Oh look! A chicken!

[martelvonc]

Remember how, like, I was being virtuous and Laurely like, and stuff?
The hand sewing and the repairing and the projects?

Well, I fell off the wagon last weekend.

It all started...
When we went down to the Outer Banks,
AND the ONLY knitting store was still in business,
AND the Knight was willing to let me wander in there to my hearts content,
(bless you free wi-fi, a fancy I-Pod touch, and a comfy chair he could sit in)
AND they were selling this cute little pattern for a cute little bag purse,
AND they were selling the yarn to make the cute little bag purse,
AND they had the knitting needles I needed to start the cute little bag purse.

I couldn't just LEAVE it there now could I?

What?

I did make one SCA related project this week. I made myself an arrow mop in my heraldic colors. After shooting in the down pour rain at the Barony of Lochmere investiture last fall and having no where to clean my arrows of the gawd awful mud except to wipe them off with my hand, I decided to make myself one of those useful gee-gaws. Not historically accurate but useful none the less.

So there, I can look at chickens if I like....

Comments

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Ah. I haven't managed to get there yet - for some reason I used to be able to make it to the stitching place that was at MP 5, but nearly never anything above that, during our 1-2 weeks each year. Mostly due to the fact that my family has been renting a place a little south of the Outer Banks Fishing Pier every year since the mid 70s sometime. Manteo, on the other hand, gets visited several times every trip, for various reasons - though general shop visiting has only happened the last year or two.

If you haven't visited the shop there, and you find the time, you should do so. I was impressed with it (website says that they're by the Pioneer Theater now - so they haven't moved far at all - since they were in the shops behind there last year)... curious whether the new place is same size, larger or smaller. Guess I'll find out in a few months :-)

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Try hitting the Knitting Addiction. The ladies are very nice there and they have free wi-fi to entertain the husbands.... :-)

[cozit.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to... just the few times I've been *that* far north I've had bad timing. And it takes almost as long to get up there now as it did before they put in the bypass... well, maybe not *all* the time, but sometimes it sure seems like it.

Meanwhile, at least there's Manteo (takes *maybe* 15 minutes from the cottage to downtown).