The knitter who also happens to play the harp

That's how the wonderful women at The Tangled Skein yarn shop in St. Peter know me. Usually I just come to the store and buy yarn, get approval to never knit a lace pattern again after 15 failed attempts, and have my latest project emergency...untangled.

But every December for the past 4 years, I've not only brought my knitting but I've packed up the harp and played for their Christmas open house.

The harp is right at home there...
considering there's ALMOST this much yarn
lying around at my house.

Sock knitter extraordinaire Nadine Haglin took this photo of me.
Yes, that's a sweater I knit.
Mountain mohair is very, very, very warm.

For the first time EVER, I left The Tangled Skein with no new yarn, no new project, no new pattern. And I even have $60 left on the gift certificate my brother gave me for my birthday/Christmas last year. I think so much of my creative energy is going into Prima Vox's "Fire & Ice" concert on December 19th that I can't even imagine wrapping my brain around knits and purls and decreases and heel turning.

But there's a whole winter ahead of me. I'm sure that come January, the wool and the needles and the couch and I will be one again.