Knitting on the Rogue River

…Finally! Well, here it is, my pictures and impressions from Stitches West. Not one picture of the event though. I felt too intimidated to take pictures. Pictures were banned in the Market and none got taken at either of my classes. Oh well. The first class was with Melissa Leapman on designing. She’s a great instructor and I encourage any and all to take a class with her if you get a chance. The class was lecture only, there wasn’t any knitting going on unless you were knitting on another project (which I was). Lots of good information, like swatch, swatch, swatch, measure, measure, measure. Most of it was common sense and things I knew but I always enjoy refresher courses and this one was very enjoyable. Even though we just listened and watched it wasn’t boring.

 The other class I took was using software for designing with Ginger Luter. Another great class with another wonderful instructor. You can tell Ginger enjoys teaching. Now I feel better equiped to use the software I bought last year. Denise took the freeform knitting class and got quite a bit from it.

The Market was fun & overwhelming! We both decided the Alpaca (anybody’s Alpaca) was the softest yarn in the Market. I bought two pounds of Henry’s Attic Alpaca from Yarn Barn. Another fabulous yarn was/is Seacell and we both had to get a skein. One only because we couldn’t afford more than that at over $36 a skein. Next on my list was some yarn to knit another scarf. Love that pattern!

 

I finally got the Opal Tiger sock yarn! And two skeins of Socks That Rock! The picture on the right is the completed scarf.

Last, but not least, is the great buy I got from Webs. A bag of Silver Thaw for less than half what I would have paid at my lys.

To show everyone how dedicated Denise and I were about driving to Stitches West here’s a picture of the snow taken just before I got in the car to drive to Denise’s house. The roads were clear and not too bad to drive on. The worst spot was getting out of Denise’s driveway where I almost got stuck.

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