I love that I have Monday Spin Night and Wednesday Knit Night. I live alone, except for Seli, and it's good for me to get out and have actual, fun conversation. Unfortunately, my Nights don't give me much blog fodder. Tonight was a bit more memorable because we had a guy show up wanting to learn to crochet. Yes, a guy. Trevor was sweet and rather attractive... and far too young for me. Darn! We also learned a bit about commercial travel since one of the ladies there is a commercial pilot. She had some fun stories, and if I could remember her name, I'd tell you.
I had some questions and comments about my new cabling book so I thought I'd give an overview. The book is broken into three basic sections: Cabling Basics (which has lots of helpful illustrations), Projects (from scarves to pillows to sweaters to afghans) and a Stitch Dictionary. The basics section has good written and illustrated instructions. Honestly, cabling is very simple. In its simplest form, you just cross stitches. Of course, you can move from that to very complicated patterns but basic cables are just two or more stitches that you've crossed and knitted. Heck, for simple cables, you don't even need a cabling needle (which can just be a single dpn). If you're interested in cabling, this book will show you how.
How young is too young for you? SB is 5 years younger than me and it's the perfect age difference!
Posted by: elizabeth | March 13, 2008 at 10:47 AM
The pilot's name is Jetgirl1313 on Ravelry and Etsy, and her blog is here:
http://kto13.blogspot.com/
Isn't she great?
Posted by: Alice | March 13, 2008 at 02:40 PM