Valentine's Day Gifts

Hello everyone, I didn't realize it had been so long since my last post but a lot has been happening.

I am still looking for an actual paying job but I'm having a lot of fun spending time with my beautiful daughter.

A friend of mine and I recently started up a knitting/crochet group, and by recently, I mean today. We had about eleven people crammed into my house. It was great! We made new contacts and even met the woman who will be opening up a yarn store just minutes from my house! I can't wait...have to save up my pennies.

Since I didn't do anything for Thanksgiving or Christmas, I thought I would start this year off by posting a heart pattern in honor of Valentine's Day. It's a very simple pattern and I left it that way so it can be embellished by the user. It was made for knitters but maybe someone, somewhere can convert it to a crochet pattern.

This is a simple heart pattern that I worked up fairly quickly at the request of another friend looking for a gift idea; she intends to use it for washcloths. I hope to do another one soon that has more hearts of varying sizes on it. If anyone wants a PDF copy of the pattern, send me a message and I will gladly send you a copy.

I hope you enjoy it.

TKGA Master Hand Knitting Level 1

I signed up for this class back in May and I am just now getting around to doing it.  I guess I'm ahead of the curve though, some of the other students have taken more than two years to get started.

There are three levels to become a designated Master Knitter.  I am currently on Level I and have just completed my first of many swatches....and then realized I had to do it over again.  Oh well, at least I figured it out early enough.

Is anyone else out there taking this course?  If so, let me know, we can compare notes ;) .  Also, in case you haven't discovered these resources, try these:

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/tkga     and
http://www.tkga.com/members/group.aspx?id=107038

They are a wealth of information from past and present students and committee members.  You have to request permission to be admitted into the TKGA group on their website but it only takes a day or so to get a response. 

I must say, though, that if you want a speedy response to a question, the Ravelry group is the way to go.  I posted a question on the TKGA website and I am still waiting on a response.  I posted the same question on Ravelry and got seven responses within ten minutes.  I think more people are just on Ravelry than that portion of the TKGA website.

For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up.  There is a relatively small fee for each level of the course but it can only improve your work.  And really, who doesn't want to "master" something.

For anyone currently enrolled, best of luck to you!