Join us Friday, May 18 for Afghans!

Knit "Simple Throw" by Lion Brand Yarn

This month, we'll collect your finished washroom products to deliver to the Habitat families, and we'll start on two new Living Room projects: Afghans! Each kit will contain a portion of one afghan. Each portion will be due Friday, August 17th. At that meeting, we'll combine all the sections together to make complete projects!

Project Sign-Out Reminder

To ensure we are able to donate enough projects to our charitable recipients, all projects that are taken will need to be signed out with your name and phone number.

 
Patterns & Materials

Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Crochet Afghan: Size "N" Crochet Hook
Knit Afghan: Size 10 Needles (straight or circular)

Recipient Charity

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

In The Loop Meeting This Friday. New Projects!

We're excited to see you this Friday to continue working on washroom projects and have a few new kits with patterns to create bath mats!

Friday, April 20, 2012
12 - 2pm
World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks



Notes from Ina

• There are still a number of kits from January through March that need to be made and returned. We hope to have your continued enthusiastic support to finish those up so we can confidently move on to the new projects on the list. Ashley will be calling those unreturned projects to collect all outstanding projects. Please bring yours this Friday!
• It is already April and we are moving along to new projects.
• We have a granny square crochet bath mat and a knitted doily bath mat. Lovely oversized pattern and altogether a quick project each!
• The crochet bath mat uses three skeins of the Lion Brand Cotton Ease with nary any leftovers. We will double up the yarn.
• You need a size J (6.0 mm crochet hook). I will check closely that we get the desired gauge and feel. I will have a finished sample on hand.
• The knitted doily bath mat is worked with a triple strand and a size 15 (10.0 mm) needle. You can use a 24” circular needle but we will work in rows! There will be a finished sample on hand.
• The yarn amount for the knitted bath mat is leaving us quite a bit of leftovers. We will use those for the next round of projects, so please bring your leftover yarn in May.
• I will work closely with you to make sure things “look” and turn out right.
• You know that I can be reached via email if questions arise: tantesophie@me.com or on my mobile # 1.201.910.0027

Project Sign-Out Reminder
To ensure we are able to donate enough projects to our charitable recipients,
all projects that are taken will need to be signed out with your name and
phone number.

Patterns & Materials
Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Crochet Square Basket
(Size "E" Crochet Hook)

Knit Bauhaus Washcloth
(Size 9 Needles)

Crochet Granny Square Bath Mat
(Size "J" Crochet Hook)

Knit Doily Bath Mat
(Size 15 Needles)

Recipient Charity
All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's
Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.
For more information, visit http://www.habitatnyc.org/

Friday, March 16: Kitchen Projects Due, Washroom Projects Start!

Please join us this Friday, March 16, to return your completed kitchen projects! We are so excited to see your potholders, oven mitts, place mats and grocery bags, and prepare them for delivery to Habitat for Humanity.

This week, we'll begin on our Washroom projects. There is one knit pattern and one crochet pattern. Both are made with machine washable (and dry-able!) Lion Cotton.

Square Crochet Basket: Size "E" (3.5mm) crochet hook



Bauhaus Washcloth: Size 6 knitting needles (straight or circular)



As last time, we will ask you to sign out your projects so that we can keep good track and ensure we deliver enough gifts to the new Habitat homeowners!

Pattern Note for Crocheted Market Bag

Hello to all!

The week has flown by and I promised Ashley some notes for you to make the final outcome of our projects a success.

• We had a number of finished projects returned last week and ran into a common problem on the crochet market tote! Not enough yarn!
• What will we do? Wiggle the pattern a bit and make it work with what we have! Please use good judgement to see how far the first skein gets you. You might have to shorten the number of rounds before the handles or even rework the handles. I'd say get through about a third of the second skein and plan on working the handles. How to know that amount ... a little kitchen scale can help ... there was actually a nice lesson on that matter on the knitter's review this week ... www.knittersreview.com! Always packed with good information worth reading up on.
• We want to be able to make the tote with the amount of yarn we have. If in doubt feel free to bring it in for review next time.
• The felted mitten potholders are worked with a single strand! We will felt all those pieces together at the end if you would rather not attempt that yourself. It is fun though and you will see that felting covers a multitude of little irregularities and is most forgiving!
• And yes, for the crochet potholders you are NOT supposed to have a gazillion little ends to put away ... work with the tails from both ends of the skein.
• If I forgot anything ... please feel free to contact me via email (tantesophie@me.com) or call me 201.910.0027 ... I will gladly help from afar.
• In the meantime ... be well ... do good work ... and keep in touch.

Kindest regards, Ina