Shui Kuen Comes to SnB

I have lots of knittery fun to share with you!! My Monday SnB group meets at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Montrose about twice a month. This Bean has a BIG area for customers, including comfy armchairs and sofas. Knitdevil Madge (in white) and mehitabel arrive early to make sure we get the best seats. Yesterday Patty (in blue) had arrived before me.

Shui Kuen, who is the designer of several beautiful shawl and stole patterns offered by Elann, is visiting LA from her home in Canada. Her mother lives not far away from Burbank, and yesterday I picked up SK (as she is referred to on the Elann Chat Center) for a visit to my Monday SnB group. We all had a great time!

SK brought several of her FOs and a couple of her mother's beautiful sweaters to show us. I swear, she has a "Mary Poppins carpetbag"-style backpack, there were so many lovely things she just kept pulling out of there, more than I would have thought would fit! Her mother frequently uses a 'coin lace' motif in her sweaters, and SK has designed the Coin Lace and Cable stole to honor her mother's favorite stitch motif. SK was working on a version of her Forget-Me-Not shawl using Elann's Super Kydd mohair yarn. And she took the opportunity to get tips from Patty about Continental-style knitting, a technique she said she's been looking forward to adding to her knitting skills.

Shui Kuen has two of her designs in the current issues of knitting magazines: The Forget-Me-Not shawl photo is the Elann ad on page 103 of the just-out Fall Knitter's, and the Champagne Leaf and Acorn Lace Shawl is on page 115 of the 25th Anniversary issue of Vogue Knitting. As I've mentioned before, she designed the Sun Ray and Luna Moth shawls that I've just finished, and I was glad to have finished them in time to show them to her.

We're planning to get together with another Elannite friend, Christine, for dim sum later this week. More photos then.