04.23.06
Let’s Knit at Delica’s
I was a little nervous when I woke up to such a rainy Saturday in Brooklyn. Would people cancel? Will people brave the weather? A small but dedicated group of Brooklyn knitters trekked their way to my neighborhood. When there is knitting and eating going on, the ladies know what comes first - EATING! We had quite a range, from homemade Ghiradelli chocolate chip cookies to Entenmann’s Glazed Popems to spinach pies from Damascus Bakery - it was all goood. Once we were all fueled-up we were ready to knit!
The lovely Caroline shows us her own hand-spun yarn. I should have taken a close up of this yarn - it was fascinating. She had spun the wool together with all sorts of goodies - rick rack, cloth and sequins to name a few. (Caroline, besides being a knitter and designer, is the spinning teacher at The Yarn Tree in Williamsburg.) Here Caroline starts knitting her wool into a scarf with a wavy pattern:
The multi-talented Shannon is making her pair to her first sock (Look at Cleo to the left of Shannon - isn’t she sweet? The first thing she tried to do when the food showed up was to try and snatch a popem).
I love the colors she chose! I have been craving to learn how to make socks and she gave me a mini-lesson on why she thinks knitting socks are great: easy to do, instant gratification, each section of the sock (from rib to toe) is quick, and plus they fit your feet (imagine that!) She also explained to me why Koigu yarn is amazing. Thank you, Shannon, for explaining to me the term “super-wash wool.” Shannon really knows her stuff - she’s also a papermaker, sock and mitten AND felting teacher at The Yarn Tree, and that is only the stuff I know about. (Learn more about her at carriagehousepaper.com)
And here is Dana, all-around-warm-wise-and-incredible person, receiving a lesson from Shannon on how to seam a raglan sleeve to a sweater front.
Her pattern is British and we were having a heck of a time figuring out the instructions. (In my case, the two glasses of white wine probably did not help the left-brain thinking process.) Cleo thought she could help us out by nosing around in Dana’s yarn bag.
When it comes to the yarn-thing, Cleo is mostly well-behaved. She went for Caroline’s yarn only once and then spent the rest of the afternoon napping.
Finally, here I am knitting my spring poncho. My wrist recovered just in time and I was able to knit off and on for about four hours without any twinge.
It was a perfect knitting-eating-talking-laughing day with my smart and talented friends.
(p.s.When I wrote this post I went into the html code to add page breaks and Wordpress would not save them. Any suggestions?)
Becky said,
April 24, 2006 at 3:39 am
A spring poncho! We like ponchos. Which one are you knitting?
Re the page breaks…is there an option in wordpress that allows you to activate html? (I have no idea myself!)
Lara said,
April 29, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Looks like you-all had fun!
Take care -