YOC - The Morning After

OK, it's really 3 days after.  So sue me.  We enjoyed another fine evening at Borders, free treats and all.  This time they made us lvoely strawberry drinks, and there was some sort of pumpkin cake.  Sorry you missed the handout, RW (these are initials for her e-mail address--tee hee).  We did, however hear highlights from RW's trip to Boston, which was a repeat for Alykopp and "y", but spawned a yummy discussion of Indian food.  As RW pointed out, it was almost a reading group instead of a knitting group.  I distracted Alykopp with a beading magazine or 2, and then I became involved in pirating 3 recipes for cheesy-potatoey-pasta-y dishes from a cookobook of comfort food.  I didn't want to buy the whole book--I'm bad, I know!  But trust me, I spend enough money on trashy romance books and coffee drinks to make up for it.  I think I'll search out a better recipe for rice pudding though.

It was also show and tell!  I know this will seem like a huge indulgence in ego again, but as soon as someone brings something finished to show again (AHEM, like The Thing, as we've dubbed it, that "y" is making.  It's purple.  It's made out of my fave yarn, which I gave to her.  Yet neither she nor her cat will tell me what It is.)
I brought the two completed necklaces I made!

The pink and green one has already been gifted to a friend and she *loved* it! The blue was my very first attempt and it's a little rough, so I'm keeping that one for myself, but another blue one with a different button in the middle will go to another friend.  I've got the components for several more in little baggies, which may become holiday gifts---yes, "i", I'm way ahead of you---I will make some for your sholem holiday market.

That's all for now, but stay tuned--I've almost finished a throw for a friend, and I'm ready to sew in the ends on a baby blanket.  Daisy Elizabeth was born on the 14th, so it will be traveling to her in Merry Olde England sometime this week!

YOC: The Morning After

Well, thanks to the comment from my friend ldfsings on my first post, I am going to incorporate a once weekly post with this title, to report on the shenanigans, hoodwinkery, gossip, laughter, and oh---sometimes knitting and crocheting that takes place in our knitting group Yarn Over Calabasas.  Don't worry, I'll only share the shameful, I mean harmless stuff, nothing too personal, and I won't use real names, not even for the bookstore where we meet.

Speaking of which, that's a good place to start---our meeting place.  Now that we have ditched the Store That Shall Remain Nameless, and moved on to greener pastures, I think we are all adjusting nicely.  I missed our first couple of weeks there, but on my first night in the Den (that's what I'll call it, I think), they actually set up a table for us, which they've offered to do each time if we can't find space in the cafe, they made blended drinks and snacks for us and served them free of charge, and a good time was had by all.  This as opposed to having cafe tables pulled apart *while we were sitting at them*, being told we're taking tables/space away from "regular" customers, and finally being told that they will not be providing any table space for us whatsoever after 3 years of meeting there!  Yes, I am still bitter.  As soon as I can think about it without my blood pressure going up again, I will write a final letter to their Corporate Monkey Headquarters and congratulate them on losing the business of an entire knitting group.

But the big news from last night is that I, who considered myself highly allergic to crocheting . . . crocheted a necklace!  All that's left is some finishing work and a button embellishment.  Now before you think I'm all conceited by saying that the biggest news is my news, let me just say that there were only two of us.  And I think fishwithsticks will back me up on the momentousness of me actually crocheting anything. As soon as it's all done, I'll post a picture here and on Ravelry.

Until next week, TTFN
the Knit Kitty

A Yarn is Born

Hello out there.  I guess starting a knitting blog never appealed to me before, but now I am trying to be more active on Ravelry, and, well, I had no blog to link to.  That's all I have to say for now, but I'll be back. Later.