AGY Retreat '09

For the 2nd year, I LEFT MY HOUSE for a whole weekend! The big occasion? A Grand Yarn's annual knitting retreat at lovely Camp Lutherhaven on Lake Coeur d'Alene. It is two days of knitting, eating, knitting, drinking, knitting, laughing, knitting and more knitting. Heaven!

The ladies checking out the 'camp store' (yarn and such rather than soda pop and t-shirts)

Melanie and Karen were our table-buddies. Both fabulous knitters and great people to spend the weekend with. Everyone got an orange box with fun goodies inside, plus each person won a bag of yarn and a knitting book!

The gang looks super-focused on their knitting. That's Deborah in the rocking chair; she made 2 hats during the retreat. Susan's pal Pat is on the right in the pink sweater. She is lots of fun to share a cabin with -- she and Susna were total goofballs all weekend :-)

Pat and Susan sharing a laugh. Sorry the pic isn't better, but you know who was the photographer.

I got Allie's sweater almost finished, made good progress on my Monkey socks, tried to control my desire to eat everything in sight (I would say I was semi-successful), and didn't buy any yarn! But I sure wanted to.

I love the women who attend this retreat, they are all so nice, funny, great knitters, and just fun to be around. They yelled at me for being too shy to come to the sweater knit-along, and made me promise to attend the next one. I promised to try to overcome my neurosis...