Patrick has been diligently working to get all the utilities for our retail space changed over into our name. He's also been working to get our phone and internet service set up.
Today, Patrick and I met with a graphic designer who is going to make our logo and set up our website. We had a great meeting with lots of ideas shared and can't wait to see the final product!!
The library knitting club met for the second time yesterday. We had one adult woman helping and another who came for the club. We also had three elementary school girls there, two of whom had been in our elementary school knitting/crochet club.
Last week, one of the girls who had been in the club at the school did a bracelet (their first project) with minimal help. She remembered how to cast-on and knit, and I taught her how to bind off. This week, she started a hat. She's going to knit it flat and then sew up the seam in the back. Her biggest challenge is not going be the actual knitting, since the only new skills she will learn are decreasing and sewing a seam. The most important thing she'll learn from this project is persistence - she can't make a hat in one session.
Another of the girls was not at the group last week, but came this week. She was in the school club in the spring, so remembered how to cast on and knit. She made a bracelet this week and is ready to try another project next week. I guess I'd better get busy and find patterns!
The third girl in our group was new last week. Patrick taught her how to cast on and how to knit. She started a bracelet last week, so I taught her how to bind off this week. This bracelet was great for a first try, but it was clear that she had added stitches on some rows and dropped stitches on other rows. (Our motto is "just keep knitting". We will teach them how to fix mistakes later. Right now, we just have them keep knitting through their mistakes.) After she bound off her first bracelet, she started another, needing very little help with casting on and knitting. By the end of the session, she had another bracelet, but this one with nice even rows and no dropped or added stitches. She put one bracelet on each wrist so that she can show off her progress. I definitely need to find patterns for these girls.
One of the other really fun things that happened yesterday is that Linda (a friend who is helping with the group) and I got to spend about twenty minutes unraveling a very large tangle of yarn and then reballing it. I think I might take my handy ball-winder next time. It's not all that helpful for unraveling, but it makes putting the yarn into balls much easier!
That's where we are right now. I'll try to keep taking pictures and posting when I can. This week, we are a little occupied because my parents are visiting. Next week, we are going to learn to "skirt" a fleece (get it clean enough to send to the mill). We are going to purchase some wool and take it to the mill for processing. I am excited about learning more about wool and about being able to carry local wool in The Knitting Nest.
OK, more later!!
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