The Yarn Harlot speaks...

Last night, Friday, March 30th, Pittsburgh was host to possibly the most famous knitting blogger/writer ever.

We were slightly late (I was rather stubbornly seeking an on-street parking spot, but finally gave up and parked in a deck around the corner), and their chairs were all filled, as was most of the downstairs area where Stephanie Pearl-McPhee was speaking, so we went upstairs where the view and sound were much better.

I spent the majority of the evening listening to her talking while working on Sage's Jughead hat (I had started it just before we left, and arrived with 5 rounds completed - when we left at the end of the night, I had all the increase rounds finished, and that was with having to tink 3/4 of a round because I wasn't paying attention). We were amongst the last people in line for book signing, and Harley showed Stephanie her little bit of knitting which she's done occasional work on but it's still not much more than 3" long, if even that. Stephanie asked what it was going to be, and when Harley mentioned that it might become a scarf, Stephanie instead suggested that it was the start of a bear, made with varying sizes of suqares. And then she drew a diagram for Harley.



Harley is, suffice to say, very excited about this new prospect and I think it's possibly inspired her to work more on her first piece of knitting.

Sage, rebel that she is, spent the evening playing with the toys at the bookstore and charming the other knitters with her energetic playfulness. Maybe one day she too will get knitting ideas from the Harlot.

In lieu of knitting content...

The highlight of living in this temporary house by far has been the realization that there are flowers blooming in the yard. Alas, something or someone made off with these the day after I took this photo because they are no longer there. Bastards.



And this pile of sheeplets was found at a nearby park in their barn. I wanted to kidnap all of them for future wool gathering purposes. ;)

So where'd the knitting go? Do you really want to hear about the progress I've made on another Jughead hat? It's nearly identical to the first (different yarn is all), so it's not really all that exciting for photo taking purposes.

My Spinning Pal rocks!

So it turns out that my Spinning Pal is Slightly Obsessed. She seriously rocks. The darker purple skein is from January - no extra goodies to show from then because they all got consumed rather quickly - she sent chocolate and caramel corn and ginger candies and lots of assorted teas from Trader Joe's and other places. I have since become addicted to their swiss milk chocolate bars, which I think makes her psychic because there was one in the package that arrived today, and we had just bought more last night. *yummy* There's also the super-cool journal which says on it's cover "she had not yet decided whether to use her power for good... or for evil" and it is so very me (and I always use my powers for evil ;) ). And there's also some yummy, yummy roving from Hand Painted Yarn that I will hopefully have a chance to play with in the near future as well.

Thank you, dearest Spinning Pal!

I finally sent my February skein yesterday and totally forgot to enclose a card with it. Thankfully I did put my name on the skein's tag I made for it. But um... whoops! I'll send my pal an email on Thursday fully identifying myself unless she gets the package before then and figures out who I am on her own.