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Showing posts with label USCRI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USCRI. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Wrapping Up

We started out catching up on the news about all the grandchildren's activities. Liz and Kathleen share grandchildren and there was a big game this weekend that dominated the conversation. It must have been a doozy.
Then Kathleen started pulling out all the items she knitted this week. This is the scarf she was working on last Tuesday. Done!
Two cabled hats like the one Barbara made. Done!
Buttons on the shawl collared cowl. Done!
And nice buttons at that. I'm going to have to start a button box for myself. Kathleen always comes up with the best buttons from hers.
Deeva is down to the last few rows of her scarf and Liz is almost halfway through hers.
Beth finished a hat to go with the mittens from last time.
And then we attached our labels to the goods to be given next week.
Four large bags were filled with such nice things. There were two pairs of mittens, 15 baby hats, and 3 adult hats.
In the sweater department there were 14 baby sweaters and 5 more with matching hats. Liz made two baby sacs with matching caps. We counted two blankets, booties, baby mittens, a vest, a capelet, 1 shawl, a child's pullover and a cardigan.
These are the items which will go to USCRI or the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
Check out next week's blog for the report on the delivery and our luncheon afterwards.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

"Wink" if you like to knit

I finished another shawl for Karin to display at the Sock Summit in July. This one was made using the yarn "Wink" . This yarn has a subtle glittery thread running through it that gives it just the hint of sparkle and it's a dream to knit.
Everyone seemed so serious this week. We did smile and have fun but you couldn't tell from these pictures. I guess we were all concentrating on our patterns. Barbara made lots of progress on the top-down cardigan she's knitting for the local USCRI office.
Liz is just casting on for a baby sweater for the same group.
Kathleen finished another cardigan from the book Knit Lace and Leaves for Baby.
Now she's looking for inspiration from a book I just purchased for the Chicks' library. It's called 60 Quick Baby Knits and it has some of the cutest projects all using Cascade Superwash 220 yarn.
Our evening group was busy too. I'm still working on a triangular version of the Jared Flood Noro striped scarf. It will probably take me months to get through it because it's a project that I save to work when I have to wait for an appointment.
Karin worked on socks using one of her latest hand dyed yarns called "Tree Frog" . I hope she doesn't forget to save me a skein. It's beautiful! And Maureen added a few more inches to her reversible stripes scarf.
We will all just keep those needles clicking until there's no more yarn!