Trip to the big city
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Now, you all know that a trip (ANYWHERE) to the big city is an opportunity to troll through either bookstores OR yarn shops.
Can you guess which one struck my fancy this time?
Yup, you’d be correct!
One of my sweet sisters in Christ joined me for a drive up to anchortown Friday. I had entered some pictures into the Fur Rondy photo contest and it was the first day of the show - so we went to see how many had made it onto display.
Once again, no ribbons for me as none of the pictures “placed”, but all five were IN the show so we did get to see them hung among the others.
But, a good “girlfriend’s day out” ABSOLUTELY MUST include perusing the yarn shops available. My friend has recently begun a quilt, so the first stop had to be the quilting/yarn store in mid-town. We ooohed and ahhhed over the pretty colors in the quilting section. I heard some “I could do that” comments from time to time and I loved it. She CAN do it - she can do anything she would like to try!
And, that includes knitting - although she has never tried . . . yet.
In the yarn section she was fascinated with all the different yarns and such - I kept saying - just wait until we get to the Knitting Grounds if you think THESE yarns are cool.
So after lunch at the City Diner - sorry, Lessa, they have taken “chicken fried bacon” off the menu - we stopped to visit with Zaynab (pictured above) before heading out of town.
I was a bit disappointed that we had gotten there before all of the Friday Night Knitting folks. And, we were not able to stay longer because of the whole driving through the mountains to get home thing . . . but I got some great shots of my friend modeling some of the gorgeous knitted items through the store.
AND . . . she even asked if we thought she could knit some socks - well, of COURSE we think she can. But, we might want to start with a simple scarf first - just to get those knits and purls down.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Sorry I missed you friday. Zaynab said you came by! Maybe next time we can meet up!
Happy Knitting
Linda
http://zingis2000knitter.blogspot.com/
February 29th, 2008 at 2:02 am
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