Nice To Be Appreciated
It doesn’t matter how much I personally get out of some activity. It’s still nice to be appreciated.
When It’s Nice To Be Appreciated in a BIG Way!
Both art classes where I taught knitting signed this lovely, large thank-you note!
If you didn’t read about this earlier this March, I taught knitting to two art classes of grade-school students.
It was a truly wonderful experience. The students at this school were fantastic. So fantastic, that it was truly an honor to have been invited to participate in their lives. I honestly didn’t expect that.
There were a total of about 25-30 students in both classes and many of them wrote very sweet notes inside the card. And while it was completely unnecessary, it was a complete joy to get this acknowledgement.
I may be going back to teach two classes of middle-school students at the same school. I’ll look forward to that!
Current Knitting
I finally made it to 16 inches on the lower-body of the Bulky Mulespun Cardigan I’ve been working on. So I went on to finish the two sides of the front of the garment.
Of course, my busy-body cat had to see what was going on. It’s honestly hard enough to try and show in photos the progress I’ve made on a big sweater like this. It’s not blocked, so the edges curl. And then I have Finn to contend with.
He’s lucky he’s such a beauty.
Now all I have to finish is the back and the neck edging. It will be ready just in time for the warmer weather.
I am enjoying watching the progress on your sweater. Do you have a formula for doing sleeve tops for a set-in sleeve? You always end up with such a well fitted garment.
Yes Ron…I have used the same basic formula for both the shaping of the tops of set-in sleeves to get the “bell-curve” shape. I use the same shaping method on the body of the sweater to get the corresponding shaping of the armhole.
At the beginning of the first and second rows, I cast off 1″ worth of stitches (for this sweater, it was a little more…4 stitches)
At the beginning of rows 3-8, I cast off 2 sts
At the beginning of rows 9-14, I cast off 1 st. Bind off all remaining stitches on the 15th row.
If I want a deeper sleeve-cap, I’ll working a few more rows of the remaining stitches before binding off the remaining stitches.
Thanks, Joe. I am going to copy that into my knitting journal. You are very generous to share.
Congratulations on your successful foray teaching rather large groups of children!
P.S. nice Windsor chair