Saturday, August 09, 2008

KNIT A BEACH 08: POSTCARDS FROM THE SHORE

Knit-a-Beaching on the White Point Deck

It's deep summer in Nova Scotia and we are all beachside at my second annual Knit a Beach excursion, exploring our special expressions of evocative knitting, sea-style. At first the rain comes in, sending us to huddle indoors by firesides with our cups of tea and piles of yarn.

Content despite the weather, we have foraged through yarn stores and are stash-happy, a little color drunk, and almost oblivious to the ocean fog that mists the trees and muffles the surf. As knitters, that special breed of beings who see foul weather as an even greater excuse to knit, we settle in to unfold our beaches. 

Eventually the weather clears, which it usually does in spectacular fashion.  Now it's sunny, unbelievably bright with sparkling waves and blue, blue skies. Guess what we're up to? Still knitting!

Fog roll

Of course, we do other things besides knit: we eat; we forage through more yarn stores; we walk the beach; we buy even more yarn; we visit Mahone Bay and Lunenburg plus Halifax, of course; we eat even more. But mostly we knit.

Pat and I await the others outside Have a Yarn, Mahone Bay (note the bags...)

Mary Lou surveys her colors in Have a Yarn

Maggie O hugs her stash

Sheryl studies her shoreline

Part of a barbecue: cedar planked maple salmon

The beacheroos...

Next posting: the unfloding beaches and my special guest visitors!