I had a great time at the Knit in the City event on Saturday. It was a beautiful day, although it got a bit hot in the afternoon. Surprisingly, most of the people in the Yarn Lounge were there to learn to crochet, not to knit and I only ended up teaching 4 people to knit. I did wander off a bit to check Sandra’s progress on her giant 8 foot knitting needles, shown here. But every time I cycled back to the yarn lounge, there were only crocheters. I can crochet a little, but not well enough to teach. My swatches come out more trapezoidal than rectangular, because I don’t really get what to do at the end of the rows.
Here’s Sandra’s completed scarf for the Pink Scarf Style competition. She ended up winning honorable mention, I think, and was awarded with this book: . I thought that was pretty ironic, since the stuff she knit’s is sooo not rectangular!

I won this book. Now, I am not one to complain about free… but this isn’t a book I would have purchased. It’s full of garments made of simple shapes (triangles, squares, and rectangles), but out of all kinds of crazy yarns like Trendsetter and Prism. And something with balls of fox or rabbit fur. Just not my style. Monika, who has a vision I can only dream of, looked through the book and was oohing and ahing and saying wouldn’t this look great felted, or other ideas that pop into her head. I really tried to visualize some of these garments in, maybe, solid colored yarns, or something simple like cotton or wool, and really had trouble. Anyway, I will hang onto it for inspiration for color combinations and such.