Our first outdoor knitting day!

We had a breezy 82 degree afternoon for a very pleasant knitting session. The sun kept moving until we no longer had a large enough patch of shade for those of us who didn't want full sun but a little sun on my GLOW-IN-THE-DARK pale legs can't hurt. 😉

 Barbara K finished two hats that have been in progress the last few weeks. This helix hat and...

this striped hat used up some of the leftovers from her stash. Both hats are a great example of what to do with small amounts of yarn.

Barbara B finished a helix hat too. The colors of this remind me of a fuzzy bumble bee.

This is her Beacon Hat: Worsted which was last week's WIP.

Dorah made good progress on her baby alpaca hat she started last week. 

The fiber is soooo soft and hypoallergenic too!

Barbara K worked a few more inches of her striped scarf with the lovely color changing yarn.

Jan was having issues with a red scarf she was trying to knit. But we think the yarn didn't want to be that scarf. So she pulled out her Simple Sideways Triangle Scarf to restore her tranquility. She and I were trying to make sense of the red scarf pattern which was a poorly written pattern but finally decided it wasn't worth the aggravation. I know not all pattern designers are professional but it would be nice to have a friend knit the item from the written instructions before releasing the pattern to be sure it makes sense!

Nancy continued on with her Dupont Street Hat with the slipped stitch motif.

Tina is determined to knit down her stash and found a sparkly fingering weight yarn which was too fine a gauge for the hat she wanted to knit.

So she searched on YouTube and found out how to do a Navajo Ply which turns a single strand into three and makes it a heavier gauge, in this case more of a DK weight yarn.

Barbara B found a pretty variegated purple yarn in her stash to create the Zomboni Scarf. That's zOmboni, not like the vehicle that cleans the ice hockey rink.😉

I had some natural colored superwash wool left after finishing the All Wound Up Beanie... 

so I used a knit into the stitch below technique to make a thermal ear warmer. Just a few more inches and I can sew up the short ends.

Her treat today was a box of homemade sourdough oatmeal raisin cookies. Yummy!!!

As soon as the ladies left, I came inside to see this! His stare was kind of creepy. 

Like the twins from that Nicholson movie.😟

Well, the stare worked! He got his afternoon snack and now he's napping somewhere, only to reappear when he hears a wrapper crinkling or at the next mealtime, whichever comes first. 

Have a great week and keep those needles clicking!