Knitting and Crocheting Group

At our last CRAFT meeting, a member of another church group met with us. They have been much more active than us, in fact she had a very impressive list of items they had knitted and crocheted to donate to different charities. They knit/crochet prayer shawls, caps for kids and many other items for Doernbecher Hospital, their church group and even small blankets for the puppies at the Humane Society. Needless to say, our group was very impressed. We are going to be meeting with them and increase our output too. I have already knitted a cap for the kids.

They also have an impressive webpage and I hopce to learn more about building one from her. All in all, we were very impressed. This week we are going to be taking pictures for the website and bazaar.

Now that the prayer ministry is getting under way, we have decided we need officers. We elected a secretary and treasurer, and I am now the Publicity chairman. I think it's a very good idea to have officers, people who are accountable and will have the final say. We decided against having a president and vice president as we felt they weren't necessary. I wasn't able to attend the meeting don't know who the other officers are.

The continuing saga of the baby sweater...it is now almost done. All the knitting is finished and tonight I am going to sew the sleeves in.

Rrriped prayer shawl

Last night I realized the prayer shawl wasn't as big as I thought it should be and the beginning (the point of the triangle) bowed up. I reread the instructions and realized the size 11 needles that I thought were going to be fine--weren't. The pattern called for a size 13. I spent the rest of the evening ripping it out, all 7 ounces of Lion's Brand Homespun. Tonight, yes you guessed it, I will finish the baby sweater before I re-start the shawl.

As we all know, always check your gauge and use the RIGHT SIZE needles. Fortunately, this error on my part is easily corrected by just ripping out, however on a more difficult pattern with several colors it would have been a nightmare.

I started a shawl for the prayer shawl ministry last night. Yes, I know I still have to sew the second reefer baby sweater together and finish it but sometimes just starting a new project makes it easy to face the excruciatingly boring job of finishing. I know people who are so disciplined they won't start a new project until the old one is finished and mailed or given away. I never could do that. A new project sings its siren song to me and I always succumb. Such is life. I will finish the baby sweater, I will finish the socks and I will finish the vest, but in the meantime the shawl and I were meant for each other.

In the beginning

This is going to be a knitting blog with a little chatting and discussion of a few books thrown in for good measure. I started knitting in 4-H (head, heart, health and hands) when I was 12 and gradually grew to love it. Originally, I thought the 4-ply cap and scarf were dorky, nothing I would ever wear or give. Oh please!! However, my first project after finishing the required ones was a baby sweater with a pattern and I was hooked after that. I also love to read and chat, hence the title of this blog.


I am involved in a church ministry where we knit and crochet prayer shawls for members of the church that we feel will be uplifted by this gift. As we get going, I hope to post pictures of the members of our group and hopefully of the shawls and other projects they are doing.





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