Sunday, September 10, 2006

My brush with celebrity........

Knittyheads! I missed last weeks tools assignment, but didn't want to miss this one!

So off I went out of town to a medical conference yesterday. When I first found out I would have the afternoon off, I contacted Cristi immediately hoping we could get together for a few hours! Stephy joined us too! They both are pretty active on the knittyboards, and are fun there, but even more so in real life! After a yarn crawl, that I must say we behaved ourselves, especially at the 50% off store, we headed back to Cristi's place for some knitting and gabbing! I even got to meet Morris and Ripple in person too!



The center yarn is a Vesper colorway that is always sold out! She um..er..knows I like my pink and browns! I love it! I saw this shade of Lorna's in Sommerset that the internet does not do justice to! So sportweight was purchased (wanted the worsted...but had to behave ;)

Then she made me a cute stitchmarker with my favorite things, shoes, pink, and brown...And I am not done...she patiently taught me how to magic cast on for toe up socks. Some things I can do by reading, but others I need visuals! So after about 2 frogging's due to operator error (I was so tired) I think I got it! I can be quite the entertaining knitter as I mess up the count, what row I am on, um..pull out the wrong needle for magic loop.......hehe!



Oh and above is Turtlegirl's guide to measuring your foot! hehehe! Thanks to Stephy for modeling for us! ;)

These two rescued me from sitting in my hotel room knitting alone! Thanks you two I had a great time!

14 comments:

Rain said...

It looks and sounds liek you had a fantastic time.

Anonymous said...

There's nothing better than good knitter friends and pretty yarns!

turtlegirl76 said...

Ahh...finally someone recognizes my star potential. Time to get a body guard. Heh.

Anonymous said...

You're so lucky! It looks like you guys had a ball. The stitch marker is awesome and the socks are coming out great! I need to learn toe-up.

Jennifer said...

It looks like you had so much fun! Lovely yarn scores.

soapy said...

sounds like you had a great time!

Dk's Wife said...

I am so glad you got to meet the ladies!

:-)

ladyfunk25 said...

I love that Lorna's Laces you got...then again, I think I love all Lorna's Laces yarns! Nice finds!

Anonymous said...

Your toe-up looks good! Sounds like you all had a blast.

KnitPastis said...

Toe up! I can't wait until I have time to learn toe up socks one day. Love your new yarns and looks like you and the girls had a fantastic time!

sgeddes said...

Good friends, good yarn, good times!

Anonymous said...

So envy!

Batty said...

Yay, knittyheads to the rescue!

Sarah said...

Yay!

That looks like it was so much fun!

And I LOVE the bag you made for Turtle! How cool!

Sorry about the Green Gable. :(