February 2014 meeting

There just wasn't enough days in the month of February so we actually held our meeting on March 1st but we are still considering it or February meeting :-) We started with lunch and chit chat time. Followed that with the treasurer's report and show and tell.

Reba showed us how she came to desire learning Double Bed Jacquard to get rid of those pesky floats and she had some wonderful samples!  She has learned it very well.

and a lovely sock looking for a mate ;-)

Elaine is making one of her granddaughters a blanket on her 200 needle extended bed Bond with a hand knit garter stitch border

BJ has been making hats for the local Women's Center on her Bulky

Then we set up our machines for a knit along. We did the surprise Easter chicks pattern posted here.

http://www.knittenbuds.com/free-pattern-chicks.html

Elaine did hers on her baby Bond

Barb did hers on her new KH400 Convertible in the bulky mode

Kim did hers on her Brother Bulky

Our next meeting will be at Reba's house so she can show us DAK and double bed jacquard!

January 2014 Meeting

We started the New Year going gang busters with 3 demonstrations!  First we had lunch and chit chat.  Then came Show and Tell.  Elaine has been very busy knitting lots of warm, pretty hats for her charity.

She showed us how she knits them the "mile a minute" method

BJ had a couple of hats also, she was learning her "new to her" Electronic Bulky 270

and a lovely scarf also made on the Bulky, but with yarn usually used on a standard gauge

Also, a neat little tool she found on Amazon to help with picking yarn loops off of gate pegs! A lighted dental tool!

Kim showed us how to knit her beautiful ruffle yarn scarf on the bulky. I love the sequin yarn she uses as the main yarn :-)

Elaine gave a hat demonstration on her "baby" Bond, she is such a good teacher!

And I loved the demonstration of the little flower to put on the hats !

Leigh (a non machine knitter-for now) wanted to try her hand and she made a child's hat on Kim's bulky

 and learned the mattress stitch!

Lastly, we got Kim's motor all lined out and tested and she learned how to use the electronic patterning on her Brother Bulky 270!  We had a full and wonderful meeting.

2013 Holiday Meeting

As usual we combined our November and December meeting into one for obvious reasons :-) So yesterday we had a potluck party/meeting at Kim's house. Lots of fun was had by all!  We started with time to set up machines and chit chat.  We caught up with old friends and met new friends.

We even got to meet Kim and Carl's 3 week old puppies!

Then we moved to a potluck lunch, lots of yummies which I was apparently so busy eating I did not get any pictures of!

We had decided to do a gift exchange this year and some really wonderful things were made and exchanged, we are such an eclectic crafty group :-) 

 

Then we moved on to our project this month, which was fingerless mittens.  They can be done several ways and on any machine. 

We all want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  Our next meeting is scheduled for January 25th with the project TBA.