Fozzie needs to learn how to knit

Fozzie is becoming more courageous since he knows the Chicks will be here every week on the same day at the same time. And believe me! He knows how to tell time. Just ask my husband when 7am, noon, and 5pm roll around.😉 Fozzie made himself comfortable against my knitting bag and spent the whole two hours watching us knit.

The early arrivals checked out the most recent donation of stash yarn given to us by one of my Stitch Angels from the Friday group. Thank you Ceil Broady! It is appreciated more than you'll know.

Everyone went right to work while we discussed Halloween preparations. Some of us buy enough candy for 10 to 20 kids and some for 50! We never know from year to year how much to buy. But not to worry! The leftovers won't go to waist...I mean waste! LOL!

Dorah added her brightly colored Helix Hat to our inventory. She had some yarn left over but her eyes couldn't take the neon colors anymore so Janna offered to make another Helix Hat with it.

Cinzia finished the pleated scarf. In order for the dimensions to show up you need to leave it without blocking or you'll lose all the depth of the stitch work. Looks lovely!

Margaret finished her Helix Hat too and was trying to explain how even a single stripe with only two colors can work using the Helix method to avoid a jog where the colors join.

Barbara B. finished the bind off on her baby blanket, Free Sunny Baby Blanket, which will be gifted to a family friend.

Then she cast on for a baby cardigan using a soft neutral yarn. This will be gifted as well.

Jan is coming along with her Galaxy Lemonade Shawl. 

The pattern is no longer available online though.

Barbara K.  made progress with her pleated scarf but she doesn't suggest it for social knitting. She marked off her pattern repeats to avoid big mistakes that require frogging.

Dorah started the Bewind Hat but was having issues with the alignment of the design. We tried to convince her that she should just let it go as a design element 

but I don't know if it will bug her too much.

Cinzia picked two highly contrasting colors to make a reversible stripes scarf. This link takes you to a pattern for a hot pad but it can be easily made into a scarf.

Annika added length to her scarf she is making for a fund raising program.

Margaret started a new hat today.

She likes to knit with bulky weight yarns so this won't take her long to finish.

I'm nearing the finish of the first half of a Musselburgh Hat using a DK weight yarn and the Fibonacci formula for placement of the stripes. Fibonacci is an interesting pattern which occurs in nature called the Golden Ratio and can be seen in the seed head of a sunflower spiral, for an example.

 Well, it's time to get the candy poured into the big red bowl that we use every Halloween so my husband can distribute it to the little ghouls and goblins. Then Fozzie and I will hunker down in my knitting room until it gets quiet again. He's not fond of the excitement. 

Enjoy the evening and keep those needles clicking!