I watched a movie called “The Mistress of Spices” last night that was mildly entertaining. When I finished that I suddenly had the urge to find my QuickBooks disk so I could get that installed before the May 31 deadline of their pulling the plug on support for my 2005 version. The disk had been on my table since it arrived and all of a sudden it was nowhere to be found. I thought it might have fallen off the table so I rooted through the stuff underneath that end of the table. Nothing. Since I also couldn’t find the Babies & Bears pattern, I began to suspect they were “lost” together. I looked and looked and told God I could use a little/lot of help. Nothing. I got nervous lest I had somehow thrown it away. I looked and looked and prayed and prayed. Just before calling it quits, I decided to look in one last box over by Clint’s chair and there was the QuickBooks AND the knitting pattern. I’m not sure how they wound up there – well, that is a dumb thing to say. Of course, Yours Truly put them there! By then it was going on one o’clock.
I got myself to bed and was jangled awake by the phone at 7:37. It was Nadine. She wanted to catch me before I left on the Yarn Crawl. Of course, I wasn’t leaving until almost ten today but she had confused it with Saturday’s schedule. She wanted permission to go get some Vilene stabilizer which I have stashed at Ellie’s. I told her that was fine. On the way to pick up Barbara, I dropped off the Marathon embroidery thread color charts to Nadine so she could pick some colors for an order.
Barbara and I left her house by ten o’clock. We arrived at the first stop about 10:45 only to be informed, when I asked, that they had no bathroom. Hello? So the daughter took me up to their “cabin.” These folks are building a house so the “goods” were on the porch. There wasn’t much but Barbara and I had determined to buy “something” at each stop. I bought one skein of alpaca yarn with thoughts of making a scarf. I wasn’t inclined to spend $60 for a shell to go under a jacket/sweater. Her alpaca is really soft but really pricey! I think Barbara dropped about $150 there. They had one alpaca that was due to deliver a baby alpaca any moment but it didn’t happen while we were there.
We left there and drove into Tacoma to Lamb’s Ear where Roxi warmly greeted us. Her shop has expanded since last time I was there and they now live across the alley which is convenient for them. That was my biggest expenditure of the day. I got a book of items for preemie babies, a cute garter stitch baby pattern, another cute “tulip” colorful cardigan for baby pattern, a book called “Baby’s & Toddlers – a Knitter’s Dozen, and 11 skeins of yarn. Some is to do hats, and some to do patterns I bought there.
From there we stopped off to pick up a Pei Po duck for Bill and then drove across town and went to lunch at Shari’s. I had another coupon so we both had fish and chips. I think it was about 1:30 when we went in there. After a leisurely lunch we crossed the Narrow’s Bridge. We bypassed Yarn Garden in Gig Harbor since that is close enough to hit on Sunday if need be. We drove about an hour to reach Poulsbo and Amanda’s Art-Yarn shop. Each shop gave us a free pattern. I also got “Knits from the Heart” - a book with lots of charity items. I have another book in this set. I also got a pattern for a Log Cabin Baby Blanket, a skein of yarn for a hat that would go with either my purple coat or my blue sweatshirt jacket, and a skein of yarn to make a scarf that will go with my green wool dress coat.
We got out of there before all the Viking fest activities started and made our way to Linda’s Knit N Stitch in Silverdale. I found a cute hat pattern for 0-3 months, and a free pattern for buttoned-up fingerless gloves. I got some ribbon yarn to make a pair of those which would go with my purple coat or the blue sweatshirt jacket. I also got a cute pattern for a baby hoodie along with the yarn to knit it, and three skeins of pretty variegated yarn for my charity hats.
It was six’ish by time we left there. We waited long enough for the worst of the commuter traffic to be over with. I dropped Barbara off and arrived home at seven o’clock - 9 hours and 157 miles later. I snacked on the Pei Po duck and I hope I can get myself to bed a little earlier tonight.
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