Donna brought her lovely shell crochet afghan and also these really cute hats made on a knitting loom. This technique uses is a larger version of the kind of knitting machine that used to be made out of a wooden spool and 4 nails. We stock the Clover version.
Pam had made quite a few hand warmers
Then she was working on Kirsten Johnstone's Seven circles necklace/scarf available free on Ravelry, using a cosy long colour repeat aran weight.
I have made a couple of these in the past, quite delightful. You cast on a cricular amount of stitches, then knit a few rows and cast off almost all of them, then cast on again, but a few less stitches and so on, until you have knit 7 circles. Paula Shasta had made me on in Noro Kureyon and felted it.
Pam was wearing a version matching a pair of her hand warmers.
Sharion showed her lovely multi stripe impromptu scarf, we loved the fringe.
Then this fantastic fairisle bag.
The discussion of the eveing was the use of steeking. That is knitting a tube and making an obvious vertical area on the tube in order to cut it open after the knitting is complete and make a button up garment.
If you know me at all you will know my 2 favorite knitting things are fairisle and mohair, so I couldn't resist taking a close up or two.
The evening was made complete by Kathy from the Wool Queen in downtown Oshawa showing some of her beautiful in stock materials. There was handpainted lace weight viscose and sock weight wool, SMC modern ski hat yarns, the new Zoofari sock weight from Regia, New large package rainbow acrylic from Cascade and much more. We really admired the printed material, including a sweet pattern book to make dresses for your dish soap bottle, a nice change from washcloths.
Great evening!
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