sheep in the city

What a weekend!

My weekend started a little early on Thursday night with a midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie. Oh my, I loved it! I went with Cynthia and Kim. Sadly, I didn't get my scarf done...but I knit on it waiting for the show to start, and during some of the less intense moments during the movie. (I have to admit that I was pretty caught up in the story, so I didn't knit much!) I think that this movie is probably going to be my favorite movie. I loved the Prisoner of Azkaban and saw it in the theaters at least 3 times, so we'll see if this one surpasses the last one. I'm going to go see The Goblet of Fire at the IMAX sometime soon, and I'm sure that I'll see it again with family this weekend. My Harry Potter scarf is just going to have to make it's debut at the 2nd or 3rd viewing.

Kim sporting her Ravenclaw scarf in the design from the first two movies and me sporting my sad almost finished Gryffindor scarf. Sorry for the rough looking picture of me...you have to remember that this was taken at almost 3:00 AM when the movie let out! I have to mention that my favorite thing about this movie was that they mentioned knitting again! So funny...see if you catch it! Of course I immediately picked up on it and laughed out loud. I highly recommend everyone seeing it!

Friday, I made a quick stop at String with a friend who needed to see the Koigu. Here's the "bouquet" that she purchased. Can you guess who it is? The colors don't give it away at all...ha! Then it was off to a meeting of the minds for a little brainstorming about scarves. This is what happens when you get 3 knitters together and you tell them to bring books with them. Believe it or not, we hardly had any duplicates!

We then moved on to the Mile High City Knitters get together that was being hosted by Amy. (who I now fondly refer to as the Queen of the Cookie cutter!) Look what she made for us!

You've got to love knit themed food items! They were tasty as well as cute! Thanks Amy. I got a chance to catch up with a bunch of local knitters that I hadn't seen in a while and see some fun works in progress. Theresa had the most gorgeous Cherry Tree Hill cabled socks finished...and even though they were blue I coveted them! I just love seeing what everyone was working on, so inspiring! Then as if knitting doesn't take up enough time, Jenifer tempted some of us (but sadly, Michelle and I were not interested) with a little spinning lesson. Maybe some day...but for now I'm going to stick with just buying the yarn at the store and knitting it. It already takes me forever to knit something anyway, I'd hate to see how long it would take me to have to make my own yarn and then knit it up! Sheesh! It wears me out thinking about it!

The rest of my weekend was spent knitting and hanging out with my sister and these two:

Alice and Jesse have become good friends, or so Alice likes to think! She loves all cats and Jesse is probably the most patient with her, what a sweetie! Stay tuned tomorrow for a new project that I cast on for over the weekend, it's an oldie (to most knit-bloggers out there) but a goodie!