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Last Friday I ventured up to Wellington in search of more needles (do you ever get to the point where you have all the needles you might need?) and some of the gals I knit with on Mondays were going to be there knitting so got my needles and stayed a while. I did more number crunching than actual knitting, but it is nice to get out of the house and into public once in a while :-)

While I was there we had a visitor to Nanytutu’s - a llama! I’m afraid I don’t really know the whole story, but I think there were 3 or 4 the woman picked up from a rescue. She’s a friend of Nancy’s and brought him by to say hi. That’s Nancy in the photo with him. He’s a younger one, I think this spring will be his first shearing if I heard the new owner right.

One might think it extremely odd to have an llama show up out of the blue for a visit, but for Nanytutu’s that isn’t terribly odd. Not too long ago a woman lost a bet about being able to train a chicken and had to knit a cape for the chicken. She didn’t even know how to knit! So, Nancy taught her and helped her design a cape for him and he even wore it in a city parade, LOL!

Last week we also celebrated January birthdays at Sheila’s house once again. This time we took felt and turned it into pins. I didn’t get to photograph all of them, but there was a stunning variety produced by the talented gals who got together that day. I have to say mine paled in comparison to everyone else, but I hadn’t planned on taking part either. I was kind of concentrating on trying to wrap up another pattern.