Twisp of Fate

Just a quick post today, as I am going off tomorrow for the knitting retreat at Fort Worden, near Port Townsend.  This is an event I have attended for over 20 years.  Now that we have moved away from Seattle, it is even more important to me to spend this time with some of my longtime friends, as well as other people who come from all over who I only see there once a year.  There are no classes, it’s just 5 days of knitting, talking, eating, going for walks into town or down to the beach, laughing and generally having a good time with like-minded souls.  Not to mention hitting all the local yarn shops!

I have been invited to a baby shower the first weekend of November, which I can’t attend as we are going to California for a quick visit with good friends.  But I did want to come up with a nice gift for this little one (we already know it is a girl) as we are friends with the parents, both sets of grandparents, an aunt and cousins.  I was rummaging around in one of the closets and discovered this:

It’s a Baby Surprise Jacket that I knit maybe 3-4 years ago, using leftover bits of Shetland 2-ply wool.  It needed only a few ends darned in and the buttons sewn on to be done – DONE, I say!  This was the first of several I knit back then, and it came out a wee bit small, which means it can’t be worn by the intended recipient for very long.  Which is why I also had a Gund teddy bear ready to take over:

On the home front, the back fence is nearing completion:

and our new deer fence is basically in, needing only the man-gates which they are making off site; when they come to install those they will also finish installing the green farm gate we bought to accomodate the tractor going in and out.  So it looks like our back yard will be deer-proof by winter!