Ontario Trip

Good Morning to all my blog followers!  Special hello to Miss E of CC and CC Moe....I am home, I am back into blog-swing!

Our trip to Ontario was great!  It was a long long drive and that part sort of sucked at times, but the CRANK-IN was wonderful.  We met so many very nice people to add to our CSM friends!  MrB learned what he wanted to learn, practiced the techniques before he left, and added new notches of learning to his (kilt) belt! He didn't wear his kilt to the sessions as I suspect it was a tad chilly this time of year.  

Even though I am not a cranker, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, talking to everyone and meeting everyone!  I was thrilled to know that most people already knew of me because of my blog.  It was exciting to meet the organizers plus MOE.  It was great to have met 3 geru instructors, Miss JD, Miss GM, and Miss JM and the Erl representive, Miss GE!  They are all very talented CSMers who were gracious in sharing some of their CSM knowledge.  And to note also, some other CSMers gave presentations as well, Miss EL, and Miss MC. And you can't have a Crank-in without having a machine person in house.  We all appreciated having Mr. GM there to assist and socialize with daily.

The Demonstration schedule included:Troubleshooting Issues While Knitting, Creative Beading on Your Socks, Learn how to Kitchener Stitch your Socks, Lacemaking instruction, Production Knitting on Your Circular Sock Machine, Flatknitting on Your Circular Sock Machine.....and constant intermingling and sharing of ideas and techniques throughout the weekend.

There was also The Cafe Marketplace for items to be sold.  We bought some yarn and I am getting the itch for MrB to crank out some socks to see what it looks like.

I met two other special people Miss JM and Miss EM who truly became instant friends.  We had lots of laughs!  Thanks to Miss EM who gave me a ball of yarn for MrB to crank me a pair of socks.  And Thanks to JM and AM for taking time to give us a tour of their Alpaca Farm on the back enroute to Toronto.  

We sooo enjoyed the Alpaca Farm, as I am always intrigued with those animals.  It was awesome to see the beginnings of JM and AM's store and mill plans.  We wish you all the best of luck, and there will be more updates on that into the New Year!

On our hand-out sheet, it is printed on the bottom of the page:
Crank, mix, mingle, share ideas and have fun the rest of the day and the evening.....well I have no doubt in my mind that that was accomplished!!  

MrB and I went to CJoe's 3 nights in a row plus one lunch for meals, and always had a following of crankers with us.  The food was great and the company was great, what more can we ask for?  Oh the odd drink here and there was great too!

The only thing we did not do was drive around the area and see the sights.  We did not want to get into a car again until we left and that we did NOT!  Next time if come again we will see the sights.

Well that is Crank-in # 2 under our belt!  Was it worth the drive?
ABSOLUTELY!!! 
Would we come again?
In a heart beat if we lived closer!
So on that note, I do want to say.....all of you who live in Ontario you dont know how lucky you are to have so many crankers in your province.  We unfortunately are not that lucky in our neck of the woods.  But we are very happy to have the Good Karma Crankin to have to drive to.  If any of you want to reconnect or make new CSM connections you are more than welcome to come to GK Farm in Belfast Maine June 2013.  We will be there!  MrB and I will definitely be there, as its the closest Crank-in to us that we will call HOME!

A BIG THANKS To Miss EL and to Miss MP for organizing the Crank-in and doing a fabulous job!

Now to check through my pics and add some in a part 2.

MsB from Socks Made On 88