TNK from My Vantage Point

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As is my way, I typically come to Tuesday Night Knitting and, like a bump on a log, park myself and knit, rarely getting up except to grab a frappachino or perhaps a pretzel or strata for dinner. Last night was no different.

This time I sat across from Linda and Jane, and next to Issy (standing, below):

Linda is wearing her recently finished Sursa shawl --
another victim of our knitting retreat's Noro virus outbreak!
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We had a surprise visit from Jane's good friends Donna and Jimmy. Here's Donna modeling the Knitters cover sweater she recently finished:

Perfection!

And here's Jimmy wearing two of Donna's handknits -- a gorgeous cashmere scarf, (I want the pattern!), and a beautiful cabled sweater:

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Here's some of the TNK gang a few tables away from me:

Patsy, Rita, Mary (?) and Amy

I used my camera's handy zoom to focus in on Tami's new snowman hat, recently completed for her by Laura Jo:

So cute!
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Here's Christina, Renny and Robin C. working on their various projects:

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And I zoomed in on Issy's lap, (which sounds vaguely dirty - forgive me!), to show the beautiful Lady Eleanor wrap she's making, (from Scarf Style):

Noro Kureyon, I believe
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In attendance, but out of my line of vision and therefore not pictured here were: Judy, Laura Jo, Linda's sister Mary, Susan, Christina's friend Kathy and probably one or two others I'm forgetting. Sorry, guys -- no offense, I hope! What's it going to take for me to get up off it, I wonder...? We can only hope that Jane was good enough to capture pictures of the other folks for her blog.

I continued to work on the first of my snowmen hats, and am using Debbie Bliss cashmerino superchunky (in white, of course) for it. That's a luscious yarn to knit with, for darn sure. Conveniently, I have leftover black and orange yarn from my nephew's hat to use for the snowman's face, although I'm toying with the idea of making a trip over to Couture to see if they have any children's novelty buttons that look like coal. Wouldn't that be cute?

After the group dispersed, I shopped a little and found a copy of A Gathering of Lace hidden among the knitting books. I've been thinking about getting this book for a couple months now, but was waiting until I could get my hands on it to flip through it, to see if I really wanted to buy it. I was very impressed, so I now have a third fourth lace book to add to my lace knitting library, which already contains Victorian Lace Today (thanks again, Rita!) and Artic Lace. Oh, and I almost forgot -- Folk Shawls (thanks again, Jane!).

All in all, another fun night at TNK!

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