SCOOOOORE!!!!!

So, my friend Cherry & I went to Knit Michigan in Bloomfield Hills on Saturday. We had a total blast! I was kinda bummed that I only had one hat to turn in, but I figure I'll have a whole year to make more for the next one. We walked around the sales stalls and ooh'ed and ahh'ed over all the pretty, pretty yarn everyone had. I am now officially wanting some alpaca.

But I was on a mission to find some buffalo yarn. I've been wanting to get some to make Aaron a nice warm hat for winter. Unfortunately, buffalo runs $45-65 a skein which totally bummed me out. Then at one stall, I noticed they had what looked like loose wool. I looked at the package. It's buffalo! "How much?", I asked. $16!!!!! But I couldn't get it because it wasn't yarn, just the pencil roving and I didn't know how to spin. Bummer.

So Cherry decided she wanted to keep looking around while I went up to the Ravelry room to get my button, talk to a few people and check out the silent auction room. I missed the first silent auction by 10 minutes (another bummer!) so I checked out a couple of the classes that were offered.

In the knitting room, they were teaching the basics. I didn't stick around but I picked up a couple of the instruction sheets for a couple of other friends who want to learn. I didn't even go into the weaving room, because I really didn't want to get sucked into another hobby that I'd have to buy a bunch of stuff for. The last room caught me though. It was Spinning! I was going to just watch, but the gals teaching finally talked me into having a seat and giving it a try. They gave me a spindle to keep and some roving to practice with. It was so much fun! It's also relaxing and theraputic.

After a while, I called Cherry to let her know where I was and found out she was in the room right next door. She came over and gave it a try too. We sat for a while, chatting and spinning with the other gals and before we knew it, it was past 2:00!

There were some other things that we wanted to do while we were downstate and we weren't going to be back when I thought we were, so I called Aaron to let him know. Then you know I went to get that pencil roving before we left!!! They had two colors. I picked out two bags of the
tumeric and off we went.

We had some lunch at a Mediterranean place then went to World Market, where I found a molcajete I'd been looking for forever and a shabu shabu pot. YAY!!! On the way home though, I started thinking that I should have gotten that other roving color. Bummer.

I got home. Aaron was impressed with my newly learned skill and my shopping prowess. :^P" The kids were happy to see me and tell me everything they'd been up to. It was thoroughly satisfying day.

Today I got a call from the vendor who sold me the roving. It seems they missed a number on my card. I asked, "Do you happen to still have that other batch of roving and do you ship?" My new roving will be here in a couple of days. :D :D :D