Quietish

So this past weekend turned out to be quite full of knitting. Last year when registration opened up, I signed up for the full weekend of SWAK’s Corral retreat. I had wanted to the year before, but really didn’t know anyone yet so I didn’t bother. (Wish I would have now… Lucy Neatby, Lily Chin, and Cat Bordhi!)

A few months ago when I was starting to suspect that May would be an extremely hectic month for me, I backed out. This made me sad. And then a few weeks ago, in a show of amazing fickleness, I decided I could make it after all. I signed back up for the Saturday all-day workshop with Myrna Stahman and on Saturday night I added on the Sunday class as well.

If you have a chance to take a class with Myrna, please do so. Saturday’s workshop was for a Faroese shawl, which she designs top-down with really interesting shaping. So now I have a little portion of a shawl in Jaggerspun Zephyr laceweight that I can pick back up when I have a little more time for such a project.

Sunday’s class was Seaman’s scarves which, along with the Faroese shawls, are featured in her book. These scarves have ribbing on the back of the neck for a nice fit and have matching lace patterns worked from the ribbing-down. I started mine in SWTC Bamboo that Julie had passed onto me.

I had a good time and was worn out real well by both nights afterward. I only wish I could have taken classes with Leigh Radford and Kathleen Power Johnson as well. Happily, I now have my copies of Stahman’s Shawls and Scarves and One Skein signed by the authors! I’m building up a nice collection of signed knitting books.

There are a few more pictures for your parusal on Flickr.

Yesterday I didn’t do a whole lot of knitting but today Luna’s been helping me knit. She doesn’t seem to notice the yarn feeding from under her face.