It was good to be back among knitters last Tuesday night. I have talked to the Dallas Guild a few times, so was glad to see people I already knew. And I was glad to meet new knitters, too. My program went well.
April Mills, a machine knitter, designer, and teacher from Seattle, was in town for a workshop, so she came to the meeting as well. She showed several of her Scandinavian-inspired cardigans. One was 100% alpaca and everyone wanted to hug it. My favorite was a purple and white cardigan, inspired by knitting motifs of Latvia. She made it after attending her son’s wedding to a Latvian woman in Latvia. Gorgeous! Here’s her web site.
I enjoyed show and tell, where the trend was toward finishing old projects. Could this be an earthly consequence of some cosmic shift? I like to contemplate all the possibilities. Anyway, the productivity and creativity of knitters is amazing. Some showed crochet projects, too.
One of the drawbacks of living our isolated life in the country is that I don’t have a large population of knitters to meet with. In fact, we don’t have a large population of any kind of people around here. The consolation is that knitting groups are just a few hours’ drive away in a couple of different directions, or a click away on the internet.