Yo Ho Ho and a Yarn Harlot

How exciting is it to meet a best selling author?  Quite!  And when it's the Yarn Harlot I was just over the moon!  For you non-knitter friends out there I know you have a fantastic sense of humor and you really need to read Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.  Reading her first book there were several occasions of beverage explosion from my lips with the accompanying coughing, gasping, laughing to tears.  Her next was just as good.  DH would wake with me shaking the bed laughing my head off.

We were blessed with an event here in the ATL hosted by my favorite LYS Knitch. Kim, the owner, was gracious, calm and organized.  To get approximately 700 knitters into and out-of the neighborhood with nary a stabbing with our pointy little sticks is an accomplishment I'd say.  Well knitters are well behaved on the whole but this was like a rock concert. 

We Snarkies got there early, had leisurely lunches and then got into the Knitch Zen corner for some knitting.

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I eventually made my way over to the Dark Horse Tavern to meet up with Claudia, Regan, Melissa, Fatima, Doug, Lou and others that I know their names are escaping me at the mo.  Had a yummy stout, knitted, laughed and got ready to stand in line.

So what do you do when you're waiting on line to get into the theater?  Why knit on your sock of course!

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I apologize for the pic quality, there's only so much my cell phone can handle.  This was AmyN by the Starbucks sign while we waited for the doors to open.

A couple of badly lighted pics of the crowded line in the store.  This line continued out the door, down the street and around the corner.  I would of paid money to see the faces of passersby wondering what we were in line for and then noticing that we ALL were knitting on the street.

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Me finally cozy in my 2nd row seat.  That's the beginning of Impressionist Sock.  I felt inspired by the event, truly, and began plotting my own path with the sock.  Hopefully the design in my head will come to beautiful fruition.

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