I went to my first ever stitch 'n' bitch today. I know it's a crime that it's my first ever. I've been knitting for four years now, you'd think I would have gotten together with some other knitters in that time. Alas, I don't know any other knitters and my hometown has no LYS so there wasn't really opportunity to meet them. Now I live just outside of a city and there are plenty of yarn stores around.
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| Real-life yarn, how I have missed thee. |
I have yet to figure out the public transportation system here, though, so I was picked up on campus by a friend of my mother's, who has recently taken up knitting and lives in the area. Her stitch 'n' bitch largely consisted of women in their sixties with personalities. Everyone has personalities, of course, but these ladies had big personalities.
I will tell you one thing: if you have the chance to sit around and knit with a group of older women with strong opinions and even stronger Brooklyn accents, take that chance. They called YouTube videos "the youtubes." It was a beautiful experience. I'm going again next week.
I kind of wish I'd had something more interesting to work on, though. They were working on beautiful scarves and sweaters and afghans while I stitched away at the Simple Chevron Scarf. It's getting fairly long. I'm thinking that I will cast off the first half within the week. I switched over to straights so I could start my mum's shawl and I've realized at this point that I will never have enough size 6 needles. Not possible.
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