Hello to all,
Yes, I know, I haven't been blogging! I will do better. I have been knitting. Mainly baby things like a beaded baby bonnet out of Artyarns beaded yarn in pink chocolate, several baby kimonos in Malabrigo(which may be my favorite new yarn-check out Threadbear, but leave me some).
The Yarn Garden, my LYS, has been bought by Lindsay Harmon. She is only 24( I have fat older than that) but is multi-talented and a fabulous knitter. Soon all new stock will arrive. Be there. She is now open Mondays and Two night-Tues. and Thurs. Support her please-she will have a website and of course will ship anywheres.
Been very busy with Kindergarten Roundup-2 more days to go and they are long ones-8am to 8pm. One mother asked for a weekend appt.-sure, you bet, like I don't want to have a life. So the day after that nightmare ends I am off to South Carolina to visit my Marines and see my Granddaughter's dance recital. They are still in S.C. but will be moving to Quantico by Jan.(stay tuned the military changes its mind more than most people change their underwear) and hopefully(please pray and cross your fingers) Amanda will be joining the group of Marines that guard and travel with the president on the presidential helicopter. It is a great honor to just be considered and they sought her out for the job so we are hoping for her that she passes the background check(all crazy relatives are requested to lay low) so that the job is hers. And it will keep her out of Iraq.
I am taking knitting to S.C.-my new STR club yarn and pattern and some other UFOs--but Jumproping may get in the way. It is Caitlin's new passion and it may kill me.
Go to sarahpeasley.com and link to her blog to see the blanket that many of us made squares for to surprise her after a bad winter. I think she was pleased and tears were in many eyes.
I got some of the new Beesweet African yarn at The Knitting Room in Rochester. Any ideas what I should do with it? Dreamweaversyarn.com has a cute cardigan pattern to go with the yarn but I don't know if I have enough. The Knitting Room is a great shop. Also went to Skeins on Main and Have You Any Wool. Skeins was great-Have you, was so so. My knitting partner Norma grew up in that area so she knew the hot spots.
More soon. Did I mention that mothers of 5 year olds are annoying? Yes, we know your child is a genius but he is a boy and a late November birthday means his social skills may need tweeking(til he is at least 26 research shows!) so maybe Young 5's may be the better placement. Yes, I know he is a genius--just wish you were!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe all this happened because it was April Fools Day.
Yesterday Kristi(Reddog), Kelli(Knitterbunny), Julee,another Kelli,Erin(Eblog) and I headed for Ann Arbor and the Harlot. Since Knitterbunny and I had attended last year we knew we had to leave early, sit on the front right side of the room and bring yarn. We left with great breakfast burritos(many thanks to Kristi's husband and Mother-in-law) and our well thought out plan. Now, you know what happens when you plan. Yes, the best laid plans ... We arrived in AA full ,gifted(Knitterbunny gave us all shower gels from Bath and Body Works-YUM-I used mine this morning-I smell like apples-YUM) and ready to knit while we waited for the 2pm arrival of the Harlot. At 1:15 it was announced that she had flown to Detroit, but due to fog(I was confused-it was sunny and beautiful in AA, a mere 20 minutes away) her plane had returned to Chicago and she was trying to get another flight to Detroit so ... they hoped she would arrive by 4:00. Long faces all around. Then in walked Jane Hathaway from the Beverly Hillbillies(don't tell me you don't know who this is--watch TVLand!) . It was really a woman (Kristi actually gave her this pen name due to her remarkable resemblence to Jane) from the LYS called "Busy Hands". She handed out flyers and since we had 2 hours and since it was only 2 blocks away and it housed yarn-Everyone went .I am sure this little shop had no idea what 200 knitters with time to kill can do to a shop. Plus, the malabrigo was on sale. I love it when a plan looks to be thwarted and then comes together..I scored(I mean needed) some chunky for a cute kids sweater and then I found some malabrigo lace weight (baby merino wool) and needed that too.
Chunky in Saphire magenta and baby in geranio and red mahagony. Everyone found something that sang to them-even Kristi ,who never buys yarn without a plan and doesn't have stash, bought some malabrigo without a planned pattern of use. I think we have brought her to the dark side-one more knitter whose soul now belongs to us. Cue evil laugh.
Stephanie did show(at about 4:30 or so) after being stranded at Detroit Metro and driven to AA by a knight in shining armour who had never met her but felt her pain and wanted to help. She talked for a short time(Bummer) and signed all books. Our plan to be 1st in line was thwarted by a man from the AA Library who sent the left side if the room up 1st -rats-but we persevered and got our books signed.
All in all, good company, good knitting, good yarn buys, Stephanie, a new book by Stephanie, meeting Kristi's twins(who are even cuter in person. Loved Gangles crooked smile he gave Mommy) made for a good day.