Sprucing Up Around Here

You'll notice a bit of change here. I've given the blog a new face and cleaned up our volunteer knitting list.

Thanks to Barb for getting the Red Scarf Project info to me. Heads up, if y'all are participating this year - *the rules for submission of items has changed!*

If you have a favorite gig that you knit for, send me an email (you know the drill): quadcitysnb AT gmail DOT com

Gathering August 22, 2007

It was a night of wild weather:




And although the library is closed, the Dewey's Cafe is open - and on Wednesdays it's open later for our group (thanks, Karen!):






Courtney brought in a cute knit bunny, from Lorna's Lace (the wool and silk, I think):








Jeanne brought in a scarf she had woven on her loom - gorgeous work as always!




And Karen wore the fantastic sweater she went to Mexico to learn how to knit (it was a retreat) this past summer:

Gathering August 15, 2007 - New and Improved Version!

*editor's note: damn pain meds! I think I've got it all straightened out now - keep those comments coming if you see something else that needs to be corrected!

What a great group we had last night!



And people brought in their items from the recent workshop they're either finished with or in the process of finishing.

Barb brought her stash from Stitches:










Claire brought in her stash from Stitches & workshop items:

















Judy came back from Stitches with goodies that I covet now:












Katie had quite the haul from taking the fun bus to Stitches:












Ann Marie has her mittens completed from the workshop:





And to correct myself, this is what Ann Marie knitted: teddy with his own sweater!




Ann Marie and Susan M are working on some items (the pain meds keep me from remembering which knitting author they were working from and what project this is going toward - shout out in the comments, guys):

A Most Successful Workshop!

After a year of planning, the QC SnB workshop (co-sponsored by The Yarn Shoppe), we finally greeted our instructor Beth Brown-Reinsel on August 3rd and 4th!



You can read her blog, here.

And our participants had a great time - in fact, such a great time, that we've only photos of the first class of the two-day workshop. (My appreciation and thanks to Barb, for her photographic skills!)

Here are some folks (Ann Marie is on the far left, you other two ladies give us a shout out in the comments section!) working on those beautiful mittens:






Here are Toni and Gail:




Here are Jan and June:




And Faye with Johnna:




Brenda with her fabulous orange and black mitten:




And these two, while I wouldn't say were trying to pull a fast one on us, show us some lovely work, Laurel and Lynn:



Beth, thank you for a great workshop! Everyone had a wonderful time during the workshop and at the events before and after the time in class to meet you.

Once again, my heartfelt gratitude to Barb, Claire, Laurel, and Brenda for their help. I had serious health issues that prevented my attendance and their support helped to make a smooth running workshop. Ladies, as you know, y'all rock!

For those persons out there that may be thinking of putting on a workshop, we can't recommend Beth enough to you. A generous, kind, thoughtful, and patient instructor - she's wonderful with beginners to advanced knitters.