In preparation for our summer Tea Cosy design contest, a small show of some of our first attempts may be viewed at the Cornwall, NY Town Hall – 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, M – Fr. for the next 6 weeks, along with a display of quilting techniques by the Hudson Highlands Quilting Guild.
If you know my love for buttons you’ll understand my tea cosy -
“Grandma’s Button Box”
I’ll be posting more pictures of the cosies soon
Rachael & Amy have been busy expanding their sewing skills with Dale.
Dale is serious about teaching good sewing techniques.
Amy has all the materials ready for her daughter’s dress.
Rachael’s bag is one of her first projects.
If you are interested in learning to sew/quilt call us and we’ll get you going. Watch for a summer group for ages 11 & up, too!
Last night at Sit & Stitch we were helping Jean fill her pledge of 100 Knitted Reading Buddies. The daughter of a member of her church is going to Uganda in July and needs the dolls for their reading project.
We had a great group of people and knit several dolls. Julie very generously took home several to stuff & sew up .The pattern may be found at the following site: http://cohenhillel.org/uploads/2201ReadingBuddyPattern.pdf. We’ll be knitting dolls next Wed evening, too.
Jean did promise 100 !!!
And speaking of Julie, her Wrap is finished and FABULOUS !!
It’s finally time to schedule dinner for everyone who made the Island Cotton sweater – I’m sure you folks thought we forgot about dinner. Well we haven’t – just waiting for Diann to be finished – So let’s pick a Thursday evening -
The Wrap Me Up is still continuing – with great progress I might add. Garnet and Isabel have completed their wraps – although Isabel completed hers at home, because she has not been feeling well. And I hope that Roberta is still working on her wrap in sunny Florida!!! We miss you.
Here is a detail of Norma’s lace & bead section along with the slipped stitch square using ribbon.
Diann says she’s tired of her colors, but I love them – hard to see, but greens mauves & burgundy!
Those of you that come by to enjoy the company at the shop know that we frequently have tea in the afternoon – Lady Grey being my favorite – although Jean loves her Rooibos – Well, that Jean knew I had been meaning to make a tea cosy to keep my tea warm so she took Fiber Trends’ Nanny Meier’s Tea Cosy pattern and with some yarn she had at home and cosied up my teapots !! Don’t they look great? Now you’ll have to stop by for some tea…………..
Nicole celebrated her birthday with us at the yarn shop with 3 of her friends and her sister Mackenzie.
What a great time we had on a sunny, January afternoon laughing and knitting a winter headband. Liz joined us to teach the girls how to make beaded stitch markers and to assist the girls with their knitting.
Nicole, Mackenzie, Lily, Amanda, and Rose (who met up with the girls later) are great friends and I am sure will be knitting together for a long time.
This is the 3rd box that we’ve shipped to Sgt. Jason Cable’s troops in Afghanistan. The 4th box is almost ready to go. IF we ship more than his men can use, the items will be shared with the local chaplain who will distribute the items to other troops there. The outpouring of giving has been tremendous – from JoAnne Turcotte at Plymouth yarns, to all those non-stitchers who donated funds and of course…. all of the knitters, crocheters & seamstresses!