Dichroic Reflections

stitching, with the bitching part later

Last night I went to my first real Stitch'n'Bitch meeting (though I had met a few local members at the not-quite-a-sleepover Alison held a while back). The turnout was pretty incredible, considering there was a tornado warning on the North side of town and there had been hail a little earlier in my area. There must have been forty people crowded into a back room at Changing Hands. Of course people ended up splitting into smaller clusters so I didn't get to meet most of them, but I did meet Ilanna, Shannon, Kimberly, Brooke, Jack, Gina, and Pam's friend Kim, and got to meet Pam again. Too bad Alison couldn't come. It was a good time. I showed Gina how to cast on, knit and purl, or rather refreshed her memory, since she'd known how before and picked it up again right away. I also got about 8 rows done on my Clapotis and learned how to pronounce it properly from Shannon - well, in the interest of full verity I did 7 rows and just enough of the 8th to do the cool drop-stitch part - and got to see Pam's striped scarf, Ilanna's legwarmers, Jen's (?) Ribby cardigan, and lots of other projects. Also, nobody laughed at all the obvious mistakes in my poncho. (Nobody really seemed to notice them, which in a room full of knitters is reassuring.) The Silk Garden I'm using for the Clapotis got a lot of attention, because the colors are so pretty. I really like the weight and feel of it myself; my only complaint is that it breaks every few rows. I'm looking forward to seeing how it looks now I'm up to full width, where the stripes will be narrower (because there are more stitches in each row).

I got to bed around nine; unfortunately Rudder got up to erg at 4. It's hard for me to sleep through the erg, though I should have just put in earplugs. It was impossible this time, though, because he kept hitting the end of the slides it's on. So I complained about that, gave up and got up to go to the gym, came home and we had a bit of a blowout. I think we may have reached the decision that There Will Be Quiet Time Until 5AM - I figure if he can't row on the lake until then (due to lake rules) there should be no reason he needs to erg before that, especially as all the drive time is saved. I really started out just complaining about the wall-thumping sounds when he hit the end of the slides, but the frustrations of being woken up way too early for the last 5 years crept in, I'm afraid. Oops.