I spent the day with knitters - First I went to two classes. One was on various kinds of closures that one could make instead of using plain buttons. Second was for making cabled fingerless gloves - the basic gloves weren't particularly hard but the teacher had lots of interesting techniques and I learned some things. This evening the Yarn Harlot was the speaker and had us laughing so hard that tears were running down my face. She is really a kick. She has decided that knitting is neither an art nor a craft but a sport - so they had an Olympic cast-on. I went to the program with Ranee - I ran into her in the lobby a while before the evening program, so we sat together. She is fine and told me about her kids who are all doing well. (She didn't have any new pictures of them, though) She was making a really nice sweater for Dominick. I did make a stop at the yarn market but did a pretty good job of restraininig myself - only two skeins of sock yarn (hand painted merino/tencel), two skeins of dk, and 4 oz of lace weight plus some stitch markers.
Next year I will go for a longer time - but I was late signing up and a number of the classes I wanted were closed.
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