The Beginning

Knit Wits began back in Shelton, WA on Monday nights, in Kaylee's living room, with the 3 sisters (Kaylee, Joanna, and me), Jessie, and anybody else we could convince that knitting really was all the rage. We finally got Joanna to move on past itty bitty hats that she intended to fit adults, to knitting a couple Christmas stockings for her and her husband. Kaylee, the master recruiter for the club, lent out a bunch of yarn and needles to newbies that came to learn and somehow never got most of them back. We taught Jessie how to knit, but she often times showed up without her needles (even though she only lived 2 minutes away) and sat around and told us funny stories about her life as a dental hygenist. That seemed to be how most "club meetings" ended up. Not much knitting got done.

Then sadly, life took over. Kaylee and her family moved to Phoenix, AZ. Joanna and I still got together on Monday nights, but it really wasn't the same, we didn't have Kaylee's living room. The next year, my family and I moved to Wichita, KS. That left Joanna. Not much left for a club. Joanna though, has recently started up more "meetings" in Shelton. Kaylee and I are extremely jealous because we want to be part of the club. So we started trying to come up with ideas on how we could be included. Kaylee and her family now live in Pennsylvania, so the 3 of us live in 3 different time zones. Even with our webcams, it's hard to figure out a time with there being a 3 hour difference between Washington and Pennsylvania. So, Kaylee came up with the idea for this blog - it's the new living room. Kaylee, Joanna, and I all consider ourselves blog-stalkers anyway, checking each others blogs multiple times a day, so that we can still feel like we are a part of each other's daily lives, even though we live so far apart. And now, we have a few more friends who love to knit as much as we do, and it's here we want to share all our creations, disasters, and all the fun we're having at any local Knit Wits meeting that we get to be a part of!

WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!!


Rachel - a.k.a The Yarn Whisperer. :)

The pattern for this lovely hair is from knitty.com