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Super Sunday
Hello everyone! We had another creative afternoon at Papa San. Before I download the pictures, I have to tell you about Linda’s Dye Your Own experience. She dyed a couple of skeins today, with great results. One skein looks like the inside of a mango. Can’t wait to see them—she said it was really easy…
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Hello out there in Knit Wit land! We had a fun time again today. Fran and Deb are showing you their newest projects. Fran is starting a poncho in a cool bubbly-yarn and Deb is venturing into the land of felting with a design all her own. More photos of these projects will show up…
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4 September 05
We had a great session last Sunday at Papa San. In this photo, Fran is showing her latest creation. You have to see this scarf, it is so unusual! I think Fran has a great sense of color. Shirley is starting the “trust-me-it-really-is-easy-Charlotte”. Really, it is. Honest. Truly Easy, right Shirley? Only 2 (count ’em-2!)…
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August 21, 2005
We are all back and knitting away! We are all working on different projects and planning what we want to do next. A couple of us are finishing up our Charlottes and will be glad when they are done! We are thinking about our next group project, looks like several people are interested in Kool-Aid…
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We Meet Again!
We reconvened today at Papa San’s. Everyone has Charlottes in various stages: Done, close to being done, need a couple more repeats, etc. In this picture, Sarah is modeling her hat, knitted out of Simply Stripes by Lion Brand. She is starting a scarf to match. Sarah has been knitting for a couple of years,…
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Kool-Aid Easy Charlotte
Whew! Just got back from San Diego. A “suicide” trip over and back to have the last of the body systems checked. So far, the skeletal, sensory (visual), respiratory, integumentary, reproductive, and endocrine are all “A-OK”. Ready for some seriousknit-klanning. Here is the absolute “koolest” thing I discovered this summer. The photos show the before…
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Ready for KNITTING!
Here are a couple of summer projects—-This is a way-cool scarf made out of 1 ball of Eros Extreme, Eros, and Galaxy. You only cast on about 12 stitches, 3 on each side are kept in garter, the center 6 in stockinette. You only bind off the center ones, then gradually unravel the sides. You…
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Charlotte Basics
The first photo shows my Alpha Charlotte before blocking. This photo shows it after blocking, during an inspection by Tang. Since I have seen many questions regarding the Charlotte instructions on Knit U, I am going to describe a couple of worksheets that my fellow knitters use. Oneis a spreadsheet. It shows the number of…
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Charlotte’s Web Shawl
This blog will be featuring, among other things, a group of knitters who are navigating through the creation of Charlotte’s Web Shawl. It !will feature different shawls, and our ups and downs during the knitting process. We all started our shawls the second week of April. At the beginning of June, we all went on…