knitting at the Loop

There is a neat little place near my campus that sells all things knitting. Plus they have a thursday night knitting open house where you can bring your knitting and hang out.

So today the kids and I went over for our first ever knit night. C and M both chose a really nice yarn and I bought new wooden needles for all of us - only one of C's made it from Ottawa.
Given the weather out there there were not as many as in this pic from their website - but there was a Cathy, a Cate, and a Catherine out of the 4 adult women at the table. There was also a Matthew so C was not alone.

The beauty of this place, amongst other things, is that here are a bunch of people who can help start the knitting and then pick up dropped stitches - something that always stalled C's projects back home, unless we were a grandmas. Catherine, the astro physicist, was very nice to M while Cathy, the owner, helped C start his project. C remembered right away how to do it and M was kinda getting the hang of it by the end. The kids lasted for about an hour which is pretty good. Then they played with the etch-a-sketch until dad came to get us.

C wants to make a scarf for his dad and M is thinking about making a blanket for her doll. I'm just happy that they want to go back next week.