more cashmere

This time in goat form:

I have been seeing a number of pictures of people...let's say communing with sheep, alpacas, and goats. This is mine. We definitely shared a moment. Look at that face.

It is very strange to spend two days surrounded by people who are as passionate as you about yarn and fiber and the things you get to do with them, and then come home and spend the next day working from home, alone.

I wound up a lot of yarn, though. Like the gray merino/tencel laceweight I bought from Skaska my first time there. Sun-drenched picture of that:

3100 yards of cobweb-weight yarn. It's a very deep gray, but with these fantastic peachy-orange tones. I'm using it for the Mystic Waters shawl I signed up for because I am curious about working these mystery shawl thingies. I started to swatch this baby and quickly realized that I needed to double up the yarn or I would go insane. Some day I will knit cobweb lace. Not now.

Back to Rhinebeck. I had this idea that I would stretch out my Rhinebeck recaps instead of doing it all at once, but of course on Tuesday morning my memory is not as good as it was on Monday, and of course I didn't take notes.

The main highlight of the trip was getting to spend time with two out of three sister GAWKers, Rachael and Alison. They, along with Cari, have been with me from the beginning of my online existence, and though the four of us have been able to carve out space to hang out in a variety of pairings, and the occasional triple, we have yet to achieve the foursome. Soon.

But yesterday morning my heart and stomach sank, because I realized I don't have ANY pictures of the three of us together. I have plenty of pictures, and a number of pictures of people, but none of us remembered to take that one important shot. Blargh! I think if Cari had been there, she would've remembered.

Speaking of pictures, I put them up on Flickr. They are wildly out of order.

I'm not done yet, but I must to work, so I'll write more tomorrow.

Comments

[jackie]

I don't know whether or not to be sad or extremely grateful that I didn't make a single shot.

[alison]

Blargh, indeed! Now everyone will know that I'm really not very brainy after all. Shall I change my blog to "Duh-lady"?

Still, it was So Much Fun to see you this weekend. How many sleeps till the next one?

[Jeanine]

Sorry I didn't see you there.

[Laurie]

My shots came out badly. I enjoyed the photographic recap from you, however. *sigh* Back to real life.

[Romi]

How could you resist those eyes? Or wait, maybe you didn't? Do you have a new pet you want to tell us about? ;)

[cari]

I'm SICK over missing the full GAWK convergence. SICK over it. I can't believe we were so close and I had to up and move.