Eastburn Adventures

I have posted a few times about the ladies at work who are joining the knitting craze that's sweeping the country.  Here's the latest update.  Jeri has been completely sucked into the knitting world.  After starting on the basic dishcloth pattern, she found a pattern for a seed stitch dishcloth and made this one entirely on her own:

Next, she wanted to try a scarf, so she made this lovely grey number in the Feather and Fan stitch pattern:

 Here's a closeup: 

Her daughter was so impressed, she put in her request (isn't that just like a non-knitter!).  So Jeri started another F&F scarf in this yummy yarn:

In true knitter form, Jeri is also planning her next project - a prayer shawl in this gorgeous Rowan tweed she bought at the LYS (it hurt a little to spend some hard-earned moolah on this, but she got over it really fast!):

Jeri is off and running, but she's not the only one!  Judy wanted to learn to knit, watched me one time, and came in the next day with a dishcloth half finished!  I showed her the K2tog decrease and she finished the dishcloth the next day.  She cranked out several for Christmas, and each one was perfect!

She found a great pattern for a Moose dishcloth on the web (I'm going to have to make this one myself!), so I gave her a quick lesson on how to purl and she's got it!  I've never seen someone pick this up so quickly!  Here's Judy purling on her own:

And here's the rest of our group (clockwise):  Judy, another Judy (hidden behind Judy), Traci (just observing to see if she wants to learn), Sharon, Jeri, and Stephine (cut out of the photo - sorry Steph!) (not pictured:  Brenda and Karen).  

Here's a better shot of Stephine:

I didn't know when I learned to knit almost 2 years ago that it would open up such a great sense of community.  Knitters really are something special!