this is THE way to travel! Quite relaxed, enjoying each others company, snacking and oh, yeah some knitting.We were interviewed and photographed extensively by a reporter from the Enterprise, but I have not seen if we actually made the paper. This was some subtle payback by Yvette for a previous incident when Mary sicced a photographer-in-training on us who needed portraits for her final class project. Yvette kept that reporter at our table for at least 45 minutes, egging her on to ask Mary all about her project.
The event itself was, like last year, overwhelming in the sheer numbers. There were 262 booths and it was crowded! No pictures inside allowed, but this is what I remember most:
- Best: guy vest with removable sleeves at the Fashion show
- Worst: getting trapped in the back of a popular booth
- Oddest: hay bale twine knitting (ok, this was actually Mary's test project to see if it's even possible to recycle the plastic twine that comes on the goat hay and turn it into a market bag).
The ride home was a relief from the maddening crowd and last minute buying frenzy, Yvette actually witnessed some pushing/shoving/yelling to get at some highly sought after yarn.
We took the time to admire our lovely new yarn. Mary was quite a sweetheart and gifted both Yvette and I with some cool sockyarn made out of wool and Tencel, a fiber made from woodpulp. It's one of the many new "green" fibers, which is nice, but really we just thought it made the yarn sort of shiny, and you know how we like shiny stuff. Alison scored some gorgeous handdyed silk yarn for a sweater she has been dreaming up in her head for a while and I finally found the perfect yarn for a sweater I've been itching to make since the time I first laid eyes on the pattern.
below is a wool/tencel skein I will most likely turn into socks on the tinest needles I've used yet, #1.5 (2.5mm), about the size of ballpoint pen refills.
and this is the fabulous, slightly variegated brown wool yarn I intend to turn into a sweater with the cutest cabled owls you've ever seen on the yoke. This picture doesn't really do it justice.