Knitting Party
Jan. 3rd, 2010 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreMy knitting group had our annual post-holiday potluck and gift exchange this afternoon. That always means a bigger turn out than usual and it was good to see people who I haven't seen in a while. Lissa showed off the "Naked Knitting" calendar she got as a gift and Tom brought along the male equivalent. You can tell women who knit because, when confronted with a picture of a nude man in a bathtub full of yarn, we all said things like, "get a load of that yarn."
I brought spring rolls to the pot luck so I now have only about 140 spring roll wrappers left. (And too much of the filling ingredients, too, but those are usable in stir fries and salads and the like, so not actually a problem.) We're supposed to post recipes on our group's ravelry page, but I'm not sure that my random cooking method (take a handful shredded cabbage and carrots and a little of the cooked bean threads...) is all that amenable to recipe writing.
As for the gift exchange, I contributed a Yarn Harlot page-a-day calendar and a few chocolate bars. (Chocolate counts as a knitting related gift, in case there was any doubt.) I ended up with a copy of Sweater Design in Plain English. I may already own that, but if so I can easily save it for next year's gift exchange.
Good food, good friends, knitting ... not a bad way to kick off the year. (And, by the way, I finished another 1/9 of the back of the sweater and actually got started on the next block, too.)
I brought spring rolls to the pot luck so I now have only about 140 spring roll wrappers left. (And too much of the filling ingredients, too, but those are usable in stir fries and salads and the like, so not actually a problem.) We're supposed to post recipes on our group's ravelry page, but I'm not sure that my random cooking method (take a handful shredded cabbage and carrots and a little of the cooked bean threads...) is all that amenable to recipe writing.
As for the gift exchange, I contributed a Yarn Harlot page-a-day calendar and a few chocolate bars. (Chocolate counts as a knitting related gift, in case there was any doubt.) I ended up with a copy of Sweater Design in Plain English. I may already own that, but if so I can easily save it for next year's gift exchange.
Good food, good friends, knitting ... not a bad way to kick off the year. (And, by the way, I finished another 1/9 of the back of the sweater and actually got started on the next block, too.)
