Labeling Day

Dorah, Maureen, Barbara B., Jan, and Carole helped organize and label everything we've been making for the last few months.

Our original recipients fell through so we reorganized and all these lovely items will be delivered tomorrow to The Grassroot Givers on Washington Avenue in Albany.

Each piece gets a label with laundering instructions and our Chicks logo attached.

Barbara B. made this lovely shrug with a merino and alpaca blend yarn and gifted it to Jan for her mother. This is a great shoulder warmer right down to the wrists.

We collected 60 hats, 25 cowls, 4 scarves, 6 sets of hats with matching cowls (12 more items), 12 shawls, 1 blouse, 5 headbands, 2 pairs of mittens (4 items), and a pair of socks (2 items) for a grand total of 125 items. 

I now count pairs as individual items because we are still knitting two things not one large one.

Afterward, we took a well earned rest, mostly because some of us didn't bring our knitting.😉

Carole worked on the Oktoberfest Hat using a beautiful hand dyed yarn which is actually a blend of autumn colors not purple as you see in this picture. 

The editing features on this computer are not up to snuff.

                              

This is a more accurate rendering of the yarn color. It's a free pattern and a good gender neutral hat.

Carole also showed us her progress on her variation of the Musselburgh Hat. After seeing how I combined sock yarns using the Helix method, she decided to give it a try and it looks great!

I finally reached the other side of the reversible Helix version of my Musselburgh and I'm loving the purple! When this is finished, the wearer will have the option to wear the crazy stripes with a solid purple cuff or the purple hat with crazy stripes cuff.

Barbara B. worked on her baby blanket which has a simple knit some purl some stitch to create a nice block pattern.

Then she shared a brilliant idea of hers to use one of those spring loaded cord keepers (that you find on the end of the ski jacket ties) to move the stitches along the needle cord when it's a wide project like her blanket. It saves some time and effort if you don't have to stop every few stitches to push the work along the cable cord. She's a smart one!

While my computer is open I have to write the inventory list that accompanies the donation for tomorrow. So have a great week and keep those needles clicking!