Socializing Today
A Shopping Trip
Today I got to see several knitting people in my life. I stopped by Yarn for Ewe to pick up a pattern which has haunted me for maybe a month since I saw it there… I wasn’t intending to get a pattern then or now, but it just won’t leave me alone. Ruth was there, as she often is, and she did some good sleuthing trying to figure out what pattern I wanted by my very sketchy description of it.
It’s a sleeveless top by Artful Yarns, with v-neck in a partial-garter-stitch pattern, knit on diagonals. It might work with my wonderful yarn that Jillian gave me, mixed in with the other yarns I have which will be pretty together. I am not sure if the gauge given will work for the yarns I have but we will see how I can deal with that issue.
It’s always good to talk to Ruth. She knows so much and one only needs to ask. I just have not been on that side of town lately, and I had to miss the knit in this month because I was out of town dancing, so I really had not been there in a while. I got to show off the eggplant hat I made for Anne’s baby, which was fun. I made it with Tahki Cotton Classis for the main hat and then couldn’t find the green Cotton Classic in my stash for anything, so I substituted a green Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece and it worked just fine, though more matte finished than the planned yarn. Very cute indeed.
Marlene and WWA guild
This evening I went to my friend Marlene’s home and we talked about everything. Our purpose was to start as a team to do the newsletter for our Working Women Artists guild. This will be our first newsletter, as our friend Marian has done it for a good long while and it was time to pass the baton, as they say.
Working Women Artists (WWA) is an extraordinary guild. It is an art guild, which does not focus on what medium the artist is using at the moment. Most of our meetings are led by members of the guild, teaching some art method to the rest of us. I have done polymer clay, wet feltmaking, eraser-carving (custom rubberstamps) and knitting. We also have done glass fusing, collage, photography, needlefelting, and a zillion other things I can not remember right now. Once someone even did lithography, which took two sessions because it is so involved. I was just fascinated, since I have never taken a printmaking class.
If any Artwomen out there in Lansingland are interested in joining us (WWA) for meetings, it is usually held the 2nd Sunday of the month at 6-8pm at Bare Bone Studios on Turner Street in Old Town. We love to see new faces, any age. We have high school girls and retired women in the guild. It’s just a great place to meet folks who are creative. Please join us.
Of course Marlene and I ended up talking about plants and food and knitting and feltmaking and spinning… and life. I just love Marlene, she is a gift to me. How wonderful it is to have a friendship with someone who shares so many common interests! We just don’t seem to connect as often as we might like, but it is always as if we never missed a beat.
Oh, So Tired!
I am just plain exhausted after having 25 computer kids today at Foster Center, and then an adult class, then all the things I’ve listed here. I have a computer to fix tomorrow and some small gardening tasks. We’ll see what I get finished after that. We are going camping with Brian’s family for the weekend so I’ll probably post tomorrow and then miss a few nights here. No doubt I’ll return with a picture or two.