I DID SOMETHING NEW TODAY!!!!

GUESS WHAT I DID TODAY!!!!!!!????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm still so excited that it has to be all CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )

I TOOK A KNITTING CLASS!!!!!!!

I've been knitting since 4th grade and I've never taken an actual knitting class.

AND GUESS WHO WAS THE TEACHER????

CAN YOU GUESS?????

Here's a good clue. Recognize this sock?






Or maybe this one?





Did you guess that it was Cookie A?



AND SHE WAS THIS CLOSE TO ME!!! I WAS SITTING IN THE FRONT ROW!!! SEE THE RED FOLDER WITH MY NAME IN THE CORNER????? (not that you can read it, but it's there). I WAS SITTING RIGHT HERE!!! AND WHEN WE WERE KNITTING SHE WAS TALKING TO US!!!! (Not that I was really talking back, too star struck, but she was making the effort anyway.)

And this table held all sorts of socks that she's designed, THAT WE GOT TO TOUCH AND PASS AROUND!!!!



(Note to self: must look up the Mingus pattern--it's beautiful, even if it is filled with twisted ribs. I might need to knit it anyway.)


I wore my Katrina Rib sweater and my Hedera socks, both of which she noticed, and my Hedera took a photo op with the original Hedera!



Cookie was giving classes on the Island for a weekend retreat for a Virginia group. We could sign up for any or all classes, so I just took the afternoon class called, "Traveling stitches". (Busy weekend and all that. Plus, I don't know if I could stand any more excitement!) It was a fun 3 hour class, and here's my swatch.



Cables traveling this way and lace panels traveling that way. (And a dropped stitch traveling down thataway.)(But that's okay 'cause it was time to move on to the next thing.)(It was only kind of okay--I really felt the need to fix it, but it really is only a swatch, so I resisted.)

And here she is signing Joanne's book (who couldn't attend, but her book had the afternoon free.)




She signed mine too, then I came back to the real world, went grocery shopping, cooked supper, and did dishes.

BUT IT SURE WAS AN EXCITING DAY!!!!!