Good day for football!!
It has been an absolutely fabulous day. I got up a bit lazily this morning - not getting started on chores as early as I intended, but the extra snooze in felt good. Later in the morning I headed down to Cafe Caffeine for the Saturday knit meetup where I got to talk to quite a few people that I don't see very often. CC is pretty far south for me, so I don't get down there on a regular basis. Today turned out to be a bonus -- Janet was liquidating her yarn stock since she is moving to New York, so I bought a few skeins of Liisu Yarn merino from her for a song - dark evergreen in color, which is a departure from my usual reds and pinks. :D
After knitting and chatting for a couple hours, I headed over to HCW to sign up for a spot on the yarn crawl bus. If you're in Central Texas and interested, call them soon for a spot!!! The yarn crawl runs independently for about a week in October, or you can take the bus on October 7th. Since my regular crochet class is lacking students at the moment (plenty of sign-ups for the specialty classes, but not the ongoing) I figured I'd not hold class at all that day so that I also get to participate in the crawl. It ought to be fun. :)
After running that little errand, and since I was already in South Austin, I decided to head over to The Knitting Nest to check out the newest shop in town. This one is on Slaughter Lane, about a block or two west of IH-35, next door to a liquor store. The shop itself is delightfully industrial, with plenty of space for crafters to hang out and visit. Her official grand opening is October 13th, so go check it out!! She has some great On-Line sock yarns in great colors (not to mention a wall of Cascade 220), so I had to pick up a skein.
Of course, then I had to hurry and get back home for kick-off (Go 'Horns!) but I stopped off at Gauge Knits first, since Karli is such a dear and I love their little shop. They happened to have some Regia 4-fadig in a colorway that Sammi bought out from under me a year or so ago (lots of big color stripes, S -- they had 3 skeins at the time and I think you were going to make knee-highs) -- I liked it a lot after she worked it up so I bought some today.
...and that was quite enough yarn purchase for a weekend, especially since I am planning on going on the crawl next weekend. I guess yarn will be my birthday present this year. Hee!
Now, the UT game is going on - the first drive by K-State made me wonder what in blue blazes happened to our defense. Perhaps it will get better from here on in, but I have knitting to do and a comfy chair to watch from. Go 'Horns!
After knitting and chatting for a couple hours, I headed over to HCW to sign up for a spot on the yarn crawl bus. If you're in Central Texas and interested, call them soon for a spot!!! The yarn crawl runs independently for about a week in October, or you can take the bus on October 7th. Since my regular crochet class is lacking students at the moment (plenty of sign-ups for the specialty classes, but not the ongoing) I figured I'd not hold class at all that day so that I also get to participate in the crawl. It ought to be fun. :)
After running that little errand, and since I was already in South Austin, I decided to head over to The Knitting Nest to check out the newest shop in town. This one is on Slaughter Lane, about a block or two west of IH-35, next door to a liquor store. The shop itself is delightfully industrial, with plenty of space for crafters to hang out and visit. Her official grand opening is October 13th, so go check it out!! She has some great On-Line sock yarns in great colors (not to mention a wall of Cascade 220), so I had to pick up a skein.
Of course, then I had to hurry and get back home for kick-off (Go 'Horns!) but I stopped off at Gauge Knits first, since Karli is such a dear and I love their little shop. They happened to have some Regia 4-fadig in a colorway that Sammi bought out from under me a year or so ago (lots of big color stripes, S -- they had 3 skeins at the time and I think you were going to make knee-highs) -- I liked it a lot after she worked it up so I bought some today.
...and that was quite enough yarn purchase for a weekend, especially since I am planning on going on the crawl next weekend. I guess yarn will be my birthday present this year. Hee!
Now, the UT game is going on - the first drive by K-State made me wonder what in blue blazes happened to our defense. Perhaps it will get better from here on in, but I have knitting to do and a comfy chair to watch from. Go 'Horns!
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