Irish hiking scarf - Check

I have finished the Irish hiking scarf this last Sunday. The hat that is going with the scarf is still being worked on the inital band. Pics will be up as soon as I get my camera working!

Man Eating Shark

Just thought I would share pictures of the Shark dog sweater. All the trick or treaters LOVED his outfit. I think that he liked it too.

Some pics from Halloween Party

National Alpaca Farm Day

I saw this exciting closeup. It is next saturday and it is relatively close (between lakeland and tampa) If you are thinking about going let me know I will get more information (and maybe go too)


http://www.csalpacas.com/
September 29
Visit an alpaca farm and meet the adorable creatures that give that great fiber!
E-mail Pat (address on CS Alpacas website) for more info.

July 29th!!

This week we will be meeting at Jason's Deli on Fowler and Bruce B Downs. We will be meeting at our usual time, 4:00 PM. I hope that everyone can make it.

http://tampachixwithstix.blogspot.com/2007/07/sunday-july-8.html

Happy Knitting!

Sandy

Update!

We went to get our Harry Potter books! I figured it was my last chance to stand in line waiting for it so I gathered some friends from knitting and we wandered around Barnes and Noble knitting.

Here I am working on the Gryffindor sock:



Here is Eileen working on a cute summer top for her daughter:



Here is Sandy wearing and knitting the Clapotis in Lilac Microspun (she copied Julie too...just not the same color):



Here are our wristbands (Sandy and I had pre-ordered, so Eileen was in another line):



Here is where we stood in line:




Here is my book with the little tassel (that has 72107 on it) and my glow-in-the-dark Harry Potter glasses we got at the event:



On Sunday, we had our regular knitting group and Sandy tell us anything to us without drawing a picture to accompany the story.

Sunday, July 22nd

I hope everyone has had a great week! We will be at Jason's Deli (map a little further down the page) again this Sunday! Then off to Coldstone? HAHA! Hope to see you all there!

Jason's Deli again

We will be at Jason's Deli (map a little further down the page) again this Sunday! Then off to Coldstone? HAHA! Hope to see you all there!

Also, there will be a knit afternoon/evening at Knit n Knibble on Thursday July 12 from 4pm to 6pm, then we will grab dinner together. Alyson from Orlando is coming as is Valerie from yarn4socks.com! Bring your latest stash aquisition and join us for the fun!

Kelly

Sunday July 8

We have decided to try Jason's Deli (2702 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL
(813) 903-0017) for knitting this Sunday. It is right around the corner from Panera. The food is pretty good, nice lighting and lots of space for us to sit around in! There used to be a Silent Dinner there every other week, so they are used to people just sitting around. And most of all, they have fountain sodas with free refills for Sandy! Meeting time is 4pm as usual.

Secret Pal 11

Secret Pal 11 sign-ups

Sandy and I were involved with Secret Pal 10 and had a great time and got lots of cool goodies!

Sunday July 1

This Sunday, we will meet at Starbucks (Fletcher and I-75) at 4pm....

Hope you all can make it!

Kelly

Some my my older WIPS

I am known for starting projects and then getting bored with them after a while. They why do I like starting big projects like blankets. Let me just say I started these before I really knew about other yarns outside of Walmart and Michael's.

I know I have mentioned the blanket my mom made for me when I was younger. She made one for my brother and my sister as well. I couldn't decide on what colors I wanted so she made it rainbow and VERY bright. It is made out of Red Heart.


This is the first project I started on after I re picked up crocheting. This was also the first pattern I EVER tried. It took me a long time and a lot of help from Stephanie to get the pattern from curling on itself (I think I kept decreasing stitches somehow) My mom liked how this was turning out so well she took it over from me. I have yet to start working on this blanket since.


This is the Kittens in a Row. I started this blanket when my mom took the above blanket from me to work on it. I got the pattern from one of my books, however it is found online as well. It is made from simply soft.


Here is the fisherman's throw I started. It is out of Caron's one pound in soft sage. I saw this color in the store and was all ooo that is pretty *yank* Now I can not even stand to look at this color. I need to make a lot more squares to make it a decent size. These are the few squares that I have put together.


I saw this pattern in one of my books and I really liked it. It is made out of red heart. The colors make it look like fourth of july and not christmas.


To reassure you I have finished some projects but these are my big ones that have been hanging out for a while.

Monkey!

Seeing as I have only made one of the monkey socks I am posting a picture of it! It is made with lorna laces



And a close up!

Quick Reminder

We will be at the Barnes and Noble in Carrollwood on Wednesday, June 20 at 7pm!

Pics of WWKIPDay

We had a great time...

I was a bit worried at 10:05am when it was just me and Sandy (the event started at 10am)...



throughout the day there were about 15 people who came out to knit with us at the mall and we recruited some new members to our group! Here are some pics....

WWKIP Day

I just wanted to put a quick post up saying thank you to all who came out to support WWKIP Day. We had a great outcome (a total of 15). We met some great new friends and were able to show our love for yarn to many bystanders.

Thank you all!

Saturday is WWKIP Day!

Just a reminder that this Saturday is World Wide Knit in Public Day! We are holding an event at Westfield Shopping Mall at Citrus Park on June 9th! We will be knitting and crocheting in the Food Court from 10am until everyone is ready to go home! Come on out and join us!

World Wide Knit in Public Day

Sunday June 3

We'll be back at Panera this Sunday...maybe at Sandy's the following week.

Virtual Knit-in on Skype

We will be chatting over Skype on Thursday 5/31 from 8-10pm. This event is brought to us be SSK Podcast. You can go to their website for more details.

Knitting at Kelly's

Our knit group usually meets at the local Panera Bread for knitting, but we decided to mix it up and meet at my house. It was just me and Sandy (Sheila couldn't make it> and so it was the Knitting Duo in action!

We chatted a lot and watched Night at the Museum while working on our socks. We each made a snack, and would you believe we both made cream cheese based dips? Hers was a dip for apples and mine was Hawaiian Spread for crackers. Sandy ate her first Triscuit and didn't like the texture so I pulled out some Club crackers which were more to her liking.



At one point, there was nothing on TV and we tried to knit to Sunrise Earth on Discovery HD, but it was boring so we switched to the music channels that are included on my cable system (it's like radio on the TV). It got real hot so John was nice enough to turn on the fan.



Here is Sandy pretending to knit for the camera (we really didn't do a lot of knitting, but we usually don't, we spend more time chatting).



Even Buster got in on the knitting....checking out Sandy's yarn that we wound and even trying to knit some on her blanket! HAHA!





Later in the evening we ordered Chinese food and got on Skype (my Skype name is Purlygirl75) with several new friends (Kat, Marly, Shannon, Teri, and Natasha). At one point the videophone (vp) rang so John tried to chat on the vp while we were on Skype, but there was too much going on!



All in all we had a great time. Next time we have a knit night at someone's house, it will be Sandy's turn! And hopefully by then she will have downloaded Skype!

Knitting at Kelly's

This Sunday we will be meeting at Kelly's house instead of Panera. Bring your knitting, a snack, and anything you would like to donate to the stash box. Email Kelly for more details and directions!

World Wide Knit in Public Day

We are holding an event at Westfield Shopping Mall at Citrus Park on Saturday June 9th! We will be knitting and crocheting in the Food Court from 10am until everyone is ready to go home! Come on out and join us!

World Wide Knit in Public Day