Today's my day!!!

It totally crept up on me, but YES! Today is my day in the Stitch 'n Bitch page a day calendar!!!!! (See right)

I'm late...

Remembrance:

The most christian i'll ever get

Especially Sarah McLachlan's version. The only time I'd ever consider using a pre-writing prayer.

there is no god

I'm sitting in my home office, browsing my regular news and entertainment sites and I hear, from the living room, what I can only assume is the beginning of "Sweeney Todd"

Dear god.

I had no idea.

I mean, Johnny! Is it possible you have made a mistake bigger than "21 Jump Street"!?!

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March 1, 2015

I can't believe it's almost been a month since Rhinebeck! Oh, the things I saw! Oh the things I made! OH! the things I bought!!!!!

First, there were workshops, then there was an afternoon of fiber adventures with my BIL and his DW who were with me as I tried out my first wheel (see below), bought my first sweater kit (which was also to be my first FairIsle pattern, and which I just figured out this weekend is going to be my first STEEK - EEK!!!). We tried free cheese and wine, had ok fair food, got very very cold, and totally freaked out my BIL - he couldn't believe that every corner we turned THERE WAS MORE "SHEEP [and yarn, and knitting] SHIT!" I asked him what he thought I meant when I asked if they wanted to meet up with me at a "FIBER FESTIVAL" - - ?!?

Then there was a whole day of me wandering alone - I absolutely fell in love with ALPACAS!! They're so tiny! With SUCH BIG EYES! I bet I could keep one or two in my back yard!! (although I have been cautioned that my conservative CT town wouldn't stand for it!)


Anyway: My in laws were with me for my first spinning wheel experience....

I sat at a Golding spinning wheel. My first time sitting at a wheel and trying it. Now, people had been telling me to sit and try wheels before I bought one and I always said to them "but, I don't know what to look for! How will I *know*?"

Well.

With a Golding, even a spinning virgin *KNOWS*; it's an AMAZING experience.

I fell in love. I had to have one!

Spoke to Tom, who was manning the booth, told him the one I wanted (Habetrot, with matching chair - you have to scroll down a bit on each page to see the exact one.)

Come to find out, there's a reason the spinning wheel doesn't have a price listed on the website!!! OUCH! I was prepared for $6-$9K, I mean, it's ART! It's an investment! but when he told me how much, I almost fainted.

Tom offered to work with me on designing my own, using simpler motifs and a corresponding lower price tag - I was ecstatic!! "Do you need a deposit!?"

Well, yes and no. You see, Tom's booked way out - so I could put a $100 deposit on a delivery date. I'm all for it!!! What date did I "buy"?



See the title of this post.