Jerusalem Knitting & Craft

Despite a low turnout, the Tuesday meeting went well. We met in the Lobby/Cafe of the Sheraton Hotel (across from the Great Synagogue). It was busy, and a bit noisy, but we were left alone, and the lighting was great.

The next meeting will be: December 13th from 8PM-10PM.
Please let me know your feelings about a Hanukkah meeting. I think we will all be too busy.

The University group is meeting on Wednesdays and the next two meetings will be:
December 7th from 12:15-13:00 and December 21 at the same time. The location is the Humanities building (Madaei HaRuach) in the seats between section 5-6 (gush 5-6)

UPDATE: The next downtown meeting (Dec 13) will be at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel. Sorry I wasn’t clearer.

Here is a good product that would probably work well for those who do lots of felting. It is a little washing machine which you drain yourself. Since you put the water into it, I assume you can put in as hot as you want. Anyone know anything about these??

Cyclone WashMate

All you Israeli Knitters….now we know a bit more about Teddy’s Wool…. Here is their site:צמר טדי TeDdY´s Wool - הכי צמר שיש.

It isn’t the greatest stuff in the world, but it does the job, and the prices are reasonable. Even if you don’t use Teddy, it is worth checking out this site, because they list all the stores in Israel that stock their yarn. This means that many of these places also stock other yarns!

So far from their line I’ve used Sympatic and Charisma. Anything you like or dislike of their line?

Here is an update on the meetings:

Har Hatzofim (Hebrew University): We had a small group last Thursday, and will be meeting again on the 24th of November from 12:15 to 13:00. It looks like we will start out as a teaching group, so we might be trying to all do one project. My suggestion is the Zeeby bag (or any other basic bag). The meetings will be changing to Wednesdays in December.

Night meeting: As you can see we still don’t have a meeting site, but I still believe we will be meeting this Tuesday night (Nov 15th from 20:00-22:00. Beit Ticho and Tmol Shilsom can’t host us this week, and AACI will charge us, so we might as well go someplace with food If anyone has a favorite cafe or hotel lobby they are willing to call, please do it now!!!!

One shopping note: the store “Avoda Ivri” by the Central Bus Station has a nice display, and lots of yarn, but they are more expensive than the Shuk and the man who runs it smokes in the store. Someday people will understand……

If anyone is interested in meeting bi-monthly at Hebrew University, I’m starting a group. It will be about 45 minutes (lunch hour) twice a month. Day of week and exact time will be set as soon as I see the responses to this post and my e-mails.

Update: The time will be 12:15-13:00. So far Thursday seems to be the day of choice. Please let me know if you are interested.

Update II We will be meeting this Thursday–Nov 10th. from 12:15-13:00. The location will be Gush 5-6 (the section with chairs) in the Humanities building. Leave a message below if you need more info.

I hope that some day we will have enough members to organize something like this in Israel.

Knitting Tours

Looking to knit something for the person who has everything? Why not knit a Digestive System! This person really knew what they were doing! It is rather impressive.

Well, we are starting to get the good stuff!!!

Handspun hand-dyed merino wool yarn for knitting and weaving from Happy Wool
The price is 33 shekels per 100 grams. I don’t know if that is good or not, but it sounds good for natural fibers.
The colors are absolutely delicious! Please let me know if you have any experience with it.