The Boar and I head out to Rhinebeck this afternoon! The festival doesn’t begin until Saturday, so we will be there first thing. We will be kicking around New Paltz tonight …..

I am taking the camera and will have lots of pictures to share on Monday! Here is the forecast from Weather.com for the Rhinebeck area ……

Friday night: Rain along with a thunderstorm or two early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 48F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Rainfall around a half an inch.
Saturday: Partly to mostly cloudy. High 57F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph.
Saturday night: A few clouds. Low 39F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday (24 hours): Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 50s and lows in the mid 30s.

Oh well, chilly and damp ….. it will only inspire more fiber purchases!

As I cruised through my blogroll this week I was first amazed, thrilled and then dismayed to see how many knit bloggers will be in Rhinebeck this weekend.

The amazed and thrilled part is pretty self explanatory — but why dismayed?

Because so many of them were frantically working on masterpieces to wear at the festival!! They will be recognized by these handknits …. monogramed totebags will not suffice. How can I ever hope to compete with this? How will I ever fit in?? I am suddenly transported back to junior high when clothing meant so much, was such a reflection of status. Not that any of that has changed, I just thought it had stopped mattering to me.

What is a blogger to do? Wear her Roadkill Poncho?? Not wear any hand knitting? Run the risk of ending up on Curmudgeon’s Gallery of Ghastlies? no thank you!

I certainly don’t want to be left out, yet I also don’t want to be singled out!

I present to you my entry into the I’m-going-to-Rhinebeck-and-need-something-handknit-quick ring….

Knit with Lion Brand’s something-or-other-self-striping-sock-yarn. Knit in record time. Knit with the hope of finding some really good sock yarn at the fair. Knit with the realization that Lion Brand is not all that bad and that their grafting directions were the best I have ever encountered.

So, I will be in Rhinebeck — look for me – I’m the one in the socks!

As I cruised through my blogroll this week I was first amazed, thrilled and then dismayed to see how many knit bloggers will be in Rhinebeck this weekend.

The amazed and thrilled part is pretty self explanatory — but why dismayed?

Because so many of them were frantically working on masterpieces to wear at the festival!! They will be recognized by these handknits …. monogramed totebags will not suffice. How can I ever hope to compete with this? How will I ever fit in?? I am suddenly transported back to junior high when clothing meant so much, was such a reflection of status. Not that any of that has changed, I just thought it had stopped mattering to me.

What is a blogger to do? Wear her Roadkill Poncho?? Not wear any hand knitting? Run the risk of ending up on Curmudgeon’s Gallery of Ghastlies? no thank you!

I certainly don’t want to be left out, yet I also don’t want to be singled out!

I present to you my entry into the I’m-going-to-Rhinebeck-and-need-something-handknit-quick ring….

Knit with Lion Brand’s something-or-other-self-striping-sock-yarn. Knit in record time. Knit with the hope of finding some really good sock yarn at the fair. Knit with the realization that Lion Brand is not all that bad and that their grafting directions were the best I have ever encountered.

So, I will be in Rhinebeck — look for me – I’m the one in the socks!

Here’s a funny from an email….

A man staggered home late after another evening with his drinking buddies. Shoes in left hand to avoid waking his wife, he tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step in the darkened entryway. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump.

The landing was made especially painful by a whiskey bottle in each back pocket. Managing to suppress a yelp, the man sprung up, pulled down his pants, and examined his lacerated and bleeding cheeks in the mirror of a nearby hallway.He found a large full box of Band-Aids and proceeded to place a patch as best he could on each place he saw blood. After hiding the now almost empty box, he managed to shuffle and stumble his way to bed….

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