TIME FLYS WHEN ONE---

is having fun!!!

I can not believe that it is Sunday all ready--

seems like it should still be noon on Wednesday!!!

I do have to say that from Wednesday at 5 pm to Saturday at 9 pm--

I was busy every minute that I was awake and I truly loved every single minute of it--even the bus rides!! and that is saying alot at this point!!

Now as for my body--

I have been in alot of pain and have ached terribly--

but I forget 'pain' when I am spending money and having fun with newly made friends!!!

I met alot of neat women and four mother/daughter teams of knitters!!

and I learned so much that my brain even aches tonight!!!!!!

and these gals can knit anywhere and everywhere--

I was really surprised by there love for this craft!!!

I really am not sure how to do this--

so I guess I will break it up into the days of the tour--

because you know me--lots of pictures--

so here goes--

we met at the store at 5 pm on Wednesday evening for knitting and games!!

we all got a nice 'introductory' gift package--

this is the yarn and gifts I got in mine--

Now how did Pam know that I love the pink family????

Is she a good manager and friend or what!!!!

and I also brought these home--

I won the needles in a door prize--

and the yarn I got in a 'yarn toss' game where we introduced ourselves to the others-

that yarn is soooo soft!!!!

On Thursday morning we were back to the shop for a class--

On spinning--

It was fun--but I can't say at this point that I liked it or enjoyed it--

but my 'spindle' wouldn't "obey" my wishes--so it was just probably the spindle that was misbehaving!!!!

after a lunch at the shop we all got on the bus and toured a farm about 10 miles from town--

they had all the animals--

and she handpaints her yarn--

this is what came home with me on the bus!!

Love them--seen a couple more colors tooo--but---

Oh the bus driver would not let us back on the bus unless we purchased yarn--

at least I think that was the 'rule'!!!

then we took a local tour of the area for the all out of towners--

and we stopped at a large apple growers farm--

the jar is homemade apple butter--

the small skein of yarn was a gift from the farm lady!!

OH--and unfortunately--there was one more item missing???

an apple cider donut--YummmmmmmmY--

that evening this lady came for a demo and trunk show--

this is Laura Nelkin--she has done patterns in many of the knitting books and has a blog site--

Here is just a sampling of some of her designs--

she was great and funny--

I got the necklace kit from her and the pattern in the back--

and some more of her patterns later.

well that is day one and two of the tour--

stay tuned for Day 3--hopefully tomorrow!!!!

Hugs, to all, Di and Miss Gracie