whew

Sorry, no pictures today. I have a few completed items and something I'm working on now, but I've had no time to get my act together. We had a huge clean the house party this weekend and yesterday, and then last night I met up with my local stitch n bitch for the first time.
They meet at my local Borders in the cafe, so I sat in the magazine aisle reading all the knitting books and keeping an eye out for droves of knitters to begin pouring into the cafe and wave needles and yarn about. I did not see this. In fact, all I saw was one person sitting at two tables she pushed together with a basket of fiber and what looked like drop spindles. It took me several minutes to be sure they were spindles and not something else. It kind of hit home when I recognized the books in her basket as the incomprable Sally Melville's. So I sucked it up and approached her. This alone is amazing for me. I am neurotic and anti social. Though I think I've discovered I'm not as anti social as I think I am. My neurosis, still intact.
It turns out nobody else from the SnB was there except this lady, one of the co founders. She was also the only one that had responded to me in the group mailing list. Anyhow, we spent an hour discussing fiber and spinning and what I knew how to do as far as knitting, and then she began telling me about different people in the group.
Once we decided nobody else was coming, we walked down to Panera Bread and ate. They have much more comfy chairs to knit in, but close much earlier than Borders. We wound up back in the bookstore, but not before having a half hour long conversation about WoW. Yes. It was a very awesome night.
Though now I'm hopelessly spiraling out of control as far as fiber goes. A drop spindle and piles of roving are preparing to make their way here. My doom and the mess in my craft room is inevitable.

I'll be back tomorrow with colorful images of looped items. Until then, happy 4th.