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September 27, 2005 By Carole

Meeting knitbloggers, both online and in person, is wicked fun! Last week I not only had the opportunity to shop and hang out with Norma but I also got to go to a book signing for Stephanie’s latest book, The Yarn Harlot.
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Being the over-achiever that I am, I arrived at The Sheep Shack at 5:30 for a 7:00 appearance from the Queen of Knitbloggers. It was all good, though, because I got to hang out with Christina, the shop owner, and I did some shopping. Yeah, I know, you’re shocked. Once my shopping was done, I sat and knitted and waited for the crowd.

Our dear Stephanie arrived with Cate and Julia in tow. I was very excited to meet them but managed to contain myself until Stephanie was done with her talk – which was excellently funny and charming. Once Stephanie started signing books, I was all about meeting Cate and Julia and I plopped down on the floor with them and we just started gabbing like old friends.

I was working on socks and complaining about ladders and Julia offered to show me the “magic loop” technique. I have wanted to try this for some time but was worried that the learning curve would slow me down. Cate and Julia assured me that wouldn’t be the case and were they ever right! I caught on pretty quickly and just love knitting socks this way. Stephanie did call me a traitor and said I was turning away from the one true calling of knitters everywhere – to knit socks with teeny dpns, I guess – but she’ll just have to get over it because I’m loving me the magic loop.

If you’ve read Stephanie’s entry about this particular night (and I’m certain you all have) then you know that we bought out all the Trekking. Good stuff, that Trekking. Here we all are and Stephanie is holding MY Trekking. Slick, eh?
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from left to right: Stephanie, Julia, Cate, Kat and Christina

There was an excursion for beer after the shop closed. We might have missed a turn or two trying to find the restaurant, but I’m not telling. We talked about everything and drank beer and laughed until our jaws ached and it was good. As I said to Cate, the cool part about reading blogs is that we already know so much about each other that when we meet in person it feels like meeting up with old friends.

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  1. Mindy says

    September 27, 2005 at 9:48 am

    Wow, that sounds like a great time. I can’t wait until Steph comes to Chicago (4days to go).

  2. Kathy says

    September 27, 2005 at 10:18 am

    Sounds like a very fun night. I am now on the hunt for both Opal and Trekking — I don’t think that there is any to be found in Massachusetts!

  3. margene says

    September 27, 2005 at 12:27 pm

    You grrls sure know how to live!

  4. Kat with a K says

    September 27, 2005 at 2:45 pm

    I had a great time meeting you all too!

  5. PumpkinMama says

    September 27, 2005 at 2:59 pm

    Sounds marvelous. What fun!

  6. Norma says

    September 27, 2005 at 7:34 pm

    Okay, empirically speaking, then, the common denominator with the wrong turns is YOU! Ha!

  7. Rachel H says

    September 28, 2005 at 8:58 am

    Um, you know, Norma might have a point there… just sayin’.

    I’m totally envious of the week you’ve had! How wonderful.

  8. Risa says

    September 28, 2005 at 11:47 am

    What a cool week! I’m further tempted to move to Mass. Y’all know how to do the knitting thing there.

  9. claudia says

    September 28, 2005 at 2:15 pm

    Hey Carole! Happy 40th Birthday. Just in time to join me for a month or so before I beat you to 41.

    😉

  10. sandy says

    September 28, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    Oh, I’m feeling a bit of shoulda, coulda, woulda right now. I should have gone to that wonderful reading.
    Can we work on turning back time? Hmm?
    🙂

  11. julia fc says

    September 28, 2005 at 7:28 pm

    Norma needs to know that it was me in the lead. You can tell her I said so. She will laugh. I promise. She may even tell you why.
    And holy crow: I really am tall, aren’t I?

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