Impressions about interacting on the Friday evening at City View Baptist Church, with Lucy Neatby and the audience by Y (Betty Ruth E.) on the morning after, September the 29th, 2007.
Watching the friendly footsteps of Paulette L. with Lucy Neatby as I sat in a car waiting with my fellow knitters, my excitement about the evening began to crescendo. Inside the church, tables were being set up, chairs were already in place. Folks began filing in, paying their ten dollars to Paulette, and receiving a ticket for the draw from Bev G.. Paulette and Linda H. had spent many hours planning the evening. Laura P., who sponsors our Knit in the Park, was setting up for coffee and tea. The Guild Executive brought homemade desserts. Francesca spread out the bounty of Lucy Neatby, DVDs, patterns and yarns from her store Three Bags Full, sponsors of Lucy’s Saturday workshop. Lorraine M. was selling raffle tickets for the Margart D. knit afghans. Then the friends of Lucy began filing in, sitting on the left and the right, like friends of the bride or groom. Our president Holli Y., dressed in sleek black, introduced the merchant knitter who had literally sailed the seven seas, and figuratively explored pattern, colour, and shipping.
Colourful Lucy began to speak!!!
Lucy, by her presence and speech, reflecting her complex knitted patterns, effects the core of my being, and changes the rhythm and the spacing of my molecules. Lucy ripples. She expands my being. Therefore the audience seemed to me to multiply by the thousand. Lucy shared pictures of her home and her business within her house. On her fuschia coated apple portable/mac laptop, she showed Lucy sitting in a corner with the book, Mac for Dummies; the shipping boxes with the clipboard and yarn inside; the walls lined with her eighty patterns, always keeping maybe thirty or fifty on hand; her computer corner; her 
transformed dining room gone awry; the photographer and crew who helped prepare her DVDs; the folks at home who work with Tradewinds, and her family. Lucy chose to show us hidden details, great! Thanks, Lucy! Rising early helps her to accomplish great deeds, so we could all do well to incorporate this early to rise pattern into our lives.
