Sarah and I are blessed to be able to combine business with
knitting, all in the midst of our family life – and with the flexibility to get
to the gym, Bible Study, etc. fairly regularly. 
Really, really, we are. 

That said, there are times when with all the business and
the family and the gym, Bible Study, etc. leave little time for actual
knitting!  On Tuesday, for example, we
had two computers going as we were simultaneously building our new website and
printing up name badges and sign-in sheets for Catholic Woman’s Club – while
taking care of the children (Gwen is a rambunctious 16 mos. and Max a
super-rambunctious 3 ½ yrs.).  It was a little chaotic (okay, a lot chaotic).  And yet there I was tossing design project swatches
at Sarah and trying to elicit sound opinions. 

Somewhere in between the proof-reading and Sarah’s trying to
undo what I had just done to the website (it wasn’t pretty!) and fetching
crackers and juice, we decided we needed to set aside some calm knitting time
— during daylight hours when brains are humming along nicely. 

So, we have declared Saturday Afternoon Knit-Ins when we
will go out to local coffee-drinking haunts and knit (sans children, sans
computers).   We figure we are grown-up women and we can do
this kind of thing.  Plus we love coffee.

And we thought it would be
keeping-in-the-spirit-of-the-thing to be spontaneous about where we go –
fortunately we live in the Pacific Northwest where
you can practically hop from espresso machine to espresso machine like they
were stepping stones!  And time-wise,
well, we have to work that out with loving family members who want to spend
some rambunctious time with you-know-who-and-who.  But we can probably best escape around naptime,
say 1:00ish.

Anyway, if you are signed up to get my tweets, you will know where we are on SAKI days because I
will tweet it out sometime that morning. 
Then, if you are in the neighborhood, you can drop by and say hi, see
what’s on our needles, show us what’s on your needles. 

So, as Max would say “That’s a good plan.”  And we are ridiculously excited about it!