last night the world's newest knitting group was born. yay for monday nights! but probably 40 new groups have starting meeting since then. i'm calling it stitching bitches because when i was first talking about a stitch n' bitch, bryan misheard me and thought i was saying stitching bitches. here is a montage to commemorate our first meeting.



clockwise from top left:

alexis, trying to swatch uselessly because i didn't hear her correctly and her yarn is too chunky to get down to the gauge she needed, even though i kept throwing smaller and smaller needles at her to keep swatching, poor alexis

erin, sticthing away productively on her quilted pillow cover (which she has talked about in some more detail here).

alexa, starting to cast on for her first hat, the hot head pattern from stitch n' bitch but with different yarn. but then she cast on for the small size because she was ignoring those pesky numbers in parentheses, so she ripped out the first few rows and is now going to ask her friend for her head circumference before she casts on again.

carolyn, learning how to knit with some big needles and fat yarn. she is a crocheter, so she started doing something crazy with the yarn with her left hand so after a while i just had her read out of the book to teach herself. i guess this is what continental knitting looks like. she made a lovely sample swatch with garter stitch, stockinette stitch, different widths of ribbing, and seed stitch. i should have taken a picture of it before we ripped it out.

erin, starting to work on her first pair of socks, these fancy footies. i have made one pair as well and can attest that the heel is confusing. but soon she will be a champion sock knitter!

as you can see, being the productive scientists that we are, we got right to work stitching, but the bitching suffered as a result. next week we'll have to drink more wine and let out some of our pent-up anger.

here's what the cats were doing: