Catch Up Time Again
Oh, my… So much to tell you. Max (she of Canada) wrote and said she thinks the crochet picot edging on the shawl swatch #2 from my(March 21st post) would look fun on the Fast Florida Footies. She has this Jester Socklet idea going, and I can’t agree more. It would look just great! Now, when will I get a chance to try that? I don’t have any footies in the house that are mine so I need to knit some first. Maybe I’ll do one of my toe-up footie socks (the pattern I use for beginning socknitters) which is designed for fat yarn (like that I used in my shawl sample), and thus knits up really fast. Hmmm…
In additional news, my private knitting student, OfficiallyAKnitter, has not only started a knit blog but now a knitting-related Yahoo group. Her group is called PeacefulKnitters (I love that idea) and all of us, whether knitting-interested, knitting-curious and knitting-obsessed, are invited to join.
We have good musical news… we are already playing at Altu’s this Saturday, and on next weekend Sunday (April 3) we are playing in Ann Arbor for AACTMAD, but now we have also booked a concert in Charlotte, Michigan, on May 27 (a Friday). It’s a house concert, a private space and an intimate place with a fireplace for ambiance.
I’m getting ready to send out a postcard mailing for our next six scheduled concerts. If anyone wants me to put them on our music mailing list (assuming you are not already on it) feel free to send me email with your name/snailmail address, to Lynn AT ColorJoy DOT com and I’ll put you on the list starting now.
(Oh, as an aside… Altu was in the Lansing State Journal “Business Weekly” yesterday. When I just searched for it, I found an article that was printed while we were in Africa (they must have interviewed her before we left). However, even though I’m darned good at searching, I can not find the article which was on the front page of the Business Weekly insert. It has a nice, really big, photo of Altu making Ethiopian Bread. Trust me!
Back to catching up on photos taken earlier this week… My friend April, who I dance with and who also lives across the street, is learning to knit. She just had a baby about 8 months ago (delightful little Isabel), and now she has a large handful of friends having baby girls all in a little bunch. One is born already, several more on the way including triplets in one case.
April already knew how to crochet, but she wanted to make a hat like I’d made for her little girl (the ever-popular Ann Norling Fruit Hat). I got her a pattern at Yarn for Ewe, she got yarn and needles at Threadbear, and now she has finished her second hat, knit in the round on double-pointed needles. Just look at this! (Look bottom left, not on Isabel’s head.) Brian says it looks like strawberry shake and shamrock shake, it’s so icy. Good job, April!
The other two photos today are pics of last week’s CityKidz Knit! It was St. Patrick’s day so they were more creative in how they dressed than usual (so that they could wear green and not get pinched, an annoying custom that has been going on for decades in our schools on March 17). One girl goes to a school where they usually wear uniforms. They were allowed to wear street clothing in green that day, if they paid a quarter fine to do it. She paid the quarter and did not get pinched. Whatever works!
See here, two girls who finished their first wristbands that day. Last photo, a group shot on my slow day of the week. Not bad!