Knitting Day in Bowie
Posted by: Trish in Events, Project Progress, tags: baby, borders, Bowie, sweater
baby sweater with sleeve stitches on holders
Well, I was successful in getting the sleeve stitches onto holders today before knitting group, so here is the latest photo of the baby sweater in progress. It finally looks like a sweater, no? I’m finally seeing a light at the end of this tunnel.
Now some scenes from today’s knitting group:
Rhoda knitting on the BYOB bag from Knitty.com
Jo knits a shawl from handspun yarn
Dina is camera shy
(Dina is our new group member. She didn’t want her picture taken, but here she is!)
Lola knits a sweater
Marie was knitting and sharing her book stash--thanks!
Me knitting on my baby sweater
Lola saw that I posted on Ravelry to Jo the other day, asking if she had a drop spindle that I could play with at group today. Jo said no, she didn’t, but then Lola surprised me with this:
drop spindle with fleece and first attempt at spinning yarn
A drop spindle to play with and a bit of roving! I tried for quite a while to make yarn tonight and it was interesting to say the least. It looks so easy when I see others doing it! Maybe I’ll have to ask Lola to give me a lesson or two. I’m thrilled that she’s letting me borrow this spindle before I buy my own, though… it’s good to figure out whether I can even do it first. So far I’ve had yarn falling apart and lots of spindle crashing to the floor stuff, and very little yarn stuff, but I think I’ll get there. Wish me luck, and what a great afternoon it was. Thanks again, ladies! I had a great time.
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The knitting group looks like a fun bunch
Trish,
Spinning is like riding a bicycle…you can’t do it, you can’t do it, and then you can! Keep trying. Once you get it, you’ve got it!