Can't Come To Our Meeting But Want To View Donated Yarn?

Hello!

I just wanted to let you know that even if you can't make it to our meetings, you can still participate in the strip-blanket project! Just drop off your finished strips in the church office - you can leave them on the counter there if they don't fit in my box.

Also, we do have lots of donated yarn that you can rummage through. Stop by the church office Monday - Thursday from 9 to 3 and ask for me and I'll be happy to show them to you. Please avoid coming on Wednesday from 11-1 because that's when Wednesday Forum is in the Knatvold room and I don't want to disturb them.

Alternatively, if you'd like to look at yarn on Sundays between services that's doable as well - however you'll need to make a plan with me to make sure I'm there! You can email me at:

larissa dot sheffler at gmail dot com

Questions on the child blanket project

Hi everyonte! I wasn't at the meeting on the 16th but I like the idea of the strip blankets for children. I work at the King County Bar Association and we have a small knitting group there. When I mentioned about the strip blanket project, some people were interested because it seems like a manageable project even for newer knitters. However, people asked: In terms of color, are we talking baby blanket or child blanket? Also, is this project really happening? If so, should I go ahead and ask the people at my workplace to contribute strips? It might only be 2-3 people but I don't want to ask them unless the project is really a go. Is there a deadline? And what are is the group of children, or organization that is receiving the blankets?
Thanks for the info! It sounds like a great project.
Ann Wennerstrom

Red Scarf Charity Knit

If anyone is looking for a quick charity project to get you in the swing of fall knitting, here is a project to tug your heartstrings. The Orphan Foundation of America has been running this project for three years now. They request donations of red scarves, which symbolize love, connectedness and family - these scarves are given to foster youth as they begin their first year of college, to let them know there are people out there who care about them.

The details can be found here: http://orphan.org/index.php?id=40

They are accepting scarves through Oct 31st, and request that no one send more than five scarves (last year they received so many that they could barely keep up with shipping!). There are lots of good, free scarf patterns on the website to tickle your fancy.

Hi Y'all

Hi there! It is NOT Larrissa, but Sara instead (the one on the left :)! I'm here to show you the wonders of blogging for Uknits. It is very simple, send Larissa an email and she will send you an invite. Follow the link, put in your email and password (this has been tested for gmail accounts... but it looks like there is a link for non gmail accounts). Set up your account and post photos of your ufos and completed projects, patterns, charity opportunities, etc. 

Currently working on: Chix on Stix breast cancer awareness pink scarf

Music: Norah Jones

Alternative 2nd Knitting Time

I'm starting to get some feedback about a second meeting time for the U-Knits. Seems like from the few replies I've received people like Thursdays. 

I also wanted to float the idea about a daytime session or on a weekend afternoon. Would anyone like either of those options?

We can have a dialogue if you click below where it says (# comments).  It'll send you to a different screen where you can post a comment and anyone can do so and we can all read them.

I'm also trying to figure out how to make posting new entries available to anyone. If I can figure that out, I will let you know!

9/16 Meeting Update

For those of you who couldn't make it last night, I wanted to give you a quick summary about things we talked about as we busily knitted and purled.

We began tossing around some ideas for projects this year and decided that a good place to start would be a variation on the blankets we made for the Habitat for Humanity family which we made awhile ago. Claire suggested that instead of making squares, we'd all make strips.  She offered to piece them together (or we can work on them as a group one meeting) and then we could donate them to shelters that house homeless children.

Here is what we decided, though your suggestions and comments are always welcome:

- Strips will be 18 inches by 4 feet (3 strips per blanket - child size)

- Machine washable yarn - worsted weight

You can use any colors, needle size, pattern that you like for your strips - just make sure they end up the size indicated and the yarn is easy to care for.  I figure, if we have a lot of strips even with the variety of colors we could piece together several blankets that match well enough.

Chris had a neat pattern for a chemo turban that she made and said her friend really liked a lot. If you are interested in it, we can get that for you. I also brought some patterns I printed for prayer shawls, a 6 hour lap blanket and some children's sweaters.  We'll probably make felted bowls again for the Coming of Age youth early next year and the Care Committee would greatly appreciate anything we make too!

Unfortunately, I also received some feedback that Tuesday nights aren't good for many people. I'd love love to get together with you all twice a month if there is an interest - on a different day of the week. Let me know what your preference is, and if we get a nice consensus for a second day we'll add that to our schedule.

Welcome Back!

Hi everyone!

On behalf of myself, Jan and Stevie, we wanted to say we're really excited that U-Knitting is starting up again. We hope you are too and are looking forward to tonight's (9/16) meeting.

Since I couldn't publish on Stevie's first blog, I decided to give us a fresh start and begin a new one - if there was a pattern posted on the original blog that you'd like to see here, let me know and I'll be glad to post them again. Also, contact me anytime if you'd like me to post a pattern or announcement for you or if you'd like me to set you up as an author too.

I hope to update this site frequently so that it becomes a useful tool to get announcements and information to the group - so please check back regularly!

Happy fall and happy knitting!!!

~Larissa