I’m all alooooone

Happy New Year! It’s 1:24 am, Central Time, and I swear to god, 2007 better be better than 2006, or I’m kicking 2007′s ass.

Anyways, while I’m awake and self pitying, I thought I better go ahead and finally do my Heartland Knitting Retreat wrap up.

First off, we had a nice big snowstorm the night before of the retreat, and into the morning. Luckily, Dee picked me up in her massive truck of the 4x4ness, otherwise me and the baby Saturn would be like this poor guy:

Notice Dee’s death grip there. The roads were actually just fine until we were in Wisconsin. Apparently Wisconsin has one snow plow.

So, we get there, and all is well. Look how gorgeous the rooms were!

No, the stuffed animals did not come with the room. You have to bring those yourself. I bought the squirrel in the resort gift shop.

Oh, and the bathroom:

If you look close, you can see my bottle of Nyquil. I was nasty sick the entire weekend, but I made sure to show up, always happily spreading germs in my wake.

Friday night, Lesley from Wool and Company taught us how to needle felt. I made a freaky purple head, which my thrift shop bear, Henry, is holding. I cut out the background because it made me look like a very very bad housekeeper.

I managed to drag myself out of bed the next morning, to this beautiful view:

That’s the steam rising off the lake. Dee has some gorgeous sunrise pictures, because unlike me, she actually wakes up early.

While there, I got to meet and see many people, including Christine:

It turns out that Christine and I both have weird food issues, which includes not liking textures to mix. Like, I’m kind of fine with chicken noodle soup, but do not understand at all any sort of minestrone soup. I like pretty much everything that goes into a nice Minestrone Soup, and yet, I do not like it.

Oh, here are Christine’s kickass slippers:

There were many other knitters, including the Other Gail, who thought she managed to stay out of all pictures. Muahahahaha.

We learned many things at the retreat, thanks to Beth Walker-O’Brien. I was going to post lovely pictures of what I learned, but well, I’m kind of lazy. We also had a great yarn tasting – I knitted a weird rectangle with all the yarn samples we got – that really deserves its own post.

It was a ton of fun, and Dee did an awesome job again. I managed to control myself with the vendors, although I did buy lots of roving to do more needle felting. I’ll have to take pictures of some of my finished projects – at least the ones Hunter hasn’t eaten yet.