going to be taking off for a long trip so I won't be posting to this blog for a little while.

Everyone, I'll miss seeing you on Thursday's but believe I'll be pretty busy with our travels and all. And yes, I'm taking my needle's with me. Maybe I'll get those socks knitted up while I'm gone!!!!