Anatomy of a Shindig

And so there was a shindig.. and it was good.  Wendy, Hilari and Krys came over to do a bit of knitting and spinning.  My own wheel did not even make an appearance - instead I worked some more on the interminable Clapotis.  I swear this is the shawl that will never end.  Maybe I've become too easily distracted with the tiny lace charts that if I even look away from for a moment - I've dropped two stitches, missed a yarn over, and twisted a stitch.  Ungrateful knitter I am - Clapotis is just boring the daylights out of me - and I can't appreciate the lovely simplicity of the pattern.  I cast on for Madli's shawl last night just to avoid having to knit more of the pink and green Clapotis.

The intention was to some how get right of my excess yarnage but with Wendy's rather speedy departure, I ended up with even more.  At least I made Hilari take all my Homespun with her *snicker*.

We munched on fruit and veggies and Wendy brought an amazing cake from Extraordinary Desserts.   The presentation was amazing - I should have taken a picture before we demolished it... bad blogger.  An afternoon of chatting and knitting, and a bit of leprechaun spinning by Wendy, who happened to use her spinning wheel chair to simulate.. err.. nevermind.  What happen's at Nancy's... stays at Nancy's... unless Nancy gets it on camera.

And no shindig is complete without at least one hot rumor...

Is she puffing her cake filled stomach out?  Or... 

I will leave you to discuss amoungst ya'selves. 

Good thing I'm not within swatting range right now.

Comments

[Heidi]

*snigger* Gee, Wendy, you shouldn't have been moving all those heavy boxes in your delicate condition...

When I first saw your diagram and saw "Hilari's Homespun" I thought, wow, that's a big pile for a beginner in one afternoon! Hee!

We must do it again soon! And hey, was that a mysterious husband taking that photo?

[spaazlicious]

Yes, Heidi, you missed meeting the elusive Jason. He's so tall and gingery, and you should have heard his keystroke rate. It sounded like someone f---g around trying to break a keyboard, just a blur of clacking plastic.

"rather speedy departure" Yeah, I don't know what's up with me but that seems to be my style and I don't know why. Suddenly, I look at the time, and miss my messy little home terribly, and get the heel out of Dodge. Haven't a clue why though, I'm sorry it seems so abrupt.

Maybe I was afraid you were going to make me take all those oddballs back home with me ;)

[Nancy]

They are all piled up in that basket, so I'm trying to figure out what to do with all that yarn lol.

[Krys]

Thanks for hosting the shindig, I had fun. :-)

And hey, at least I took a couple of things home!

[Inky]

Looks like it was a fun time!! I miss you guys so much. The knitting group here is nice, they meet on Monday mornings at a cool cafe in "old edna". dunno why they call it old, everything around there is old. hugs!!