Hi, everyone! Did you miss me? I am back to blogging after a full two weeks off. It’s been nice to have time away. I spent my spring break in Ireland with Whitney, my childhood friend.
I got to Dublin on a Saturday afternoon. Whit arrived the next morning (Easter Sunday) from Los Angeles. If it were me I would have been dead tired, but Whit was a real champ and arrived ready to see the city. She had a surprise planned for me and I had no idea what it was.
But first! We had to stop for a drink at Dublin’s oldest pub.
Next up was the surprise. I had kind of thought it would be a facial or massage or something. I was wrong, though! Whitney took me to a loom knitting class where we got to make our own Merino wool scarves. (How cool is that?!)Â We took our class with Liadian Aiken.
Things went well at first but then my yarn kept falling off the hooks. Righting it was a tedious process where our instructor had to re-hook each loop back on the loom. My yarn fell off about five or six times. 😦
But FINALLY we finished and I am really happy with the result.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhCQ7xeBOeV/?taken-by=hellofromkosovo
Now I have a beautiful, warm scarf that I handmade and that will remind me of Ireland and spending time with Whitney. 🙂 I love it so much! I wore it all week.
Here’s a little video of some live pub music that evening:
I’ve got lots more to share about Ireland. Four upcoming posts will be about my trip.
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