A great day off!

Liz wearing Elbac

So I figured with the new job starting soon, I'd better take a day off while I still can, since I'll likely be in training for quite some time and might not have another opportunity for several weeks, perhaps a couple months! I spent today in Toronto with my Knittyboard friend BluRoux. She met me this morning at the bus station, and we went out for coffee and chocolate croissants. Breakfast done, we headed to Kensington Market, where we sat in the very cozy Moonbean Café while I finished the decrease rows on her gift scarf pictured here, Knitty's Elbac, in Cascade 220 Tweed. (I didn't leave myself quite enough time to finish it on the bus, unfortunately. Those of you who know me as "Last Minute Lisa" will not be surprised.) Here's a close-up for a good look at the texture and great stitch definition. From the café, we hit Lettuce Knit (scene of our photo shoot) for some yarn shopping, then went to the Red Room for very yummy Pad Thai. (And beer. Now that is a fine thing on one's day off.) We wrapped up our yarn crawl at Knitomatic, where there was a pretty awesome sale going on, although I couldn't make up my mind what to get, so left empty-handed! Liz, I had a great day. Thanks for your lovely company during my Toronto yarn crawl!