You can see what a great day I had. Visited Craftly Lady Trio, got a project for our trip to North Carolina the first week in May (I forgot to mention that. After my cry for an intervention, I realized I'm not an addict but a collector. Remember?), signed up for a knitting class and spent the day with Linda. WOW! What a day.
Monday, I started my week by spending the day with Linda, visiting an old friend, checking #5 off my knitting goal list and signing up for a future fun event. What a great start to my week. Does anybody recognize this? Kathie? This the the fabulous Crafty Lady Trio. This is an old friend and my #5 knitting goal. You might not recognize it because I took the picture with my iPhone, and remember I am not a professional photographer! How many times have I had to apologize for my pictures? I just don't get any better. See the class taking place? I think there is always a class taking place at Crafty Lady Trio. Linda and I have gone to Crafty Lady Trio for so long that it was only Crafty Lady when we started. It is 105.4 miles from Linda's drive way to the parking place right in front of the shop. Linda and I have taken so many classes at Crafty Lady: 1) Crayon Box Jacket; 2) Valentina Devine; 3) Koigu Mitered Squares; 4) Maggie Jackson; 5) Stash Buster; 6) Magic Ball and more. Linda and I have left home at 7:00 a.m. to get to morning classes and we've gotten home at 11:30 p.m. from evening classes. This is the very first Crayon Box Jacket Linda and I ever saw and it is still there! We saw it and fell in love and had to make one. This is my very first Crayon Box. The base yarns are wool and the decorative yarns are many. Linda loved making the first Crayon Box so much she wanted to make a cotton one. This is my cotton Crayon box. I got the beautiful cotton yarn (I don't generally like cotton and really don't consider it yarn. I think of it as string) at the Quarter Stitch in New Orleans. Notice the buttons on both jackets. I learned the beauty of stacking buttons from Martina during the Crayon Box class. It is something I always do. This is really difficult to see, but the first time Linda and I saw this sweater, we drop our purses, yarns and jaws. It is that fabulous Modular Knitting inspired by Valentina Devine. We immediately signed up for the classes once again with the fabulous Martina. This is my Modular sweater back and one front. Oh, my! It wouldn't take much for this to be a finished modular sweater. Why didn't I think to make this part of my knitting goals?!?!?! So little efforts to check off a goal. This vest made me a little crazed when I saw it. I decided I could make and sell purses designed using knitted fabric like this vest. I obsessed a bit and began collecting yarn to make the magical purses. Linda and I even took a class (I think it may have been from Martina again), then I got bored with it all. It made me wonder, how do people do the same thing over and over and over and over without going completely crazy. It would like only being able to knit scarfs with one yarn and not even one you loved but one some else would buy and sometimes not someone with great taste. WOW! I think I just figured out why I have a yarn stash which would fill The Joe (for you folks who are not from Michigan that would be Joe Louis Arena home of the Detroit Red wings.) I just get bored. I think I may be an Adrenalin Junkie, you know, always looking for the "Yarn Rush." Linda and I were waited on by this very helpful, very sweet girl. She helped with with a Stephen West wrap and an Alchemy wrap. I was a little disappointed that we didn't know anybody there. There was no Martina, no Meagan, of course no Jan since she left years ago. I loved Jan. She had bold taste and attitude. Next we went to the Knitting Room in Birmingham where a class was also in progress. The Knitting Room is where I took the Knit Swirl class. The fabulous Norah Gaughan will be at the Knitting Room in June and Linda and I signed up for the class. That is another of my knitting goals for the year; to take a knitting class. Having goals is amazing. It keeps me focused and on track. It reminds me what I want to accomplish. Since I published my goals at Knitting: A Love Story, I have publicly declared what I will do. That keeps me honest. There is Linda in the teal (of, course. Linda loves teal!) The Knitting Room has begun carrying Shibui Yarn which I love. Shibui started as the sister of Knit Purl in Portland and has recently gone out on their own. Good luck to a thoroughly modern yarn company.
You can see what a great day I had. Visited Craftly Lady Trio, got a project for our trip to North Carolina the first week in May (I forgot to mention that. After my cry for an intervention, I realized I'm not an addict but a collector. Remember?), signed up for a knitting class and spent the day with Linda. WOW! What a day.
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Jan R
4/12/2015 01:52:01 pm
Your modular sweater is awesome and needs to become a completed project. I love doing modular!
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Kathie
4/23/2015 10:37:05 am
Hi Jan so glad you made it to CLT, you should have asked for Lynn one of the owners. I've spoke to her about you, she was probably in the back in the office. Glad you found a few things though. The crayon box jacket was my first inspiration from there but I felt I didn't have the experience to do it so it's still on my knitting bucket list. Maybe someday ! Are you going to teach classes at Ann's Designs yarn shop ? Where is it ? Again you inspire me a lot. Have a great day.
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Jan Parson
4/27/2015 04:57:40 am
Kathie, The Crayon Box Jacket is surprisingly easy. The hardest part is deciding how to pair up yarns. My first class at Ann's By Design is a Magic Ball demo on Saturday, May 16 with a Beginning class May 23 and June 6. Ann's By Design is in downtown Adrian.
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