Jananas

This summer I discovered that there is a local yarn store up by the cottage called Log Cabin Yarns (sadly, my mother already knew about it but didn’t bother to tell me!). I dropped in immediately and picked up a skein of sock yarn. I also found out that they have a sit & knit on Thursday afternoons. Since I don’t drive and was up at the cottage on my own, I didn’t think I’d be able to make it in. However, it turns out that a woman on the same road often comes in to knit and my dad ran into her husband the night before and a ride was arranged. I ended up going into the sit & knit, even if I was half the age of the rest of the group (a big change from my local stitch & bitch Tuesday nights at the Knit Cafe on Queen West).

It turns out that the ladies of the sit & knit group have several child-sized afghans on the go, to be donated to a local charity when they are finished. Each woman knits a strip about 5″ wide in a pattern of her choice, using yarn donated by Nancy (the proprietor). Its a fun project because each person gets to test out a new stitch/pattern and experiment. And because the work is spread over six or seven people, it doesn’t seem like quite as daunting a task. I was convinced to add a section to one. Nancy leant me a copy of a pattern book called “The Harmony Guide to Knitting Stitches” and I picked a lovely & simply diamond pattern.

I chose a solid and more structured pattern because the section right below mine was a lace pattern in a chenille-type yarn. Overall, I think that the ladies have done a great job of matching colours and patterns. Here’s the afghan as it stands today – I can’t wait to see the final product!

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