Hello friends.  I hope you are all having a nice week.  Did you all have a nice Thanksgiving?  I did and I'm really enjoying eating all of the leftover food.

Well, I love yarn, as most of you know, and at the end of the summer, my niece and I visited the store Purl Soho.

I did a blog post recently HERE on my trip to Purl Soho and just in case you missed that post you can read all about it.  If you are not familiar with the store then you can read about it HERE.

Purl Soho - New York City

I had a wonderful time shopping in the store and bought some really beautiful yarn, to knit a scarf.

Below is a photo of the yarn I bought.  It's called Alpaca Pure in the color Gray Fig.  I love this yarn because it's so soft and the color sort of reminds me of a fig.  It sometimes looks like a dark purple color or a shade of brown.

Alpaca Pure Yarn in the color Gray Fig

I have a little bit of the scarf started and I am knitting it in the seed stitch.  I love working on this scarf a little bit at a time, in the evenings while I'm watching tv.

I am not a fast knitter.  I know this will take me a while to complete, but at least I do not have to rush to finish it for any reason.

This knit scarf is the seed stitch and I am working on size 9 US or 5.5 mm needles.  I also cast on 21 stitches.




Julie

Hello friends.  I recently went to my Tuesday crochet club meeting at my church, and I learned a new crochet stitch!



I learned how to crochet the seed stitch!  :)

I taught a lady that joined our crochet group how to crochet.  She also learned how to crochet by using this crochet book shown below, and by looking at YouTube video's which featured different crochet stitches.  My friend was so eager to learn how to crochet and was so inspired by it.

At our crochet club meeting, my friend happened to be making a crocheted scarf using the seed stitch (link with tutorial on this stitch).

Front of Crochet Book

Back of Crochet Book

I was so inspired to learn the seed stitch and make a scarf like my friend did.  So she gave me this book to keep.  Inside this book has easy to learn step-by-step tutorials on different crochet stitches.

I'm so eager to learn other stitches that are inside this book.  I started making a crochet scarf using the seed stitch.  Below is the start of the scarf that I will be donating to our crochet sale we have each fall at my church.

Hi friends, I have been knitting this scarf shown below for a while.  My goal is to work on this until it is done.  I can't remember when I started it last year but it's just one of those projects where I work on it and then I get bored and start working on something else.  Have you ever had one of those projects?  I hope I'm not the only one.

Here is what I am working on now.