Team Canada

Let's get appropriate

2007-02-09T09:23:00.000-05:00

We've created a new home for the folks who drink. and knit. Once a month in Toronto.

We figure it's more appropriate to maintain this space as a National Knitters' Olympic effort space.

I will be sending all members an invitation to join the new drunken knitters blog today: Come and visit - www.knitdrinktink.blogspot.com

I wanna rock!

2007-02-02T15:41:00.000-05:00

Well maybe rolling would be more my style.

The next "Knitting in the Dick" night is on February 9th. Help get through the February hump by making it the biggest knitting get together this year!

As per usual come after 5:00 pm and stay till 2:00am - remember the folks at the pub. *love* us.

j

The benefits of being regular.

2007-01-11T12:12:00.000-05:00

I just talked to the awesome folks at the Spotted Dick. Two awesome things happened:

a) I said that The Knitters would be coming by tomorrow night. The house manager said "Oh good - we'll be expecting you! We missed you last month." You guys hear that? They missed us last month! They like us they really really like us.

b) It's pretty cool that we're known simply as The Knitters. It makes me feel like we're a gang - can't wait to see the action packed movie about us one day.

It's nice being known as regulars.

Cleaning up House

2007-01-07T12:33:00.000-05:00

Hey Folks;

I see everyone is in the throes of new years blogging clean up. Please email me personally at jen_hendriks at hotmail dot com to get removed from the listing. Also, it's a bummer to see the only posting action on the blog are removal request. We'll miss all y'all!

Please include your member name and the email address you used when you signed up (Sherri I don't know who you are to remove you).

On another much more amusing note - this week brings the second Friday of the month!! The knitters will be coagulating (Yeah I said it) at the Spotted Dick this Friday night starting after work and going to closing.

I'm thinking that it would be nice to have a charity component - I love me my new years resolutions - How does Dulaan fit for everyone? I'll collect the hats etc at our drunken knitter "meetings" and mail boxes as they get filled.

Can you dig it?

Removal from Group

2007-01-05T19:58:00.000-05:00

Please remove me from the blog ... I'm having blogger issues with my own blog and am trying to resolve them by eliminating myself from all other blogs.

Thanks. :)

Please remove me

2007-01-02T14:46:00.000-05:00

Remove me to please, house cleaning is starting asap & I want to clean up the house & the blog.
Thanks!

2007-01-01T16:40:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year, all you Team Canada Knitters! Hope that your New Year is filled with fun, wool (and wool alternatives!), and song.

I've been knitting like crazy, mostly preemie items, and making up the patterns from Elizabeth Zimmerman's work, and a lot of practice. I am going to join the 'Knit from my stash' challenge from Wendy Knits (shop owners, of course, are all weeping copiously...).

Two questions: when and where is the next Team Canada meeting? And how do I add a button to my blog? (new version or old version....)

Boppingbeth

boppingbeth@rogers.com
blog: Knitting in the fast lane: http://boppingbeth.blogspot.com/

Hello!

2006-12-30T11:56:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone, 2 things, uno, is anyone knitting along with the world junior hockey championship? Duo, could I get deleted from the blog for a couple of hours so that I can change to the new and improved (...) blogger?

Thanks
K in mtl who wishes she could have gone out karaoke-ing with the TO knitters.

Knitaoke!

2006-12-18T15:50:00.000-05:00

Shout out to all you groovy knitters who made it out to Spirit's on Saturday night! Good on ya! Happy ho ho and all that other shmooo.....

Festive Invite

2006-12-17T00:09:00.000-05:00

Hello my fellow Drunken Knitters. Hope you all had a lovely time singing your hearts out. Sorry I couldn't make it.

I'd like to invite you all to my family's festive occasion. We've decided to do an "at home" style affair this year on Saturday December 30th. Basically, this means we'll be receiving from about 2 until about 10. There will be snacks, soup, drink and hopefully many friends. Please drop by for some holiday cheer. Kids, spouses and knitting are all most welcome. Really, come if you can. We live in the St. Clair/Dufferin area.
Email me for specific address deets: yvetteL33(at)hotmail(dot)com.
Copied from my blog.

Remind the hoardes!

2006-12-14T09:48:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to remind all you beautiful drinking knitters (I'm looking at you David) that the official meeting of the Mickey Mouse....er drinking knitters is happening on SATURDAY, December 16th.

It feels a lot like blasphemy but the knitters have voted [raucously] in favour of a special sort of kniting bender - that of the karaoke variety at Spirit's Bar and Grill. Folks can start congregating around 8:00pm but if you need to be late feel free - we'll just be happy to see you at all.

Singing is NOT required but gently encouraged. Personally, the last time I got up and karaoked it was Working 9 to 5 and unlike Jessica Simpson - I hit all the lines...with dignity yo!

So come on out for the last knit in public drinking event of the year. I'm looking at you and you and you! Don't make me come out and get you.

