Knitters Are Such Fun!

Tonight was the monthly Knit-In at Gourmet Yarn. What a great group! I got there late because I had to work but even arriving an hour into the event found the group going full swing. The energy level just soars in a room full of people brandishing pointy sticks and swirling yards of multicolored yarn into wonderful things.

I watched one member warping an Inkle Loom to make beautiful bookmarks, another was working on a gorgeous afghan, I saw scarfs and sweaters, the Berroco tote (twice! Both in the green Suede, two different knitters), a finished garter stitch baby sweater (so pretty, so soft!), some felted coasters, and all sorts of wonderous items. Laughter and needles just flew. I hated to tear myself away but had to leave early.

Here are momentos of the evening:

There are a number of informal knitting groups around the city. If you knit, if you want to learn to knit, if you just want to be part of an energy flow...come to one of these little get-togethers. You can never have too much yarn, too many patterns, or too many knitterly friends!

Metro OKC Knitting Guild meets the 3rd Sunday every month. You're all invited. We just started in October so get involved at the ground floor (so to speak)! The other group I'm involved in is the Knitty Committee. It meets the 4th Saturday of every month. Very informal and we welcome anyone who likes fiber - crocheters, cross stitchers, we've even had someone come with a drop spindle. Oh yeah, and knitters.

I had mentioned in an earlier post about Sugar, aka YI, sleeping on my felted tote. I finally caught her in mid catnap on it:

My "sneaking up" woke her up! And she was none to pleased to have the flash go off:

So a Kitty Pi is on my list of things to eventually make as I think she would actually sleep in it.

And here is my next felted bag. It's modeled after a paper lunch sack only with handles (I'm making it up as I go along). See how cleverly it's striping. I wish I could say I was changing the yarn but in reality, it is SELF-STRIPING!! Who would have thought!

I've got four rows of garter at the end but it still curls. The colors are so much fun. I can't wait to see how this felts up. So, anyway, to get the picture I'm holding the curl down and trying to keep YI (yes, the black nose in the corner) from another full body inspection. She likes yarn - she REALLY likes wool!

And the ugly sweater will soon be restored to yarn balls. I was thinking though, do you think it would look good as a shawl?