Monday 12 May 2008

Professional finishing...

Yesterday I had my first outing into Blogland. There were several species of butterflies in my tummy as I travelled into Islington to meet up at Loop.


I attended a workshop called Professional Finishing, kindly arranged by Alice. There I met, in the flesh, Ali, Val, Monica and Kristina, who has yet to get blogging (come on, Kristina!). I may be the fastest knitter in the West, according to Ali, but you can read about the day over at the fastest bloggers in the West, here and here.
What I wasn't expecting was being showered with gifts.
Alice gave me the most fitting mug for my morning coffee (beautifully packaged too...)
Val gave us all a set of her fab stitch markers
Ali had made us all a gorgeous linen pouch and one of her wonderful stamps
I was hugely embarrassed at having gone empty-handed, but no-one told me of any Blogland etiquette...so, thinking on my feet, I let them have a Moo card! Generous, huh?
My big purchase of the day was a pair of darning needles that came in their own little holder. The perfect reminder of how professional finishing can make your long-slogged-over knitting become something worth wearing. I think I may be inspired to make something to wear other than a hat now...


9 comments:

  1. It really sounds like the loveliest day - friendships forged and crafty things learned.

    And it also sounds like you make a fine quiche!

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  2. I'm going to be the last to post about this, I can see it coming ;-)

    It was a wonderful day, wasn't it? It was so good to finally meet you, and your quiche was out of this world!

    I showed my buttonholes to DH and he made polite noises, but I could tell he didn't get it. See, that's why we need to have lots of blog meetings!

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  3. It was so good to meet you and thank you for the delicious quiche. Those girls of yours must have been working on overtime because there were a lot of eggs in that lovely recipe!

    I think that you were very brave to accept an invitation from someone you had never met to meet four other people that you had never met. It is quite a leap of faith - isn't it!

    I hope it won't be long before we get the chance to meet up again.

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  4. Erm ... that needle in it's holder looks very like one of those 'personal massagers' you can buy. *blush*

    I'm so glad you had a very positive first experience of meeting bloggers - I've yet to do it, but have met other online friends (from a forum on which I post) and they have all - without exception - been lovely.

    x

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  5. Lovely blog, I like the mugs.
    Vicki

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  6. Sounds like a perfect day..good food, good company and lots of crafting going on!
    Are you going to share that quiche recipe?? :O)

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  7. Hi Tracy, what a pleasure to meet you (and to eat your quiche... it was delicious!!)

    Let's hope to meet again.

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  8. It sounds like a beautiful way to spend the day. I'm glad those butterflies settled.

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  9. What a happy day! Such lovely gifts...Bloggy-gals are the greatest and generou souls. Those coffee mugs are so pretty. A trip to Loop...I would love to go there! Happy Days ((HUGS))

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