Friday, July 17, 2009

Good food, good friends, good times

(Yeah, a pretty prosaic title, when you consider how much fun I had...)

My favorite way to spend an afternoon is with my good friend, AnnaMarie, knitting and spinning and talking (and eating! In addition to all her other talents, she's an expert at tasty!), so yesterday I braved the monsoon rains and headed up to visit.
The only thing better than an afternoon with AnnaMarie is an afternoon with AnnaMarie and Norma...
I don't know if I contributed much to the conversation - I got so fascinated listening to those two that I might have forgotten how to talk. And I was laughing so hard that I was only capable of a word or two now and then, anyway.
I took my wheel along (I had planned to take only my knitting, but when I opened the car door, the wheel hopped in and stuck its head out the window in joy. How could I refuse?) and finished the singles of the lovely sparkly purple batts AM had invented for me. Luckily I brought my lazy kate along, just in case, so I got most of the plying done, too.
Of course the picture doesn't do the yarn justice. Lovely dark and light purple, with sparkles.
I'm in love with this yarn. I've got 300 yards of (roughly) sportweight. (I was trying for worsted. Still having trouble with the thick yarn...)
Must get more batts...
Maybe green next time. Or red.
Life can't all be purple...

6 comments:

pacalaga said...

why not?

Cookie said...

Woo Hoo!

Sounds like a wonderful afternoon. Lovely yarnz, too.

Anna M said...

I always have a lazy kate at the ready so you'd have been fine. Bring me some alpaca and we can have a dye/blend day!

margene said...

It's hard to keep up with Norma in a conversation. She can cover many subjects with great speed! lol
Your spinning is beautiful.

Laurie said...

Life can be as purple as you would like it to be. The yarn looks really purty.

Diane said...

purple and sparkly....me like it!