Long Time No See II

While I've been incommunicado, the Guilty Pleasures/Good Karma swap was happening on Ravelry. I got my package from Hilliknits, but did not want to open it until I had (belatedly) sent my swap partner her package.

Finally, last week, I got the package mailed out so I could finally tear into mine. Hilliknits did a fantastic job.

This package was packed full of goodies.
A notions case, stitch markers, Addi Turbo Lace needles, a sheep needle gauge,


chocolate, chocolate, chocolate,


sheep soap, Eucalan wash


treats for the cats,


and Briar Rose Fibers laceweight! Oh, how I wish you could feel this skein! It's lovely, lovely, lovely!


Knitting

Still on the needles is the Acero Scarf,



The Holey Squares Scarf,


another Noro striped scarf,


the Alpaca Princess,


and off the needles, but not blocked is Dane made from Zauberball.

(This is more the true color than the previous photo.)

Long Time No See

It's hard to believe I've not posted in nearly two months. It's not that I've been suffering from a lack of subject matter - in fact, quite the opposite. The last 2 months I've really needed 36 hour days. So I'll start back where I left off.

In February, our knitting guild hosted Donna Druchunas who spoke about ethnic knitting - mainly knitting in Lithuania.



Now I've got another country on my list of places I'd like to visit someday.

In March we had Melissa Leapman who talked about her new book "Color Knitting The Easy Way."



I was especially taken with her patterns for kids - the samples were very cute.

Quite a bit of my spare time had been spent on the organization of our guild's Knit In last weekend. We had 22 vendors, 16 classes with talented local teachers and also with Joyce Williams and Franklin,



and our headline speakers were Ann and Kay from Mason Dixon Knitting. (I know - crappy photo, but this was the best of them.)

Our vendor marketplace.



All are vendors are listed here (scroll down to the bottom of the page). If you want to see what goodies you missed, click on the vendors' links.

Look at all those door prizes! I didn't win one. But I more than made up for the fact in the marketplace.


The best part of the day was after it was all done with (whew!) and we were able to relax with some good wine and good food.



Many thanks to Joan (our co-chair), Joyce, Franklin, Ann and Kay.

Y'all come back now, ya hear?