Or monster post, really.

Hoo-ee! Have I ever got a head fulla words for y’all. Seriously. I’ve been totally jonesing to post for more than a week now, and haven’t been able to due to the fact that dingoes ate my blog. It was messy, I tellya.

Anyway. This is going to be a picture heavy post, so be warned. Ready? Thought so.

Think back to the holidays…. I know it’s been a month and a half, but bear with me. Branching way the heck out in my fibery pastimes, I made a quilt for Critterboy’s folks for xmas. This was one of those crazy appliqued things, which was a technique I’d never done before. Turns out it’s kinda fun. Who knew.

So here’s the quilt all on its ownsome:

And in its final resting place (and I swear I didn’t plan it to fit EXACTLY in this cabinet):

Then, there was the surprise gift of the season: the pink alpaca/silk shawl for Auntie Pink. Not that you can tell from this picture, but it’s this shawl in this yarn in the ‘flower garden’ colorway. Critterboy watched me work on this shawl for more than a month, and never guessed who it was for. This made me giggle. A lot. Mostly because he knew it was a christmas present for *someone* in Denver, and he watched everyone at the family gathering open their presents and didn’t see it among that lot, and right up to the point that I handed her the package and he leaned over and whispered “what’s in that?” he didn’t have a clue. He did, however, get slightly misty-eyed when I told him and when she opened it.

Auntie Pink is a knitter. She’s been a knitter for a long, long time, but last year her doctor told her ‘no more knitting’ - it’s just too hard on her body at this point. I think she’s allowed to do a teensy bit now, but it’s definitely not a carefree activity anymore. I adore Auntie Pink. I’ve only met her twice, but she made such an impression on me both times, and she’s very special. I started this shawl for someone else, and it fought me HARD. It didn’t want to be that for that person. Wasn’t going to go there. But the idea of Auntie Pink came to mind and it just FLOWED (well, other than that damn gaping hole issue, but even that was a smooth fix). It made me unendingly happy to make it for her. So here she is, all wrapped up in it, next to me looking like a total dork (as usual)(and yes, I cropped Critterboy out of the picture becuse he would have killed me in my sleep if I had posted a picture of him looking quite that bad for the world to see):

Ok. Moving on to the present. And Madrona! Hooray for Madrona! I took a couple of days off of work to get my car fixed and to hang out with some FT’ers who were in town. I, like an idiot, didn’t take pictures of them. But they were there. And they’re not imaginary friends anymore! They have faces! Go me for meeting people in person!

I got to hang out with Angela, which is always a good time, and she brought Lara and Lynne down with her. Lynne owns Knitopia in White Rock. If you’re up that direction, or passing by that direction, it’s well worth a stop. Tell her I sent you. And promise not to brush your teeth in the shower. She’ll understand. L&L kick all available ass. I heart them. And I got to meet several other people. Some of the names are fuzzy at this point (it was total people overload), but new people to adore: Roz, Jessica, Denise, Vanessa, Jean, Stephanie, Sam, Marti, and.. um… wow. I’ve forgotten a LOT more names than I realized. I’m bad with names. I admit that. Really bad. But I had SO much fun meeting everyone. And I managed to get through conversations with both Harlot and Nancy Bush without fainting OR vomiting. It was SOOOO Cool. (Stephanie is on the FT list, and actually did some hanging out with us, although I kept mostly missing those moments. Timing, as we all know, is NOT my forte.)

On to the pictures, what few of them there are:

Thursday, tooling around Seattle with Angela and Lara, got a lovely picture of Angela hiding behind her Wool Peddler’s…

…standing next to the Troll:

And the view from A,L,&L’s hotel room:

And the view of the inside of the hotel room:
and

And that was just the first day’s shopping haul. There was some Damage Done there, folks.

And, last but not least, some Lisa Souza goodness:

That’s the wensleydale in Deep Sea that I finished spinning up last night. I have another 4oz bump of the wensleydale in Elektra, so once I get that spun up I’ll have to figure out something to do with them. It’s REALLY nice stuff to work with, as is all of Lisa’s stuff. Addicting, though.

Beyond that, there have been two pairs of socks and another Rogue finsihed, but I don’t have pics of any of that yet. I’ll get some pics of my Olympic sweater progress tomorrow, and maybe the two pairs of socks. Maybe.

Oooh! And I almost forgot the last picture. This one for the total WTF were they thinking?! file:

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