Charity Knitting

My normal contributions to donated knitting involve projects that turn out fine, but that I just don't like or don't fit. I've donated a lot of hats in this way. A friend of mine goes to a charity knitting group that knows where to donate all the things, even wool. Apparently it's hard to donate wool. I've been meaning to go knit with them, but I always seem to be busy that day. This group got a huge yarn donation when a local yarn shop closed. 

I was given 20 balls of yarn to make a blanket with. Over the last few years I've been given two knitting machines, The ultimate sweater machine. It's enough of a machine to show you how cool machine knitting can be, but awful enough that you never want to use it again. I gave up on it after about 20 min, but Steven was able to make it cooperate. With the parts of two machines we step up a larger machine to knit the width of the blanket. I suggested that we do stripes of increasing and decreasing width. Steven then mathed at it, and made a Fibonacci blanket. I crocheted a border, which took longer than the rest of the blanket. But, it is done. It turned out a decent size too. 

I decided to plan a Learn to Knit Night for one of the meetup groups I regularly attend. I got a selection of acrylic yarn for people to pick from. Not all of it was used, and one ball I was curious how it would look knit up. I made the most basic hat ever, and then had fun with my pompom maker.

I also got a ball of huge lightly colored yarn to demonstrate with. I didn't need a whole ball for this, so I made a hat and kept the leftover for demonstrating. Again, went a little crazy with the pom pom maker. It is kind of fun making quick easy hats with pom poms. I'm not a big fan of them being on my head, but I keep seeing them on overpriced hats in stores. So, I guess they are in now...