Georgia on my mind

Greetings from GA. We've been here all week and keeping busy. Not working but busy none the less. The highlights of my week was getting a pedicure! I have wanted one for awhile but it's not always easy to do things like that with the truck. Kathi and I both got pedicures. She had her toes painted with a French manicure with rhinestones and my toes are painted pink with flowers on the big toes. The big klutz that I am I smudged the one toe already though.

I've been knitting up a storm! I finished my spring socks.

I love them! They knit up suprisingly quick on size 2 needles. I've also been working on a pair of blue socks that are going to be really warm. For some reason I am not very enthusiastic about them but I am slowly getting the done.

Yesterday we went to Why Knot Knit. I was hoping the whole way there that it would be a big store. I was pleasantly surprised by the store. It was in an uptowny part of Atlanta and was in a madeover house. They had a very large selection of all types of yarn. I was hoping that they would have more than cotton yarn and they did. Being that we are in the South cotton yarn is a lot more popular. I had to control myself from going crazy there but I did pick up some things I really needed like the size 6 24" circular needle for what I am calling the cotton candy bag. This is what the bag looks like in the book Bags: a Knitter Dozen

I am not knitting it in those colors. I love those colors and maybe someday I will make that very bag. I am making the bag in with this yarn.

The whole deal with this bag is you are lining up the color to have it pool together like it does in the picture from the book. Well the yarn I picked out for my bag does not have long enough strings of color to have them line up and pool. I still like the way it is turning out.

I also picked up this Blue Sky Alpaca yarn.

It is 100% baby alpaca. It is soft and lovely. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it but I just could not live without it. Blue Sky Alpacas is located in Saint Francis, MN. I traveled to GA to purchase yarn from a MN company. Go figure!

I also picked up another needle I needed for the sweater, a cable needle and the new Interweave knits magazine. I am one happy knitter!!

Today we went over to Chris Grandad and Glinnels house for a visit. Jeanette and her kids, Mickey, Maddy and Tessa also stopped by. Today has been a pretty relaxing day again. We're about to have corn on the cob that was made on the grill and roast from the crockpot. YUM!!