Grab your knitting needles and come relax with me.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Back From WHIBSIB
Man I had so much fun and I didn't wanted to come back so soon. Apparently, Mic thought I was never coming back. Poor kid.
Lot's of hilarity ensued!
Here's the super cute Alpacas and sculpture garden from Old Oaks Ranch in Wimberly. I especially loved the bears sculpture and the mice and books sculpture.
Jamey made a bunch of stitch markers for me to sell to my fellow knitters (I am a terrible enabler)...he was very surprised how few I brought back. He didn't realise how special his dual use stitch markers are.
I also finished my Neverending Socks! See that little bit of yarn that was ALL the yarn I had left--including the yarn ends I wove in.
I finished them an hour before we went out for the day on Saturday. I even stayed up to 2 am trying to finish them. I had to stop three rows from bind of because I kept seeing things and I found out that I can't count past 1.45 am. It was such a fun high to finally finally be done with these socks. I didn't manage to take pictures of them on me, but I will pluck some pictures that my friends took.
One of the girls made me a sweet, beautiful market bag for making all the WHIBSIB badges. AND gifted me a Pooh Bear dressed up as a bee. I feel loved!
I also bought some yarn...of course! At Old Oaks Ranch I bought some beautiful Claudia Handpainted Silk lace weight. Ooo I have plans for this pretty little hank (ha! little it's 1100 yards!!).
It's so incredibly soft.
We decided to go west from Wimberly on the way home and stopped at Blanco for lunch. Yummy yummy HUGE plates.
We stopped at Yarnivore before we reluctantly agreed it was time to go home and end our Yarny Adventure. I bought some alpaca sport weight for Skinny Lacey scarves for the shop. And for some reason although I am allergic, I bought some mohair for some filmy scarves--also for the shop.
And since I finished my socks, I started Micci's tiger socks.
These were started minutes after I finished the Neverending Socks--on Saturday morning.
This weekend was a nice recharge and a great affirmation amongst friends.
NOTE: It did rain, QUITE a bit...but only at night when no one was out and about. So it (the buying of the super cute polka dotted umbrella) worked--sort of.
I love the never ending socks. And great planning to wear a skirt so you could show them off. Wish I could've been with y'all :-(
That Claudia yarn looks gorgeous. You can see the sheen even in the picture.
I have some of that Tiger yarn too. Will be interested to see how yours knit up.
The name tags you made are so cute, and that was so super sweet of you. I know everyone really appreciated it. You totally deserved a little present (or 2) in return!!
Let me know about the test knitting when you get time, I'm finishing up finals soon.
Enid?!? I had no idea that there was another Enid in San Antonio? I'm not the only one. wow! :D How are ya? Just catching up on blogs and seeing what everyone is up to. :D Take it easy.
