Saturday, August 29, 2009

Sock Summit 2009, part 2

The mementos:
Our plan for shopping at Sock Summit 2009 was to look for vendors who weren't from around here. This was as easy as finding yarn at a yarn store. We figured we probably wouldn't see them again, being the great world travelers we are ~ neither of us likes to fly (although we will if it's an emergency) and we tend to spend our fiber dollars on fiber, not on getting to the fiber and back, unless we're talking driving to Black Sheep Gathering and Oregon Flock and Fiber and Madrona Fiber Arts and the Knitters Retreat, all within six hours by car. While we shopped the 'Outlanders' (hee hee, Michale, hee) we had to stop by our favorite local yarn shops ~ Toots LeBlanc, Acorn Street, Crown Mountain, Good to be Girl, etc just to say hi and get hugs. We didn't buy locally until we bought sock yarn from Michelle and Carl of Toots when they came to Seattle shortly after SS '09 to be the program at Seattle Knitters Guild, because we didn't get enough at Sock Summit, I guess... Here it is, a three-ply Jacob/Alpaca/Mohair blend, perfection for socks!

And here are the shopping results of our trip to
Sock Summit 2009:

Above is the yarn Peggy and I bought from
Enchanted Knoll Farm in Maine.

She has 3, me 1. Mine is purple.

These two are from Tess' Designer Yarns,
mine on top and Peggy's below.

From there we traveled wildly divergent paths:
Mt Colors Barefoot in Marigold ~ and yes, I know
I can get this locally but I've been looking for a year
and my lys's just don't stock this color,
even though I've asked several of them to bring it in.
I know they can't stock every color in every yarn,
so I took my shot when I had it.
Three Irish Girls McClellen Sock, no color name.
They won 3 of the catagories in the Ravelry Dye contest
for Sock Summit so I had to see their stuff in person
and then I had to buy just one.
Rose Garden from Heritage Hand Dyed.
It was the color, of course.
I think I'm going through a pink phase again.



Peggy was drawn to this deep raisin, aubergine, wine color
from Sanguine Griffin. It's a loosely spun lace weight,
just right for a shawl, she thinks.

From Australia came Ms. Gusset and
all her wonderful Merino Optim Top,
not sock yarn yet but it will be once spun.

One more memento of the three day jaunt to
Sock Summit 2009.
The pin, people, the pin!

6 comments:

twinsetellen said...

I bought some Toots Le Blanc yarn, too. It was hard choosing - I ended up with the 50:50 angora/wool for a shawl.

And also some Sanguine Gryphon - and some other yarns, too.

Sigh - it sure was fun!

Jody said...

Wow...great yarns but I must admit a fondness for the natural coloured ones.

Ryan said...

Scary. I would've bought exactly those yarns in exactly those colors if I had gone to SS. You have good taste!

Linda 'K' said...

Darlins, you ARE the influence!!!!!

Nana Sadie said...

Gorgeous stuff...but methinks the pink and the aubergine are my favorites! Hmm. Which shawl?

I'm still bereft that we did not get to meet!
(((hugs)))

vanessa said...

i'm swooning.