It’s Furious Balancing

I’m currently sitting in one of the common areas of the HI Chicago Hostel, pounding on the laptop. Yeah, I know I haven’t talked about either my Chicago trip or my shiny new Dell (running Ubuntu).  I’ve been remiss.  Bear with me.

This is the Knitters for Obama Inauguration Weekend.  Right after the election, we started chatting in the Ravelry forum about a meet up in Chicago.  About 2 to 3 dozen of us are coming into town, some for just the weekend (me) and some for all four days – culminating in watching the festivities on Tuesday morning.

This is the online crowd I’ve been hangin’ with since the primaries, watching the debates on one screen and typing in chat on another.  A very good bunch indeed.

I rolled into town around noon, checked into the hostel, and spent most of the afternoon at Loopy Yarns sitting in their classroom area with other KFO-ers, knitting, buying yarn, chitchatting, and putting tags on the charity knitting hats we’re donating to the University of Chicago Medical Center’s cancer care unit.

Blackbunny (Carol of Black Bunny Fibers) was there signing copies of her new book, Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn.  Franklin was there, too!  I’m hoping some of his pictures make it up on his blog, since I didn’t take very many myself. ¹

Yes, I did buy yarn, but it’s SOCK yarn, and I have it on good authority that sock yarn doesn’t count as stash.  There was a very expensive skein of a silk-mohair blend — which is NOT sock yarn — but  I can’t recall the name of it now (and it’s in my room).  It was silver.  And very pretty.  And up by the cash register.  I blame the yarn fumes.  The place was heady with them.

Tomorrow we’re getting together for some sight-seeing, locations to be determined when we get an idea of how many of us are venturing forth.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

–Laiane

1. I don’t have my camera cable with me so the downloads will have to wait until I get home Monday night. [↩]

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