Another hot day

Ninety degrees in full sun is just too much when you're knitting with wool, so we opted for another day inside. Happy knitters make nice clothing!

Our treats from Barbara B's magic oven were sourdough chocolate chip cookie bars. She makes many of these recipes with the part of the sourdough starter that is removed when the batch has to be fed. They call it discard but it would be a shame to waste it when you can make so many yummy treats with it.

 I finished the headband I was knitting last time. It can be worn with the knot in front like a turban or...

with the knot in back. It's a simple seed stitch design with slipped stitch edges.

This week I'm knitting another headband using a stitch pattern I found on YouTube. When it's long enough, I'll stitch the short ends together.

Dorah ripped out the section of her mitten that was supposed to be knitted with blue yarn and started over...

only to speed on automatic pilot and almost do it again. She caught it just in time to add in the blue yarn.

Maureen's Reversible Stripes Scarf is coming along. She is doing a great job of keeping in pattern. I don't think I would trust myself to knit this in a social setting.

Jan is knitting the Swirl Hat and her yarn is complimenting the pattern perfectly. A soft tonal or solid helps to highlight the movement of the design. A heavily variegated yarn would camouflage those diagonal bands. 

Barbara K's basic triangular shawl has grown since last week. She wanted the yarn to take center stage so a simple triangle with 4 increases on every right side row fit the requirements.

Carole decided to frog back some sleeve stitches on her Oh Baby! Sweater to shape the sleeves differently. I think she said they were too narrow and she wanted to make them a little fuller.

Barbara B was having issues with her sleeves too. The Top Down Raglan didn't have any decreases and she wanted to have some shaping in the sleeves so we checked out a couple of other patterns and she decided to throw in a few decreases along the length of the sleeve to make it less boxy.

Last week Nancy wanted to know the difference between Fair Isle knitting and mosaic knitting. After hearing how much easier it is to knit mosaic and slipped stitch knitting, she searched for a pattern and she's hooked!

You can see where the slipped stitches ride above the stockinette round in her Brick by Brick Hat.

Margaret made a ton of progress on her Helix Hat since last week. Now you can see the stripes traveling up the hat.

That wraps up another session with the Chicks. Have a great week and keep those needles clicking!