Uh-oh...Three-O!!

Today is Jamie's birthday! Since she is a working woman again, we needed to celebrate a day early. We went to dinner and a show at the Bryant Lake Bowl.

Truth be told, Jamie doesn't really knit all that much lately. She is more into dying and spinning than knitting. More recently, she is mostly into trying to go to work each day while simultaneously keeping an infant, her marriage, her friendships, her family relationships and herself alive. That doesn't leave a lot of time for crafting. For her birthday gift, I gave her a sock blank. A sock blank is, as the Knit Picks website declares, a double-stranded pre-knit stretch of sock yarn that you can hand dye then knit directly from the sock blank to create your own sock yarn. Jamie will be doing the dying part, since she likes that part, and I will knit her a pair of 30th birthday socks. It should be a fun collaboration to mark a significant birthday.

The reason we went to Bryant Lake Bowl is because of the knitting themed play, "Stitch, Bitch n' Die". The description of the play was:
Knitting based murder mystery comedy! The newest member of the knitting group has been brutally stabbed with a pair of knitting needles! Who is guilty? Who is innocent? Who will finish their scarf first?
It was hilarious, complete with gasps from the audience when a character menacingly threatens to rip out someones work and then DOES! Seriously, all of the knitters in the audience collectively cringed and gasped.

After the show, there was a little show and tell knitting competition. I brought the ever-lucky Mega Man hat and Jamie brought her felted one-good-reason-to-use-fun-fur monster slippers. It was a close competition but the Mega Man hat won and I am now the proud owner of the prize: a pair of knitted handcuffs.

Have a great birthday, Jamie!