The Heathen Housewife

Tonight we celebrated Sophie’s birthday with our extended family and a family of friends that may as well be extended family they’re so nice and enjoyed by all of us. It was a good time, but a lot of work all day to prepare and Joe is still just finishing up in the kitchen as I type. Sophie decimated another cupcake – the girl loves her chocolate! I’ll post pictures when I get around to getting them off the camera. This post isn’t really about the party. I wanted to post last night, because there is something I am *very* excited about, but was too busy and tired after doing all my busy.

So I was teaching my class yesterday at the store where I teach, and I am so loving this particular class because all my students are so nice and I had been away from teaching for more than a month, and it is very good to be out and with knitters and not responsible for my children for just a few hours. But I was at the store, and I heard some news about an upcoming event that made me jump up and down squealing with delight and excitement. This is very reliable news – it came directly from one of the people planning the event. She said that it should be really public news within the next few days, and I have been clicking refresh over and over on a certain website to see if the knitting celebrity involved has made her announcement. I just checked again – she still hasn’t. I’m not going to say who it is because I promised I wouldn’t. But if you know me very well, I’ll give you one guess!

So mark your calendars. April 4 in St. Paul. It’s very exciting.

And all this excitement got me thinking about the other fibery events coming up in my relatively near future.

First, next weekend is the Knit-Out at the Mall of America. Both Saturday and Sunday pretty much all day. There will be all kinds of knitting celebrities there (although not the one that I was just talking about above.) and it sounds like they’ll have plenty of fun things to do and see. I don’t think I’m going to make it over there on Saturday since my knitting class is smack in the middle of the afternoon, but maybe I can go on Sunday for a bit, even if it means dragging some or all of the family with me.

The Minnesota Knitters’ Guild has an appealing topic for next month’s meeting. It’s on March 20, and the topic is how to dye your own self-striping sock yarn. Now, I’ve already figured out how to do this in my own rudimentary way, but I would love to hear someone else’s take on it and see their results. I may have to find a way to make it to that one.

On April 21, it’s Yarnover, which is another guild event. It’s all-day lessons and marketplace at a local high school. The guild has been doing this event forever, and we attract some pretty awesome, nationally known teachers. Meg Swansen will be there, and Annie Modesitt is giving the keynote speech as well as teaching this year. I got my first choice in classes when I signed up – it’s an all day class on hand painting yarn. I’m looking forward to the class, but also to just hanging out with guild people that I don’t see very often any more since I rarely make it to a meeting these days, and of course shopping the market place.

Ah, shit! I literally just said that out loud. I was just looking at the web site for the Shepherd’s Harvest Sheep and Wool Festival, which I go to every year and love. I was checking the dates (May 12 and 13) and realized that I have an event scheduled that weekend that so profoundly conflicts I won’t be able to go this year. Bummer. But if you like knitting or spinning or other fibery goodness, you should totally go.

Anyway, lots of fun events to look forward to that don’t involve me cooking and cleaning for large groups of people. I hope to see some of you there!

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