Girl on the Rocks

Chit Chat at the knitting circle June 23, 2006

The only thing I really talked about at knitting this week was a neat little thing I read about on allie’s blog - Stretchy Circulars. They have a cord that is stretchy and i am guessing it is made out of something similar to the the drive band on my spinning wheel…. unfortunately they only come in size US2 and i like my socks on something a little smaller, but I am going to keep my eyes on their site.

Things i should have talked about:

The new Louet spinning wheel, Victoria. It is portable and an interesting alternative to the Ashford Joy.

The new needles over at Knitpicks. They have a new interchangeable set, as well as sock sized DPN’s and circulars that are CHEAP! They look like imitation addi turbos. Seriously, check out those circular needles.

Have I mentioned that I still go to knitting circle? June 16, 2006

The tuesday night knitting circle at the Mel-O-Dee continues on… If you are in El Cerrito at 8 pm, stop by. Tuesday we talked about a lot of interesting things:

• A new knitter! Debbie did some successful recruiting at the Berkeley Knit in Public event.
• The cute little garter stitch kitty. It looks so good in leftover sock yarn
• we didn’t really talk about it, but I noticed that one of my fellow knitting circle members has her eye on a really cute pattern. Top down all the way, i say!
• Abby’s sock knitting tragedy which I feel partially responsible for… She has bounced back though. I saw her knitting a pair of baby socks just the other day.

Things i should have talked about

• Tepache- Apparently this is a fermented drink made from pineapple.. And you can make it yourself. At least the Crochet Dude did . Has anyone tried this? Is it good? This reminds of the Kombucha Tea that I read about on Flawed Maude.
• A fellow knitter reports that Emmet Otter is in the Smithsonian. I believe that I am one of the only people in the world that does not like Emmet and his poor little muppet family. I have seen too much of their feet that don’t really touch the ground or support any of their weight (=freaky).

So you think you can knit. January 10, 2006

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