It's Yarn Crawl Eve!

Good morning to all my yarn enthusiasts!  I am so excited today as it is the day before the Long Island Yarn Crawl of 2019 begins.  10 local shops that span 87 miles across Long Island.  This will be the 3rd year that I will attempt to visit 10 shops over 4 days, and still work at church and still put in my hours at Sew What's New and Yarn Too! and attend a Board Meeting for Camp Ma-He-Tu in Westchester and worship on Sunday.  My husband has joined in the fun as he will drive with me out to East Hampton, Mattituck and Port Jefferson tomorrow afternoon, not because I need the company but he is the best husband a yarnie can have.

I even have a plan.  Yes, a list with a magazine to find, a pattern to locate and yarn to fit some patterns I really want to create, even though my knitting project list contains to many to complete in this lifetime.  There is something magical about traveling and meeting up with others who share the same passion - that is to create something out of yarn, How is it that a simple ball of string can be knit into absolutely beautiful objects? The secret: one stitch at a time. So methodical, so soothing, so rhythmical. 

Recently, I had the pleasure to knit for my godson and his wife's baby shower.  Nothing like knitting for a sweet addition to the family.  That simple string turned into a Slip Stitch Henley and an oh so cute Duck Comfy. 

Of course I have had to knit with a 16 year old cat that has to just be right up next to me at all times whenever I knit.  It is even more fun when the younger felines of the house want to take part in the fun.  I am lucky though as they so not seem to get to tangled up in the balls of yarn. One has a tried and true of method of getting me to put down my needles when he crawls through the ring of the circular needles.  Yes, I have lost stitches this way, and the purr monster received his loving facial rub down.

So over the next few days, I have a plan.  3 shops on Thursday afternoon/evening, 2 shops in the morning on Friday, 1 where I work, 1 on the way to the Throgs Neck Bridge, 2 on my way home from the meeting on Saturday, and the 1 remaining on Sunday after worship or any I might not have gotten to in the grand plan that I created.  So that's how I fit it all in, the purchases along the way may require a stop to purchase another bin or two to add to the dozen in the basement.  Yes, I have a plan and I pray that I will find the time to knit all that yarn into masterpieces. 

I am sure I am not alone in that challenge.