Well, I have to say that if anyone is watching my blog, I am sorry, but I'm just not too active of a blogger. I get kind of sick of the computer by the time work is done, and well, there's just not enough time to knit AND blog much.
That said, I just had to post this photo of what I consider the Ultimate Yarn Swap. That's my No Sheep Swap Pal, Debbie on the right. From June/July 2007 till now, Debbie has become what I call "Yarn Pal Extraordinaire". She lives in Norcross, GA, so when I found out that I had to fly to Florida for business, we thought "How cool would it be if we could meet up on a layover?" Well after many renditions of my itinerary with the travel agent, I gave up hope that we could pull off a stopover in Atlanta, GA, and then somehow the agent's last itinerary had a 2 hour layover there!!
Debbie's husband drove her the 35 minutes from Norcross to Atlanta, and we had the BEST yarn swap ever. Even the airport onlookers seemed pretty amused. My dm (in the middle), who had come along with me for the trip was pretty amused by ALL of the yarn Debbie brought me (I had to send about half of it back home with her b/c it would not all fit in my carry-on bag!). After we had to say our goodbyes (way too soon!!), dm asked me "This was the first time you two met?" Yes!! But we are Kindred Spirits to the core!!
Yet another reason I love knitting...it seems like when you're a knitter, you've got instant friends in other knitters. Not just Debbie, but I feel like I've found instant friends at the LYSes I've managed to visit lately in St. Petersburg, FL (Needles & Knobs), and in Burlingame, CA (Yarn Paper Scissors and Nine Rubies AND just someone I met at a non-knitting event whom I had identified as a knitter by her Noni Knits bag!!). And now more friends at our local knitting group, Aloha Knitters. Of all things, Bockstarknits (who friended me in ravelry) from Germany was in town & she got me to finally go to the local group. Yippee! More instant friends :-)
