So, to begin with, it was Jennie's birthday and here is the birthday girl in splendid top-down cardigan and cosy socks.
June also brought a bag of her lovely things. She knits the most amazing blankets but I only managed to get a shot of this Jubilee cushion which is so beautifully beaded and embellished I really ought to include a close-up of it. However I continue to be technologically inept so this is the best I can do for now.
Two new members, Ann and Penny, joined us this week and it is great to have them along. Penny wanted some advice on how to get started on a project for a toy elephant. She had brought along the instructions which called for a disappearing loop cast on and gave detailed diagrams and instructions for starting in this way. Here they are below:
Well, try as we might, none of us could make any sense of this. Some valiant attempts were made to work out the process, but in the end we had to admit defeat and instead Penny began with a variation of Judy's Magic Cast-on which I had come across in a Cat Bordhi tutorial on Youtube. It had the effect of getting rid of the slip knot bump, which was what the pattern was calling for, so let us hope it will do the trick for Penny's elephant, which is to be knitted on these fine gauge needles with the very softest alpaca yarn.
Having been to Mari's nalbinding workshops 2 years running, during York's Viking festivals, I still cannot master it. I get along fine at the workshops and think I have the hang of it and then as soon as I get home I have completely lost it! Perhaps you can give me a tutorial sometime, Ann, although I doubt I can ever get to produce work like this on the right.
So, what did I do? Very little knitting, whilst everyone else was being so industrious. But Jennie had brought along her wool-winder and I got to wind some of the endless skeins of Grignasco Merino Silk rather more quickly than I can by hand and nostepinne.
Thank you for a lovely morning, ladies. See you all again on 17th October.
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