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Sweet baby sweater for May

Hi knitters, Our next meeting is this Wednesday, May 13 from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. For May we’ll be making a very sweet baby sweater. It’s available for free from Madelinetosh yarn’s website. Go HERE to download a copy. You can see some pictures of it at the link. It’s a top-down seamless raglan that you can make with short or long sleeves. The pattern is written for DK weight yarn and US size 4 and 6 needles, but you can totally use worsted weight and US 7 or 8 needles and it will just make a roomier sweater. Also, using a smaller needle for the ribbing (as called for in the pattern) makes a nice finish, but if you don’t have one, it totally works to do the whole thing on one size needle - I’ve done it plenty of times! It comes in 3 sizes, and you can make any one you like, but we’ll probably be aiming for most of the sweaters to be the biggest size because it fits more kids for longer. If you do the long sleeves, you can add a little length...
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April meeting

(screenshot from NASA's tracker ) Hi knitters, I hope you all get a chance to follow the Artemis II mission and celebrate our return to the moon and a new record for the farthest from Earth human have ever been (April 6 at 1:57 EDT)!  Our next meeting is this Wednesday, April 8, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. Our pattern for April is a free baby bootie pattern. You can find the free pattern HERE . Diana has provided some photos and clarifications - see below. Also, Shuttles will have yarn for sale at the meeting if you are interested (cash or check).  Hope you can make it!
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March meeting tomorrow

  Hi knitters! Sorry for the late notice, but our next meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 11 from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We will be making a fun and easy hat, pattern and materials below. 
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February hat

Hi knitters, Our February meeting will be this Wednesday, February 11, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We will be making the Swirl Hat, pattern below. If you're not comfortable with 2-color knitting, you can just work 2-row stripes for an equally colorful hat. Or you could do a solid color hat with contrast ribbing at the beginning. This pattern has a cute way to finish the top of a hat - a little sewing required, but it's worth the small effort!
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First meeting of 2026

Hi knitters, Happy 2026! Our first meeting for this year is tomorrow, Wednesday, January 14, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We have a colorwork hat pattern for this month. You need worsted weight yarn in two colors and US 7 or 8 needles. If colorwork is not your thing, you can just work the 26 rows of the hat body all in one color or in stripes. Scroll down to see the pattern (and click on it to enlarge).  By the way, our counts for 2025 are in:  Hats: 1176 Sweaters: 5 Vests: 65 Scarves/cowls: 135 Mittens: 71 Bears: 121 Headbands: 10 Blankets: 2 Socks: 18 Booties: 16 Total: 1619 (up from 1390 last year) Kits: 70  
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December scarves and some photos from our annual sort

  Hi knitters! Hope everyone got inspired by the snow and is getting in some fun holiday knitting. Our next meeting is Wednesday, December 10, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We will be making scarves with built-in handwarmer pockets (see pattern below). You'll need US 8 (5mm) needles and worsted weight yarn - 100 grams in the main color and 25 grams in a contrasting color for the pockets. I think this pattern would look cute in random stripes too, with or without pockets, in case you have some leftovers to use up.  Keep scrolling for some photos from our annual sort - some sweet gift sets and lots of bears! 
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Two Hats for November

Hi knitters, Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12, from 3 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We have two hat patterns for this month (see end of the post). Each uses worsted weight yarn in two colors. They're shown here in red and green, but you can get creative and maybe use a bunch of colors and do some stashbusting.  If you want to size them up or down or adjust for a different gauge, the squares hat cast on needs to be a multiple of 4 and 6 and the four corners hat needs to be a multiple of 4. Or if you switched from 2x2 to 1x1 ribbing, the squares hat would just need to be a multiple of 6 and the four corners an even number.  Other updates: There will be a meeting in December (the 10th). The final dropoff for our holiday donation will be on November 28 from 3-4 at Meadows library.    We are also taking donations of new/gently used children's books or cash donations to buy books.   Hope you can make it! 
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