As if there’s any question. My apologies to those of you who are blog readers. Particularly those of you who are blog readers that don’t happen to live in a city lucky enough to be on Stephanie’s book tour.

I met her. I have pictures. And they’re going to look an awful lot like all the other giddy blogger’s pictures that have been posted over the past few months.

Oh well. My blog. My fun.

That’s right. Front row, baby. I braved arriving 20 minutes early, with three young, uninterested children (bribed with the promise of popcicles), and we got to sit in the front row! It was a nice, intimate gathering. There weren’t a ton of people there. I think most everyone was holding out for the Weaving Works bash later in the evening. (I have a sad, sad tale about that. I went, parked, got a phone call, and had to leave before even getting out of my car. Fortunately, I hadn’t paid the meter yet. But still, it’s a dangit).

She’s very good. I was about halfway back in line, and I watched her get out of her chair, smile, and pose for about a dozen pictures, and she looked sincerely happy each time. What a trooper. She’s literally smiled for hundreds of pictures with hundreds of knitters over the past four months, and is still gracious.

Anyway, Steph is lovely and funny, of course. But you all knew that. She recognized me before I had a chance to introduce myself. That was the highlight of my day. She said she was all “blog excited”, and she’s the one on tour! Figure that? But I was flattered. I gave her stitch markers and told her that if she’d already been given 500 stitch markers, she can add them to the pot of gifts for Knitters Without Borders.

Now that you’re all either annoyed and jealous, or confused, we’ll move on to Cable-Eights. What’ve you got? I am DONE with both the front and back! I have crocheted the edging on three of the four selvedges, and my dear friend Gayle suggested slip-stitching them together as opposed to single crochet. I’ll try that first before giving Diana’s method a try (see sidebar. I took her advice though and only crocheted into every other selvedge stitch as opposed to every stitch). I don’t have any pictures, but I’m sure you can tell that I’ve been very busy the past week, and having loads of fun. That would be why.

That reminds me, our laptop died, and I’m going to the cabin for a week or so, so I think I may actually miss blogging for that period of time. Will you miss me? :-). I don’t know exactly when I’m leaving yet, or exactly how many days I’ll be gone. Stay tuned.

And finally, I am beyond giddy about this morning. In a few hours, I head off to look at a spinning wheel that may or may not be coming home with me. I certainly hope it is. I’ve waited SO long, but I will not buy it unless I enjoy spinning on it, and that will be determined in a few hours. Wish me luck. I have about 4 pounds of dyed rovings crammed between my couch and the end table that are very restless.

You’ll find out Monday. See you tomorrow at Health Group!

We went to the Seattle Center last night for a picnic dinner and some water fun.

These pictures are dark. I didn’t realize until the end that my camera was on a different setting than I normally use. Anyway, in the Seattle Center, at the base of the Space Needle seen above, there is a huge, international fountain. It is sunk into the ground, surrounded by a large, concrete bowl that you can walk down into, and the fountain itself is a 10 foot tall, silver dome. Water spouts out randomly, and shoots many feet into the air, all the while playing international music. It is very much cool.

So after we ate, the girls headed down to the water.

I don’t know why I bothered telling them not to get soaked. My girls are total cowards.

When we go to the Seattle Center, I like to buy a little fudge from the Center House. As usual, I got sick. It doesn’t take a lot of fudge to get a girl sick. Bleh.

So, a good time was had by all.

Today, Stephanie is coming to town. She’ll be pretty close to me at 3 this afternoon, and then she’ll be in Seattle itself this evening. I’m not completely sure when I’ll see her, but I’m looking forward to it. I’ve been reading her blog since it was a couple months old. Back in the days when she had under 10 comments. In fact, I remember when she got over 10, I think it was 14 or something and she actually said, “DANG, that’s a lot of comments!” Haha. If she only knew. So, we’ll be seeing Steph today. Can’t wait.

And finally, (and this is the most exciting for me), I’m going to look at a spinning wheel tomorrow morning! It’s a Clemes & Clemes, which aren’t being made anymore. I’ve never seen one in person, but Katie received an email through her fiber guild that someone had a wheel to sell, and the price is doable. So I’m going to check it out. I SO hope it is in good shape, and that I like how it spins. It comes with a lot of stuff, so it would be a great deal.

Oh! Oh! And I almost forgot! Katie has finished her alpaca, (let it sink in, the whole thing is bulky alpaca. Mmmmmm), LAURALUND!!! Congrats! It looks lovely! The pictures are really little on her site, but if you click them, they get bigger.