Knitting Lessons, Chess, Dinner & Good Fun

 

Since New Year’s Day, we’ve had a couple of friends, Chelcy C. and Thomas McF., come over once a month or so for a movie day and dinner.  Chelcy couldn’t make it last month, so we wanted to make certain to have a day in March so she could come over.  This time there was something extra – she wanted to learn how to knit.  I had loads of knitting needles and two big tubs of yarn waiting to be used. What better purpose to put it to?

They came over last Saturday.  After about ten minutes of chatting, Chelcy and I headed out to the barn, found several skeins/balls of yarn to work with, came back inside and chose a pair of needles to get her started with.  After showing her a couple different ways to cast on, we found that it was easiest for her to cast on with the long-tail method.

 

While we were thus engaged, Thomas found our Pirates of the Carribean chess set and played several games with Buddy and Patrick.

In between turns in chess, Buddy would serenade us on the piano.

After some cast-on confusion, Chelcy was finally ready to begin learning her first stitch – the knit stitch.  I was knitting right along side her for a visual reference.  And as the time went by… the first row was completed!!

 

 

 

Here we celebrate the completion of the first row!!

 

After the lesson was over, Chelcy headed over to the piano with Buddy and started playing, eventually playing “As Sisters In Zion” while Buddy played “We’ll Bring the World His Truth,” two songs contained in the EFY medley.

I helped mom get the last of dinner ready – chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles – while they played and Patrick played chess with Thomas.  When dinner was finally ready, we filled our bowls, cut up slices of Crusty Cuban bread and headed for the living room to watch “RED”, a movie that mom had picked up from Redbox that day just in case they hadn’t seen it.  They hadn’t.  We, on the other hand, have watched it over and over and love it more every time we see it.  Bruce Willis + Morgan Freeman + John Malkovich + Hellen Mirren + Mary-Louise Parker + Karl Urban + CIA = AWESOME and HILARIOUS!!!!

We plan on doing this again.  Next month!