
Stephanie made a bright yellow beverage bottle holder using techniques from our last tapestry class. She crocheted in the back-loop only, creating ridges that added interesting texture to the item.

shades.

June knit a charming child’s sweater from worseted-weight yarn she received at last year's retreat. The hood has a pair of ears on the top. The pattern called for a chunky yarn, but she found that this worked just fine.

Julie took the headbands made in our last Tunisian class and joined them together into a purse with a ruffled top. The pattern was in the book, One Skein Crochet. The book contains 4-5 Tunisian crochet patterns. Interestingly, the purse also worked pretty well as a hat!

Maxine showed some star motifs that she made for the “Knit Café” at the castle event at the American Swedish Institute at the end of July. The stars are a the primary motif from the Pleiades Shawl pattern, found in the magazine Interweave Crochet Accessories 2012. The shawl pattern uses sock-weight yarn (and many more motifs!) but Maxine made these stars using Plymouth Encore, a
worsted weight yarn.