Hey! Where are your knitting needles?

Mary and Sally are "busy" winding yarn.


Mary T
Mary had a lot of fun with color, as you can see in the photo above. The class looked forward to seeing Mary's designs each month.
Kathy R
Format of the Classes
Format of the Pattern
Tips and Tricks
Chart Reading Tips
Square designed by Judy Sumner - Page 2
We worked on a swatch that included the X's and O's cable pattern (chart A), the SPIDER with bobbles (chart C), and the leaves (chart B). This stitches in this "challenging" square will take a bit of time to master.
Square designed by Julie H. Levy on Page 4
We worked on a swatch that included the "Aran Diamond and Bobble". The featured stitches included the unusual 2/1/2 RPC and the bobble, as well as three stitch cables going left and right. The other cables had been covered in the "Square 2 - (square on page 2 of book)" class.
As some of you may know, Nautical Yarn is the "clearing house" for the Ludington Chapter of Project Linus. We typically collect te 100-200 blankets each year and deliver them to our local hospital for children who have been ill or injured.
This week we received a request from the Michigan National Guard.
Camp Grayling, Engineering Company, Unit 1434 is requesting the help of Blanketeers from the Ludington Chapter of Project Linus.
Two-hundred fifty (250) Michigan soldiers are being deployed this spring. Blankets must be delivered to Nautical Yarn by May 1 so they can be delivered to the soldiers prior to their deployment.
These soldiers would like to give Project Linus blankets to their children for safety, security, and remembrance while Mom or Dad is gone for one or more years.
A total of 500 blankets are needed. We would like to assist with blankets for the more vulnerable age group, children between the ages of 4 and 10.
Please help with this endeavor to help provide security for the children of our Michigan volunteer soldiers.
Nautical Yarn and several yarn companies, especially Plymouth and Berroco, have generously provided FREE kits to help with this blanket drive. Stop by Nautical Yarn to pick up your free kit (while supplies last).
If you are able to make a blanket for this endeavor to help provide security for the children of our Michigan volunteer soldiers, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions, please email linus@nauticalyarn.com or call Nautical Yarn at 231-845-9868.
Show and Tell
First was "Show and Tell". Most people had both squares from the January class finished. Remember, we worked on the Lily Chin Square 9 and Kathy Zimmerman Square 8 during the first month. Everyone showed off their fine work and went on to give hints to the rest of us. Our in-store group consists of about 20 novice to experienced knitters. Everyone is working hard to learn and improve upon their already brilliant skills. Some felt the diagonal square designed by Lily Chin was the more difficult, but more believed the Kathy Zimmerman cable stitch design with moss stitch was more challenging.
The work completed by the class was amazing. Almost everyone had at least one square completed and many had both squares done. Some pictures will be posted as soon as I figure out how. (Oh, I just found an "add image" button. I'll try that.)
This is Mary's Square 9 with multicolored Bobbles
Hints and Tips
Since pattern reading and chart reading skills are new to some, many hints focused on easy ways to comfortably read the chart and written pattern words. Some people seem to prefer follow a chart and others prefer to read the "In other words" pattern. One goal of the GAAKALONY is for us all to become comfortable with both methods.
Some hints: