Yes, folks, I have been knitting.
I have been making stuff to sell at the Friends of the Polk County Libraries booth at the county fair, which starts on Thursday. The Friends are raising money to buy an LCD projector to be shared by the ten municipal libraries.
These are facecloths, $5 each. Any that don't sell, plus any more that I make between now and September, will go to Rabbitch's project (scroll down to the July 8 entry to read about it). Many thanks to Ann for the heart pattern -- isn't it sweet? I wish I had time to knit a bunch more of these. I know they would sell.
Remember all this?
I got at least one ball of every color that *my* Wal*Mart doesn't sell. That's a lot, people.
I made some warshcloths*. $5 each.
I made some bibs. $8 each. Actually, these are less work than the warshcloths, but I figured people would pay more for a cute bib than a cute warshcloth.
Many thanks to Ann 'n' Kay for giving me their blessing to make a nonprofit *profit* using their patterns.
We are selling other stuff, too.
Felted mittens, $10, and kits, $7, to make more felted mittens.
Library t-shirts and aprons and baby onesies.
We planned to make many more of these purses -- Goodwill sweaters, felted, cut up, lined, with felted I-cord handles -- but they turned out to take more time than we expected. We have another sale in November; by then we will have more purses ($25 and up). These two are pretty plain. We got fancier as we went. Too bad the fancy ones only got cut out, not sewn. (Guess who was in charge of the sewing? Given the choice I would rather knit than sew, plus there is nowhere to plug in the machine in the car.)
Library tote bags. Aprons, long and short. All emblazoned with "Check it out @ your library." Notecards, too.
Of course we are selling books as well, but they are a LOT of work to pack up and transport and set up and pack up afterwards and bring back. Every year we take fewer of them.
Hooray for the fair! and hooray for knitters!
* Warshcloth knitters may notice that the slipped stitches on a couple of these are lined up in columns rather than offset as the pattern puts them. I had been making them that way for months before I noticed that my warshcloths were... different than everyone else's. Clearly pattern-reading is not my strongest suit.
