Boulder Community Knitting

Our next meeting is Wednesday, February 8, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We will be making an earflap hat, a modification of Purl Soho's pattern. We've made this one before, and it's fun and easy and keeps ears covered better than most hats. You can find the pattern HERE . You will need about two ounces of machine washable worsted weight yarn and a circular needle in US #6, 7, or 8 (4-5mm), with double point needles in the same size for the final decreases. Remember that we have this meeting room reserved for the whole year, so you can mark your calendar for the second Wednesday of the month, same time and place all the way through December 2023.   Hope you can make it!

  Happy New Year! Our first meeting of the year is this Wednesday, January 11, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We have the meeting room reserved for the whole year, so you can mark your calendar for the second Wednesday of the month, same time and place all the way through December 2023. Our pattern this month is a child’s hat. Printed patterns will be available, or you can find it HERE . You will need to bring about two ounces of machine washable worsted weight yarn and a circular needle in US #7 or 8 (4.5 - 5mm). Please bring any knits you finished over the holidays and we will hopefully do a midwinter donation to Clinica. We have lots of winter left in Colorado. Hope to see you there!  

  Just a reminder - we will be meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We will be making an adult hat (printed patterns will be available). You will need to bring 2 ounces of worsted weight yarn and a US 7 or 8 16-inch circular needle. Hope you can make it!

    Hi all! Several volunteers from our group worked hard to sort and distribute our accumulated hats, scarves, mittens, sweaters, and bears from the year. Read through to the end to get our total counts of our knitted donations! This year our donations went to Sister Carmen, Clinica, and EFAA. If you'd like to know more about these organizations or offer them additional support, I have linked to each of them below.  First, from Giselle, who went to Sister Carmen :   I wanted to let you know that I took all of our knitting to Sister Carmen this afternoon. Between 1:00 and 5:00 everything was taken by participants with many, many thanks. Kids enjoyed choosing a hat and I helped a few homeless men choose a warm hat and a bulky ribbed cowl. Towards the end of the afternoon a woman came in with her two sons. They were both wearing dinosaur costumes/pajamas and were thrilled to be getting groceries. I had two green hats left that went with their outfits and they were overjoyed to have

  We will have a project dropoff at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library from 3:00-4:00 on Tuesday, November 29. This is a chance for you to bring in any finished projects before our pre-holiday donation to Clinica. Remember that you can also bring in children’s books (new or gently used) to include for Clinica to hand out. This won’t be a regular meeting to stay and knit - our next one of those is Wednesday, December 14. Happy Thanksgiving, and happy knitting!

  At our last meeting, many of us took home lots of donated yarn to make projects through the winter, and much of that yarn was bulky/super bulky weight. Since most of our patterns are written for worsted weight, it seemed like a good idea to share a simple bulky weight pattern this month. You will need US 10-11 needles (16 inch circular and double points) and about 2 ounces of bulky weight yarn. (Remember you can always hold multiple strands together to get bulky weight.) You can find the hat pattern HERE . We will meet Wednesday, November 9 from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. I think the remaining donated yarn will be there, so if you missed out last month, make sure to come and take some home!