A Wild Hair on a Wild Day
OK--yesterday was fabu-lo-riffic from start to finish. First, Low Helen brought over a big bag of bagels and a couple tubs'o cream cheese (THANK YOU HELEN) and we worked, with the help of the amazing and efficient and wonderful Michelle, on getting this place in somewhat of an order for the day. Not only was there a class scheduled (the last part of clog-making, with Yvonne, Marilyn, and Linda--GREAT JOB, LADIES), there was mass confusion with the foot traffic. IT WAS BUSY!
We put Low Helen on Manos duty (she loves that stuff). We had four HUGE boxes to unbundle, wind into hanks (Deb, are you listening....you can always come practice on Manos days), and stock (BLESS YOU!). We also had OOODLES of Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino (mmmmmmm) to put into numeric order, which Michelle did in a jiffy (BLESS YOU!). And then the bedlam broke out.
The shop opened, I had a phone conversation with Taiu at Koigu (more on that later), and fun was everywhere. But there was a little spark in the air.....we were expecting a visit from........
Bonne Marie,
Theresa,
Julie, and Judy (a non-blogger, but a great knitter and the knitter who "created" Theresa). They took off around midnight to hugs, laughs, and burps from a big meal at the local pseudo-Mongolian barbecue place (which is too much fun). THANKS for coming down and THANKS for your awesome friendship!
P.S. on the wild hair theme--
Julie's husband
Pete is raising money for the National Childhood Cancer Foundation by shaving his head later this month. Stop by his
sponsorship page and pledge a little bit for this incredible cause by a great guy! If you love her
Black Sheep Bags patterns, why not pledge the cost of a skein of yarn or two towards Pete's goal of $500 (better yet, let's blow the roof off of that goal).
That's the wild day.........now for the wild hair........
A phone conversation sparked an idea that I
KNOW has merit. Lemme float this one out for your perusal. First off......it's all TOTALLY PRELIMINARY and TOTALLY speculative and TOTALLY UNPLANNED, but I'm curious about the interest in the following:
A Bus Tour of Ontario Fibers
A chartered bus would leave from Indianapolis/points nearby
Bus would head north towards Canada, crossing at the bridge at Sarnia (rumour has it there's a great place to lunch and a good yarn shop nearby, according to some Michiganders we know)
Trip would continue into Ontario and include several stops (in no particular order) and day-long visits at
Philosopher's Wool Company in Inverhuron
Koigu Wool Designs in Williamsford
Bright Lights, Big City--a day or two or three in Toronto, possibly some sort of tie-in with a Downtown Knitting Collective meeting, or if we rearrange the time of the trip, possibly incorporate the Creative Sewing and Needlework Festival (April 22-24th next year, 2005) in Mississauga.
As you can see, we're looking at 5+ days of travel, via chartered coach, with hotel expenses, meals, and fiber frenzy costs. It won't be a cheap trip, but we'd work to minimize expenses to the best of our abilities. I have NO clue how to get this organized (I have bits and pieces of vague information right now) but I think it's time to move forward with the planning, no? If you're interested in more details and are serious about joining the mayhem, slip me an e-mail to trips AT threadbearfiberarts DOT com (I'm doing that so as not to get a new deluge of e-mails about mortgages, extensions of the non-hair type, sunglasses, v*i*a*g*r*a, and the lot). I'm sure we'll have to put a cap on numbers and if it looks like a "go", I can start to get things moving (yeah! one more thing to do!--but I do know someone locally that loves to plan events and has offered to plan a local ThreadBear knitting retreat here in Columbus).
How's THAT for a Sunday Surprise?!?!?!
