Denise cracked us all up with her stories of Stash Acquisition. :laugh: All told with a straight face! lol She did a Wonderful Job of organizing our retreat and I’m certainly grateful for her hard work, as I’m sure we all were. There were about 30 of us, I think, so we’re looking at finding larger quarters for next year.

Our first ampleknitter’s retreat was great fun! We met friends we “know” from the list and some that we’d met before, we learned new stuff (Here we’re working on our shadow knitting dishcloths which Jardee W. was teaching us.) We also raided all the local yarn shops within reach, admired each others knitting, ate, drank, and had a heck of a merry time! I am already looking forward to next year! 🙂

This one is just for the beauty of it. Mother Nature wins every time!

After frogging this three (3!) times (I have the yarn in the ‘frogging is a fact of life’ bag…:O did I jinx myself?!) I think I finally have an handle on it! It’s looking pretty good but there is certainly a long way to go! lol I’ll take this along for the weekend’s ampleknitter’s get together in Medford. I can work on it when we’re just sittin’ around gabbin’ and knittin’ in between visiting local yarn shops and taking workshops and what all Denise has planned for us.
I’d like to finish the vest to wear to my Xmas Red Hat potluck, but I might have to aim for Valentine’s day instead! lol
Started Raining just now. I guess it’s going to continue for a couple days. I got the last of the cut firewood in the shed today. Himself is taking Saturday and Sunday off to watch Grandmother while I’m gone so he can put in some time there. One of these days not too far off it isn’t going to be rain that’s falling. It’s usually white stuff somewhere around Thanksgiving… 😛

Sis says it means Very Big Doily. She also says hers measures 42″ across so I think it’s pretty well named! It’s also gorgeous! she’s been working on it for some time now and I think it was well worth the effort. It’s hand-spun and hand dyed yarn as well. I am in total awe of her knitting skills and even more so of her patience! Well, I think my little piece of Pi is kinda cute but it certainly isn’t in the same class as this work of art!
I wonder if she has time between now and Xmas to whip out another one…? 😉

Oops! Sis says this one wasn’t her handspun. I must have been thinking of her PI!

“I used lace weight yarn from handpainted.com in a color they called Vermillion LC. It was a single ply. I used size 6 needles.
Rosy”

Here’s a little Star Guy you can make for your Christmas wreath or you could make the star with your larger diamonds and have a seasonal throw pillow. 🙂 The instructions are posted on the web page Projects page: http://www.hazelroselooms.com/

Well, here it is. It’s not very big but plenty soft so it might be a baby shawl. It was an interesting project and inspired me to try the Feather and Fan from Meg Swanson’s “Gathering Of Lace”. It’s not impossible that I might even have another go at it someday. I have learned a lot about lace in the EsasPi workshop on yahoo. I’ve got the Fox Island vest started, too. Anyway… an FO is comfortable thing no matter what! 😀

You can see where I quit on the diamonds. It doesn’t look as bad as I thought it was going to because I was thoroughly lost! 😥 It’s pretty hard to see when you have the thing bunched on a circ but all in all I was surprised that it wasn’t worse! lol :laugh:

This is what I settled on for the last increase. It’s a row from the feather and fan pattern in “Gathering” that I’m also knitting as a table cloth. It fit my stitch count and seems to ahve worked ok.

Okay… the weaving movie is finally done. “Put to bed” is, I think, the movie term for ‘the dad-blasted thing is finished at last’! Wow! The weaving was easy but the rest was certainly more work than meets the eye! lol We don’t hear the mantle clock ticking or the dog barking or the roosters crowing or the aquarium burbling away but the camera picks up every sound and magnifies it on tape! :O And every clunk when I drop the loom or %#*&! when I mess up :blush: . Rosy thought our giggling fits and asides by me were unprofessional and ruthlessly edited all this ‘homey’ stuff out! :plain: Oh well, she says it’s just funny the first time and distracting when you’re trying to learn something and I guess she’s right. So this DVD focuses on weaving. Brother John’s guitar picking lightens the mood. If you’re a guitar person you’ll want to take a look at his web page, he builds beautiful instruments as well as plays and even, on occasion, sings! 😀
But if you think you might be interested in seeing our movie debut, the 45 minute DVD is for sale on the web page now, for a modest $19.95 plus shipping.
Meantime… Happy weaving! 🙂