This Lady Knits

Finally a little bit of breathing room.

As promised a few pics from last weekend.

DH booked us a room with a view. This is the view we woke up to Saturday morning from our window. Across the way from us, seen in the not to distant distances is Surrey BC . Yup we were that far North. This lovely little resort is surrounded on 3 sides by water. From the front, you see the road and the marina before you see water, but you can still see Blaine WA. But from this side, the view is beach and water, and Canada. We didn’t actually go up to Canada, because it seems we forgot to bring the passports, and DH wasn’t sure if we needed them or not to go over to Canada, so we’ll save that for next trip. It’s really not all that far from where we’re living now.

This picture of the sunset was taken from below our room. I have over 100 shots of this sunset, I just let the camera keep taking them figuring I’d be happy with at least one of them. I’m happy with several of them but honestly there were too many to post, and they all look very similar to this one.

So on Saturday instead of venturing North to Canada, we headed south to Bellingham WA for the day. DH took me to Marilyn’s Yarn, He knows it because I found it on our first trip up there when we first moved back. I love this little yarn store, they carry Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock and they have a punch card. Ok so the yarn fumes got to DH too, or at least I have to figure they did. Somewhere in the middle of all that yarn, DH said get what you want, I’ll buy. I didn’t go totally crazy, just a little overboard, like I need more sock yarn.

We have here from left to right, 3 skeins of STR, Midsummer Night, Algae and Obsidian, a skein of Cherry Tree Hill Sock Super Sock . Blues/Greens,(though I’m not really seeing the greens just the blues) and last but not least Fortissima Colori Socka Color, color way 098 Lured (I think that’s the color)

I did mention that on the way back we stopped at a casino, I didn’t get any pics, didn’t think to, what kind of blogger does that make me? Oh well. Anyway, I dropped some money into a slot machine and got 3 7’s, I think I mentioned that too, but I’m just can’t get over the irony of winning with 7 7 7 on our 7th anniversary. Anyway, here’s what became of the winnings:

There is some BFL top as well, but you’ll see that eventually, it will someday become yarn.

I love my new job, but I really miss knitting and spinning. Somehow, there doesn’t seem to be any time left in my day to knit. Possibly just perception, since I went from spinning and knitting whenever I wanted to having only a limited time to knit. Thankfully, I found a wonderful group of knitters to knit with one night a week, so there is some semi-dedicated knitting time. As dedicated as you can get when you meet in a food court and get a bunch of knitters together. From that group, there are a few of us that are spinners, and we meet every other Thursday night, right now in the same location, but that is open for change or not. We met Thursday night for the first time at the mall, in the food court, and fun was had by all.

Wow talk about attention grabbing, even though we were in our own little corner, we still managed to get a lot of spectators. No one ever told me spinning was a spectator sport. There was a couple of children who showed so much interest (along with their mom) one of my fellow spinners got up and gave an impromptu introduction to spinning. She was amazing, she’s only learned to drop spindle a few months ago, and just got her first wheel a little over 2 weeks ago. Her yarns are lovely and she’s doing a great job, she’s a total natural at this. There was one older “gentleman,” and I use that word loosely. I have no problem with people watching or even asking question, well this “gentleman” invited himself into the middle of our spinning circle and started fondling the yarn of the one guy who was spinning with us. Can you believe that, didn’t even ask, just walked in and started touching! Lucky for him the guy is very laid back and didn’t mind a bit, but had he been fondling my fiber…well that would have been another story. Ask me and I’ll gladly let you touch all you want providing your hands are clean, but ASK!

On the knitting front, socks, almost done, hopefully today or tomorrow, April is drawing to a close quickly. Eris got a few more rows this week. Central Park Hoodie (CPH) jumped OTN yesterday, I’m through the ribbing and the first pattern repeat on the back.