I love the smell on the air this time of year. I mean, not so much the tree sexxin and all the flowers waiting for the bees to scoop up their pollen because that way lies mass sneezing, but. It still smells fantastic. Even with the fine drizzle currently coming down from the sky, which really just makes it all that much more lovely. More vibrant. More real.
I had a lovely day yesterday. I met up with two fannish friends, one of whom was visiting our fair area from Scotland. Even though Feather, who lives in Monroe, doesn’t knit, Cats does. She has had a hell of a time trying to find a good yarn shop in her area, so we set out to show her a few of my favs. We spent a goodly amount of time in Village Yarn and Tea, where she had a great time poking about and found two of the things on her list that she really, really wanted to find. She also said the cup of tea we lingered over was the best one anyone had made for her since she came to visit, and was quite pleased with the entire experience.
Sadly, VY&T didn’t have the needles she was looking for, so we headed into Seattle to visit Weaving Works. And that was even more fun! She stood in front of a few of the shelves and leaned close to me, muttering, “I think I’m about to have a spontaneous orgasm!”
Heh.
She did find the batch of yarn she was looking for for her jumper, a lovely bright green in Cascade 220 that will be perfect for the project. We also found a few sock yarns that were pleasing, and I had the good fortune to watch her knit up most of a sock for Feather in just a few hours after we left the store. I mean, it would take me weeks to get to where she was at in three hours or so! It was really neat to see a different technique, and in all that time, we hardly actually talked about fannish things at all!
We spent a few hours back at Feather’s place, and I got to meet her menagerie of animals, which included two cockatoos! They’re just fascinating, and one of them was so sweet and gave me little parrot smoochies, and said “Whatchoo doon?” and “Hello!” and, most awww inducing, “I wuv you!” She even said it shyly, with a little duck of her head. AWWWW!
Feather isn’t a knitter, but even she found a few things at Weaving Works, including some bright and cheerfully peach/orange chunky that she’s asked me to knit up into a hat/scarf combo for her next winter. Hopefully it won’t take me that long! I’ll have to poke around for some good patterns, but if you have any feel free to drop a line here?
I’m so glad Spring is here. And that I got to spend a smashing day with a pair of truly gorgeous women. Thanks Feather and Cats!