I went to my first guild meeting yesterday and had a great time meeting and stitching with other knitters. While I was there, a wonderful woman named Elizabeth taught me to darn, thereby saving the best socks ever to touch my feet. I will master the task and spread it among the sock lovers, I swear by the antler needles, I do.

Much of the rest of the weekend was spent watching Scott rebuild the PCF website so that no one needs to buy hugely expensive software or a server to run it. For some strange reason the former webmaster decided we should use a belt sander to file our nails . . . I mean, since he’s a pro and all, he probably made it the way he would make any site, but it had way more scripting than was necessary for a 12 page site that only gets major traffic a couple of months a year.

On Sunday I finished the quilt I will donate to SIDS Mid-Atlantic for Christmas. I can’t wait to see my mother’s reaction when she opens it on Christmas Eve. I’ll probably never machine an appliqued quilt again–that was less fun than it should have been. Too much fabric management. But done is done, and blue and green linen patches are joining together at an alarming rate and will become some blue and green loveliness someday, and there won’t be any machine applique, and life will continue apace. And there may be some big patchwork for the crows, but it’s all still fuzzy in the skull, so I won’t encourage their cawing–the din is unbearable when they get going.

Must spin much during this week–the web work kept me away from the spindle, and MD Sheep and wool looms large. I must also pick up my blessed banjo so Brooke doesn’t notice at Sheep and Wool that I still can’t really play. I finally got the newish Bruce Molsky album Contented Must Be, and it’s as gorgeous as I hoped. I’m testing out my wrecked ankle more and more and hope to be able to return to Glen Echo within the next month or so. And if I dance more I’ll play more, good good.

And, my Constant Companion is reaching bag-like proportions and looking lovely with its eucalyptus toned self. I have no idea how I’ll do the pocket pattern, since I know next to nothing about charts or color work beyond stripes. But it wants a key pattern, or a pictish one. Maybe I’ll finish the body of the bag tonight, and then decide whether I really want i-cord straps or not.

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