Knitting retreat... It's a good thing.

It's wonderful to spend time with like-minded knitter types.  My LYS has a knitting retreat every year for both machine and hand knitters.  The hand knitters took classes from Lorna Miser, founder of Lorna's Laces.  Here she is:

She made us promise to elongate any photos of her that we posted, but honestly it's just not necessary.  I should have lots of other pictures from the retreat since my camera was in my knitting bag.  But I didn't remember to get it out until we were cleaning up after the last class.  Duh.  You know how I kinda go for the purple thing?  Lorna takes the love of purple to a whole new level.  She has purple luggage. 

The classes were great!  I learned how to knit set in sleeves from the top down.  This is a very good thing! Here's my little sample.  A thing of beauty, me thinks.  St. Brigid's sleeves will be done this way.  Yay!

We also had a button making class.  I was a little ambivalent about this one because I'm really, REALLY not creative.  But it turned out to be so much fun!  The results:

We have Shrinky Dinks (remember those?), polymer clay, painted little wooden shapes, and glass beads that you can get at the craft store to go in the bottom of floral vases (my favorite).  We just moved from station to station and played.  My grandma used to do a lot of crafts with my cousin and me and it reminded me of all the afternoons spent at grandma's. 

It's been a good weekend.  I'm going to go sit outside and knit.