Not true, of course: I came away from The Loopy Ewe’s Spring Fling with a bunch of surprise goodies. But when I won a “Monkey Farts”-scented lotion bar as a door prize...
...a group of Flingers decided I needed a T-shirt that read “I went to Spring Fling and all I got were Monkey Farts.” I figured a blog entry with that title would be close enough.
Actually, the door prize was a pair of lotion bars.
The Cranberry lotion has a lovely fruity/floral scent with a touch of vanilla. (Or maybe the vanilla is just my imagination, since I love the smell of vanilla.) The scent lingers on my hands for hours.
And the Monkey Farts lotion? No-one that’s sniffed it has been able to figure out what it smells like. Not bananas. Not anything identifiable. Who knows? Maybe it really does smell of monkey farts.
But that’s not all. Everyone that attended Spring Fling received a goodie bag containing Loopy Ewe swag.
Even DH thinks Loopy is pretty darn cute. Myself, I’m particularly smitten by the book of sticky notes.
Is it wrong to get excited over a book of sticky notes? To look forward to marking the patterns in a stitch dictionary with color-coded stickies? I sure hope not.
And – drum roll, please – everyone snagged a skein of Wollmeisse.
Different people got different colors. We were encouraged to trade, but my skein was purple. Who trades away purple? Nobody, I bet. Now I’m just waiting for the skein to tell me what it wants to become.
Of course, the biggest goodie of them all was attending the Spring Fling itself. Sheri, let me say again that you and your elves put on an awesome event. And the Flingers! I don’t think I’ve ever met a bunch of knitters so happy to learn a few cast-on tricks and to knit silly little entrelac samples. I’d come back and teach for y’all again anytime.
Tagged: trip report.
I sat next to the maker of the lotion bars and she said monkey farts was a combination of banana, strawberry, and kiwi. I hope that helps! :o)
And I just wanted to say that I loved your cast on class. I learned so much! You are an excellent teacher and I look forward to taking another class from you!
» Amy
Hey JC . . . . . . . perfect! And, no . . . . . . I LOVE stickies! I must checkout those lotions. Sounds like the fling of a lifetime!!! Glad you are getting more and more recognition . . . you are so talented!
» Susan Cochran
Banana, strawberry, and kiwi... huh. I would’ve never guessed!
» JC
Oh, sticky notes... how do I love thee? My heart would melt as well in the face of a little folder of sticky notes.
And Wollmeise, well... I'd be stinkin' jealous, if a good friend hadn't just gifted me a precious skein of greeeeeeen for my birthday! What shall we make, I wonder?!?
» Karen
No, it couldn't possibly be wrong to "look forward to marking the patterns in a stitch dictionary with color-coded stickies" because that's exactly how I do it!
» Betty Salpekar
Such a pleasure to meet you, we all hope that you will return and teach again!
» Barbara
It was very nice to meet you and I enjoyed your class on "entrelac basics" Looking forward to taking another class. Maybe at the next Spring Fling!
» Lulynn