The street closes at 10:30 a.m.; as our setup is pretty minimal (as far as I know, just us and our chairs and maybe a folding table?), we can get ready just before then, and set ourselves down once the street has been closed. The street will open again at 3:00 p.m. so strike will begin at 2:45 p.m. to be sure we can get out of the way. In the interim, we plan to yarnbomb the lamppost outside QoH. For those not in the know, “yarnbombing” is the decoration of public stuff with stitched stuff (usually knit/crochet) – you have probably seen it around K-W already.

All you need to bring is yourself and your stitchery – crochet, knitting, cross-stitch, tatting, latch-hook, crewel, whatever you do! – and something to sit on. You may also want to bring your own refreshments.

So, to summarise:

Date: Sunday, September 18th
Time: 10:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me at katchan@lilbluekat.net or Stephanie at punkin@mag3.14519.ca.

See you there!

Dave worked on a knitted black-and-white striped blanket; Caelyn on a beautiful dark blue knitted sweater; Steph on her delicate tatting in a couple of colours; and me, on a crochet cotton “spa” set (face scrubber, soap bag, bath pouf and hand towel).

Unfortunately we were quite engrossed in our work and ended up not taking photos while we were there. So Steph has kindly sent a picture of one of her tatted pieces:

Steph's pretty tatted bracelet

And I took a picture of just the soap bag for detail on the crochet and on the cotton yarn itself.

Katchan's crocheted soap bag

Good time had by all, despite the last-minute schedule change from Saturday to Sunday. ^_^

That’s Master D(W), comin’ atcha live in the rain on Duke Street!

Mark, working like a dog on his first day as a member (sorry the photo is fuzzy!).

Caelyn, also working hard on her first day as a member.

Bevan smiled a split second after I took his picture.

The current state of the “lounge” area, with some useless stuff removed and some more useful stuff put in. Plus member transportation, ha ha.

The state of the workroom area, about halfway through the afternoon. Sorry I didn’t get a more panoramic view.

I’ve done some soldering before, with jewellery, but haven’t done anything involving electronics, so while the soldering itself wasn’t a huge challenge for me, making sure everything was wired right and soldered securely kept me on my proverbial toes. I’m sure that DW got a picture of me glaring over my glasses at the circuit board, my tongue stuck out in concentration.

Steph took tonnes of pictures that I hope to see soonish, of the workshop in progress and close-ups of the work itself – once we learned to solder wires together (as practice), we were each given a Wee Blinky kit to assemble.

Thanks for putting together such a fab workshop, guys! As DW pointed out, this should be our last “outside” workshop – from now on we should be able to hold them at the hackerspace itself.