Attended the Inaugural Dodger Stitch'n'Pitch a few weeks ago. What a blast. 3 of 4 daughters were in attendance along with one grandchild, future son-in-law and a whole lot of knitters! There was a great spirit of camaraderie (naturally) and with our Dodgers Stitch'n'Pitch tote bag and swag, who could ask for more on a warm California night? I know male knitters hate the patronizing attitudes of others, but I was fascinated to see so many in attendance! My daughter chronicled her experience of the night well on her blog. http://rubyredleftinstitches.blogspot.com/ She did write a comment referring to a noro bag (actually a Booga bag) I've been working on "since 2004" . I only need to bind off the last row, but I have First Felting Fear. I'm afraid to move on to the next essential step. This is actually the second booga bag I'm making, with one more to go. See, I'm sort of doing an assembly line approach. I'll do the felting when all the bags are done. All in Noro Kureyon. The one pictured is in the 124 colourway, the first one is #126, and the next one will be #52. I love working with Noro and watching the color changes.
My goodie bag contained-a hank of Suss handpainted wool with a pattern for #2 Handpainted Hat, from Suss Design of "Hollywood Knits" fame. A set of purple pony pearl needles, one skein of Crystal Palace Splash color #7233, lots of discount coupons from LYS, more patterns and catalogs from Valley Yarns (that's Skrilla on the cover) and Trendsetter yarns.
On a different topic;
Reading an archived entry from April 2004 Dogs Steal Yarn. I thought I'd follow La Brainy's suggestion:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the sentence in your journal with these instructions
'Almost literally enmeshed in all this, Charlie was in his element, rushing backwards and forwards from our house to his in the pouring rain, for nuts, bolts, washers, more tools and so forth." (Excerpted from "Round Ireland in Low Gear" by Eric Newby. It is his accounts of traveling by bicycle around Ireland.
