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An Unexpected Guest

Filed under: Fibery Friends, Felting — Kristi at 6:11 pm on Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Llama @ Nanytutu's

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!

Felted Flower Pins

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.

8 Comments »

Comment by Chris

February 4, 2009 @ 7:31 pm

LOL - that IS a quirky place!

Comment by mrspao

February 4, 2009 @ 9:48 pm

Sounds like a fun place to visit. I like those brooches?

Comment by Deborah Robson

February 5, 2009 @ 3:28 am

Did the new owner happen to be named Kris? She does things like that. She even takes her llamas to her dojo. She does a lot of rescue work.

If that’s the owner standing with the llama, it’s *not* Kris.

And no, I don’t think anyone ever has enough needles.

Comment by Corvus

February 5, 2009 @ 8:14 am

The flowers are lovely. I often dream that some kind of interchangable set would give me enough needles, but something inside me knows better than that.

Comment by Carrie K

February 5, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

Those felted flowers are really pretty. Nanytutu’s sounds wonderful.

Comment by Katie W

February 5, 2009 @ 2:39 pm

Llama looks so soft!

Comment by Johann

February 6, 2009 @ 12:20 am

So, it wasn’t really a chicken, it was a rooster.

If it was a chicken, you’d be calling her “she.”

Comment by cyndy

February 7, 2009 @ 7:01 am

Nanytutus sounds like a fun place to visit-The llama looks like he knows how to behave himself- the picture of a perfect gentleman ;-)

The pins look fun too!

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