Buh
April 9th, 2007 at 9:12 am (Finished Items, Random babbling)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter yesterday! Ours was great, aside from the fridge giving up the ghost (I’m not terribly upset, it’s either fixable or I get to get a new fridge). The kids went over to my aunt’s house for Easter lunch and Chris and I took a long nap all afternoon, it was simply wonderful. It was something I really needed, for sure. The in-laws came over for dinner and we all ate and had nice conversation, I spun a little and knitted a bit. All good.
As I posted on Wednesday, The Yarn Harlot was in town and I was one of the lucky 400 who got in the door to hear her talk. Before heading over to the event, I got to meet up with a bunch of cool knitters at my favorite Thai restaurant - Pad Thai.
Clockwise from lower left corner: Chris of Stumbling Over Chaos, Beadslut, Cursing Mama, Stephania of Moraie Knitting, Connie of Between Loads, the blogless Cynthia, and Amy of Knit Think. Also shown is Flat Vicki, representing Vicki of Knitorious, who was with us in spirit if not in the flesh. I had a fine time at dinner, it was great to meet some new people!
After dinner, we headed over to William Mitchell, which had a nice room all set up for us. The Yarnery did a great job of setting up the event and they handed out some great canvas bags to everyone coming in the door. After a period of chatting, picture-taking, and knitting, we all joined in a rousing version of “O, Canada”. Stephanie seemed quite pleased by this, as I could see her off on the side of the stage taking pictures of us all singing. Of course I didn’t get a decent picture of that… but I did get a picture of her to prove I was there, haha:
She wore the Bohus sweater!
After waiting in line for almost two hours (and I was in the first round of people there!) I got my book signed. Chris was so kind as to part with a bottle of his precious homebrew, the Imperial Stout, so I could give Stephanie a little gift. I can’t believe how much fun she seemed to be having even after signing so many books and talking to so many people - by that point I’d be cranky as heck!
It was so nice to get a few hours out by myself! It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to go out so late (I got home after 10!), since I have to be home for bedtime, normally. I fully expected to find one or two screaming children waiting up for me when I got home, but they were both peacefully in bed. And Chris wasn’t even drinking beer by the quart! Heh. I guess it went just fine, thankfully. No guilt.
I finished a pair of socks on the Amtrak last weekend and iPhoto ate the picture, which is why I didn’t share it with you earlier. I finally got them off the clothesline and here they are:
Garter Rib pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks, Trekking color 16
I’m very pleased with these socks - they’ve been worn several times in the 10 days since I finished them! I wasn’t excited about the hand of the yarn as I was knitting with it, it was kind of squeaky and stiff (kind of how acrylic feels to me), but it softened wonderfully with washing. Good thing!
Well, it’s taken me over an hour to write this. Guess I should just post it already and get going with my day.
meg said,
April 9, 2007 at 9:57 am
hey jess,
i am sorry it’s taking me so long to get your package out. things have been very hectic for me but still no excuse. i’ll get it in the mail in the next couple of days. once again, thanks for participating!! looks like you had a great time with the harlot.
Catherine said,
April 9, 2007 at 10:19 am
Nice socks! I’m heading out on the Amtrak this weekend and hope to finish up a pair myself. Which direction did you go?
Susan said,
April 9, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Great photos. Thanks for all of the links to the knitter’s blogs, I didn’t have some of those.
Guinifer said,
April 9, 2007 at 1:48 pm
The socks are awesome. Jealous you got to see the Harlot!
Chris said,
April 9, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Ah, it was a wonderful evening indeed. Love those socks!
Connie said,
April 10, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Your socks look great and it was great meeting you!
stephania said,
April 10, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Hey, great socks!
Stumbling Over Chaos :: “Un-freaking-believable” said,
April 10, 2007 at 8:47 pm
[...] From the left, CursingMama, flat Vicki Knitorious (the photo), Beadslut, Jess of Mikknit, Stephania of Moraie Knitting, Connie (oh, great, you can see my butt in the extreme left of the first picture on Connie’s blog - but you can also see Limedragon, sitting down and wearing a lime sweater), Cynthia, and Amy. [...]
Holly Jo said,
April 11, 2007 at 11:59 am
Glad you got out and had a good time. Nothing like a little time away from the kiddos - makes you almost appreciate them more, huh?
Love the socks!
Lisa said,
April 12, 2007 at 8:02 am
OMG! I am so jealous that you got to go and see the Yarn Harlot. I wanted to go soooooo bad. But I was afraid that I would get lost in the dark since I have no clue of where I’m going around here yet, LOL! Sounds like you had an awesome time though.
Yeah, the snow is about to kill me this late in the year. But I just watched the weather and it says we will hit 60 this weekend! Woot!
sunne said,
April 18, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I think I need to try socks again - they were okay, but everytime I come to your blog there is a new pair that I drool over. You are inspiring me to try again! Hope to see you at coffeeswap again… My husband is still talking about the package that you sent…
Deb said,
April 20, 2007 at 3:29 pm
feeling o.k.? no posts!!!