On Friday afternoon my sister Kathleen, her best friend Amy, and I headed 3 hours south to Kansas City for a weekend of crafting. We brought a lot of stuff.
We got a lot of crafting done on Friday night, partying hard until almost 10:30. The next day we were well rested and ready to knit/crochet/make cards/scrapbook. We were also ready to be more social.
Kirsten (BFF who lives in St. Louis) arrived with Luke. He is such a good baby she was able to get some knitting done.
Bonny from BonnyKnits met up with us too. We had never met in real life. If you are like me, when you are reading blogs you think “oh gosh, I could totally be friends with this person in real life.” I was really nervous to meet her, because what if she was not at all fun and it was really awkward? But the good news is she is a total delight and now we are friends in real life. Now I want to meet more of my blogging buddies, because meeting Bonny was so great.
Bonny took Kirsten and I to her favorite yarn store. If she ever invites you to Yarn Social do not go unless you want to buy all of the things. It is the best yarn store I’ve ever been to in my decade of perusing yarn shops. It is filled with indie dyers and small labels. I wanted to buy it all. If I win the lottery I’m going back to Yarn Social and spending $1000.
I ended up buying a skein of hue loco yarn in the colorway High Five. I’ll make beautiful yarn with it someday. I also picked up two stickers. They are already on my laptop. I bought a rainbow yarn ball sheep pin and a #wip pin (because I’m a WIP).
This morning we squeezed in a bit more crafting before hitting the road. We will be having a crafting weekend again. Maybe you will want to head to the Midwest to join us….if we don’t get together in the winter.
mildlygranola 
How fun! I would totally meet up with you! If I can get away from work, family, etc. I would try, anyway.
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I would love you meet you! I think you would fit right in to the group.
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Now that sounds like the perfect weekend!
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It really was.
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I have questions! Did you do all that crafting in your hotel rooms? I’m not very far from KC, where I I love visiting the Kemper. Next time I’m there I will definitely stop by Yarn Social!
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Yarn Social is amazing. We had one suite to craft in, so there was a couch and a couple of chairs. It was tight, but totally manageable.
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Best crafting weekend ever! Just too short.
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I agree! Next time we will make it longer. I’m brainstorming all sorts of ideas.
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Aw man I need some UK bloggy friends.
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You do! That or a visit to the middle of the states.
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I feel like that, I think you’re in the South of England and I’m in North of Scotland…but maybe some yarn event we may one day meet up!
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That sounds like an amazingly fun weekend! If I’m ever in that neck of the woods, I’m messaging you! And of course if you are in Alaska at any point, please let me know!
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I really hope you have to travel to the midwest at some point. I would love to visit Alaska, but barring winning the lottery I don’t think it will happen for the forseeable future.
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Well, hopefully one of these days you make it! Or I get to the midwest 🙂
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Well I’m super jealous, that sounds like such a fun weekend. If I win the lottery I shall be flying to Alaska, Kansas, Ohio, Finland etc to meet blogging friends. I sometimes visit Michigan to visit the family I au paired for 28 years ago.
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If you win the lottery I look forward to your international blog tour posts. Wouldn’t it be great to meet everyone?
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Definitely 😁
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