Lisa Knits

You may remember Lisa, my first knitting guru.

Lisa just picked up her entries from the Minnesota State Fair, where she collected beaucoup ribbons (and without resorting to knitting sock monkey dresses, either)!

Here is her gorgeous sweater that garnered a 2nd place ribbon:


Sigh -- I wish I could do that.

And here she is modeling all of her entries:


Way to go, Lisa! Congratulations!

Visit with My First Knitting Guru

A little while back I had the chance to spend the afternoon with one of my dearest friends, Lisa, who now happens to live a couple thousand miles away or so -- but we grew up next door to each other in a suburb of Milwaukee, and she taught me to knit, for which I am forever grateful. Here is one of her most recent projects:

I think it's very cute, and that is on my "want to knit" list of projects.

Here is Lisa, with my DD, at the SF Ferry Building, and in this photo you can sorta see Lisa's very nice felted bag:


And here they are at the gate to Chinatown:

where we also saw this protestor standing on a stool and loudly proclaiming something or other:


We also ate a ton of dim sum, bought some bangles and beads, ice cream and tea, and generally had a swell time.

Love you, Lisa! It was a great day.
Annie