Too Much Yarn

At the airport Part 2 - Yarn Shops

So here are some photos of the Yarn shops I went to.. Knit Purl.

Last night, we went to the Happy Knits party.

I haven't uploaded food photos or all the other photos taken with others yet. So stay tuned.

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At the airport Part 1- Marketplace

OK. I have an hour and a half as my flight was delayed. And there is free WIFI. So, I'm going to show you photos in parts. These are Marketplace photos. No explanation. Just absorb the beauty. We will start with the Hazel Knits booth.

Here is the Three Irish Girls booth.

Sanguine Gryphon:

The Plucky Knitter:

Everything in here were one of a kind for $22.

Here are other booths:

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Day 3

I'm at Stephanie's lecture. Shhh...

We have yarn! Mom took photos. You will have to wait and see!!

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Day 2

OK - only had 1 hour at Marketplace today so no major shopping again... Most things are already gone!! But Mom will spend time there tomorrow. We are also going to Dim Sum in Chinatown, maybe visit the Chinese Garden, Button Emporium, Powell's? And maybe some yarn shops. We'll see... oh yes, and Saturday Market.

But first, I want you to know that Cookie liked the doughnut!

Then, we went to lunch at Burgerville with the Cookie A and Janel Laidman Sock Club members. After lunch, we posed for a photo. You see me next to Cookie?





And a close-up shot!





Mom went to visit the Hazel Knits booth again... it's getting empty! But she was able to take a photo with Wendee.





For dinner, we went out with the Sanguine Gryphon group to a Thai restaurant, called, Pok Pok. Across the street are some food carts. We sat and visited for a while... Here's the group with ActionLady, Rosekitty, and DJacob.





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Location:Hotel

Voodoo Doughnut

First on the agenda this morning is the trek to Voodoo Doughnut.

Mom had the Cock-and-Balls. It was cream-filled. I got the Voodoo Doll for Cookie.

The line started to form as we were eating our doughnuts.

Stephanie had time to pose for a photo with Mom. I hope I get to take a photo with Cookie later.

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Location:Sock Summit

Day 1

What a day! Mom took two classes today. The first one is "Heel Constructions for Toe-up Socks" with Janel Laidman and the second one is "Designing Socks with Handpainted Yarn" with Chrissy Gardiner. Both are great glasses. She'll share what she learned one day on the blog. We saw many great teachers! And lots of yarn when Marketplace opened up. There was only 2 hours to be in the Marketplace but seriously, we only went to 5 booths - Hazel Knits, Sanguine Gryphon, Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Three Irish Girls, and SOAK. We will go to the rest during lunch break tomorrow. Tomorrow, Mom is taking "Advanced Top Down Sock Design: Going off the Grid" from Cookie A. OK - I know, you want to see photos, so here we go.

with Janel Laidman:


with Chrissy Gardiner:



Hazel Knits Booth. Forgot to take a photo of Wendee, but she wanted me to take a photo of the sample colors that some of the gals on the Hazel Knits Group knitted:









At the Three Irish Girls Booth and Sharon:






Met Sarah and Gryphon. Her booth was super crowded!



Dianne (woohoogirl) and Carrie (irishgirlieknits)


This lady sat at our table during Opening Session. Check out her necklace!



Franklin Habit, Cat Bordhi, and Mary Scott Huff.


Stephanie and Tina - founders of Sock Summit:


We sat next to this table of greatness: JC Briar, Anna Zilboorg, Cookie A, Janel Laidman, Ann Budd, Nancy Bush, Clara Parkes. Mom also went up to talk to Ann Hanson, but didn't take a photo with her.


Tomorrow, we are having lunch with Cookie and Janel. This is for the sock clubs for these 2 designers.

Oh, wait, you want to see what yarn came home with us. Here you go... Some of these are gifts... so are you Mom's friend?



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Location:Sock Summit, Portland

I'm HERE!

