Having just returned from Niagara Falls on Thursday evening (a spectacular place!), I didn't plan to mark WWKIP Day with a public display of my knitting, but in Friday's local paper there was an article about a knitter who organized a WWKIP event. Saturday turned out sunny and hot, so Alan and I checked it out. It was fun! I have never knitted in such a large group before, and it was exhilarating. Maggie, who hosts a knitters' group that meets at a coffee shop in my town, organized the day at Princeton Shopping Center. This group is also represented on Ravelry as Cafe Knitters.I enjoyed meeting lots of other knitters. We exchanged Rav names, favorite patterns and yarns, and chatted about ourselves and our knitting. Alan met a fellow Brit, from Plymouth no less. Maggie had prizes and knitters brought food. There was even a band, and one of the restaurants at the shopping center, Zen Palate, passed out delicious vegan food to the hungry knitters. We stayed for about an hour and a half, during which a few non-knitters stopped to gawk at us and our sticks. A couple even asked how they could find out more about knitting!
I worked on my Muir, which is 4+ repeats in as of today. Only 9 more to go!
I love the whole KIP Day concept. It just feels so right to do something I love with other people who love it too.
Did you KIP on WWKIP Day?
2 comments:
Hey Linda -
I was there. I'm the red shirt in the blue chair next to the webbed chair in the top picture. What a fun day. Can't wait to do it again.
Cool! No, I didn't KIP a WIP on Sunday, but I would have had I had something like that to go to!
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