JS was hoppin’ with bday peoples last night~ Thuy, Sarah & the random old man that turns 88 today! Happy Birthday everyone, even those that couldn’t make it to knitting last night, Maura & Melissa.
You can see Thuy knittin’ away on her sock, the 87/88 year old man behind her to the left and the bday cake in the foreground. Erin picked it up from Anna’s Bakery in the Camino Real Marketplace. So chocolatey & so fudgy. The raspberry filling was just the right tangy to go with the fudgy. I do not like chocolate cake but if I did that would be my new favorite.
It was a fun night, Melissa was there whom we have not seen for ages! So glad she could make it out finally! Rachel came & was working on another Jaywalker sock out of knitpicks yarn. I love it. She also asked us to make preemie hats for a friends 1lb 5 ounce baby. I crocheted the tiniest hat ever using some leftover koigu kpppm from Suzanne. I, of course, forgot to get a photo of it before handing it over to her. It took me about 2 hours of crocheting. Then again I ate cake & talked an awful lot so it could have gone faster.
Summers, why weren’t you there? I still have your super belated bday gift in my knitting bag, hoping to offload it soon!! Hellloooo?!? You missed cake!!
Tracy & I caught wind that the Tuesday night knit group from In Stitches is meeting at the public library downtown on Tuesday nights. We are thinking of crashing it next week if there are any other takers!
I received my first sock of the month club kit today from theknitter.com. It’s gorgeous Fortissima sock yarn in a denim blue colorway with a ‘cabled’ sock pattern.
I am, unfortunately, still waiting for my Trekking xxl yarns to get here. I guess they are a small store & have been super short handed so they are 2 weeks behind on processing orders. Not filling orders, actually processing them. So no charges were made when I ‘ordered’ the yarn 3 weeks ago. I gave them a piece of my mind & am not sure I will order any more yarn through them. I will continue the sock of the month club. It kind of gets me a jumpstart on Christmas gifts. And it’s like a fun surprise knitting package every month!
Sadly, I have not had anything other than one snailmail card & an ecard from my SP8. It’s far enough into it that I am now very disappointed. I haven’t had one of those super spectacular secret pals yet. I do have more fun planning & sending out packages for my secret pal though. Speaking of which, she is in Europe for another week & then I send out another package. I have her box all ready to go. The sunflower themed package is what I am sending this round. There is a sunflower dish scrubby that I crocheted. The pattern, scrubby & yarn for her to make one herself. A learn to crochet kit so that she can actually make one herself. The socks I just finished for her. And all sorts of sunflower stationary/cards/notepads/sticky notes for her.
I will have one more package to send to her after that and then the reveal package at the end of August. My plan is to send a Santa Barbara magazine, C magazine (california), Santa Barbara mug, Santa Barbara fridge magnet & yarn (of course). Considering my pal is literally 3000 miles away I think it will be a fun bit of CA for her.
On that note, I am going to go get my family fed before there is a serious revolt on my hands! Have a great weekend, it looks like it might even be sunny!