Fun time last night!
I made myself go out and meet people I don’t know. This whole-meet-people-by-hanging-out-at-our-house thing just really wasn’t cutting it. Heh.
One of the local yarn shops (Yarn Garden) hosted a beer and knitting night at Lucky Lab. Knitting and beer? I am so there. Brian was kind enough to chauffer me around so I didn’t even have to worry about driving. I drank Superdog, one of their IPAs, all night.
It was cool – the Yarn Garden folks were super awesome, and gave out a little bag to each person that had a skein of fingerling weight yarn, a one-skein pattern to use it on (still can’t decide if I am going to do the pattern or something else), a card to keep track of your needles with their hours on the back and a paper ruler to fold up and keep in your knitting bag. It’s almost odd how often you measure things when you knit, it kinda makes me feel like a carpenter. My skeing was in shades of green with a little yellow – picture to follow at some point I am sure.
The people there were really nice. I stood there with my beer for a few seconds trying to figure out how to find a place to sit, and someone waved me over to a seat. What a good turn out – there had to be 40 knitters there (and a crocheter) at one point. Met some cool people, and will definitely go to the next one which is at Roots next month. When my table went home around 9, I turned my chair and chatted with folks behind me. After they left, I met a nice scientist and her aunt and talked with them for quite a while.
The owner stopped over to say hello to me too – her sister started the store, but just passed away, so she’s taken it over. After she left, I realized I was mostly alone, so I called Brian for a ride. No sooner did I get off the phone than two more people came and sat down with me to see what I was knitting (a sweater for a Christmas present for Gretchen, which got a lot of attention last night. I think I was the only person working on a sweater – there were lots of socks, a few shawls, and a few afghans).
It was really cool to see the range of people there – all ages, all styles, men and women. I was curious to see what the regular drinkers at Lucky Lab would think about being overrun with knitters, but this is Portland, they just took it all in stride.
After Brian finished a beer with me, we headed home, swinging by Voodoo Doughnuts on the way. hehe. It was great to wake up knowing I had a sugary doughnut waiting for me.
