Thanksgiving Weekend

Hope your Thanksgiving weekend was filled with lots of food, family and yarn. I got to spend three days with my sisters, nieces and great nieces. Adorable Great Nephew and Nephews too.

In just a couple of days it will be December. Knit-Wits will be meeting at our regular time and place. Thursday December 2nd at 6:00 ish. Panera on 35E and County road E.

How are you all doing on your knit-a-along slippers. I bought the yarn and pattern but hope to do a swatch today.

Annie Modesitt

Last Tuesday at the Minnesota Knitters Guild Annie Modessitt came and talked about how she designs from historical paintings. Her historical patterns are the subject of the book she is working on now. She explained her history with Combination knitting. I bought her book Knit With Courage Live With Hope which chronically her first year living here in the Twin Cities as she made frequent trips to Mayo while dealing with an illness. Also bought her other book Confessions of a Knitting Heretic. Both books look interesting and I look forward to reading them both.

Three of us went to Kelly's Knittervention last Friday night and had a great time. I bought the yarn for my Knit-A-Long slippers. Kelly hosts an open knitting night at her shop on the third Friday night of the month. We all bring snack to share as we knit and gab. I don't think we will be able to make the December one but plan to be back up there in January.

November Meeting

All those of us that read the November book really liked it.

At the November meeting we talked about Double Ewe Knitting Shop and were it is. The address is9201 Lexington Ave N #10Circle Pines, Mn 55014 763-780-2465. There website is
double-ewe-yarn.com so look them up and see all that is going on at Kelly's shop.

We also talked about Rebecca Danger and her cute monsters. Her website is rebeccadanger.typepad.com. You can see her Monsters and read her blog. From there you can et to her etsy and see all the Monsters patterns she has for sale. My sister is knitting up a monster without a pattern but just getting inspiration from the site. Me I would need a pattern. My sister is a lot more creative than I am.

No Knit-Wits until December 2nd. But a punch of us go to The Minnesota Knitters Guild meetings on the Third Tuesday of the month. There website with information about them is kitters.org. Hope to see some of you there.

November Meeting

At November's meeting we are going to kick off our winter Knit-A-Long. In the last few years we have either done a yarn exchange or knit-a-long. This year we are going to knit slippers. You can knit any pattern with any kind of yarn. Then in February bring your slippers and we will take a group picture. Bring your favorite slipper pattern if you have one or we will just kick around ideas at our November Meeting.

I am just about finished with our November book Samurai's Garden. It is such a surprisingly great book. Carol said it was the best love story she had even read and I think she is right.

After we finish up the two Millionan books and the "Your Favorite Knitting Book" we thought we would take turns reading a different members favorite book each month. As a book club it would be fun to get to know our knit friends better by reading their favorite book. So although this is months off be thinking about what your favorite book is.

See you this coming Tuesday 6:00 at the Maplewood Library.