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March 28, 2005

Whirlwind Weekend

What a busy weekend.  My in-laws were in town for the weekend and my college roommate was at her parents' house for Easter.  We drove to Ft. Collins Friday night to have dinner with Stacey and her parents (my college roommate and my sister have the same first name, but different spellings).  We had a great time, but I didn't get to talk to her as much as I would have liked because my father-in-law talked to her most of the evening about her job.  Must be fascinating stuff!  She brought me a huge bag of pecans from Texas and I have to figure out what I'm going to do with them.  All suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)

My in-laws brought their dog with them and Riley had fun torturing him all weekend.  Aren't they cute?  Riley (my corgi) won't ever let Dually (the in-laws' schnauzer) have a toy and takes it away so Dually will chase him.  They can do this for hours.  You'd think that they'd eventually get tired of the game (and Dually kind of does), but Riley is relentless and makes the game go for hours.  The good news is that he's usually tired when it's time for bed and he sleeps all night with no 4 am bathroom excursions!

My mother-in-law and I went back to Ft. Collins on Saturday to visit the yarn store and the cooking store.  We had a great time.  Lambspun is a great place.  We ate lunch at the restaurant and spent a long time just looking around at all the wonderful yarns.  Debbie ended up with yarn for two projects - a scarf for her great niece and a sweater for herself (her first sweater project!) and I was good and didn't buy any yarn because I have yarn for another pair of socks (toe up this time) and the zipper cardigan (well depending on what I decide on the Jo Sharp) - all after the Rebecca wrap of course.  We sat and knit and and Debbie did a gauge swatch for her new sweater project - a pretty purple Rowan Summer Tweed and a little sparkle to go with it in a fun yarn (I can't remember the name of that one).  It's an easy T-shirt style sweater and I think she'll really enjoy the project.  She's a little apprehensive, but I have faith!

The cooking store wasn't nearly as much fun as the yarn store - can you tell where my true enthusiasm lies?  After that we went to Whole Foods - the busiest grocery store I've ever been in in my entire life!  It was packed, but very cool - we had lots of fun there too, but were exhausted when we got out of there.  Shopping is not for sissies!

I did lots of knitting on my Rebecca wrap this weekend.  I bound off the neck stitches this morning on the commute.  I should be finished with the back today.  It's turning out to be a great project (I choose not to remember the many times I've had to rip back because I have forgotten a yarn over or some such nonsense) and I'm excited to finish it so I can wear it.  I tried the sloped bind-off for the armhole shaping after Adele raved about it, and I am a believer.  It is great.  It is smooth and there are no funny little steps from the bind offs.  I'm going to use it on the neck shaping too.  What a fabulous technique (I took a close-up picture, but it was blurry and I didn't have time to take another one - sorry - you'll just have to trust me that it's awesome).  By the way, those really awesome stitch markers are from my Secret Pal - aren't they the coolest!  I got lots of compliments on them at the yarn store too.