it only takes a minute girl*

to fall in love, to change your plans, to learn how to do something that's been bugging you for a while (well, that took 5 minutes, but it was fab!).
First of all, Friday afternoon's plans were changed several times-
 from taking Jen and two of her pals to Ocean Terminal so that they could see the chick-flick Leap Year while I happily knitted on Milo sock 2 in Costa coffee,
- to Jen heading into Edinburgh on the bus with one pal to see Leap Year allowing her dear old Ma to stay at home in comfort and knit,
- to realising that Jack wanted to go into Edinburgh to buy a guitar bag and was going to carry his brand new Ibanez acoustic bass guitar on the bus and round Edinburgh without any cover on it! AARRGGGHH!
Dear Old Ma and Da (ie, us) had got the young rascal this fab guitar for his birthday but we'd said he had to get the bag himself. But I didn't want him to be hauling it along with him on buses. So the plans were changed to taking him and the fab guitar to Edinburgh to a music shop.

Now luckily for me his first port of call was at Red Dog music in the Grassmarket which is very close to to the knitting boutique K1 yarns.

So while he had a blissful time shopping I had a fab time in K1, acquiring some Fyberspates merino sockwool in browns to make the pair of Two Hoots socks in Bobbins mag and 3 of the imported mags from Interweave.
The wool fumes were getting to me so I headed off to Hula for coffee and chocolate cake, and pretended that I was a student again, and when Jack had found a big enough bag for his fab guitar (honestly, I'm no expert at all, but the deep thrumming sound of this acoustic bass is wonderful) he joined me for coffee and cakes. Well, dear Old Ma was paying....

Then today I managed to get to the Haddington spinners open day at Poldrate Mill. I'd heard about this group last summer but it clashes with my Spanish class (both are on Tuesday mornings, in different parts of East Lothian), so today was my first chance to meet the group. One of the ladies very kindly took me under her wing, showed me in simple stages how to use my very basic spindle and I produced half a metre or so of OK-ish yarn. WOOT! that was a very useful 5 minutes.

Very encouraged I bought myself some lovely 100% superwash merino fluff in a dark wine red shade so that I can practise my drop spindling with a bit more confidence. Yay!!

 And 'cos I was feeling dizzy with wool fumes (that must have been the reason!!) I also bought a copy of "Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn" by Carol J Sulcoski. Jen had gone with me to Poldrate Mill and her eyes (and fingers!) were attracted to some recycled sari yarn. Not sure what she is going to do with it, pet it I suppose!

So, not the progress that I'd hoped for on the Milo sock, but great fun anyway, (& invoving cakes and fab wool), and sometimes plans just have to be changed.

*It only takes a minute girl, by Tavares, awesome!