The South Bay Knitters annual knitting retreat in the Quaker Center in the Santa Cruz mountains was this past weekend. The retreat is from Friday to Sunday and I'm always a Saturday day tripper. We start the day early, leaving in a carpool around 7am when it's still dark and foggy, and end the day late, after dinner and dessert, when the roads in the mountain are pitch black. In between we fit in an early morning breakfast of scones and fresh fruit, a late morning brunch with lovely egg dishes and bacon aplenty, some of us go for a hike while others are content to sit around and knit all day. Dinner is not to be missed and the chocolate cake is the die for, seriously. Gift exchange in the afternoon is the highlight of the weekend. The nice ladies take off their masks and steal mercilessly. Somehow I always end up with the good stuff.
A very special moment this year was when I showed off my Great American Afghan squares. They are lined up on the table, some still need edging to size them up. One of the squares was deemed too bright and voted off the island. I need knit another one to fill the hole.
The kind ladies applauded for my effort while I busied myself playing paparazzi.
Re-arranging the squares so they all look right.
Dr. Nancy is holding the evil turquoise square. "No, I don't think so, out you go."
4 comments:
Trying to figure out when you did this. Must have been after dinner? I retreated to my room to do some design work (and get my belly out of my tight jeans)...
What fun days you've had!!! It's always great to get with stitching friends. I wish we did more like that here. We don't get the retreats, but we could organize a yarn crawl. I agree, the turquoise was a bit bright when compared to the rest of the blocks. The afghan is going to look gorgeous when done!!!
I like the turquoise square! Lots of work you did it makes me want to make one now.
Wow, it's going to look great when you get it all together.
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