Loooong weekending

Tuesday is a public holiday for a horse race, so I took Monday off too and made it a four day weekend. I didn't have a great many plans - I'm going away the next two weekends, so some quiet time at home sounded perfect.

The weekend started with a new yarn festival - She's Crafty. I think it was more popular than the organisers were planning. I got to show Sussana my test knit for her EXP jumper, and got lots of compliments from strangers. It was fun saying "the designer is just over there" and she messaged be afterwards, saying that people has come to buy the pattern after seeing mine, so that was very gratifying.

I bought some alplaca fluff to carry along, and some beautiful pink based yarn for a Find Your Fade I'm planning.

Then we went to Welcome to Thornbury, a food truck based bar I've wanted to go to since it opened.

On the tram afterwards I bumped in Jane, one of my other knitting friends who I haven't seen for ages, and it was delightful to catch up.

Leon and Elise were at the pub at the end of our street with some of their choir friends, so I joined them there for a bit and then we went home.

I feel like i packed everything into the one day! The rest of the weekend has been blissfully quiet, with a bit of gardening with my neighbours, and a lot of reading and knitting, which I will be back to tell you all about tomorrow.

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