Should I Knit?

SASI knitters - I have an conundrum (if you will).

On page 89 of the new VOGUEKnitting Mag (Holiday) is a BEAUTIFUL Kimono.

I want to knit this. I REALLY want to knit this.

I do not like the yarn that it recommends.

I need help figuring out what yarn to use.

Anyone?

A celeb among us!

ATTENTION ALL KNITTERS!!!!!

SASI and the LIKE.....

We have a CELEB at SASI!!!

Our Anne Lenzini is found in this awesome new book that was just published!


WAY to GO ANNE!!!!!

This book just happens to be in at SASI - they are going fast!

We all have those lonely skeins.... this book if full of fabulous ideas.... LIKE ANNE's!

Keep watching for a book signing!

Dearest B

Dearest B (from B)

How horrible. A Knitting Nightmare! Having to FROG your beautiful work. (That was such a great color). I weep with you in sympathy. My hands were twitching tonight at work - probably in response to your frogging. Big Cyber Hugs to you!

In contrast to your knitting nightmare - I had one of my own today. You must go here to find out the whole story. Suffice to say I was knitting along and my ipod suddenly stopped ipoding..... It was quite disturbing to say the least. In a fit of panic I dropped my knitting (you know the mohair wrap I am working on, with those obnoxius needles) and out came my needles. The attempts to replace the (obnoxious) needles became very upseting. I am not sure if it was the stress and worry over my ipod's health or the slickness of the mohair on the addi (obnoxious) needles. I began to frog....

You CAN NOT FROG MOHAIR. ATTENTION ALL NEW KNITTERS AND KNITTERS WHO HAVE NOT TRIED TO FROG MOHAIR.... Don't try it.

The attempt to frog mohair will only turn you into a knitter found on the floor in a puddle of tears. The Mohair knots, frays and breaks leaving you with not one nice pile of frogged yarn but several scrawny fragments of mohair yarn.

I share in your pain......

Knit on sister!

Major Knitting Disaster!

Ok -- had to share with all of you. I finished knitting up my way cool corset thingy from the Rowan book. You know the one, I'm making it in that gorgeous teal blue alpaca? Well, I finished knitting last night and it was beautiful! I am usually very slow to get all the tails sewn in, but in this case, I decided to get the drudgery work out of the way.

I carefully buried the tails.

I plotted my trip to the fabric store to get a deep burgundy satin ribbon to lace it up.

I felt very good about how nicely the ribs looked. Very straight and neat.

And then, I tried to fit it around my bodacious self. No go. ARGH! The bind off was too tight even though I thought I made it impossibly loose. The rest of it just barely stretched around me if pulled to the maximum.

So, tonight I'll be ripping out, considering my errors, and starting over!

SASI Swap

Knit Nite was a blast (photos to come).

It was our largest group yet! YIPEE!

We swap'd our names for the Holiday Knit Swap.

Our task - to knit something (or crochet or sew or whatever) for a friend.

Stay tuned for updates!

SASI Knitters on FLICKR

Hey SASI sisters....

(what will we do if we get a token male? I am all for it!!!! We need a man in our circle to balance out the estrogen.....)

We have a FLICKR account AND an YAHOO account!

We are sasiknitters@yahoo.com

For the flickr account go here.

Come on SASI knitters - upload some pictures of your FINISHED Projects AND WIPS!!!!!

IF you are a SASI sister you should be getting an email invite with password information in it for both the YAHOO email acct and FLICKR acct!

Saturday's Celebration

Saturday was a wonderfully warm/cool fall day with bright sun shining. SASI carried on her year celebration in style with a sweets and coffee treat. Many people stopped by and celebrated with us!!!!


Again - Donna AND Belinda's knitted wonders were on display.



This fine diva was showing off her knitted creations. We are DYING to have her show up at Knit Nite. The rumor is, from her mouth, the wrap took a week and was her own pattern. The scarf - her own pattern. She looked beautiful in BOTH!!!!!!




The nicest thing about SASI is the fact that it's so warm and friendly in there. Everyone is greeted with a warm welcome - and the SASI girls are hugged. How do you become a SASI girl? Just stop on by SASI and find out!




Donna (the store owner and a SASI diva herself) had many of her family there and was glowing as the proud mama of this wonderful place!!!!!


Talk about kid friendly......
These lil girls were busy making "wish lists" to have on file at SASI so that Santa (or who ever) might stop by and see what they would like!



They both had lists two pages long......... oiy!

You missed this year's celebration if you did not stop by - but the good news is - we are just getting started. Stop by for knit nite, stop by for a lesson or two, stop by and buy some yarn or let your kids get involved into crafts - WHATEVER - become a SASI woman too!!!!