This Lady Knits

Sorry all, I totally spaced the camera again, so no pics from Madrona.  I did come out alive but I’m not sure my wallet survived day 3.  I swear I’m going to get around to taking pics, hopefully some time this week.

 So Day 1 I took a Make it Fit class, who knew so much work went into making something fit you.  We took measurements, don’t ask what mine are I’m not telling *wink*.  Learned about body types, I’m mostly an X shape.  Learned about darts and short rows and where to put them and a whole host of other things that are still settling into my brain.  The class was informative, fun and exhausting at the same time.  By the end of the day, it was all I could do to get some grub and back to my room. By necessity the Make it Fit class was here’s a bunch of information, absorb it and take notes.

Day 2 was a class in Spinning Worsted and Woolen.  A very good counterbalance to my prior day’s class.  This was a more relaxed class, not in information but in teaching style.  The class format was more here’s a handout with the basic differences, now here’s how you do it.  The morning was spent learning Woolen preperation and spinning, she showed us how to do it then gave us fiber and set us free, while she wandered around the room critiquing and answering questions.  We did the same thing in the afternoon for Worsed prep and spinning.  Lots of fun and there were at least 5 of us from my spinning group in that class.

 Day 3, no classes, but I went down to spin with my spinning group, as always a good time was had by all, with periodic excursions back into the market. Sachi came over for the day too, we had a great time catching up as always.  She’s looking for a 2nd wheel, so there may be a trip in our nearish future to Woodland Woolworks to “visit” the wheels they have there.

Oh and I’ve been meaning to mention this for a few weeks now and just clean forgot.  I’ve been beta testing Knit Visualizer 2.0 for a few months now, and all I really have to say about the software is…..WOW.  Version 2.0 now can handle color, has apsect ratio setting so you can actually chart fair isle in color on a knitters graph.  The biggest feature in this release, IMHO, and the greatest, again IMHO, is that you can now create your own stitches.  Not only using KV font, but JKnits font is built in as well.  You can also use any font that is on your computer.  You can create any stitch you’d like and even change the foreground and background color of the stitch.  Go check it out, this is an amazing piece of charting design software.

Oh I do have a pic to share:

This is what I saw on my way into work this morning, through the fog, I was actually able to capture his pic with my camera phone.  I see it quite often, but it rarely translates into something I can capture with my camera phone.