The weekend in Asheville was so nice and relaxing. The weather was gorgeous - sunny and not too hot, downright cool at night, just delicious. We spent time sitting on the back porch of our cabin looking at this view:
There was some success making friends with the goats, who were very excited about the alfalfa cakes that were left for us in the kitchen to use as snacks. But the llamas were consistently standoffish.
There was more sitting on the back porch.
We visited Purls, Earth Guild, and Yarn Paradise - I left with not much, but take a look at this Koigu that I found! Hello anklet socks!
The wheel, I hate to say, did not even see the light of day, but MS3 got some attention. I would highly recommend, though, not skipping over an entire chart. There was some ripping, but now I am back on track.
There may have also been some vodka ice cream sodas consumed and attempts to set the vodka-doused pound cake on fire, but completely unrelated to the MS3 mess-up, I promise.
Attempts! Man, that vodka burned…for about 3 seconds! I swear, I saw it.
I am very sorry about your mystery stole, it does look lovely though
Comment by freshgroundknits — July 24, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
[...] Le weekend July 24, 2007 Posted by freshgroundknits in Knitting. trackback The fabulous knitters retreat in the mountains of Asheville was absolutely fabulous! I enjoyed hanging out with Emily, Heather, Stacy (whose blog is corrupted), and meeting three new blogless knitters. I slept wonderfully and am now fully refreshed and ready to study for my final on Friday. I was planning to write a nice long blog post with pictures, but realized I downloaded them at work…so I’ll have to save that for another day. For now, Heather has some posted here. [...]
Pingback by Le weekend « Fresh Ground Knits — July 24, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
Excellent! What a great weekend!!
Comment by mel — July 24, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Oh, what a lovely view! Wish I could have been there to enjoy it.
Comment by Jane — July 25, 2007 @ 1:05 am
The stole looks lovely! If I didn’t know how hot NC gets (and I’m a wimp in the heat), I would wish I has been there with everyone this weekend.
Comment by Andrea (noricum) — July 25, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
Oh! What a fabulous view! I may have to check out that cabin to rent for SAFF next year. Sorry to have missed it, but glad you had a good time!
Comment by elizabeth — July 26, 2007 @ 9:09 am
It was so good to see you girls. I left Saturday night realizing just how long it had been since I had really just stopped and relaxed with my knitting. Thanks again for the birthday ice cream. See you girls in October at SAFF.
Comment by stacey — July 28, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
I have learned, from a somewhat similar experience, that one must warm the vodka for it to light.
Comment by Daphne — August 3, 2007 @ 12:38 pm