Get Ready for the August Meeting

Last week (or maybe it was the week before, I forget... oh well) I got an email from Andy, our esteemed Program Chair, about this month's meeting and this morning I realized that this is something you all need at least a week to get ready for.  Now, don't be afraid or plan to be elsewhere on August 14, you can do this.  Here's Andy's email:


At the August meeting everyone is asked to Share A Technique!  It doesn’t matter if you think it's something everyone already knows, because the odds are that we will all learn at least two or three tricks.

Come join us in the park again for an evening of fun and sharing!  Bring a chair and a couple of tricks or techniques!

Remember that "a technique" doesn't have to be some obscure secret knitting magic, it can be your way of weaving in tails or the cast-on your Grandma used or some maneuver that saved you from having to frog most of a project or the stitch Aunt Fanny taught you one summer up at the lake.

Know how to keep your yarns from tangling if you're using two colors?  Bring it.  Have a simple (or different) way to tension your yarn?  I want to learn.  Know how to keep your knitting bag from looking like a rat's nest?  Or how to corral your needles or stitch markers?  We all want to know these things.

This does not have to be something you made up in your own little brain, the tip I'm bringing is a memory trick I learned from a blog I like about two days after I got Andy's email.  (Also "a couple" can mean one; I'm bringing one, one is all I got.)

 

Don't worry that you're a new-ish knitter and think everyone else will already know everything that you know; it's always good to be reminded of the basics.  Always.  Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing--and cause a person to forget the simple things, especially in the "mental-pause" part of life (which is where I'm at).  Besides what could be better than spending a summer evening sitting in a pretty park talking with friends about knitting?

See you on August 14 in the park!