Our next meeting will be Tuesday December 18th from 6:00 – 8:00pm in Conference Room A at the Richland Library.
This will be our annual Christmas Party, with tea and hot cocoa. Bring your favorite Christmas mug and any goodies you would like to share. Also bring your Color Challenge project. We want to take photos to send the Central Oregon Spinners and Weavers. If you can’t make it to the party please send me a photo of your project.
Melany brought in the Christmas Stocking she knitted last month before it was felted it was hip high, now it is about 18 inches long. This month she was knitting the Ridgelyn Set for Christmas presents. Jodie won 2 oz of Qiviut, she spun it up and knitted a gorgeous hat for Charlie. Lindsey was working on a soft grey sweater with a textured boat neck. She also brought in 2 Beehive shawls she knitted. April was crocheting her Color Challenge project a heavily textured pillow. Kirsten was creating Temari Balls for herself. Julie brought in her copy of Craft Time a 60’s book with patterns for a creepy doll, scary lion and great tea cozy. We also had Gabriel age 10 weeks with matching sweaters for him and his older brother. Joyce was also working on her Color Challenge with
lovely warm colors.
Congrats to the Spinzilla Team Champion: Alexandra’s Crafts sponsored by Blizzard Yarn & Fiber of Vancouver WA spun 172,232 yards, from October 1st to October 8th. Washington State is a great place for knitters and spinners.
January will be the 10th anniversary of By the Book Knitters! Remember meeting by the fireplace and being told to “keep it down” we too loud. Then we met in the back of the library and stole all the chairs from the computer tables. At tonight’s meeting we talked about dedicating this next year to Charity Knitting. At the December meeting we can discuss what else we can do to celebrate 10 years. One suggestion was Octopus for Preemies. So, what do octopuses have to do with preemies? “The purpose of the crocheted octopuses is to promote comfort and development for the pre-term babies while in the hospital. The tentacles of the soft octos mimic the feel of the umbilical cord in their tiny hands and have been found to soothe the babies and help prevent them from pulling on wires and tubes.” https://www.facebook.com/octoforapreemieus/. I will bring copies of the pattern to the December meeting.
Books we read this month
- A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
- A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
- Death on Eat Street by J. J. Cook
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Everybody’s Got Something by Robin Roberts and Veronica Chambers
- Fireman by Joe Hill
- Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rølvaag
- Human by Design by Gregg Braden
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Origin by Dan Brown
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- Provenance by Ann Leckie
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Three Ninja Pigs by Corey Rosen Schwartz
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Under Heaven and River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- When Your Llama Needs a Haircut by Susanna Leonard Hill
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Wonky Donkey by Craig Smithon
