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I hope you enjoyed Labor Day.  I spent the weekend with my sister Janet, who lives near Baltimore and, like me, works hard for her living.  When I visit, we are both willing to just hang around the house, sit on the deck, watch movies, read, knit, and just generally vegetate.  This weekend was like that only more so.  Janet, her daughter Sarah, and I drank Vinho Verde, a very light and slightly sparkling Portuguese wine (Sarah was just back from a couple weeks abroad, including a week in Portugal – she works hard, too, but travels the world when she gets the chance), ordered Chinese food, chatted, and on Sunday, I had absolutely no reason to change out of my pajamas whatsoever – so I didn’t.  No errands, no commitments, no one to judge my appearance – it was a gift!  I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and hope you had a really great weekend, too.

Classes started this past weekend, and our knitalong gets going on Thursday.  We have a bunch of folks coming, and that’s always fun.  Donna Guthrie, who started working at the shop part time this week, is going to be on hand to help get us going, so we should all get a great start on our Nimbus jackets.

Donna just recently finished this pretty coverup for her aunt, Elizabeth Rudy, who kindly agreed to come in and model it for us.  She looks marvelous in it, and while she was in, she ran into 2 or 3 people she knew and they all did a little catching up!

Isn’t it just a lovely simple look, with the deep ribbing and the natural taupe wool?  Here is the knitter and her aunt:

Marcia Melbert missed our last Adult Surprise Knitalong session, but she entered her jacket into the Elizabethtown Fair and won 4th prize!  You can see why; the jacket turned out out so well:

I think there are two or three more jackets out there to be finished, so I hope to show them to you soon. (That’s a hint, Nancy, Beth, and Judy – finish up and come in to show off!)

My favorite book to be published so far this year is Knitting 24/7 by Veronik Avery.  I usually like her collections and books very much – she also does her own yarn line (St. Denis), distributed through Classic Elite.  She lives in Montreal and her knitting designs are modern with European style, but she uses classic yarns and stitchwork to ground them in tradition.  I took the book with me and asked Sarah (my niece) to pick something she would like for Christmas.  The book ranges from little things like mitts and hats to big things like a wonderful turtleneck sweater that I want to do for myself and this pretty cocoon, which is what Sarah picked:

She’ll look wonderful in it and it will be so much fun to make.  I’m going to use Manos Wool Clasica (instead of Kraemer Mauch Chunky) because it will be lovely and not sheddy, and I’m hoping to send her snips of colors to choose.  Want to get started this minute, but need to settle down.  I’ve got a nice project going right now, the Guenevere cardigan from Cabin Fever, (their photo, not mine)

which is pretty much fun too.  It’s based on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s reverse raglan construction (she called it Nalgar – raglan spelled backward, get it?  Oh, that Elizabeth, what a cut-up!) and I’m doing it in Queensland’s Rustic Wool, a semi-solid superwash.  I’m having a good time, even though I really have to pay attention now – I’m just starting the yoke, so I have neckline decreases, raglan increases, a knit-purl pattern to keep correct, sleeves growing downward somehow, and heaven knows what all else.  It might could (as we used to say in NC) make a pretty good knit-along sometime, perhaps, maybe, there’s a chance.

Okay, I’m just blabbing now and I could actually be grocery shopping, so off I must go.  See you soon!

Trish

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