Knit Your Bit

Knit-in at the Museum

We’re going to do another knitting event at the museum on Saturday, July 12th.   I had soo much fun meeting local knitters and want to do it again.  This time I’m going to bring some extra yarn and needles for passersby in the museum who might be knitters and have an hour or two to sit and knit.  I also made a “scrapbook” of some of the neat letters and stories I’ve gotten from knitters over the past couple of seasons of knit your bit.  I love hearing from yall from all over the place, but it’s neat to connect in person, isn’t it?  I guess that’s why so many of us knit with friends or in groups and why so many more of us are addicted to Ravelry.  So I hope to hear from you online or in person soon, during the slower summer time of Knit Your Bit!

What to do?!?

Over the course of Knit Your Bit, I’ve run into tons of people with great ideas.  Designing the first scarf wasn’t too hard.  Three stripes.  Knit stitch only.  I was just learning how to knit so that was cool with me.  The second scarf we liked the V for Victory and I had to knit and purl in the same row and follow a pattern!  Slightly tougher, but still good enough for a novice knitter.  I’d like to keep the pattern for year three something that even a brand new knitter can do, because I enjoy the stories from people saying it’s their first scarf just like those saying they knit all the time and for years and years, which I hope to be able to say someday.  BUT, I’m hitting a mental block.  What pattern is a) easy enough that no on is intimidated by it and b) stays to our Knit Your Bit for today’s vets but calls back to WWII. 

Please, send me your suggestions, creative crafters out there.  I have to start thinking about a pattern to launch for the fall!!!