not subtracted
I’ve been added . . . to the Alaskan knitters ring. Thanks - I am looking forward to reading and learning more about some of the knitters who live here in Alaska. I know they’re out there - I just don’t always get to visit with them.
Tuesday was an exception. It was the last day of the forum I attended for work - I spoke Monday, but Tuesday was pure learning for me - a nice break.
I noticed one of our speakers - as she waited her slot on the agenda - sitting quietly knitting. During lunch I asked her what she was working on and she brought over the most luscious felted bag - deep burgundy with a gray band around the top - and a very cool and sparkly funky yarn banded in the body of the bag and in the gray.
Gorgeous!!!
A coworker of mine and I oohed and ahhed and, of course, we asked where she had gotten the yarns - one came from The Knitting Grounds and the other was from Far North (doesn’t seem to have a web presence). I’ve never been to Far North and only recently found the Knitting Grounds - I am sensing a need for a visit to Anchorage for yarn . . . oh, it’s a sickness, I tell ya.
At any rate, should she be peeking in, I’d like to give a shout out to the woman with the gorgeous felted bag - I don’t have permission to share her name, so that will have to do for now.
My coworker is a sock knitter - she has made some gorgeous pairs - so a shout out to her as well since I also shared the address to this site with her.
Since I wrote about not taking needles to the first day of the forum, and since I knew I did not have to speak Tuesday, I decided to take along a project. Yup - the squares - I popped them into a bag with some labels and scrap yarn and during the first hour I attached labels to 29 squares. I made enough labels for 40 squares, so when I got home I started to work on the remaining.
Shelly, I should be getting them into the mail to you by Friday - unless you would like me to crochet the black edge around them - then it will be someday next week. What say you?
Have a wonderful hump day, everyone. Leave a note so I know you’ve been by.
knitting, felted bag, anchorage, local yarn store, charity, granny squares
August 29th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Barbara, yours come out the right size (some don’t). If you’d like to use black Red Heart yarn to rim most of them that would be wonderful. Leave a couple of them unrimmed, because some of the volunteers have chosen to use a softer yarn to put them together, and they love getting the squares from “exotic” places!
I appreciate you.
Shelly
August 30th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Been here, and read,
you are an insperation to all of us out there,,,, that wish we could do more. but don’t seem to have the time yet. MAUH!
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