We are going to have a very full meeting this Tuesday… our year’s theme of ‘texture’ is getting off to a great start… This is the information we got from the instructor, BJ Byrd:
Goal: Take a lace stitch pattern and adapt it to a triangle shawl or shawlette. Practice understanding how to increase in pattern.
Members need to bring:
- Yarn and needles, scrap yarn
- Red colored pencil (I will have some extra red pencils)
- Blue colored pencil (or other color if blue is not available)
- Regular pencil, eraser
- 4-6 markers (yarn loops can be used)
- crochet hook (if available)
- Ruler or straight edge (optional)
- Sense of humor
Graph paper and note cards will be provided by the instructor.
She will also have a handout on the following:
- Cheat sheet on K2tog, p2tog, ssk, ssp, and provisional CO
- Shawl pattern with schematic
- Practice session on a pattern with increases on both the knit and purl side. (Answer sheet for people to take home)
- If time allows, we will practice working right and left leaning increases on both the knit and purl side.
BJ writes…
If people want to make a shawl, we could discuss knitting a border that runs 90 degrees to the main work on the bottom edge (at a later meeting).
I will bring an example of lace knitted with increases on the knit side and purling only on the purl side. I will also bring a shawl that increases on both sides.
Depending on the group, this lesson could be completed at another guild meeting during the 6-7 p.m. time or at Charlotte Yarn. To me, understanding charts is critical to textured knitting (lace and cables, etc.)
Dues
As for Guild business, we’re fast approaching August, and that means that our dues will be due! Plan ahead for the August meeting.
Baby Booties…
Several meetings ago, Cristi showed some tiny baby shoes that she said stay on very well. We asked her to send us the information about them, and here we are with the ‘follow-up.’
Cristi said…
The pattern is Christine’s Stay On Baby Booties. Here’s the link:
They’re so quick and simple. I need to start another pair. They’re fun!
On the Fuzzy Galore site, the post mentions… This pattern was published in Threads no 22 (April 89) in a letter to the editor from Christine Bourquin. She was, at the time, 95 and living in Redwood City CA, still knitting, and expressed the desire to have her pattern live on.
Jeanie suggested that these would make excellent items for the Florence Crittenton center.
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more in future posts as we work out what we want to do with these channels, but we’re glad to be where our members hang out. Join us!
