I am grateful to my LYS, Patricia's Yarns, for so many things. First and foremost is my friendship with Patricia, herself.... and then there's all my other knitting friends from the shop...
This post is dedicated to one of those friends... Margaux. Funny story - five years ago, my husband, Terry, was Director of Admissions at the high school he works at. He had to go to a conference outside of Boston, Massachusetts. On a whim, I decided to drive up there with my boys and we met him there to hang out with him. We had THE BEST time. Before we left to come home, Terry told me that there was someone there from NJ who asked for a ride home to NJ. We were stopping in Connecticut to visit my roommate from college, so we couldn't give the girl a ride home...
Now the funny part... a few months later, I'm knitting one night in Patricia's Yarns, and Margaux and I start talking. She tells me that she is the Director of Admissions at Holy Angels High School in Demarest, NJ. I tell her that I am married to Terry, and she excitedly tells me that she knows Terry from all the meetings at the Archdiocese in Newark. I tell her that we just visited him at a conference he was at, and she tells me that she was there, too.... and we're not talking over each other, and I'm dialing Terry to tell him I'm sitting with Margaux... and then Terry tells me.... it was Margaux who wanted the ride home! I wish I could go back in time to drive Margaux home that day... I hadn't met Patricia yet - it was before I went in to the shop for the first time. Margaux was already a knitting fanatic and she would have been my motivation to get into the shop sooner!
Anyway - we have become such good friends, and she is moving to San Francisco with her husband in 2 weeks. There have been SO many knit nights since that realization 5 years ago... and some of the most recent ones have been wrapped around wine and cheese nights... This past Christmas, we had so much fun at our Secret Santa exchange, and decided to improv a beat poetry song about knitting and her looming move to San Francisco... which took on a life of its own - and ended with, "YARN OVER!" and dropping needles on the floor and walking away... I laughed so hard that night. I will miss her wit, her beautiful face, her most excellent knitting skills, and most importantly, her friendship...
Margaux worked with Sara at A Vintage Poster, and came up with this wonderful print.
I've already ordered two... one lucky friend is getting one... and I have the PERFECT place to hang it in my summer lake cabin. You can order the size print you would like, and then email Sara at [email protected] and let her know you want the "Knit it, Purl it" poster. She will email you back and get details. Anyway - knit it, purl it, ORDER IT!
To channel Holly Golightly, I've never been to San Francisco before... book it... YARN OVER!