The quote of the evening, indeed.

Thursday I went to see the Yarn Harlot speak at the Burlington, MA Borders. It was a fun evening: I met up with The Spinstah and Andrea in Somerville, and Andrea drove us in her delightfully air conditioned vehicle to Borders (eventually, but we got there in plenty of time). There was a great turnout. Underpants were thrown. (Seriously.) I started another ball band dishcloth for Missy. Good times. Stephanie gave pretty much the same talk as at Webs in May, but with some fun additions. We learned all about Kinnearing, for example. There were many young knitters in attendance, as well as many more male knitters than I had seen at previous knitting events, which was super awesome. I saw Jess and Casey of Ravelry, but they were surrounded by their own group of fans, and I was too shy to go say hi. I do covet a “Where my stitches at?” button, though. After the talk, we (eventually) made it back to Davis Square and had a nice meal at a diner. A lovely evening with friends.

I’ve been having so much fun on Ravelry looking at patterns, checking out the groups, reading about people’s projects, all sorts of stuff. It’s such a great site, and I haven’t even explored it fully yet. I’ve got a few things in my queue to look forward to, and several hibernating projects to deal with. My goal for the rest of the summer is to deal with the hibernators and then pick out one project from the queue to work on next and start planning for that. I’m a one project at a time kind of knitter, who just happens to have several on the needles at once. I can’t work on several things all at once. If I don’t focus, nothing gets done. I’m a pretty fast knitter/crocheter so there’s really no reason to have stalled on so many projects.

I hate August, but I do love that feeling of organization that comes before the start of term. (My last semester! Yeah! Woo!)