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Christmas means holidays. Holidays mean exactly that. Much of the discussion this Wednesday was around who was going where for the holidays. Not everyone will be back though, and we said au revoir to a City-Knitter who is returning to the US. Knitting socks to mini-socks, a hallowig to lovely soft cowl, and entertaining us with travel stories, she is always part of our Wednesday fun. Can’t we convince you to come back - we’ll miss you!!

With winter weather definitely settling in, socks are reigning supreme at the moment.Continuing progress was being made on a set of lovely mulberry-coloured coasters, a blue cabled jumper and a fluffy, ruffly scarf. There was also some firsts for some people this week: a brave knitter venturing into the world of crochet amigurumi, and a foray into land of sock-making (the joys of 4 dpns!).

If you’re thinking of coming along to a knitting session, please do! There will still be Edinburgian knitters around over the next couple of months so come along and keep them company. Weekends at Double Dutch are still on the list as well, check the Yahoo group calendar for which day each week, and maybe post a message to say you’re going along. Happy knitting!

Cynthia.

Get your hallowig on!

This week we took over (no, really) Caffé Lucano which is proving to be a popular venue – maybe something to do with the milkshakes and cake? The most unique project of the evening was the Hallowig (as spied on knitty.com) being crafted in purple for a halloween costume – can’t wait to see how that turned out! There were all the usual suspects, plus we welcomed back the tapestry weaver as well, with the geologic feature progressing nicely upwards. With christmas coming up, there are a lot of gifts in the making, and it seems scarves and socks are the order of the season, being winter and all. I hope your loved ones appreciate their handmade gifts. The other standout feature of the evening was the small hearts being knitted by one of our illustrious leaders, as part of a charity drive to honour a City Knitter who passed away recently.

For now I think the group is happy with Lucano, so we shall be there for the foreseeable future, so please do come along and join the knitting (crocheting, weaving etc) fun.

Cynthia, via Hugh (who prefers to think of himself as more of an 'email monkey').

Metropolitan knitting

Well, yesterday evening we all went to give Metropole a visit, down Newington way. We did some impromptu furniture rearranging, drank some rather elaborate hot chocolate, and did some knitting, some crochet, and even some weaving!
Projects included the beginnings of a very cool lacy shawl, an alpaca hat knit perfect for highland-visiting, and some awesome geological weaving been done on a little hand-loom. I'm also still excited that my mint tea was made with real mint, and also discovered that the library is open right up to knitting-time on wednesday evenings!

We also decided that next week we'll go back to Caffe Lucano for a second visit, so I'll make sure everyone gets reminded of that before then.

Hugh.

Bloggy, come back

Hi folks! The City Knitty blog has been away for quite a while now, but I think it's high time it made a comeback.

This week (well, last week now) City Knitty went adventuring to Caffe Lucano, in search of lighter and less cramped knitting opportunities.
Knitting projects included a very complicated pair of stranded mittens, and some first steps into crochet! I'm told there was a greeeeen shawl around too, though I missed that one myself. We also ate cake, admired shiny electronics, and heard disturbing things about Cthulhu toys.

Next week, back to the Elephant House, then possibly on to visit a few more places. We also have an upcoming City Knitty birthday, which we should really think of some way to celebrate.
Happy knitting!
Hugh.

WWKiPday 2008

We all headed over to Treefest at Inverleith Park for Worldwide Knitting in Public Day 2008. There was some sun, there were some light touches of rain and there was a downpour after we had all packed up. I don't think we did too badly on the weather front. We also had a good group of knitters and interested passers by.














We snagged a table with a gazebo covering it in the seating area near the food stalls. There was an ever changing cast of knitters from young to old and everywhere inbetween as people came and went to wander round the festival. There were baby projects with oh-so-soft yarn and charity hats, technical knitting and simple relaxing projects, and a whole rainbow of colours from bright to gentle to sparkly.


As promised there were also crafts including felting workshops and spinning. For more photos head over to the city knitty flickr group

Facebook group

City Knitty has finally become web 2.0 and added a facebook group to our networking and communications empire! It's open to anyone and you can invite friends to join as well. Just search for City Knitty under groups and there we will be. Please do invite other Edinburgh knitters, crocheters and crafty types.

Don't forget. Tomorrow (June 14th) is Worldwide Knit in Public Day 2008 and we'll be meeting at Treefest. Treefest starts at 11am at Inverleith Park, Arboretum Place, Edinburgh (opposite the Botanic Gardens). We'll be gathering 2-4pm at the seating area by the catering section. It's a very family friendly event, but there's plenty of stalls, crafts and demos for everyone. Plus, axe throwing!

Knitting with rocks in

Hey people!
Rather overdue blogging this time- this entry is for the meeting two weeks ago(28/11?), so let's see how good my memory is!
In preparation for the cold weather we had a number of scarves being knit, including a blue scarf in blue Wendy Fusion yarn, and green and white scarves being knit is garter stitch by keen new knitters. We also had a shawl being knit up in merino wool, which hopefully will be good and cozy!
Carrying on the cold weather theme, we had a pair of Sanquhar gloves being knit to a SWRI pattern. These are a black and white stranded design, and apparently are quite traditional.
We had some christmas-y knitting too, with some cute snowball toys being knit to go up on a christmas tree. These were made to a pattern by Jean Greenhowe, and looking through her books I think we were all suprised how many of them we all remembered from our childhoods.

There were a couple of other projects I particularly wanted to mention too:
We had a cute baby-beanie and scarf being crocheted in autumnal brown and green colours for 1-day-old Ben- so congratulations to Ben's family!
There was also an extremely educational scarf, which had been used to teach lots of different people to knit, using different yarns, colours and stitches, and even random pieces of other materials. So not only is the scarf educational, but it has nice stories behind it's pieces too.
And finally, actually from a slightly earlier meeting(but well worth a mention) we have knitted rock-cosies, being made as part of an art project investigating how different materials affect how people react to everyday objects. I'm told these may be appearing around town at some point, so keep an eye out!

Hugh.