The sun is bright but the temps are cold

Carole, Margaret, Dorah, and I stayed inside where it was warm and cozy.

Barbara B. couldn't join us today but she sent a picture of her finished 1898 hat which she fancied up with a Latvian Braid embellishment. We were all duly impressed!

                                          

Carole dropped off two finished hats for the inventory. This one is called Beloved.

And this one is called Squarshy. The yarn is from donated stash which grows when no one is looking. It's a Berroco yarn called Jasper and when Beth Mashmann was still in our group we thought she had used up every inch of it. Lo and behold! Didn't I find some more hidden in the bottom of the bin. LOL!

Margaret finished the set she's been knitting. The hat is Orchid Mantis and she used the design feature to make a pair of matching fingerless mitts.

Carole has yet another skein of Jasper to make this Rafa's Hat.

Margaret was showing us her Ann Budd pattern book which gives directions for multiple patterns in various weights of yarn and in various sizes so you can adapt a pattern to the yarn you  

have in your stash.

This is a great book to add to your home library.

As you can see, it easily displays all the information you need for the size and yarn you'll be using.

She chose a tam style hat which she said she hasn't ever made before. When it's time to block the hat, you need to put a flat dish inside the hat to keep it flat as it dries.

I had some mint green Plymouth Encore left from a previous project so I decided to make a child's size hat using the tubular cast on method.

I followed a YouTube video which casts on stitches without having to use waste yarn. I am pretty pleased with the neat edge it creates.

Part way through the afternoon Carole got tired of knitting the Jasper hat and pulled out these lovely skeins of Jamieson's Shetland yarn to make a Helix Hat. 

Carole and I are two of a kind. We have to have more than one project on needles for when we get bored with one, we can move to another. Personally, I think it's more like 10 for me!

But hey! It keeps my needles clicking!