Eastside Stitchers STEEK! Video Proof!

 

Hello,

Horrible weather today and yesterday; that Pacific Northwest thing we get, where the temperature hovers right about freezing, but really just a few degrees above.  So we get sleet and some flurries, but it doesn't stick, then it's slushy, then freezing overnight when it dips to just below freezing, so we are all sliding around and falling down.  Then it warms to just above freezing during the day, but in the shady spots, it is still frozen.  And now it's all slushy again, and then it will freeze again over night.  It feels really cold.  But there is no snow to play in.  Welcome to our winter.

However, when I ran out on the deck to get a photo of the hills since the clouds had mostly lifted after the fog of this morning:

I saw a bluejay on our hedge.  I know that photo is a bit blurry, but,  a Bluejay!  I just love them.

This morning the "LoL" part of Eastside Stitchers (Ladies of Leisure, though we would be happy to have any men stitchers in the area join us) met to knit and eat brunch (that was me), and STEEK! a gorgeous vest at Crossroads Mall.

Who was there, and what were they stitching?

Redbird1 brought the most gorgeous show and tell. A Linen Stitch Scarf from Churchmouse Yarn and Teas. 

She is ready to trim the fringe, and then, all finished.  This is the 3rd or 4th? scarf knit by a member of our group.  I am thinking that I really need to knit one.  They are just beautiful.

Redbird1 was just beginning an Eternity Cardigan by her fiber-bff, Jared Flood.  She is using Shelter yarn, in the Soot colorway.

We had a new stitcher this morning! CodyJunk joined us at the big round table in the middle of Crossroads, right under the skylight.  It is so nice to make new fiber friends, and CodyJunk fit right in.  She was working on a  scarf, with the somewhat horrible name:  Halloween Pumpkin Orange Cable Scarf by Isle Gardenia.  CodyJunk's was just lovely in Cascade 128.

Skeinherder was finishing up her Snug as a Bug Sleep Sack by Robyn Devine.  She is knitting this in Ohio State colors.  I especially like how she did the graduated stripes.

That button on the "sack" looks just like a Buckeye.


Vanesapolo finished her Wingspan this morning.  She had to take apart her gauge swatch to have enough yarn for the bind off!  She used up the last of the Noro from her Strata Sphere.

She also brought her vest to steek.  This is her own design, and will be posted soon at her site on Ravelry.

She showed us how she had prepared the vest for steeking.  The vest was knit in the round.

 She wanted armholes.  So had crocheted 2 rows catching in the stitches near where she planned to cut so they wouldn't unravel.

And then she.... CUT HER KNITTING  (Just a warning, it was a bit loud at Crossroads that morning, and my camera picked up all of the noise, so turn down the volume before you watch this)

Isn't it amazing?

Peace.
Yours,
f1bercat
shaping the planet with brave stitching buddies.

OOW Eastside Stitchers Meet and Frog on a Friday Morning

Hello!

The Out Of Work part of Eastside Stitchers can't seem to get enough group stitching in, so we met at Crossroads Mall for a Friday Morning stitch.  What a great way to start the weekend.  Presiding over the table were Skeinherder's Purled Christmas Tree and Jolly Wee Elves.

Some other people were in our usual spot!  (the nerve of them), so we moved to the middle of the mall,  discovered that the lighting was actually a bit better there.


MsWiz brought a variety of WIP's but settled on a lace scarf, once she figured out which row she was on.

Redbird1 cast on 264 stitches to begin a lovely new cowl,  Biscuit by Bonnie Sennott.

Skeinherder was knitting away on a Snug As A Bug Sleep Sack by Robyn Devine in Michigan State colors.

 I am totally making one of these for my brand new niece (more on her later).  And I am very tempted to make the Biscuit cowl, too. 

As usual, Vanesapolo was wearing some gorgeous thing she had knit.  Today it was her Strata Sphere by Sandra McIver in Noro Silk Garden.

She had brought quite a bit of show and tell.  Most were her new designs, so I don't have photos of those as she is not quite ready to make them public (I will be sure to post with links as soon as she gives the ok), but I do have a photo of her finished Habitat by Jared Flood,

 and a finished garter stitch baby kimono.

She was working on a Wingspan by maylin Tri-Coterie Designs with the Noro that was left over from the Strata Sphere.

We had a new Eastside Stitcher join us at the table.  It is so nice to meet new fiber friends.  There is always room for more.  If you are in the Bellevue area on a Wednesday night, or now a Friday morning, stop by, and bring your stitching.

By the end of the morning, Redbird1 had discovered a dropped stitch in her newly cast on cowl (remember that was 264 stitches!).  So, she.....

Ripped it.

Peace,
f1bercat
shaping the world with great friends.