Three blog posts. Three airports. Fun, huh? I'm now waiting for the train to take us to downtown to our hotel. Mom is almost done with my gusset. Haven't worked on her homework yet. She's a procrastinator!! Here's another crappy phone photo.

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Location:NE Airport Way,Portland,United States

Flight Cancelled

Yep. Flight was cancelled. Stood in line for 2 hours to finally got rebooked to a flight for today. They booked us in tomorrow's flight, arriving at 5 pm in Portland!! Are they nuts? Flying first class though. Mom asked them all possibilities with her sleuthing Delta flight schedule and got the last seat to a flight to Seattle and then to Portland by 7:05 pm. Better than flying to Chicago and arriving at 10:45 pm!! So no time to check out local yarn shops. Oh well, more money for Marketplace, then. We were just standing in line, checking flight schedules, so no knitting yet!! And we even have a $6 meal voucher from Delta! Going to go get a treat from French Meadow bakery.


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Location:Still in Minneapolis Airport

Here we go...

My name is U1. This is my first blog post. I'm so excited, but I'm sure not as excited as my Mom as we head put to Portland, Oregon for Sock Summit 2011. I think my Mom has been to almost 30 states in the US. But she has never been to Oregon. Our flight was supposed to leave at 11:40 but has been delayed by 40 minutes. However, at this time, we will only be arriving 5 minutes after expected arrival time. The phone was only 40% charged (bad Momma!) so we went to an empty gate to get the phone charged and munched in Gummy Bears. Mom also picked up a book, Knit Two, by Kate Jacobs. She just finished the first book, Friday Night Knitting Club. It wasn't anything like the Harry Potter Series, just easy reading, and she can boast that she reads. She didn't bring the Kindle, but didn't want to take addition space in the iPad to store the ebook; we need space for yarn photos!

So, here are my buddies. 2 homeworks for Janel Laidmans's class. Mom has 16 rows left for each homework. And, in case I'm naughty, she will knit Southfork Socks. She has to get prepared for the August Challenge. Auntie Denise has a lot of second socks all ready to be finished. Ok. I'm going to get pampered now. See you in Portland.

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Loooooooong Post...

First of all, the U2 Concert is DA BEST!  There is no concert I've ever attended that is this amazing - even the 2 Andy Gibb concerts I went to when I was so giddy about him as a teenager!  The music, the stage, EVERYTHING is fantastic and I have yet to read a bad review about the concerts that they have put together across the country.  So, it rained, but I stayed dry with my poncho and baseball hat.  I did get about 4 repeats of the Monkey Socks done.  I've decided to name Sock #1 U1 and we'll see if there will be a U2.

I finished the shawl for my mom.  I have to weave in the ends and I'll give it to her on Tuesday.  This is unblocked:

And blocking: (well, it's dried, but I haven't taken it off the blockers yet)

I've destashed my yarn for my Sock Summit Fund.  Getting close to $700!!  Here are a few that just went away: Bugga in Devil's Flower Mantis, Pink Katydid, Sukara Silk Moth, and Madelinetosh Pashmina in Forestry.

 

Sock Summit... it's taking a lot of time for prepartion.  Today, I finished the rest of the stitchmarkers, but haven't finished attaching them to my cards.  Someone had asked me how to make them.  Basically, there are 3 steps.  These are what you need:  Wire, beads, crimp beads, and tools - a crimper and cutter:

String the beads in order:

Crimp and trim the ends of the wire:

Now, I'm attaching them to my cards to be given out/swapped:

I also knitted a Tiny Leaves sock for the Hazel Knits Meet-up at Sock Summit.  We can identify each other by those wearing a Tiny Leaves sock.  This is how small it is:

And finally, some sock club shipments... Rockin' Sock Club - love the colors!  And are all lightweight skeins now 405 yards?  Or just the club shipments?

closeup:

The last shipment from Knit Purl: (Pattern by Wendy Johnson)

I'm 50% packed, but haven't fnished 2 pieces of homework and I have to wind some more yarn for  Cookie's class and Chrissy's class... so later...

And by the way, U1 will be your narrator when in Portland.