Lee Thomson

May 30
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I found a little bit of my first handspun, and knitted it into these leaves from Nicky Epstein’s Knitted Embellishments book while watching the Yarn Harlot do her thing at the Calvin. She was great. I may even be a blurry face in one of the audience shots. I had written an email asking if she needed guiding by a native to important things such as pastry, great food, local beer or caffeine, and I got back what has to be the most graceful “thank you but no” I’ve ever seen. So I just had my usual day, which seemed to contain a lot of backing and forthing, as well as a new pair of shoes for Alice who had outgrown hers the night before, and finished up in an auditorium full (I mean, really full) of women and some knitting men and some simply supporting men, listening to the Harlot. She totally rocks. In the Q&A afterwards we managed to make her feel guilty for ignoring and not naming her dryer, accuse her of being an enabler or even a pusher for yarn abuse, and discover that she had played role playing games and still had (in a closet somewhere?) a half elf magic user character…

The day ended with a great surprise; one of my favorite people from my last town, serially the children’s librarian and then Aerin’s pre-school teacher – had come to see the Harlot, and shouted at me. So she came home with me and we had a great visit. Hi Mary!

That was Wednesday. I just barely finished my leaves and fell into bed.