A week ago on Thursday night, Rae’s Yarn Boutique and Woven Art yarn shops sponsored a Stitch ‘n Pitch event at the Lansing Lugnuts minor-league stadium. We played Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I am not a sports fan by any stretch of imagination. But the Lugnuts? I love ‘em!!! The games have as much crowd-pleasing, between-the-innings entertainment as they have baseball. We did the chicken dance (see photo at right of “Big Lug” in purple, doing the chicken dance with a guy wearing an MSU Spartan flag as a superman cape), YMCA, and all sorts of other goofy and lowbrow fun dances in our seats.
They had a name-that-tune, and the girl playing got it right in under 2 seconds (photo bottom left). I didn’t know the song even when they played it at length. Yeah, I’m too old for rock ‘n roll these days, I guess.

My favorite part of a Lugnuts game is the hot-dog gun. I mean, really! I would not eat a hot dog if you paid me, but it still is my favorite.

They have an air gun, and they wrap up hot dogs, put them in this gun, and shoot them into the air above the crowd while driving a golf cart in front of the stands. People scramble to catch the hot dog as if it were a fly ball. It’s too funny, too unbelievable to be anything but cool. (Yes, I failed in the “sophisticated” department, and I’m having more fun since I gave it all up.) They also do a T-Shirt gun, same idea but not as funny.

I think the photos say it all. Click to see more detail, then click “back” to get back to this page. And yeah, they made the hot dog seller in the crowd wear a hot dog hat. I thought it was great, you sure can see him for a distance. Rae felt sorry for him (it was pretty warm out there). I like playing dress-up, so it didn’t occur to me he might not like his hat.

Knitting? Oh, yeah. I spent the time swatching for a Nanette Tee by White Lies Designs. It requires stretchy light summer yarn at 3.5 stitches/inch. That’s some serious fat yarn!

I tried one yarn, two yarns, a different set of two, and finally all three. That last try made it. The yarn is so fat I only have to cast on 50 stitches for front and 50 for the back. It should be faster than many other projects, and I will enjoy that.

When we left, it was getting dark. The fountain outside where the kids had been playing to get cool, was relatively deserted. It sure made downtown Lansing look romantic and beautiful, though, don’t you think?

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