HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year to all!

Hope your holidays were wonderful. How many of you asked for gift cards from your LYS? How many of you got one? If you bought yarn or started a new project over Christmas raise your hand. Both of mine are raised! Let us know what you're working on.


Knitting Daily sent an e-mail out about their new TV program. Its website has many free patterns and lots of great information. (KnittingDaily.com and KnittingDailyTV.com). You've got to check them out. I'll add them to "Links We Love". It's well worth becoming a member (free) for the great patterns and knitting tips.

I'm looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Thursday. Have you missed getting together as much as I have? As wonderful as this time of year is, I'm always ready to get back to routine. I'll be bringing a finished (well, almost...just need to steam it) prayer shawl, another on the needles as well as a purse I knitted over Christmas and the turquoise shawl. Woo hoo!

Here's to the wonderful year ahead of us!

Christmas is Coming

If you've checked back with us since Thanksgiving then you've probably noticed the turkey is still knitting. Cute as she is, it's time for a change. It's not that we've been idle - it's just that, aaaccckkkk, Christmas is coming. We're 10 days close now.

The ladies have been busy. Prayer shawl work continues and soon we'll have more additions. We will (yes, we WILL!) get organized soon, find a place to display our shawls, etc. In the meantime, check out the great sign that Katie made to advertise us.

Please come Thursday and knit (crochet, etc.) with us. Last chance before Christmas and New Year's Days on the following two Thursdays. We'll be there at 10:00.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

May all of you have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving.

Working on 3 Shawls

Hi there,

I have been in class and several other projects during the last 2 weeks. To make things even more hecticc, my yarn-loving kitty (Chonda) sat on my first shawl and pulled out a couple of stitches while getting comfortable. I had left my project on my bed while going to the hairdresser, something I will never do again.

I am also working 2 shawls in 2 totally different color schemes, designs, and yarns. I am going to have lots of time between now and the end of the year to work on them and am hoping to have them finished to be received at Christmastime.

I hope after the first of the year as many of you as possible can have a meeting here at the library at Grace Living Center; quite a nice area with lovely furniture which is quite comfortable and provides lots of sitting space.

As I don't travel well on a regular basis this is about the best place for me to be able to meet all of you, though I understand it may take a while to meet ALL of you. I am definitely looking forward to it, however.

I wish all of you a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving.

Blessings,

Vicky

A Few of Our Members

Robbi works out the dimensions for her prayer shawl. Nice colors!

Katie's needles fly as she gets close to finishing her shawl.

Shirley helps Jeanne with her newest obsession - knitting!

Ann and Shirley just being their naturally cute selves.

These are just a few of our members - those who happened to be there the same time the camera was. We'll be sharing more pretty faces and works later.

First Shawl Blessing

Today we had a truly awesome service with Bishop Ed visiting. There were four baptisms, two confirmations and a confirmation renewal. Wow! Not only that, but the CC Yarnsters offered their first prayer shawls for blessings and distribution. Everyone who saw them "up close and personal" oohed and aahed over them.

Katie and Alene were the authors of the first shawls. Father Rick blessed them at the altar and two of them will be placed in the chapels for use with prayer. Alene knitted beautiful white baptismal shawls that we'll hear more about next week. Thank you ladies for your beautiful work.

Each day I see and hear more about what a blessing our group is. It certainly is for me - it's such a a gift to get to know each of you better.

cable stitch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQS-XB20SQ Just for fun you may want to watch this You Tube clip showing a very basic way to learn how to do the cable stitch. Katie