Eastside Stitchers Discuss Halloween and Dr. Who

Hello!

Tonight was the regular Wednesday night meet up of the Eastside Stitchers, and thank goodness.  It is always so ... refreshing... to spend time stitching with my buddies.  Truly, no one understands my fiber feelings, but other stitchers.

The evening started off wonderfully for me because Jan attended and wow, she brought me some new fiber to spin on my spindle.  She knows I am just beginning to learn how to spin. and wanted me to have some new fibers to play with.  She brought me a bag of Cheviot and another of Alpaca.

They both felt really neat, the alpaca was especially soft.  Jan also showed me how to comb the roving to get it ready to spin.  I can't wait to play with these, and compare them to what I am currently spinning (I have no idea what it is other than WOOL).

But enough about my wonderful fiber presents and on to the important part of the evening, Who was there, and What were they knitting?  I can say "Knitting" tonight because everyone who came tonight had a knitting project.

Jan was working on a scarf.  This is for a local charity for seniors.  Most of the scarves that have been donated so far are obviously for women, so she thought she would make something that could be for a man, too.

Skeinherder was working on her Windward Shawl in the luscious Malabrigo. 

For Show and Tell, she was wearing a very pretty scarf; I think it was the Directional Colors Scarf by Lion Brand Yarn.

GwenS was knitting her Guernsey Wrap by Jared Flood.  The yarn is Shepherd's Wool.  She bought it during her own solo Yarn Crawl in Portland.

Too bad my photo is so awful.  You can just barely see the beautiful textured patterns.

Vanesapolo was a vision in red.  She was wearing her red February Lady Sweater by Pamela Wynne, knit in Knit Picks Swish Worsted in the color Serrano.

Vanesapolo was knitting in red, too.  The Brioche Vest by Meg Swansen in Bartlett Yarns.

When it was time to go, Vanesapolo put on a coat, a RED coat.  I'm sensing a pattern here...


Redbird1 had on a lovely pink Saroyan by Liz Abinante.

She has finished her top secret test knit and it should be in the mail tomorrow.  Tonight she brought her Three Yarn Magic Scarf to knit.

Colleen brought a beautiful mohair scarf in a stunning red.  Sorry the photo is so bad but my camera just hates red.

Chockelet brought a variety of projects.  She has been knitting up a storm.
First was her two-tone scarf  she is knitting in Shepherd's Wool.

But Chockelet spent most of the  night working on her Clapotis.

Anerebe was making good progress on her Cecily Beret by Melissa LaBarre.

I'm sorry again that this photo is not the best.  Anerebe had some really cute stitch markers in her knitting.  You can just barely see one of them.

My worst photo, though, is of Ellyol's bear.  She is doing a fabulous job.  I am so impressed at how quickly she picked up knitting, and how quickly she is improving her skills.  Note the change of color.

Ellyol also started a knitted hat tonight.  I did not get a photo, but she successfully joined it in the round, and was well on the way to a neat ribbing when we had to pack up.  Practice makes perfect, and she is really cranking out the knitting practice.

That's all for tonight.  Allifer came right at the end again.  We missed Hrvdmnky who was at Rhinebeck!  Tara who was... missing,Jen who was probably at work, and our other good fiber friends.

O!  I forgot to mention the title of this blog.  We will not meet next Wednesday as it is Halloween, but on Thursday, instead.  And for some reason, this caused a big discussion of Dr. Who.  I don't actually remember the tie-in.  But I am always ready to discuss Dr. Who.  David Tennant is my favorite Doctor.

Stay safe and well.
Yours,

f1bercat
Shaping the planet with great stitching buddies

Quidditch Food Fight!

Bellevue, WA sunrise

Hello!

Just a quick post.

I left my home in Washington Saturday, September 29th and flew down to Southern California.  I am staying at my brother's house again, for about 2 weeks while his wife is doing some military training.

The internet is very slow here, so posting photos is a bit difficult.

HPKCHC

I managed to turn in one last class for the Harry Potter Knitting Crochet House Cup.  I had finished all of my classes, and well, I just needed to make SOMETHING.  So I hooked a scarf that I had gotten the materials and pattern for while on the 2012 Puget Sound LYS Tour back in May.

This scarf, modeled by my niece, Bella,

was hooked with Shepherd's Wool by Stonehenge Fiber Mill in Raspberry.  I got the yarn and the pattern, X Marks the Spot, at Knot Just Yarn in Burlington, WA.

 It was a super fast hook.  I made it about 20 chains longer, and 1 extra repeat of the pattern.  Then I left off the border, and just sc'd around the scarf.

I turned it in to the History of Magic class.  This class's assignments were all centered around a story from the book The Tales of Beedle the Bard.   Especially, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, which, it seems, was once produced at Hogwarts as a play.  One of the choices was to craft a prop or set piece for the play.  So I turned in this scarf and said that it was a "Creeper" that had come out of a crack in the wall surrounding a magical garden where the fountain was hidden.  The Creeper grabs the 4 main characters, and drags them into the garden.

The last thing I crafted before September ended was something for Quidditch.  The 2nd Quidditch challenge is a Food Fight!  The idea is to craft food, or something that has anything to do with food, then virtually (on a thread in the group) throw it at someone in another house.

I had promised my sister, K, a wine cozy.  When I visited her in Houston last July, I had brought her a Teapot Cozy, but she didn't have a teapot!  So, I told her I would make her a wine cozy.  The Quidditch challenge was the perfect push to get this gift finished.

I used It's My Party: Wine Cozy pattern by Donna Hulka.  It only took a few hours to finish it.  I  brought it with me to Bella's basketball game, (her team won)

and finished it before heading out to the Holy Family Cathedral Fiesta

When I got back after the Fiesta, I posted on the Group, and virtually shook up a bottle of Butter Beer, then sprayed Sentstarr of Slytherin, my partner in the Interhouse Unity Challenge in September.

Not the best photo, but I was trying to just Get It Done and turn it in.  It is my first time crocheting with beads.

I also managed to finish my Better than French Vanilla Socks, except for the final Kitchenering of the toes, then did that when I woke up today, and WIP'ed the First!  by turning in a finished WIP for detention on the first day of the new month.

I have cast on a new pair of socks in purple yarn for SKA, SolidSocks, and my OWL, as well as the Mobius Cowl for my son, Pookie.  Photos of both to follow.

O!  also, in a short where in the world is f1bercat, I walked around the block this morning, which was not that easy as the temperature went over 100 F.

Stay safe and well.
Yours,
f1bercat
shaping the world with a bunch of new class assignments

The band, Cheap Date, performs at the Fiesta