In-House Knitting Retreat

[neadods]

Sitting and reading yesterday and sitting, knitting, and listening to my audiobook today was so lovely, I've decided to do a big (but hopefully impressive) indulgence - have a one-day, in-house knitting retreat. Setting it up will be a bit of work (and a bit of money) but if it works, it's going to be fabulous!

Step 1) Have nothing else to do. That means all chores, cleaning, appointments, etc., have to be cleared from the deck beforehand. That's the "bit of work." It can be done.

Step 2) Food. Cooking and cleaning are not relaxing to me. What I plan on doing is what I did on Harry Potter release days - hit up the restaurants the day before (or Silver Diner early) and come home with three complete microwave reheatable meals. (I'd read until I realized I was starving, nuke something, and eat it while never missing a word.)

Step 3) Entertainment. It was a LOT of fun to just sit and knit while listening to a new program. I'm turning into quite the audiobookphile, and difficult as it will be, will need to find the willpower to keep one (or two shorter ones) aside for a treat during the retreat.

Step 4) Education. Commercial retreats tend to have classes. I intend to go on youtube and type "knitting." Also, I may womanfully muster the willpower to *not* read one of my new knitting books until The Day.

What else am I missing? Should I take my cd player and my knitting upstairs to the bathtub and have a long soak in salts (I saved some from the Italy trip, so they're posh 'n' all) for the spa portion of the proceedings?

Mind you, I'm viewing this as a solitary pleasure. *eyes sentence, smirks, decides to leave it* If a couple of the other knitting folks in the area would like to pick a date & house, maybe we could do a collective thing, with a bring-a-dish all-day buffet, teach each other techniques, and talk/collectively pick an audiobook or music.

Alas, today's indulgence is over: I've got four overdue reviews to crank out and some application paperwork.

x-posted to 52_indulgences

Comments

[evil_plotbunny]

I'm very tempted to steal this idea.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at the possibility of organizing something like this at a library somewhere nearby this summer.

We could combine forces...interested?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

YES!

[jennetj.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous idea! I'm off this week (much-needed vacation), and may take one day - possibly Wednesday because I have nothing else on the schedule for that day - to do just that. I'm finishing some beadwork projects for a con next weekend, and a day where all I'm doing is either beading or knitting and either listening to audiobooks (got a bunch of DW and TW books to listen to) or watching vids sounds perfect! Thanks for the suggestion.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd've ever thought of it if not for Harry Potter, where I was putting down everything and just reading as fast as eyes could move. But now that I think about it, and in conjunction with how badly I need a good rest... yeah. Liking this. May even try to make it a regular thing.

[kmarier.livejournal.com]

What a lovely idea! I may steal it too! My ideal vacation is to find a beautiful vacation, send off kidlet and husband to have fun on rollar coasters or whatnot and relax with my knitting, embroidering and catch up on my reading. Naps too!

ENJOY your indulgence - you will feel 1000% better!

[fyrdrakken]

Maybe try checking for a Stitch N Bitch group in your area? Every other Sunday (barring other commitments) I'm heading out to spend a few hours at a nice little cafe with a bunch of other knitters, and it's wonderful.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There's a Wednesday sit-and-knit at the local yarn store. I've been making cameo appearances, but probably won't sit and knit all night long until Torchwood has finished its run!

[fyrdrakken]

I suppose that's an unexpected advantage to me having to track down a TW torrent on Wednesday night and then if I'm very lucky have the download waiting for me on Thursday morning -- it doesn't interfere with my ability to go visit Dad on Wednesdays.