Stitch Night With Carla and Heather

Heather, Carla, and I got together tonight to do some stitchin' and chattin'. Here's the knitted mat that Heather was working on. I really loved this concept, because it seems a perfect blend of knitting and quilting.

Heather knits well without looking - not bad!

Carla brought her hand loom along and showed us how that all worked. She's already made a couple of triangle pieces and plans to create a poncho out of them.

Here she is hard at work on her looom. It looks like a fun project.

Heather and I watched in fascination as Carla showed us how to do a "Russian Join" to splice together two skeins of wool without a knot.


Step one: divide each of the two ends into two parts - about an inch and half long.


Step two: Insert your darning needle into the "fork" of one divided section - also about an inch and a half in.


Step three: Insert half of each divided end into the darning needle.

Step four: pull the inserted ends through the yarn. Repeat on the opposite side.





Step five: smooth it out and pull it taut - VOILA!







One more shot of Carla's loom to get an idea of how the pegs are set up.........


I had fun tonight and gained some good ideas about new knitting projects to make. We'll see if I can manage that Russian Join on my own!