Sounds like we wanna RAWK!

2006-11-24T10:14:00.000-05:00

December 16th, Spirit's Bar and Grill.....say around 8:00pm?

Sandi would you be cool to let them know that there will be around 20 - 30 knitters there for food, drinks and karaoke?

Excellent news folks - see you there!

scheduling around the big knitty holiday

2006-11-18T15:52:00.000-05:00

as one who can't make it out on the second friday of december (having had the bad manners to birth my only child on that date), can i propose one of two options?

december 1, really far away from busy season
december 15, to take our mind off the busy season

any one else have a thought on this?

Here batter batter batter...

2006-11-10T10:16:00.000-05:00

The next drunken knitters knight is scheduled to drop on November 10th.

It would seem that November 10th isn't a date a lot of really great events have happened on (a la Wikipedia) so I feel we must work to overcompensate and bring the fun!

- 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
- 1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
- 1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
- 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
- 2004 - Mozilla Firefox is released.

This was the best of what they gave me. Yeesh, some grisly events have their home on this date...

buttons!

2006-11-05T09:31:00.000-05:00

I had the fever for some buttons, maybe because I'll be missing the next two meet-ups. The second one means, "Hail! We who are about to unravel, salute you!"

cross-posted from my knittin' blog

Found!

2006-10-17T09:55:00.000-04:00

As Yvette, Sarah & I were, um, closing the bar on friday we came across the following left behind on the tables:

This great old-skool Chibi with these needles in it.

And these point protectors too:

So drop me a line if one of these belongs to you and we can figure out how to get them back to you. (My email address is notanartist.blog@gmail.com)

Back on track

2006-10-13T14:40:00.000-04:00

October 13th is the second Friday of October!

Be there or be squarey!

interesting opportunity

2006-10-05T14:13:00.000-04:00

one of my co-workers here at bat masterson high has a friend with sheep. said friend occasionally needs to unload fleece when shearing becomes necessary. i don't spin (or as mel calls it, the work of our people), so i was wondering if there was any interest in raw fleece?

i can forward questions through my friend, if you have specific enquiries. and though i don't do TWoOP, i kind of dig the idea of getting a big ol' bag of fleece at work, making my office reek of lamb, and then handing it over in a bar, like some 80's stereotype of a russian spy.

anyone wanna enable me? gmail questions to rocketbride.

Nuit Blanche Knitathon at the Knit Cafe

2006-09-29T20:25:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Jen's blog I just found out there's a knitathon happening at the Knit Cafe tomorrow night. I've never been to the Knit Cafe and would love to go - anyone interested? Don't want to make the trek down from North York all the way to Queen W if I'm not going to know anyone there...

paging jacquie b...

2006-09-18T18:45:00.000-04:00

sorry to clutter up the main page, but if jacquie could email me, i'd much appreciate it. i went all over her websites like athelete's foot, and i couldn't find an email. my gmail is rocketbride. thanks!

Everybody's working for the weekend!

2006-09-14T15:51:00.000-04:00

Hey Folks - Tomorrow night is on at the Spotted Dick.

There are reso's for 12-16 knitters so get your game on!

I'll be entertaining the matriarch of my clan who has a last minute appt in the city but i will think of you imbibing at LEAST one beer for me per person.

Smooches.

The votes are in!

2006-09-08T16:21:00.000-04:00

Knitters love to drink!

So this weeks event will be a go as per usual and for the sake of enablement we'll have another one on Sept. 15th.

Mostly because I'm pulling rank and can't go this week - a month without Aleta is a month an impossibility.

Take your pick Knitters!

Calling All Drunken Knitters!

2006-09-05T20:42:00.000-04:00

Hey lovers...of wool and such.

I'm with Aleta in that the 15th works better for me than this week but we know that the 15th does not work for at least one amongst us...poor Amy with her knitting related travel (woopsy - did the sarcasm leak out? sorry ;c)

Leave a comment! If this Friday works for y'all I'll let the Dick know..

yeah i said it.

block off

2006-09-02T15:01:00.000-04:00

Today I went to the hardware store and bought a big ol' sheet of 1" thick pink polystyrene insulation. This is, of course, too damn much to fit in the car, so now I have two sheets.

Would anybody like the other half? It's about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and you can make a pretty decent blocking board out of it. I'm giving it away if anyone wants to take it home with them.

Snakes! Plane!

2006-08-17T14:28:00.000-04:00

This Friday, we will follow Queen Denny of the serpents to a showing of THE FILM. 7:30 pm, Friday, Aug 18th, at The Beach theatre -- Queen St E, at Kingston Rd. Get your tickets in advance (they'll sell them early), meet at the pub across the street [it's called Murphy's Law] at, say 6pm, have a pint and a nibble, maybe, and then go over together. Everyone in?

If we have enough bodies, I'll book a table. We could meet at the pub earlier, if anyone wants to. What say you?