This Lady Knits

Seems I was overcome by wool fumes, my camera somehow didn’t manage to leave my purse while we were at OFFF, and I have yet to take pics of my little haul, so this will be sans pictures.

Left my house by 7 am Saturday morning, gassed up the car, grabbed some coffee and some money and went and picked up Libby and MHP.  We hit the road by 8 am from her house, with Libby knitting furiously away at the sleeves for her Rogue, the sleeves didn’t get finished, but like a trooper and as she stated she would, she wore Rogue sans sleeves.  I have a pic of that from the night before, it’ll get posted at some point this week, when I have time to pull it off my camera. 

We got to OFFF about 11:45, ran MHP to a bathroom, by this point he really needed it, then went off to miss the hand off for Mr Pink, no worries, we found the Portland Bloggers (they had posted a sign) and Mr Pink was handed off to the next kidnapper, I still have to find out just who we handed him off to, I’m really not good at keeping track of these things. 

Then it was fiber time.  The first booth we found was Blue Moon Fiber Arts, it wasn’t hard to do, it was right there 2nd booth from the particular entrance we went it.  This is where my fall began.  I swear I was good there, I only bought another Sheep to Shoe kit, not like I’ve spun the other one, or knitted the first one or anything, I simply couldn’t resist.  See I have very little will power around wool.  But I was good and I resisted temptation, if only that were the theme for the rest of the day.  Alas, I fell at the next booth, they had a charka, which I have been entertaining the thought of buying.  Is it my fault it followed me home.  I did resolve from that point to be good, that lasted right up until I simply had to buy some Cotton Puni’s, and while I was at it I decided to buy some much coveted wool combs as well.

Ok, so again I resolved not to buy anything else, well ok, so I bought a little something for someone who couldn’t make it, but I shant reveal that here, she’s a frequent reader.  Was it my fault that MHP wants to learn to spin, was it my fault that Libby bought him his first drop spindle.  Well ok, it was my fault I couldn’t resist buying him his first fiber, what those 2 balls those are cute, ok, I need those to, what you like that ball Libby, well toss it in the mix.  Clearly this lady knew what she was doing she had some wonderful alpaca/merino/ silk bats right next to the check out, toss a few of those in the mix too. 

The next purchase, I actually did resist, but unfortunately we went back, and I simply had to get it, I picked up a pound of undyed Optim and a little over half price.  One of these days I really do need to buy some dyes, I seem to acquire undyed fiber at an alarming rate. Ok, so those 2 Cookie A patterns and a couple of skeins of sock yarn jumped in the bag too *sigh*.  Next booth over there was some wonderful Carbonized Bamboo, they had 4 oz left, and then they had none, that last 4 oz jumped into my bag too.

So back into my delirious state of denial, Libby wanted to go back to BMFA’s booth for just one skein, she ended up with 2 I think.  Me on the other hand ended up with 4 skeins (2 STR light weight and 2 STR medium weight mill ends) some Merino/Bamboo roving, and not one but 2 Baby Surprise Jacket kits.  What’s a girl to do, it all jumped into my bag, granted at that point I had to get another bag, but the bags are so cute, they got new bags :). 

No worries, thought, all our purchases did fit into the trunk of my car and there was no sqeezing involved, MHP didn’t have to share the back seat with fiber.

Oh we did make it to Yarn Garden in Portland on the way home.  I’ve finally figure out how to not buy yarn when visiting an LYS, go after a fiber festival.  Yes, you all heard that right, I walked out of that store without leaving any of my money, well ok, the money I gave Libby for coffee doesn’t count.  That store is incredible, it’s like a series of little stores interconnected. Walk in the front door to a coffee shop, the next little store down, and I say little store, because you walk through a big opening in the wall, not exactly like a door, and there you find mostly baby yarns.  In the next little “store” you find sock yarns galore, they have a wall of Koigu, well ok, so it’s half a wall, but still it’s a lot of Gu in one place, and I resisted. Next store down, bulkier weight yarns, and Noro like I’ve never seen before, not to mention some that I haven’t seen before.  One more little store, all patterns, needles and a various other knitting tools.  For those of you that have seen Yarn Lady, well Yarn Garden definately gives them a run for their money.

Sunday morning started out with my DH telling me his brothers are celebrating my MIL’s Bday, so much for my relaxing day of knitting lace, it was back into the car again to trek off to my MIL’s to spend the day with my MIL and 4 BIL’s.  My MIL lives about an hour and a half drive away, so I got to spend well over half my weekend in the car. You know I wish my DH would actually give me some warning, so I can at least prepare mentally for spending over half the day with my MIL.  We had pizza for dinner and sat around watching TV, so not much exiting happening there.  I did manage to knit through about 4 inches of Cherie Amour, which I had ripped out Friday night due to extreme frustration. It’s now heading in the right direction, so I guess I did get to knit lace on Sunday, just not on the project I wanted to work on.