OK, so over the week-end I was supposed to be getting the house ready for our Thanksgiving guests. I did some, Gene did some. And I made another hat. The tally is up to seven, and counting.
Here are the Blue Hat mentioned tin the last post, the Star Top Hat and the Red & Blue one.
One of the nice thing about the Dulaan Project, or any other charitable knitting project, is that you can try out new patterns, methods and stitches. With that in mind, I created the "Blue Hat". I like the bottom few inches, but the plain knitting is dull, and I'm ashamed to say, not well executed. I'm hoping the the recipient will appreciate the hat and overlook the flaws.
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I have already started another hat. The new one is knit with two strands of yarn, blue from the "Blue Hat" and red from the "ZigZag Hat". So far, so good.
It is getting cold enough in Chicago to actually think of wearing a hat.
The good aspect of the 7 day weather forecast is that it should be cold enough on Thanksgiving to use the fire escape as an auxillary refrigerator. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find a bright side.
Saturday was the annual reunion luncheon of my husband's grammar school class. Strange but true. They started this tradition in 1993, for the 50th reunion, and have done it every year since then. One of their teachers even came to the 50th. She lived to be 106! It is an interesting bunch of people. Some even knit.
I feel that I should point out that I was not in their class, I wasn't even born when they graduated.
Progress on the Sandy continues. I'm about 9 inches up the first side panel.
Here is the ZigZag hat for Dulaan. My neighbor asked for the pattern. Guess I'll have to figure out how I made it.
Today was the Knit It for the Dulaan Project. Thanks to Franklin for organizing such a great afternoon. The participants were friendly and giving, the food was bountious and delicious, and the location perfect for the occasion. 
I worked on my fourth hat for the project. Here are some snaps of the first three hats. The two dark red tweed ones are all my own design. The pastel one is based on a pattern I found on the web, with major changes. 
After FIVE failed attempts to get the shaped side panels on my Sandy Cardigan for the KAL, I finally sat down, with a minimum of distractions and carefully read the instructions. Amazing what you learn when you RYFM. I'm eager to get this sweater finished so I can move on to another major project.
I now have two hats done for the Dulaan Project. Great fun. As someone pointed out, when you are knitting items that are being distributed to a large group, size is not too important. There is always someone that the hat will fit. I designed both hats. Someone asked for the pattern for the baby earflap hat. This will require more thought and careful counting than it did to make it.
Once a month, we have dinner with eight friends. Each person brings a pre-chosen course and some wine. We enjoy an evening of catching up. We talk of politics, recipes, children and grandchildren, travels, words, friends and plans.
We share each other's joys and pains, celebrations and life experiences. One woman, Kathy even delivered another participant's baby. It was planned, not a "Johnny-on-the-spot thing." That baby, Emily, is now in fifth grade.
At one dinner, Nancy, Emily's mother, was wearing a scarf/boa. When admired, she said Emily's older sister Mary had knit it. Nancy and Mary were both proud of it. I asked Mary to make me one. She agreed. then I thought, if she can do it, so can I.
That satori re-awakeded my love of knitting, and I haven't looked back.
Our evening was a fine one of food, wine and talk, and I brought my knitting. There was noticable progress made on the Multi-colored beaded scarf.
Worried that there were not going to be enough beads, I started doing the lacy part without the beads. It is like knitting at supersonic speed. Never realized how time those little guys used. I'll go back to the beads as the other end comes into view.
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