Glee Cast Knit Project on Ravelry

There are over 2000 members in the Glee Group on Ravelry, and they are some serious fans. I used to sing in choirs in high school in Boulder, oh so many years ago. It was good fun, and I have the fondest memories of those times and those friends, Piper, Nicky, Margaret, Carlos, Barry, Aaron, Elmer, Abby, some I know still through Facebook and others I have no idea how to contact. Well, I started this Glee group because I thought it might be fun to chit chat with other people who like cheesy stuff like this and are also knitters, and la de dah! There's loads of them! They're so enthusiastic that one member (KatyKoolKatt)thought, "wouldn't it be fun to knit something for the actors" and then two dozen people later, we got this bandwagon going! I volunteered to organize the contacting Glee folks, and shipping/packaging, documenting of everything we send them. It's a lot more involved than I originally thought. It's the only project I've ever done that was a fan based thingy.

Here's what we sent, and some of these items are just lovely. The quality of the fibers used (that's "yarn" for you non-knitty people) is just beautiful. The craftmanship is beautiful as well. I think they couldn't be happier to receive these things, and they might even end up on the show! Wouldn't that be cool? When I spoke with the Costume Supervisor she was delighted to hear about our project and was excited to learn of our little niche group.

Anyhow, here's what this group made.

Fingerless Gloves for my Twin 12 year old neices

I made these for my two little neices, Emma and Isabel for their 12th birthdays. Slightly different in the pattern but same yarn.

Apricot Jam

Apricot jam is fabulous if you add just a teaspoon or two to regular plain oatmeal. It's so yummy and I've been having just that for breakfast for the past week or so. It's so good!

I sent a jar of this and the cutie marmalade to my twin neices on their 12th birthdays. I hope they like it.

Cutie Marmalade

M doesn't like clementines. Five pounds of cuties is a lot to eat on my own. So I decided to make some marmalade with them. The color is beautiful. Next time I'll make more. I was cautious because it was my first marmalade. I didn't add any butter. The ingredients are just cuties, water, sugar and a pinch of salt.

So we start with these little guys.

Peel them up.
Get all the segments into the Cuisinart and put it on full whack!


Slice up the rinds.

Chuck all the pithy parts. They don't taste good anyhow.

Boil up the rind. Add juice, boil again. Add sugar, boil again. Then put them in jars! Then water bath and ta da! Cutie Marmalade!