Tuesday night @ the knit cafe

There's only one right way to spend a Tuesday night in Toronto and that's knitting at The Knit Cafe. Of course I spent (my) last Tuesday in Toronto there. 

Here's what a typical evening is like:

{looking in}

{There were baby cuddles all around.
I couldn't get enough of this 4 week old guy!}

{Heather taking a break from it all}

{Jennifer knitting away on her lace scarf}

{and here's Kim working on even more hexipuffs!}

{this little owl is how Kim nudges recruits to join in the Beekeeper's Quilt
Knit-along. Robbie with hexi-owl and Jana in the background :)}

{Ellen working on her next owl, you can just about see the first in the picture}

{Carol making strides on her crochet blankie}

{and then Bobby arrived!}

{and because she did such a good job on it, here's Edie in a dress she made;
how cute is she/it?! LOVE IT!}

{I also met Ayumi and her leather-soled house slipper}

{I was hit by a bad case of the wanties when I laid eyes on Jana's woven
scarf using DIC starry in Strange Harvest + DIC everlasting in Gilt}

{and my fave picture of the night: Iwona, hexi-owl and Robbie}

Words cannot express how uplifting an evening with these folks can be. I love seeing what everyone's working on; what modifications they've made and how they sometimes go off-script. It's humbling to see all the wacky and wonderfully creative stuff that truly talented minds can conceive. 

I also love that knit night is a safe place to spill our guts, get great (solicited) advice, bitch, have a moan, curse, rage and just let it all hang loose. I'm constantly surprised by how much more open I am here but that's alright cos it's my safe place. And there's no judgement here, just friends. And knitting. And tea. And every good thing.

The warm, artistic atmosphere is something every knitter visiting Toronto should experience at least once. 

I highly recommend it.

{hexi-owl}

p.s. have you caught the hexi-puff craze yet? I'm sitting this one out but will make a handful of puffs for my friends at home. They are each making the bee-keeper's quilt and will be swapping hexagons sometime in the distant future. Yeah, it's all about the swap for me.

This is the first of a "series" of posts about knitting stores on Toronto's Queen Street. It will be a mini adventure :)