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- Moggy & Me sock yarn – Sir Walter
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- Clothes from Wraptya
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- BWM Rustic 8ply – to be a jumper for Boyo
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- Winnings!
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- EGMTK! BFL Roving – blue/green/purple
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- FeistyWench at the Ravelry breakfast
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- My Bendi Bingo Card
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- Dr Bones and Knightly Knitter
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- Big chunk ‘o tree buttons
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- EGMTK! Sock yarn
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- Hand-carved bone buttons
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- BWM Rustic 8ply – to be a jumper for Sasquatch
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- RoseRed, Tinkingbell, Donyale & Ms Gusset at Posse HQ
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- KnightlyKnitter does her famous Happy Shimmy Dance
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- Dr Bones, Zephyrama & Tinkingbell at the Ravelry breakfast
Apologies for the crappiness of some of the photos; I took them on my phone (which has been known to take good pics, but not when I was using it).
Not sure where to start: there was so much happening – the people, the shopping, the food, the fun, the knitting.
Highlights include:
- The Hustler Street Posse: Donyale, Knightly Knitter, RoseRed, Tinkingbell and Zephyrama – If you ever get the chance to spend some time with any or all of these girls, don’t even hesitate!
- Meeting the extraordinary FeistyWench (Rav-link), who organised all the Ravelry events over the weekend. She did a stellar job, and hopefully is now catching up on months of lost sleep.
- The Friday Night Ravelry Baa at the Shamrock Hotel – a gorgeous old Victorian pub, where the upstairs dining room was full of talking, laughing, eating, drinking, meeting-up-with-bloggy-friend knitters!
- Bendigo Woollen Mills and the legendary Back Room… so much woolly goodness!
- The Ravelry Breakfast on Saturday morning: 140+ Ravellers all crammed into a Girl Guide hall, eating pancakes, drinking coffee, fondling knitwear and winning prizes – that’s how I came by my beautiful little Spinning Woodie spindle and the bag of Ixchel bunny-fluff.
- Eating wood-fired pizza for lunch with the girls, while comparing shopping hauls.
- Catching up with some old friends – EGMTK! Mandie, Suzi, IxchelFibres’ Charlie and meeting some new ones – Dr Bones, K-GirlKnits, LoomMonkey (and her brand-new hubby, Dave – they came to Bendi on their honeymoon!), EcoKnitMama, Ms Gussetting (and her fabulous Fluevog boots – I am SO getting me a pair!). If I missed anybody, I apologise; so many people, so few brain cells…
- Bendi Bingo – ’nuff said.
- Dinner at the Hustler St house on Saturday night – we stayed in with a select few guests, and ate and drank and laughed and talked and knit.
- Sunday brunch upstairs at a funky little cafe called T’Hooft - I ate way too much, but it was sooo good!
It’s a very good thing to be able to spend time with your people. Just 358 sleeps until it all starts again.
You can see better pics and more eloquent reportage at Donyale’s, Dr Bones’ and Knightly Knitter’s blogs.
Next time I’m taking the good camera.
