summer nights

A little knitting.

Fresh veggies from the garden.

BBQ.

What more could a girl ask for?

Yep. Nothing more.

SS09: People

"...ixnay on the irstfay". oops.

The introductions by Tina and Stephanie of the luminary panel members not only moved the audience to tears, but the panelists themselves. How sweet is that?

Look at this? All these women in one spot. On one panel. Dear lord.

Isn't Anna priceless? I wish I could've just sat with her and taken pictures of her all day long.

There's Susan. She's a celeb magnet!

Hi Susan!! It was awesome co-escorting with you!!

Getting warmed up for the Guinness record breaking attempt (935 knitters knitting on straight needles for 15 minutes) are Blue Moon's own Rosie and Anneli!

Yay!! We dood it!!

Priscilla Gibson-Roberts. I heart her. I could listen to her all. day. long. She is an amazing woman who has surmounted much adversity in her personal life, and just keeps on going. She came out of retirement just because Tina invited her to SS09. Just because.

When I started knitting socks back in the early 90s you couldn't open up a magazine without seeing an article or pattern by PG-R. She wore many hats as a spinner, designer, teacher, author,and editor just to name a few. I will forever be grateful to my friend Jane for turning me on to PG-R's Birkensock pattern which used short row heels and an anatomical toe in contructing a wonderfully comfortable and well fitting sock! Her construction aesthetic has forever influenced what I deem to be a well fitting sock.

Priscilla Gibson-Roberts was the biggest draw for me. After all these years, to finally be able to sit at her feet and listen to her stories, to see and touch her collection of socks and view her slides of some very, VERY old socks was moving beyond belief.

Look who it is? Cristi of Turtlegirl's bloggy thing. I hadn't met her face to face yet...I was ecstatic and delighted to really meet her later at the sock hop...speaking of which...

Look at Kim go!! Tammy, you're talented with all kinds of needles!

Agreed. Rachel was born to sock hop.

I'm not sure who this is, but I thought it was a tres cool shot!

Cristi is awesome, and I'm so tickled to have finally met her!

Christy and Carrie! Heart you!! Miss you!!

I'm not sure what they're talking about, but look how expressive their hands are.

There was cake in honor of EZ's 99th birthday on the last day of SS09.

There were so many people that I finally got to meet that aren't pictured here. I was thrilled to be able to spend so much time with Cupcakefaerie over the weekend! She is such a sweetheart! I heart her! I got to meet Anne Hanson!! I was giddy for weeks knowing we were finally going to get to hook up! Oh yay oh yay! She is as incredible in person as she is in blogland and email. I heart her, too!

It was an indescribable treat to be able to spend so much quality time with my friends Iris, Jen, and Julie, and see the lovely success that is Emily and Shannon as they womanned their store Twisted at the marketplace, and to finally meet the lovely Hazel!

Thank you for getting this far with the peep shots! Next up: Stash enhancement. Stay tuned.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

dessert first

Fall is entering the air.

The clouds are rolling in,

there's a chill in the morning air,
and it's time to go from iced coffee to hot...

...with dreams of pumpkin spiced lattes dancing in my head!

Even though it was a cloudy evening, a gelato was still in order!

Tesserae by Anne Hanson in a Rare Gem of STR.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled post

I'm so off schedule. I apologize. I have a grand Friday's Flowers post for you, but I'm using a new computer and I'm not acclimated to it yet. And I want the post to be just right!

I hope you'll bear with me while I show you a new pair of socks instead!

I love oranges and blues together!

'Sedona' by Lisa Dykstra in Union Center Knits yarn

SS09: The Market from A to W

As I said yesterday, there aren't enough adjectives, adverbs or any other modifiers to describe the wonderfulness that was SS09! The people, the events, the marketplace...amazing. Truly, the greatest show on earth (until the next one...fingers crossed)!

There was some stash enhancement...but we'll save that for another day!! And did I tell you about all the people...old friends, new friends, luminaries...matriarchs of knitting really. I'm feeling faint again from the awe! Let's get started with some images from the market place; I'm still coming down from cloud 9 after having been able to meet up with so many wonderful people!

These are just a few of the "walls of color" of the over 150 that were present at SS09.

Anzula

BMFA

Carolina Homespun

Gossamer

Attitude Hats

Knitting Notions

Knitted Wit

Tactile

Sweet Grass Wool

Wool Candy (I think some stash was purchased from here...more on that later!)

Convention center lighting is challenging at best, but I think you get the gist of it...every wavelength of color was represented and accounted for at the marketplace. Fiber from alpaca to bison to llama to merino to possum was available. Amazing.

There were so many vendors, and so little time. I know I missed seeing a lot of beautiful products; I'm glad I have my program book so that I can scour the internet to revisit these beautiful islands of color online!

Happy Friday-eve!!