Tuesday Night Knitters celebrate Unraveled!

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Tuesday night, instead of meeting at our normal Barnes & Noble venue, our knitting group trooped over to the Far Country known as the West End, across the mighty Rivah James, and gathered at Unraveled to help owner Mary Jane celebrate her yarn shop's three-year anniversary.

I went the entire night without getting a picture of Mary Jane, (shame on me), nor did I knit a stitch as there was lots happening that would have surely distracted my middle-aged attention-deficient brain into all kinds of mistakes, but I did manage to get a handful of pictures of a few of the folks who came.

Here are Robin C., Sheddy and Renny all wearing my favorite color teal, so I of course just had to lump them together and force them to take a photo:

the gals (and the color) are so pretty! :-)
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Here are a few other folks who joined the party:

Any, Lou, Judy, and Patsy were seriously knitting
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Robin C., Issy, Deb and Renny were also heads-down, serious knitters
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Jane modeled her newest FO - her CeCe cardigan,
which she knit start-to-finish on her beach vacation last week
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Jane's sister Lawre had a trunk show of all her lovely knitting bags and fabrics
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Linda finished her E.Z. surprise baby sweater:

Cute 'lil sweater!
And if you blur your eyes, doesn't it look like she has a normal-sized head and a tee-tiny body?
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At one point in the evening a few of us decided to walk a few shops over to Deluca Gelato, Richmond's only authentic Italian gelateria, and man, was that stuff fabulous! I got the chocolate-chocolate chip, my first ever gelato, and it was incredible. I was sure that something with less fat than ice cream surely couldn't be as good, but I was happily proven wrong. I will be going there now every time I'm in the neighborhood! A yarn shop and a gelateria? Twist my arm!

Patsy seemed to enjoy hers:

As did Issy:


Mary Jane was also kind enough to put out yummy snacks for us, so we were happy knitters!

front: homemade cinnamon buns
back: cheese & crackers
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And Cathy just seemed happy overall:

Mmmm-hmmmm
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Finally, I will leave you with a picture of this beautiful freeform-knitted purse that Ann, who works at Unraveled, knit up as a shop sample:

Love it!
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Mary Jane sells the purse forms in her shop, and I believe Ann teaches a class on free-form knitting, in case you're interested!

Well, that's all for now. Maybe I'll get inspired and blog again this weekend -- I do have a few other things to share. We'll see!

Happy weekend, everyone! :-)

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