We're back from an long roadtrip to Northern Idaho and British Columbia. It was a wonderful trip. We celebrated my best friend's birthday by boating on Lake Coeur d'Alene (it was so good to reconnect and hang out in paradise), and I literally stumbled in a back ally onto the studio of Lana Hames, owner and designer of Hemp For Knitting in Nelson, British Columbia (there's a pattern in the latest Knitty by another Nelsonite using her yarn). Sadly, the studio was closed for the day, but I found a retail outlet in town. I only bought three skeins of yarn because I wanted to stay within the trip budget, but I was sorely tempted to buy more. I finished two small projects on the trip (a Panta headband in black Cotton Fleece, and a certain gray fuzzy bonnet-style hat), and frogged a third project about five times. It's good to be back, although I'm not yet completely back in the swing of things because I still have company at the house, and that always makes things a little chaotic. I missed Stitch'n'Bitch last week because of the trip, and I have to miss it again tonight because of a meeting I must attend. That bums me out because I really need a hit of that heady mix of Bruce's forthy drinks, loud conversation, sandwiches, gossip, and delirious yarn-handling. I miss ya, grrrls. More later.
P.S. I'm preparing to print another run of shirts for the Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair, at which I've rented a booth with a certain soap-obsessed friend. Hopefully I'll be done with that this weekend to give the shirts plenty of time to cure. Enquire further if you have any questions, like how to get a shirt to me to print for you. You can email me at katherine dot allred at gmail dot com.
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