Weekending - back to Bendigo

We spent the weekend in Bendigo again, this time for a beer event - Bendigo on the Hop. Leon and i decided to make a long weekend of it, and public transported up on Friday, getting there in time for a lovely lunch. Then we walked to the mill.

I was pretty excited, because I keep on buying dyes, but I don't actually have any bare yarn to dye. they only had one skein of undyed sock yarn, but it's beautiful- really round and looks a bit like Socks That Rock, so I'm looking forward to dying / using it.

I also bought some slow colour-changing yarn for a TellyBean Knits jumper - or dress, maybe.

We had afternoon tea in a cafe by the lake, where we ended up going back for breakfast both days. Delicious.

Then Skip, Bee and Chris arrived and we had a lovely dinner.

Saturday was Bendigo on the Hop - you go to 9 different venues and choose from 4 types of beers. it was a lot of fun and the town had a really great vibe. After finishing up we ate more delicious food and collapsed into bed very early.

Sunday we played disc golf on a beautiful course just at the edge of Bendigo. My problem with disc golf is I don't play often enough to actually get any better. Maybe one year I'll commit to it and focus, but probably not.

I cast on for a pair of knee high socks on the bus on the way there, and was rather surprised about how much knitting I managed to get done over the weekend:

It was a pretty good long weekend - good friends, good food and a good time and somehow much of a sock basically knit itself while I was having a good time. Magic

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