Chapel Hill Road Trip

I’ve been a bad blogger but I tend to be one of those people that has like a routine and so it doesn’t make for interesting news though. However, I did go to Chapel Hill yesterday to meet a famous knitter/blogger/author named Franklin Habit. His blog was one of the first blogs that I started reading when I started blogging back in the day. Anyways, like a few weeks ago he mentioned he was interested in coming out to the area to do a signing/class and one of the yarn stores in Chapel Hill made arrangements to host a lecture/book signing and then their sister store in Raleigh is hosting his photography & knitting class today.
So, on Thursday, H & I decided to go and we both love Franklin’s work and thought it would a big adventure to go to Chapel Hill because neither one of us has ever been there before.
Basically, on Friday night I basically worked on the Lap Blanket from the Vanna’s Choice afghan book. It’s two shades of blue and one shade of linen that is a big granny square with a shell stitch border and I finished round 18 out of 30 yesterday and I’m almost out of one of the colors of blue so I need to get more after I go to KIP today.
Then Saturday morning, I made my usual trips to Whole Foods & the library and then I met a representative from Project Linus to drop off the baby afghans I had finished and the yarn donations. It is kind of freeing to be rid of all that old stash yarn. Then I came back to the apartment and worked on the afghan while I waited for H to get off work at the library.
So H made it to the apartment and we left straight for Chapel Hill because we kind of wanted to explore a little before the reading. I think after our trip, we are kicking ourselves for not having more time to spend in Chapel Hill & for not going to Chapel Hill before. It was seriously so easy to get to and we didn’t even get lost trying to get to the yarn store, which is next to this HUGE Whole Foods which is like super wal-mart sized and way larger than the one in Cary or Raleigh. They had King cakes for sale and I am regretting not purchasing one because they looked like a slice of heaven. In the same shopping center we also went to an organic living store called Twig, a PTA thrift shop and there is a Popsicle store (that sells little popsicles in all kinds of flavors).
Then it was finally time for the reading and the yarn store was packed. Franklin read essays from his book and did a Q&A and he showed us the red lace shawl that he had just recently finished and it is so beautiful! After he was finished speaking, then everyone lined up to have their books signed and H & I waited until the line got smaller. H & I both had our books signed and posed for pictures with Franklin. He is so nice and he has the most gorgeous penmanship. After the reading, H & I were starving, so we drove around until we found a place to eat that didn’t have like a super long wait and ended up eating at Red Robin and then we made it back home.
I was so wired when we got back from Chapel Hill that I ended up staying up late reading The Women by T.C. Boyle and Coraline by Neil Gaiman.