This evening I joined the group of knitters who used to meet in K1 yarns in Edinburgh at a new venue, Biblos, which is near the National Museum of Scotland in the city centre.
I left home in a huge rush because all three of us needed to be in town. Fegrig was at the Scottish Parliament, Adam was doing karate training and I was knitting. I have (sorry, Jane) frogged the mitten. I did try to capture the stitches but the lifeline I had put in was too high and all those twisted ktbls defeated me. I have restarted it, and actually, I'm enjoying it more this time so it's my "home knitting".
This left me with no "away knitting".
I ran upstairs - Fegrig had already started the car - and grabbed one of the skeins I knew was not on the website... it WAS on the website a couple of weeks ago but I took it off and added it to the Woolfish box because there seemed to be a lot of green around and it was unloved.
Next, needles.
I cast around for suitable dpns. Puppy? A brand bought in Japan as a souvenir, bamboo (naturally)... or whisper was it time to break out the Lantern Moon ebony needles bought on another holiday in Chicago.
Decisions, decisions. I took both. No time to wind the yarn. Picked up the custom paint-chip matched skeins for another Edinburgh knitter and raced up to the car.
Knitters are lovely, I was immediately made welcome and had a restful couple of hours with Sarah, Mel, Nic, Ysolda, Louise and lots of others. That's me in the grey T shirt next to the window. If you look closely you can see that I have the yarn wrapped around my shoulder, knitting from the skein again... which is what you have to do when you leave the house in such a rush.
I continued to knit when I got home with supermarket pizza and a varietal cider to go with it. The Lantern Moons are very sproingy, aren't they?
And thank you for not buying this particular skein... I quite like it!
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