Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Quick Update and... The Knitting Kerfuffle....

For some reason I am stalled on the Glampyre Sweater. I am within a few hours of it being complete and I can't make myself pick it up. I still love it..... I am thinking this is an avoidance behavior because I am still so worried about running out of yarn.

Gauge for Something Red continues to frustrate me. I think I'm going to say the hell with it and just buy the damn Blue Sky Cotton and use it even though I think it's going to be a very heavy sweater made out of that yarn.

Not much other knitting going on since I've been spending all my time swatching for Something Red

Kelly is happy in Oregon, has fallen in love wih Rapper, and we've gotten 4 "fake breedings" (artificial inseminations) so far. Kelly wants to be bred, Rapper wants to breed her but there have been some "technical difficulties" so Rapper's owner has stepped up to the plate to get things done one way or another.

My friend Kris is not going to be able to make the Big Trip with me this year (she'll be home taking care of brand new puppies!) so I am facing the 16+ hour drive by myself. Yuck. And payng for the very expensive hotel room by myself. Double yuck.

Last but not least... a few posts ago I mentioned the knitting kerfuffle that happened with the knit group I belong(ed) to. The mention brough several comments and private emails asking what happened. It's been very hard to talk about as it was all quite upsetting to have people you think you know and trust turn on you without warning.

There were basically 2 and half people that were dead set against the rest of us discussing spinning at knit meetings or on our Yahoo group. TV, sex, food, dogs, kids, clothes, etc. were all okay subjects - but NOT SPINNING!!! The other 13 or so regulars didn't mind at all, or were in the process of getting sucked into the spinning vortex. It's really more complicated than that and as I said it's been really hard to think about it, much less talk about it, without getting upset all over again.

Last week Kirsten posted about it and then yesterday Christy really spelled it all out. They both expressed the things I'm feeling very well, so I think enough has been said and I don't need to add any more.

Suffice it to say that our merry band of multi-faceted fiber fanatics has (thank goodness) continued on almost without missing a beat.... but there is a hole that we are all well aware of that makes us all sad. The one good thing is that I kind of feel like we are stronger as a group now and even better friends. Which is nice.

Anne at 10:58 AM        
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