so as you've probably heard, saturday a bunch of us local boston/eastern mass knitters set up shop at wendy's for a taste of yarn/stuff your face/drink tons of sangria party. because i'm lazy, and don't feel like repeating what has already been written up about this wonderful event, i'm just going ask you all to visit kerstin, elisa , colleen and melanie for some of the details .
but i did get a few pictures.
things started quietly enough. here are jackie, melanie and colleen trying out some of the very lovely yarns that everyone brought.
once stitchy's sangria came out though, things then got a little crazy. here's wendy getting ready to fling herself into a basket of yarn like it was some sort of mosh pit.
luckily i was the only one with my wits about me so i was able to talk her down. the yarn basket wouldn't have been big enough to break her fall.
then there was the zoo love. although melanie claims that future man (a most luscious cat) had only eyes for her, the truth of the matter is that as soon as the party ended, future man met me at doyle's for a night cap.
finally, since i'm an equal opportunity knitter and since no one specified that the yarn we brought actually had to be attractive, i thought it might be fun to bring something ugly as sin. and ugly it was. in fact, it was uglier knitted up than it was in the skein. the name of this yippy dog with mange fur yarn is voodoo by patons.
It does look like it has a mange! Eww!
Posted by: Lauren | May 23, 2005 at 06:12 PM
So, I wanna know how you avoid getting your picture taken so successfully.
Posted by: claudia | May 23, 2005 at 07:24 PM
Back off lady, FutureMan is MINE.
Posted by: melanie | May 23, 2005 at 08:16 PM
I don't even want to get into some of the images I'm seeing in my head.....
Posted by: Colleen | May 23, 2005 at 11:04 PM
It's true ... you were the only one with your wits about you! ha! Sheesh, that dog yarn is even worse in photographs than in person. Quite the trick, I say.
Posted by: Kerstin | May 24, 2005 at 08:22 AM
I saw that yarn in the store and was wondering how it would knit up... thanks for demonstrating... it looks like a dog that got shaved at the vet...
Posted by: Lolly | May 24, 2005 at 11:24 AM
This looks like fun - a bunch of my friends and I (also from the Boston area) are thinking of starting a crochet night monthly. How did you get yours started? And most importantly how did you find people to get involved? We only have I think 3 of us so far....
Posted by: GlitterGlamGirl | June 02, 2005 at 10:45 AM