Redeemed

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I need to mention that I just got a new camera and am still getting used to it.

Remember last week when I mentioned that the one and only local yarn shop was going out of business? I went downtown on Saturday and redeemed my gift certificate.

Cascade 220 in Misty Lilac Heather and Shrimp. Another garter-stitch bag?

Or maybe one with these colors. Celery Heather and Smoke.

Cascade Fingering weight yarn Ember Heather (I bought the last one) and Walnut Heather for socks?

Lullaby, Sunburst Gold, French Clay, Snow, and Pepper Nature Spun Sport for knitted animals…

I had my eye on some other yarns so I’ll be checking back hoping for a bigger discount.

One of the sales people mentioned to another customer that someone is interested in buying the shop and wanted all the old inventory out so the new owner could stock whatever they wanted.

GOOB Sale

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I don’t believe it. My local yarn shop is going out of business.

Millicent’s Yarn and More has been here for 13 years and the availability of “good” yarn is what got me back into serious knitting.

Doors close on April 4 so there is still time to use up the remainder of my gift certificate.

Maybe someone else will see the need for a quality yarn shop…

I bought a rainbow

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

It was such a great deal that I couldn’t pass it up.

I bought 2-3 skeins of each color. What am I going to make? I have no idea. Do you?

New knitters

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I took some knitting to our daughter’s while she and her husband were out of town. I always have great plans to knit and I usually end not knitting at all. This time I took some seamless slippers to finish.

Our grandson was taking a nap, E wasn’t feeling well and was camped out on the couch with Mr. Aitch and Z. They were watching something on TV. I sat down in a chair with my knitting.

“Nona, will you teach me how to knit?”

I only had four metal double-point needles with me so I transferred the live stitches from the slippers to some stitch holders and cast on 16 stitches for Z.

Wooden needles are better than metal ones when first learning to knit as the metal ones are very slippery and fall out.

After I got Z started, E wanted to learn.

Both did several stitches with a lot of help. They even knit a row or two and some partial rows with much satisfaction.

After much “This is so hard” and “You knit faster than me because you’ve been doing it longer”, I finished knitting their coasters and gave them some yarn to weave through the bumps.