April 9th 2011

There is a Shop Hop going on this weekend you might want to check out some of them.

This coming Tuesday is our April Meeting. We are reading House Rules by Jodi Picoult.

Look forward to see you there.

June July August

Maplewood library needs the books we will be reading at our June, July and August Knit-Lit meeting. So when a few of us got together at Double Ewe this weekend we came up with ones we thought would be good.

We try to pick books that have lots of copies in the library. Once in awhile we do pick harder to find books. Since it is sometimes hard to get new or less popular books checked out and read in time so I suggest that you put in your request now so that you get it read by the meeting.

Another great place to find books is the 1/2 Price bookstore. Often I buy the book group book there because it takes me more than the three weeks to get through a thick one. If I'm not enjoying a book it takes me twice as long to read it.

Slippers

This winter we did a slipper knit-a-long. Some of us brought ours to the March meeting. Several others had brought them to other meetings.

The pattern we talked about: Aunt Maggie's Slippers can be found at bevscountrycottage.com/maggieslippers

The group decided to adopt the Minnesota Knitters Guild service project as ours too. We will be making chemo hats. The are many patterns out on the internet. They need to be made from a specific chemo hat as the size differs. Also the fabric needs to be soft with little or no wool so it doesn't irritate the skin.

Most of us liked the February book The Girls From Ames. Although there were some that were less than thrilled.

The March book is House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Deb choose this book.

Snow Day

Enjoying a snow day. I wish it was not on a day we already had off from school but a snow day is always a joyous thing. Today I'm knitting on a Chemo Cap.

Yesterday a few us went the the Annual Minnesota Knitters Guild Tea. The food was great. Not many there because of the snow but a fun time was had by all. The MKG is going to be making Chemo Hats (in honor of a member who died of cancer last year) for it's service project this year. A few of us thought that would be great for our Knit-Lit group to do too. We could just take them to MKG and they would distribute them. They plan to distribute them in Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul. If any one in our group has a place they would rather take them I'm sure we would all be open to that.

There are a lot of patterns for Chemo Hats. They sized differently sized due to loss of hair. Also they are made out of different yarn since wool often too irritating. So please use a pattern specifically for Chemo and note the yarn used.

Hope you all get to enjoy the snow day by knitting.

The picture above is some of the scarves that we knit for the Special Olympics. Every one that had not done so brought there scarves to the February meeting for Pauline to mail off to the Special Olympics.

At the February meeting we all brought our favorite knitting book or magazine. It was fun to see what each of us picked as our favorite.

January Meeting

Everyone at the January meeting was knitting along on their Special Olympics scarf. Remember to bring them to the February meeting so Pauline can get them off to the Special Olympics people.

We finished up the Swedish series. Everyone liked the books but felt there was still so much more we wanted to know about the main characters.

After your done with you scarves don't forget our Knit-A-Long slippers that we will bring to our March meeting.

Happy Knitting

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Hope your starting out 2011 with a lot of knitting. Do you have any New Years resolutions that related to knitting? If so be sure to share them at our next Knit-Lit meeting.

I finished on of my slipper-socks. Since it was so not the pattern I bought the yarn for I need more yarn for my next sock. Lucky for me Kelly is having an open knitting today so I'll be up there knitting and getting new yarn. I'm hoping she has her gray mesh bags in too.

This coming week has the first Thursday of the month so the Knit-Wits are meeting at our regular Panera ( County road E and 35E) at our regular time (6:00).

The following week we are finishing up the Million series at our meeting at Maplewood library.

May you have a great New Years Weekend with lots of knitting.