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hooping in central park

maybe you’re sick of hooping, but i’m not i actually have very little knitting content to show you right now because i just finished a secret popknits project (not so secret anymore) and just started knitting on ishbel. in the meantime, let me expound on my trip to central park to hoop with some girl friends.

i joined the hoopnotica meetup.com group a while back and i heard that there would be a meeting in central park on the first really HOT day of the “summer”. i packed up a bag, my travel hoop and an extra hoop for tina and set off.

[ Day 89 | Year 2 ] hoop fest in central park (by Ms. M)

photo courtesy of ms. m

i arrived at the sheep’s meadow in central park to find 1 billion people sunning themselves and a group of people hooping away. my new friend, lindsay, was already in the middle of a lesson so i joined her as quickly as i could. i seemed to be one of the more advanced people in the group so i just hooped along as best i could.

photo courtesy of misplacedpom

then tina arrived and i passed off a hoop to her so that she could join in the fun!

at first, things did not go so well, but then she got right back in the groove of things!

so i gave her the hoop to take home as a gift. there was even a camera crew there from GMTV (britain) to do a segment on hooping’s growing popularity!