One of my dreams has finally come true: I have a knitting group in Japan! What started with just my friend Liz and I knitting together on my couch grew last week into a group of almost fifteen girls meeting at a cafe in Gifu City for a night of...uh, knitting. But also coconut milk tea, lots of fun, a broken beer glass and a waitstaff possibly traumatized by a giant group of foreign girls armed with needles. And we're doing it again this week!
This means I won't have to do so much knitting alone in my living while listening to audiobooks. Not that this is such a bad pastime, mind you. It recently produced two finished winter accessories, just in time for the recent temperature drop: a turquoise merino wool mistake rib scarf and an Artyarns Supermerino Panta. Both the yarn and pattern for the latter were sent to me by the lovely Cirilia and I already have plans for making several more as Christmas gifts. Panta really does live up to all the hype, people. Especially when you have to ride your bike to work on a frigid day and are wearing your hair in a ponytail which would doubtlessly create a weird lump under your winter hat. So what I mean is: when you don't want to sacrifice vanity for comfort.
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Comments (6)
very nice! don't you love mistake rib? so much more fun to knit than just regular ol' rib.
glad to hear that you now have a large group of friends to knit with! makes knitting so much more enjoyable, no?
also, wanted to mention, your comments form never remembers me. i think that this is because you are missing your javascript file. get the latest one from MT and hook it back up and you should be ok.
Posted by gleek | December 5, 2006 12:22 AM
Super-cute knitted goods! I especially love the color of that scarf. I have been knitting up a storm and made two sweaters in the past month. Okay, they are teeny-tiny Christmas ornament sweaters, but that's still pretty high output for me. :-b
Posted by chocovore | December 5, 2006 4:18 AM
Nice knittin', girly! Congrats on founding a club. I love your logo deal. I think you need T-shirts! More T-shirts!!
Posted by Mariko | December 5, 2006 5:10 AM
PANTA!!!!! I have been attacked by panta hype but the sad truth is that Panta just doesn`t suit me. ON the other hand, you are a lucky one because you look fabulous in Panta. It has a lot to do with hair length.....
that`s great that you have formed a knitting group... I will continue to sit at home and watch old videos and do my knitting alone.
Posted by jan in nagasaki | December 5, 2006 7:06 AM
Hotness! I loves the Panta! I need to make so many more. I'd like a wardrobe of them. I feel equal parts hausfrau and old Hollywood vixen in mine.
Sorry I never comment...I'm so dreadfully busy with grad school. But I still read your blog on the regular, and generally drag people in the computer lab over to see how cool your life in Japan is.
Posted by Cirilia | December 6, 2006 5:08 AM
Woo, knitting group! I love the logo, who came up with that?
I'll hopefully finally learn to knit (and remember how to do it and not forget it again) this winter...I think a group's really nice for knitting, isn't it?
Posted by Barbara | December 13, 2006 3:05 AM