Monday, June 29, 2009

Camp Rocks . . . Felted Rocks!

You take a rock, see, any rock, and then you felt around it and, voila!, a fabulous objet d'art or paper weight! Cate continues to concoct fun and merriment for our Knitch campers. From left: Margaret, Emma, Henry, Cate, Maddie, Hope, Mary and Lauren.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Fun Times at Kids Fiber Camp

Natanya, Emma and Annie are having a grand time at Knitch's Kid's Fiber Camp this summer. Here they are proudly posing with dolls they created with fabric and varioius baubles. In the photo below they are joined in cuddles by their fabulous teacher and counselor, Cate Stuart-Hodges.

Below Natanya shows us the knitting
needle tops she made in Fiber Camp. Great work!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Soup-er Chicken with Amazing Healing Powers and Her Sidekick, Dinky the Wonder Chick

Faster than a speeding pullet! Susan Powell's blue and red hero wears a crimson cape with a big blue "C". When she's not out being amazing, she's happy in her alfalfa nest with her trusty sidekick, Dinky, the Wonder Chick, a chick who gives new meaning to the "which came first" conundrum. Both are ready to give comfort and bring their healing powers to their new Egg-leston friend, whoever he or she may be.

Here's a verse, in case you forgot, from the Super Chicken Theme Song (from the show produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott back in the 1960's):

When you find yourself in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, when it looks like you will take a lickin' (puk, puk, puk, puk)
There is someone waiting who will hurry up and rescue you, just call for Super Chicken (puk, ack!)

Here's how Dinky the Wonder Chick morphs from egg to chicken and back again at will. But which comes first????


Polly Pull-it; Poultry in Motion!

Polly's a pull-toy with a secret! You can tell by the twinkle in her eye . . .


If you egg her on a little, perhaps she'll show you her golden egg!

Charles Gandy, you're a wizard!

Sally Eggstein & Her Offspring: Birds of a Feather


Gorgeous Sally Eggstein, the imaginative work of Gay Lynn Barson, is the proud mother of three impressively scientifically successful -- not to mention adorable -- chicklets: Eggbert Einstein, Clara E. Carton and Marie Cure-it.

Strut those pretty tail-feathers, Sally!

Egg-specting!

Annie D'Agostino is expecting her third child later this summer. So it's no wonder that she was inspired to create Egg-specting, a pink and blue (to cover all the bases) cutie-pie who "lays" eggs. Three to be exact.

Dorothy Lay-more, the Knittin' Chicken

We'd cross any road for this chicken by Doug Iberg.


Sitting in her knitted nest, wearing pearls and a lovely intarsia collar, holding her wee knitting bag with felted appliqué and a scarf-in-progress, she wears an expression many knitters are familiar with -- the dreaded dropped stitch perhaps? Switched directions in the middle of a row?? She won't be "fowled" up for long, we're sure.