World Wide Knit in Public Day

1. Theodore was full. So we will do it some other time in the summer. Maybe on a weekday. But WWKIP Day was fun, we went to the Spring Garden Library and sat on the lawn and they gave out prizes. I didn't win any. Because I suck. I mean, I seriously suck at draws. I have bad draw karma. I think there is a black hole with my name on it and when I enter draws it sucks away my entry.

Well maybe I shouldn't complain. I did win that LCD TV in a draw last year. But that doesn't count because it wasnt YARN and it wasn't TODAY.

Anyhoo.

I donated some hand knit dish cloths to the Byrony House, they were collecting food and household items. Then a lady was trying to show me how to do stranded knitting with two hands using my dishcloth-in-progress and I knit continental and honestly don't know how you right-handed folk do it because every time I try I have dropped needles sliding all over the place and my hands get all tangled up in the yarn and so on. Plus I think there is a good chance I knit weird because when other people do it, it looks really weird. So I couldn't tell what she was doing. But I pretended I did. Because I am socially clever that way. And then I went and sat quietly under a tree and tried to frog it back but that doesn't work well with slipped stitch colourwork and so I lost about 8 rows of knitting before I could get it back on the needles and then I broke the needle.

So I luckily had my sweater there and took it over to the crowd of people and I was knitting away and gabbing and I noticed my stitch marker had disappeared, the open ring one for marking the rows. I was like "great. I need a stitch marker now" then suddenly like a beam of light from the heavens above, the owner of The Loop was sauntering about handing out free stitch markers and percent off coupons! I was disproportionately excited! I went "woo hoo I REALLY needed this!" and marked my row and then I noticed the coupon and got even MORE excited because OMG I HAVE A SWIFT ON ORDER AND NOW IT WILL COST ME 15% LESS!

Could life be any more grand???

Plus I bought some hand painted wool/kid/nylon/silk blend from Lismore today but we don't need to talk about that do we?

Ahem.

I told the lady at the Farmers Market that I am officially CUT OFF FROM NOW ON, OK?


2. I never bothered to look it up chose the Darrell spelling as an homage. I didn't want to COPY. That would be bad. But who else thinks I should get another tetra and name it Darrell (pronounced da-RILL)? He could have a pony tail and be a really pretentious fish and a bad waiter.

Anybody?

No?

Ok, then.

(that joke was really hard to write out. It would be funnier if I said it to you.)

5. Who likes my evil plan to get more comments? Mwahahahahaha

6. I know I skipped 3 and 4 but I really didn't have anything further to say about those subjects.