Knitting with Cheryl Brunette!

Cheryl Brunette has been one of my knitting heroines for many years.  She taught me how to use our Bond Incredible Sweater Machine and then the Bond Ultimate Sweater Machine...the same thing only a little better.  She has many videos on using the Bond on YouTube.  She has many more videos on many knitting topics, every one of them superb.

Sister F., A kind Church Service Missionary came into the office one day a couple of months ago and told me about an event where Cheryl was going to give a presentation just "across the River" in Vancouver.  Yay!  That was something I thought we could do.  Permission received from President, and now I just had to wait for the magic day.

In the meantime, I finished up the baby sweater I had been working on following Cheryl's 15-episode series on YouTube--How To Knit A Sweater.  I resolved to take the sweater with me to show her the results of her teaching.  Sister F. brought hers along, too!

Cheryl Brunette holding the baby sweater I made.  You will notice the humpy-ness...that came from putting it in the washer and going to the office.  Probably I could have helped it by wetting it again and blocking it severely.  No time for that.

The Fort Vancouver Knitting Guild sponsored the meeting and invited everyone to come.  There were lots of people there, sitting at tables so they could have their knitting convenient.  The first thing this guild does at their meeting is to have a show and tell.  Everyone who brought knitting with them, came up and showed it, and remarkably, told about it, too!  Since only one person was up there, I decided to take the bull by the horns and go up, too.

It was fun to show the sweater and share that it was one of Cheryl's projects.  Two other people came up then Sister F. came up, and one more, I think.  When I said my name,  Cheryl perked up, and came over and gave me a hug.  I was so pleased.  I have sent her probably ten emails over the years.  She has responded to each of them.  Such a nice lady.

Her presentation on gauge was so useful.  I had heard much of it before in the various videos but it was so lovely to hear it in person.  She also told me how to fix a problem I have with knitting stockinette flat...rowing out, is what she called it.  I will try it the next time.

A note about Dear One here:  he was so kind to go along on this trip.  He drove.  Thank goodness.  We did not take the most direct route because of potential traffic issues.  We went out 185th to Old Germantown Road and over the mountain, dropping down on Bridge Street then zigzagged our way over The River and through North Vancouver.  We arrived in plenty of time to each our leftovers from the potluck (me) and egg sandwiches (Dear One).  The trip took over an hour in rush hour traffic.  The trip home, going the more direct route, took 34 minutes and we arrived home around 9 PM.

The Fort Vancouver Knitting Guild ladies were so nice.  They invitedus to join (can't) and also to knit neckerchief shawls for the re-enactors at Fort Vancouver.  I did take a pattern but did not realize the yarn there was free to take as well.  So far I have not been able to find any that will fill the bill.  Maybe eventually I will.  It must be very fine merino or it will too scratchy against the ladies' skin.