TTC Knitalong! Part III

Don't forget to check out Part I and Part II! Pictures are small to respect bandwidth, click to embiggen them.

We had a long-ish ride out to the final destination, the Naked Sheep being in the depths of the Beaches. Amy worked on her Tuscany shawl and laughed as we engaged in another round of camera wars.

We also had our first instance of spinning in public (Help! As usual I failed to get a good picture of the actual spinner herself, and I can't remember her name. Someone knows, right?)



It was here where I remembered that it might be nice if I had a photo or two of myself at the end of the day! My first attempt, a self-portrait, inspired yet another knitter (who's name is escaping me!) to generously offer to take a longer range photo of me.

Naturally, it wouldn't be a day of ttc-ing if we didn't end up unceremoniously dumped off without notice when the streetcar short-turned at Kingston Rd. We all piled out, scaring the natives a bit, and waited patiently as not one, not two, but three streetcars short-turned after the one we'd been on!

But finally a streetcar that wasn't short-turning showed up and we made our way to the end of our journey.

Here I spied some knitters in their natural habitat. For some reason this photo of Lisa, Peggy & Kim reminds me strongly of a cute clique of high school girls making sly comments to each other about the new girl in the yarn shop. Hee!

Sarah beat us to the store as well, and she was working the floor. I am still thinking longingly about the Malabrigo Aquarella that they had on amazing sale at the store. She was also looking adorable in a bright red Cherry Bomb (from Big Girl Knits), making me think seriously about it for my next sweater project...

See? See what I resisted? I am so fricking proud of myself for not buying any yarn at all on this yarn crawl.

Emily was there with her adorable baby, Clara. I know, I'm not normally a baby fan, but Clara was rockin' the knit hat and also was completely good-natured and quiet, my two favourite things about babies!

It was also at this point when people started pointing out the amount of sun I'd gotten. I'm terrible about applying sunscreen and this happens to me just about every year. Its not every year where I'm wearing a V-neck shirt and a big fat pendent in my cleavage to make this exciting pattern though!

Joyce began this Dream in Colour baby sweater and it is making me crave cables in the worst possible way. Maybe Morrigan really will be my next sweater project, also giving me an excuse to splurge on a ridiculous amount of Rowan Calmer. Anyone have an tips on where to get some discounted Calmer? I think I'm going to need quite a bit...

Sophie and Beryl posed together for this cute pic, more team captains sharing the love!

Aleta's hardened criminal tendencies paid off, as she was also rewarded with a prize for stealing the most yarn on the knitalong. Hee.

Of course, when a girl needs a sherpa as badly as all that, its important to reward her with a bag to stash all her loot in! Some of it even got paid for (I'm messing with you... it was all paid for. Read the story though, its funny!)

I was also thrilled to get a chance to snap this pimpin' caddy. Click to embiggen it, because you can only truly enjoy the sparkle-level of its paint job in full, splendid size.

The end of the day, and waiting for a ride. We came away from the day with loads of yarn, books, sunburns, happiness, bags, tiredness and for some of us -- a resounding desire not to take the ttc anymore that day. ;)

We had an awesome, awesome time and I look forward to the fall version immensely. Thanks again to our fabulous organizers, all the amazing participants, and of course to the wonderfully generous LYS owners who all went out of their way to welcome us with food, sales and kindness.