This Lady Knits

There are pictures on my camera, I just need to find the cable to get them off the camera on the computer, so this post will be picture less.

This last weekend Blue Moon Fiber Arts had a destashing sale at Scappoose Creek Inn and well Libby and I decided to take a road trip. So we packed MHP into the car and hit the road bright and early Saturday morning, ok, so it was 8ish by the time we left her place, and headed down the I5 towards Oregon.  Shidiot gave us directions that took us off the beaten path, and we found ourselves driving down the Lewis and Clark Trail, a beautiful drive if you’re ever in the area and have some time to kill, definately take it, but it takes you into the back country.

We got to the barn where the sale was being hosted around 11 and the place had pretty much been cleaned out, but never fear, I did manage to buy some fiber, not much, but yarn none-the-less.  We wandered out to the pasture to try and feed the llama’s they had there but the llama’s were having nothing to do with us.  Yes I have pics, again they are on the camera and can’t find their way off yet, I’ll work on it tonight.

Since we were in the neighborhood, we decided to head on down to Woodland Woolworks, well it was an hour drive further south from where we were at, but it was beautiful and IMHO well worth the trip.  The show room was, well wow, a bit overwhelming.  You walk in the front door and off to the right there is a “Garage Sale” Room, where they have mostly yarn that is on sale.  To the left and up the stairs, you walk into a room full of spinning wheels, off of that is a room with weaving looms and cones of yarn.  Straight in from the front door, it’s a bit deceiving because that is the “office” and also the place where they take your money.  Off of that is a room full of yarn and fiber.  The yarn is set out in such a way to look like a normal yarn store.  This is where the difference is, with the yarn, it’s pretty much one or 2 of everything they have in the colors they have, the rest, well you bring it to the fron desk and they will get the quantities you want from the warehouse.  For those in Seattle, the yarn section there is about the size of the yarn area of Weaving Works, in So. Cal it’s about the size of Unravelled Yarns.  Then add the fiber section, about the size the back end of Weaving Works, where all the fiber and cones are, and about the size of the classroom and sitting area of Unraveled.  It’s big.

The room with the spinning wheels was my down fall.  All those lovely wheels and even sample fibers to spin.  Well I’ve been thinking about picking up a Louet Victoria for a while now, I was going to wait until next year, please note the WAS.  I made the mistake of sitting down and spinning on one, and well now I’m the proud owner of an oak Louet Victoria, DH has pics of that on his camera, I just need to get him to post it so I can cross post it here.  Yes it followed me home.  The cost, well I had to pretty much sacrifice my desire to go to Madrona this year, but I didn’t even do that much, I did register for one class at Madrona this year, and will not be staying down there, but instead commuting just for the 1 day, we’ll see about wether or not I visit the market there or not.

So my to do list is to find the cord for my camera, so I can move the pictures from the camera to here, mind you Libby had control of the camera so I’m not exactly sure what all is on there, but there were some beautiful sites, so I’m sure there are some beautiful pictures .

I’ve really been more into my spinning lately, just took a 3 week spinning class on fiber prep, and am playing with samples of raw wool from that.  I’ve spun at least 3 skeins in the last month, if not more, I’ll have to do a photo shoot with those.  Lately, it’s been work and pretty much avoiding the internet when I get home.  Not much knitting going on around here, well other than holiday knitting, but I won’t post those pics until after the recepients receive those. I do have an FO or 2 that have yet to be posted here as well, but like I said, I’ve been avoiding the internet at home.