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My Brown Sheep Stow Aways…

Filed under: Fibery Friends, Travel, Stash Expansion — Kristi at 3:32 pm on Thursday, August 7, 2008

Brown Sheep Stash Expansion

That is all that came home with me from Brown Sheep! Can you imagine?

Okay, that isn’t *quite* the whole truth. I also brought home an “order” of yarn for two different sweaters for Amanda. She’s even planning on knitting of them for the Ravelympics! Go, Amanda!

Really, seriously, the 13 skeins of Top of the Lamb Sport seen above are the only things that came home with me to stay. I bought them to make the Gathered Pullover from the Winter 2007 IK (rav link). Amanda got yarn for that as well so we might do our own local KAL on that one when things for me slow down enough that I have time/energy to knit just for me.

The trip was fantastic though! 26 people were a part of the trip. It started at Sheila’s home with a fantastic breakfast on china and crystal. She has the most fantastic garden and fun and energizing home as well so it was a great way to kick off an early morning departure. I rode in the vehicle that she rode in so we were a bit behind everyone else so none of us got to take a tour, but we had all been on a tour not that long ago so it was no problem at all. Then there was a catered lunch with a deli tray and salads and two gals had birthdays on either side of our trip so there was also birthday cake and cookies.

Everything went so smoothly it was amazing. There was a Brown family emergency the day before our trip that kind of threw some of the plans out of kilter, but duties shuffled around and they pulled of a great day. I even got home early enough to run an errand and eat dinner with DH before going to SnB!

8 Comments »

Comment by Chris

August 7, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

Wow, 26 people would be quite the swarm in that little space! :)

Comment by Fran

August 7, 2008 @ 6:47 pm

Hi

That is an amazing color of yarn - good luck with the pull over - and more important have fun!

I see from doing some research that you did the Coriolis Tibetan high twist socks from Cat Bohrdi’s book.

Did the instructions confuse you when you did the heel?

I think I have the markers on the instep and nothing on the sole.

Please let me know if you had this problem.

Thanks

Comment by mrspao

August 8, 2008 @ 1:06 am

Sounds like a fun day out. That colour is so pretty!

Comment by Deborah Robson

August 8, 2008 @ 3:01 am

Nice yarn. You don’t need a lot. You just need the right stuff on your needles at any given moment.

I really like that sweater. In my (ha) spare time I might join you and Amanda.

By the way, my variation of the Must Have Cardigan (with all different patterns, except the moss stitch at the sides) has just spun out in the washer and is ready to be laid out to dry. No buttons, of course. I finished binding off the ribbing about 30 minutes ago.

Comment by Amnada

August 8, 2008 @ 11:03 am

Yea…our 2 person KAL might become a massive 3 personal KAL. YES - you should join us Deb…and I can’t wait to see the cardigan. It will be at SnB Monday right?

Comment by Birdsong

August 8, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

What a delightful experience! I am envious, and it was obviously as much about the place for you as about the yarn. Great color for a sweater.

Comment by cyndy

August 8, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

Sounds like a fun time, (and it’s all about quality, not quantity!) Nice choice!

Comment by Carrie K

August 8, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

Sounds like a great day out!

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