Tonight I attended the launch of a new partnership between Amazing Threads and Rowan Yarns and Westminster Fibres. AT will carry a huge selection of their yarns and patterns.
Each of us received a copy of the following Rowan Magazine and other goodies:
They served lovely teas, scones, mini-sandwiches and beautiful yarn. The shop was jammed floor to ceiling with fall’s fibre bounty and a lot of knitters. I did have to bring a little something home! I bought three skeins of Madeline Tosh DK in Alazarin: a rich combination of warm autumn colors to make a Ponchette Shawlette. It’s another design that has worked its way through my entire knitting group.
Speaking of my knitting group…we went through a name change. We used to call ourselves “Thursdays at 4.” Descriptive but a bit blah. Our new name is “Penelope Knitters.”
Our group is named for Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. Penelope was faithful to her husband during his twenty-year quest by using her wits. Believing that Odysseus would return to her, she told would-be suitors that she would not marry until she finished the funeral shroud of her father-in-law. She would weave all day and then undo her work throughout the night, thus thwarting their advances.
At our Thursday knitting group, we often find that we knit all evening and then go home and rip it all out! We cannot always talk and knit at the same time! Penelope seems to represent our group pretty well!
Penelope at Her Loom
I love all the Tosh! What a beautiful color. Is this this the pattern you are referring to – it is so cute:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cool-hemp-ponchette
Comment by Bets — September 24, 2011 @ 8:27 am
LOL – great knitting group name! We seem to have a bit of that trouble in my group, too!
Comment by twinsetellen — September 24, 2011 @ 6:19 pm
Ha, ha, love that name! Your evening sounded lovely — especially the free food and free gifts part!
Comment by Wool free and Lovin' knit — September 25, 2011 @ 8:52 am
I’m with Ellen…it’s perfect!! Especially when the group meets at a place that serves adult beverages!
Comment by twinsetjan — September 25, 2011 @ 11:51 am
I’m envious. Rowan is, and has been, my favorite yarn since I first discovered it back in the late 1980s.
The name of your group is perfect. I think that there is a little Penelope in all of us.
Comment by Joanne — September 26, 2011 @ 2:18 am
Great group name! You have to love the historical reference, Penelope lives!
Comment by Ann — September 26, 2011 @ 11:29 am
Oh my, I will have to change my email address. I always had to explain it, and if I were feeling feisty, I would say that was when my affair was scheduled! Penelope would require some explanation, too!
Comment by Kathy filkins — September 28, 2011 @ 11:50 am