Holiday Gifts Week 5

Aren't these lovely? All by Diana for sale at the Community Festival

Candi made these darling slippers for her daughter: felted, embroidered, and beaded.

All pumpkins bright and beautiful from three sides. Candi brought the tablecloth to color coordinate with the pumpkins.

As you can see, we viewed sweet little pumpkins tonight all from only one pattern but in 20 different ways. It is Diane's birthday today, and she brought us carrot cake to celebrate. Bea mentioned that she has knitted 15 flower power washcloths -- Way to go!

Linda went over the first mitten pattern to teach us how to tweak it for knitting in the round since it is written for making two sides on straight needles. A pattern for mittens with a cable design was given to us. This pattern is a level 2 on straight needles and a level 2+ in the round. Be glad that you were not a single gal of long ago Norway -- Linda shared with us the history of Selbuvotter and the amount of outfits an engaged woman had to make in order to get marry. Oh my...

Community Festival
Come support Diana and Vicki at the Community Festival in Auburn this Saturday, Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Recreation Park. It is off Auburn-Folsom Rd and Racetrack Rd. There will be live music, contests, crafts, food, and fun. Diana will be selling her beautiful felted wallets, and Vicki will be selling polished rock items such as zipper pulls, jewelry, and goodie bags.

Homework
Continue knitting mittens for the next two weeks.

Supplies for Next Project
On November 1, our cornucopia begins. This project consists of a felted cornucopia with a vine and leaf, a gourd, pumpkin, Indian corn, and perhaps some other veggie. Here is a list of supplies:

10.5 double point needles
Lopi Lite wool yarn (worsted weight, single ply) in the following colors:
Orange #1410
Pine #1407
Crimson #0434
Hazel #1401
Goldenrod #0435
White #0051

Wool of the Andes and Knit Picks were two places mentioned where you may want to order yarn. Linda dyed her own yarn from kool aid for this project. She also suggested splitting the yarn with someone to make it cost effective; I think she said each skein makes two.

Anyway, come back next week. We miss you knitters on the road. As Linda L. says, "Knit on!"