What an elegant opening day!!! Jazz playing live, multiple demos, brand new products, a fantastic Fiber Artist Disneyland and the Glitter Knitter was in the house, in fact, his house. (He lives upstairs.) If you have not been there, you are out of the creative fiber artist loop.
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...to full luscious racks...of yarn. This weeks Wednesday night was a whir of miscellaneous topics.
We have an uncanny ability to cover almost any and all topics in a record amount of time. Give us two hours, a voluptuous skein of yarn and some chocolate and we'll be set for a night of gabbing, knitting, and sinning with calories.
There were a few finished objects that night. This one emerged from the back room just before the end of the class. Knit in a fine frog tree yarn, it's beauty is only surpassed by it's soft luxurious feel. 
LaShelle finished her love knot shawl. A simple crocheted project but it works up fine and wonderful as a finished piece. She added some matching ribbon to the ends as a fringe. It was a favorite amongst the knitters that night, and a surprise to many, she's simply going to give it away as a gift. What a wonderful heart, remind me to tell me when my birthday is.
So, if you're ever in the mood for some knitting in your hands, chocolate on your thighs and some cacophony of gabbing in your ears, please come on down to the Wednesday night class.
This week we all had amassed a great amount of finished garments. Melissa and Teresa modeled some of the knitted garments on display at the store for the class. There was quite a stir over the yarn used in some of these projects.
One of these yarns is a new shipment of yarns from Karabella. It's scrumptious and delightfully soft. Made from Merino wool, it feels like down feathers and satin next to the skin.
The Mermaid Shawl was traipsing in all her loveliness from needles around the shop.
Here she's just beginning to bud in a striped soft yarn in shades of gray.
Cheryl is almost half way through her burgundy version of the Mermaid. She's traveling to Florida soon and this will be a wonderful addition to a nice winter wardrobe in a warm climate.
The Glitter Knitter drapes a newly completed entrelock scarf that Ardys created. I think this is one of her new favorite techniques. Also, one of Steven's favorite classes to teach.
Judy enjoys one of the fabulous lunches at Wilde Roast. Ann is working on her "Jackie-O" fall sweater will Linda nears the end of a luxurious ribbon wrap. These ladies have all gone on at least one of the Glitter Knitter Knitting adventures...Caribbean and/or England. You will have to join us next summer.
Barb looks on while knitting her ponchini as our return guest Sharon joins in the fun with a roaring chuckle about "shawls at the Lake Harriet Band shell" You had to be there.
Suzanne has become a pillar of the Urban Knitter group. We have captured her showing her out of town guest and sister-in-law, Annette some of Steven's exciting trunk show items. Our LA Urban knitter fell in love with so many of Steven's fibers she probably had to buy an extra suitcase to return home. HA!
The Glitter Knitter doing his own project runway with the samples from Karabella's book Runway Knits. Be sure and stop in the shop to see these amazing knits from an amazing New York, Berta Karapetyan. This book has 30 incredible designs.
Yet another new Urban Knitter. Mama Christa teaches Lori the good old fashioned German cast on. Mom also sports the days free pattern...the cascading ruffled, sequined neck frolic.
This Wednesday was filled with many accomplished projects and itchy knitter fingers still at the ready looking for more cast on fixes. What can I say? We knitters just love that new project smell. There were socks being casted on and ripped out and then cast on again, all with the aspirations of learning a new technique.
A new woolen bag with handles ready for a top loading washing machine. After it's felted this ginormous hobo bag will be sleek, chic, and ready for all those yarn goodies that go into a fab bag like this. We're excited to see it when it's felted and dry.
Here's another wonderfully knitted F.O. (Finished Object). A warm and deliciously glamorous sweater. Made with different types of ribbon yarn and metallics thrown in for good measure. This garment is made specially for the Oh's and Ah's of the knitter kind. Don't let lady's this soft smile fool you, the sweater is as bold as her personality...she's just being coy.
We love seeing the progress of knitting, we're knitters, we love knitting. But we also love seeing what comes from all the time, yarn, and love invested in each project. So, don't mind if we end up petting the sleeve of the sweater you're wearing and asking what yarn was used or what pattern it is. We're knitters...it's what we do.
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