I've not blogged much about my knitting class as I've never taught anyone to knit before and to be honest I'm not sure any of us thought it would last beyond practice squares! Basically, I was strongarmed last year by "Friend with a Strongarm" to teach a small group of my colleagues from work who I've known for so long now that they all belong in the close friend category than co-worker. 10 years ago I'm sure we would've all been horrified had we seen what our bitch and stitching future held but it would appear that for one Tuesday every fortnight we hang up our dancing shoes and our drinking arms and sit and ... knit! (We also watch VH1 so we can feel like teenagers again!) Some would say that most of us gave up doing those things long before we started knitting but it's not my place to say!
I'm so proud to say that we met last night for our usual fortnightly session and it was discovered that we have been bitching and stitching (mostly bitching!) for exactly a year now! I wished I was organised enough to have made a note as it would have been nice to have something fizzy to celebrate. Instead we'll have to have a belated celebration next session instead. Anyway - well done girls!
I seriously thought the group would become tired of me or of knitting but probably mostly of me making them knit but a year on and it's still going strong! Together we've made (although some have not finished but that's the real side of knitting isn't it?!) snowmen Christmas decorations and a whole flock of chickens from Rowans Organic Cotton Cotton Kids Collection. I've been meaning to take some pics of their FO's so I'll do that next time and let you see how they're getting on. Here's what Rowan think they should look like........
The next project is a scarf. It might sound basic but I think I might have finished them off doing the chickens and they've asked for something easy to do so they can watch TV at the same time! So some are doing garter stitch scarves for their babies and some are doing the same but for themselves. "Friend with Voracious Knitting Appetite" has already finished her baby's scarf and is ready to knit something for herself. She's going to tackle my Holy Moly Summer Cotton Skinny Scarf which I've posted on Ravelry and on Etsy. It looks harder than it is and is a 4 row pattern repeat where every even row is a knit row. Because of all the "holes" it knits up really quickly and uses about 75g of yarn. I think I'll do a wider one with really chunky wool for the winter too. If you buy the summer pattern I'll send you the winter update free once it's ready!
Here are some pics of Holy Moly which I hope you like too...
