Boulder Community Knitting

  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 wer...

  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!

 Hi everyone and happy fall! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, October 12, from 3:00 to 4:30 at  the Boulder Public Library Meadows branch. We had a very large donation of yarn to our group, and Giselle will be bringing it to the October meeting. Come prepared to take some (or a lot!) home with you for your Community Knitting projects! Our October project is mittens, pattern HERE . You will need bulky weight WOOL yarn (wool is best for mittens, doesn't have to be machine washable) and US 9, 10, or 10.5 (5.5-6.5 mm) double point needles, plus a cable needle (or extra DPN). If you don't have bulky weight, you can hold together two strands of DK weight, or a strand of worsted and a strand of fingering weight, or whatever combination gets you something like bulky. If you don't have wool, or mittens are just not your thing, we can always use more hats. We are also accepting new or gently used children's books to include with our holiday donations, so feel free to bring som...

  Hi all,  Our next meeting will be Wednesday, September 14 from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Boulder Public Library Meadows branch. We are making adult-size hats. You can choose from any of your favorite patterns, or you can try this ribbed one ( PATTERN HERE ), which is very stretchy to fit almost everyone. You will need about 2 ounces of machine washable worsted weight yarn and US 7 or 8 (4.5-5 mm) needles (16 inch circular and double points). Email notifications: I'm moving email notifications to Substack, which should fix the problems with people not getting emails before meetings. Everyone (even if you already subscribed) please go HERE to sign up, or you can email me at amysantamaria@gmail.com and I'll sign you up. If you know someone who hasn't been getting email notifications, please forward this on to them. I'll also collect emails at the next meeting for anyone who is having trouble. Upcoming Community Knitting dates: October 12, 2022 November 9, 2022 December 14, 20...

    Our next meeting will be Wednesday, August 10, from 3:00 to 4:30 at the Meadows branch of the Boulder Public Library. We will be making a ribbed neckwarmer, pattern HERE . You will need to bring 2 ounces of worsted weight machine washable yarn in one or more colors and a 16 or 24 inch circular needle in size US 10 (6mm).  Upcoming Community Knitting dates: September 14, 2022 October 12, 2022 November 9, 2022 December 14, 2022 January 11, 2023