sherriknits

Before I get to my little story about my class with Cat Bordhi, I get to announce that I have finished clue 3 on the Mystery Stole.  I have one week to get through clue 4.  The encouraging thing to me is that I am going to shorten it and this is where that gets done…I get to skip from row 218 to row 303.  I’m not sluffing off, I am only 5′ tall and I think a 77″ stole would be way too long.  I was feeling a little overwhelmed at being behind over 200 rows until I read the fine print. 

Now on to my Cat story.

Our class with Cat was at 7:30 this morning.  We did not get much sleep last night so I was pretty tired.  My friend and I stayed in Seattle last night but we still had to get up wake up at 5 a.m. and we might have talked until after midnight.

  A class with Cat is always entertaining and I highly recommend anyone taking one if ever they have the chance.  We were there to learn the new method of “sockitecture” that she has come up with.  It is pretty amazing.  You’ll have to get her new book that is just out if you knit socks at all. 

Well, we were going to knit the sock double-stranded, which means taking the yarn from the inside and outside of the ball.  Wouldn’t it just be the way that I would end up pulling out half the ball trying to find the end?  I have many times been able to get the end with minimal excess yarn, but this time, I had this big tangle of yarn which was quite frustrating to me.  The good part is that the yarn pulled easily from it so it wasn’t all that hard to work with.

At about 9, Cat gave us a 5 minute break so I decided to run up to the 4th floor to check in for the little trade show that her class was part of.  When I returned, Cat was madly knitting on my little sock.  She was a teeny bit frustrated, but mostly laughing.  Evidently, she loves to pick up someone’s knitting while they are gone and knit on it and then set it down before they return for the fun of it.

She decided she was going to wind my mess of yarn into a neat little ball but as she wound, she got a knot in the yarn and try as she may, she could not get it out.  Therefore, she decided to hurry up and knit on the sock so she could hide what she did! 

Unfortunately for her, I returned before she had covered her tracks.  I told her I had totally forgotten to knit 8 rows before I started on the increases and she kept assuring me it was no big deal, this was a practice sock anyway.  lol   She just didn’t want me to find her knot. 

What was really fun was that I told her I knew she wouldn’t remember this, but 3 years ago at this same trade show, we were taking a class that was incredibly stressful.  Her suitcase was in the little back room, so she was trying to discreetly sneak through our class with it and she happened to run over my yarn (or string) and it tangled terribly in her wheel.  We were both down on the floor trying to free it and it was the stress reliever I needed from this (very poorly taught) class. 

So, I got my copy of Cat’s new book signed “I hope we tangle ourselves together again one day!”  My friend got hers signed “Maybe some day I will get to do some secret knitting on your sock too!”

I will take a class from her every chance I get, even if I have already had the class.  Today’s class was kind of similar to last year’s, but we weren’t able to share her secret method until her book was out.  I learned so much from her today.  She is so gracious and will take time to help anyone who needs it and teach you all kinds of fun things besides what she started helping you with. 

I forgot to take a picture of the sock before dark, but here’s a look anyway…

And our late day sky today…I forgot about it Saturday and today seems like Saturday anyway.