Emmy Award Winning Knitting

Some BIG news!

You will never believe it, but I am going on VACATION!

"But Maggi, that's madness I tell you, MADNESS!"

Oh but it's true! Yours truly, who has not been on a vacation since her honeymoon (?!?!) is leaving today to go on vaca! Hoop-Dee-Doo! In your face, Maggi's House! Woo hoo! I will be gone for 10 days, 10 glorious not at home days!

What??? No, don't cry! I'm not leaving forever my darling readers, please control yourselves! Yes, through the power of auto-post I will be with you the whole time! Plus, I may just post some pics from whatever exotic locale I happen to be in at the time.

One last thing before the real post begins: there is a special Craftoholics interview this coming Monday that you won't want to miss! Muwahahahahahaha...

So be sure to miss me tons and NO posting anything cool on your blogs while I'm away! (Although if there's a computer anywhere near me I'll try to make an appearance or two!)

Now, on with the post!

Chris meets many people in his line of work, most of which are complaining or just plain rude (he works in retail) but every once in a while, God smiles upon him and brings some really cool people into the store.

Enter D1 & D2, a fabulous transplant couple from the West Coast. Chris hit it off right away with them and being the generous guy that he is, decided to share his new friends with me and we now enjoy having dinners together and what not. They are a lot of fun and the best part (at least for me) is that D2 is a HUGE crafty person and she is a knitting guru. *gasp* Did someone say knitting! Oh baby!

I have ALWAYS wanted to learn how to knit and now I had someone right in my clutches...uh, I mean someone I knew that could teach me! Luckily D2 was in a teaching type of mood and one night after dinner (D1 is a master at making homemade ice cream by the way) we sat down and she taught me. I didn't do too bad considering she taught me to "knit-knit-knit-knit" and instead I did "knit-purl-knot-knit-huh-knit-what-the-..." But she was very patient with me and she is just fabulous!



Not too bad for a first timer, eh? I'm hoping to be a decent enough knitter at some point. Practice practice practice!

So it happened one night that we went to have dinner at D1 & D2's house when I went into their office to check out something on their computer. We were all in there talking and laughing when something over their computer desk caught my eye...

Something...shiny...

Something...bright...

It couldn't be...

But it is!



Three Emmy awards?! What in the blue blazes?! So I calmly and rationally asked D1 and D2 what the what...

Turns out that D2 is something of a big wheel and won three techinical Emmys because she is so awesome. Wow! Wait, does that mean that I was taught to knit by an Emmy award winner?! Wow!

P.S.-They were nice enough to let me hold one and didn't even laugh when I gave an acceptance speech. And yes, they are heavy...

P.P.S.-Yes, my acceptance speech was awesome...they didn't even start up the "Shut up and get the heck off the stage!" music. How nice...