How to spend your Saturday
With friends, basking in the sunlight, eating, knitting, spinning, and gabbing about everything under the sun. And of course, taking pictures. Once again, Julia hosted the gathering. There were Lori, Andrea, Mary-Heather and Kat. Francesca, spindler and knitter extraordinaire, and Shannon, with her gorgeous green Icarus-in-the-making, rounded out the group.
Can I just say it was good times?
Francesca's amazing knits in a cheery basket.
Julia's lovely handspun: Koigu-like and Manos-like. Our lovely hostess kept our drinks filled, organized the class picture and taught Shannon how to spin. She didn't stop long enough for me to take a good picture of her!
Another one for the toe-up brigade (yay): Shannon's tweedy socks.
Andrea's natural dyeing efforts: wool on the left, cotton on the right. Just. Gorgeous.
Mary-Heather snapping pictures; Lori and Kat. Mary-Heather and Kat were knitting projects for their book so I can't show you their knitting!
Finally, Lori, in balanced-handspun-heaven. Girl needs a Lendrum, let me just say.
All in all, a wonderful day!
twas a wonderful day indeed. btw, i got the car without any problems. but i bunged up the chin on sunday trying to pull a u-ie in front of sunset towers. d'oh!
i'd be curious in seeing any pictures of the wheel spinning chaos if any turned out "ok"!
cam was impressed with the corriedale that I spun. he quickly noticed the there was a much larger amount...without even having the first spun beside it! good man!
What a delightful day. :) In regards to Shannon's tweedy socks... what yarn is she using? Thanks!
Oop! I just saw the link to Shannon's blog... I found out what she's using. It's fabulous! :)
Wow, you are some talented ladies. Everything in this post is so beautiful! I love all the colors, the tweedy socky, the natural-dyed yarn. Yum!
Nice picture-snapping, Miss MJ! I didn't even notice how many project pics you took! I had a great time, and I am so glad that you came. I hope that you won't be climbing on the Torrance weekend!
A wonderful day, indeed- thanks for sharing your great photos! I'm so glad to have met you, and look forward to seeing you again soon! (I think I need to get me some of those mini chocolate/pb cups...)
ack, what a great great day, so much fun ;) and great pics, mj. i have some i'll upload to flickr tonight.
i hope thursday is still a go!
Wish I could be a California girl! What fun ;)
Well, I was definitely thinking about you guys. I wish I could have been there. It seems like I'm missing out on a lot of fun.
Hi MJ,
I tried to reply to your comment on my blog using your Yahoo address, but my email got bounced back. It was great meeting you, too, and I hope to see you all again at some other gathering. And next time I'll know better than to leave early. :)
From the pictures it looks like you all had a great day. Those are some beautiful yarns. I want to try natural dyeing one of these days. I really like the tweedy sock yarn. Pretty!
Oh, great pics of a really fun day! I had a blast!
Love the basket. Where was your knitting or did I miss it?