Twisp of Fate

Blogging is lagging behind the actual living of life, this week.  It’s been a busy one.  I will try to catch up over the weekend!

A week ago we went down to Vancouver, WA towing the new cargo trailer with cabinets for our friends’ living room remodel.  Rick spent much of the weekend installing cabinets and trimming out windows and doors:

Here’s a shot from before the remodel – quite a difference, eh?

Meanwhile, I went off to Portland, OR on both Saturday and Sunday to visit the Sock Summit at the Oregon Convention Center.  A lot of my Seattle friends were there, and one from Omak too!  This thing was huge and featured many famous names in the worlds of knitting, spinning and dyeing including some who rarely, if ever, come to conferences of this size (Barbara Walker, Meg Swansen, Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, Anna Zilboorg).  I had not pre-registered and did not take any classes, but just wandered happily around the marketplace with 150 vendors, many of whom were small dye houses with beautiful and unusual yarns and spinning fibers.  I also attended the Luminary Panel at the end of the day on Sunday, which was a not-to-be-missed opportunity to hear commentary and reminiscences from nine fabulous women who have certainly been inspirations to me over the past 25 years.

Brier Rose

Sock Summit Market - tip of the iceberg

The Sanguine Gryphon

Too big to take pictures of really!

On the way home on Monday, being blessed with an empty cargo trailer, we stopped in Port Orchard where I bought a new (old, actually) loom which I found on Craig’s List last week.  More on this in a later post!