We met at The Point Knitting Cafe in Greenwich Village for our first official Monday Crochet. We made ourselves comfy at a small table towards the back of the store, where we could crochet surrounded by walls of beautiful yarn.
We were a bit slow to start working on this pattern for “fingerless mittens” or wrist warmers as we like to call them. We couldn’t help but be distracted by our lovely new environment which included a cafe full of treats. There was also a knitting class gathering behind us, which was very nice background noise. Eventually though, we settled down, stopped touching any yarn within arm’s length, and got down to business. We consulted The Bible (aka Debbie Stoller’s The Happy Hooker) to clear up some confusion on the pattern and we were on our way. Sort of.
Turns out, I was following the pattern incorrectly. So we both unraveled our rows (Christeen doing so for “solidarity purposes”) and started anew. Fueled by the delicious espresso drinks and our mad desire to crochet like pros, we plowed on, completing as many rows as we could before The Point closed it’s doors all too soon at 8pm.
We parted ways then but naturally continued working on our wrist warmers on our own. I completed one glove before turning in for the night, though I didn’t weave in the ends etc.
I’m happy with the way it came out, generally. We both agreed the bottom row came out a bit funky and believe there is a special trick we need to master in order to conquer that. We’ll hopefully take care of that this week and try something new for the next Monday Crochet.
