Ok I just knew I wasn’t THAT organized and I was right…I wasn’t

Ok, I got all of my goodies I’d brought to show off packed IN my suitcase. I managed to get my yarn samples, yarn for my class AND clothes packed. I didn’t over load my luggage I DID NOT Forget any paperwork…I got my laptop, all the cords,and my camera WITH BATTERIES…dang I thought I was so all that… but alas, I forgot the usb cord for my camera. SIGH SIGH SIGH

So, I’ll see what I can do…

 However, so far I have met, Bonnie and Bill Pierce of course (but he’s a knitter, not so sure about him, just kidding Bill), Myra Wood, Margaret Hubert, Karen Ratto-Whooley (hive five buddy), oooh and I got to wander around Stitch Diva’s stall…I will be going back…ummmmmmy yummmy.

I did take pictures of the International Free Form Crochet Guild booth, and it rocks people…sorry about the lack of a usb cord…But my, you know those pieces look fantastic on the web, in person…too stunning for words…and frankly it was all I could do not to mug Margaret Hubert and steal the vest she had on…wowzah! That was pretty.

Oh and my re-design on my purse, fantastic, held up under duress…cough… I mean stress very well…yeah, I had it loaded…and it performed as per expectations…

OOOH and Karen was wearing the scarf she made out of my Stained Glass Yarn series, absolutely GORGEOUS, even though she dropped the hook and used the pointy thingies…you know those sharp sticks that people put yarn on…They should be more careful they can put eyes out with those things…But she’s still firmly in the hooking camp, so we won’t tar and feather her in eiderdown just yet!

Wait there’s more…I got nice freebies of yarn, and literature, and some sharp pointy sticks ….I’m going to try really hard not to run with those…I don’t want to poke my OWN eyeball out…

 Well I’m in Darla Fenton’s classes tomorrow…ALLLLLLL DAY… So I’ll try to blog tomorrow but we’ll see how it goes…now I’m off to sleep exhausted.

Here I am at the airport…so while we wait a plug for Bonnie Pierce

I’m in Seatac, waiting for my flight, I have about two hours till boarding but you know I understand that the Law of Murphy is very real indeed. Should I have come an hour later, and did as instructed, I would have faced longer lines, a mean security person, or something strange like that. Coming early? Well of course everything went smoothly. Besides, now I get to use my handidandy laptop, and a connection that moves faster than a speeding Banana Slug.

So while I wait, I will recount a tale of wonder and awe, Crochet related of course. I want you to understand something first, I very rarely, if ever, buy patterns. Let alone actually read them fully, and do them exactly as per the lines on the page. Really, I’m serious about this! However, I just purchased Bonnie Pierce’s 24 Squares on a Roll, book and OH MY!

I am so impressed! I do so love motifs! Really I adore squares, hexagons, dodecahedrons, and all manner of shapes that can be put together just like a quilted object. But wow, these take squares to a whole new level.

The book is out of print…BOOO HISSS..but Bonnie has a few copies left on her site Elegant Crochet and she’ll even autograph it!

If you have not encountered her work before, let me tell you this woman a) has one of the finest hands I have ever had the pleasure  of watching! b) She is exceptionally artful in her approach from use of color, to texture, to composition.

As you know I’m a pretty picky person! So let me just say, these are no empty compliments. I love her work, and as I have had the pleasure of meeting her and corresponding with her, I have to say she’s sweety too!

Oakland Here I come…The Knit and Crochet Show

Ok! I’m just decidedly giddy. In a mere four hours my yarn  and I leave for Seattle, I hitch a lift on some kind of winged flight machine, and two hours after that OAKLAND!

 (I just won’t mention Blazers or the Seahawks while I’m down there…I promise I’ll be good. What? No I am not a Sonic’s fan. I’m from Portland people, I just married a Washington State Park Ranger)

Anyway…Got the bags packed,  camera and lap top. Get ready FOR DELICIOUS reports from the TKGA National and CGOA Regional Conferences!