Another Rose City Yarn Crawl is in the rear view mirror. I had a great time, even though I didn’t make it to all 13 shops.
I started out at For Yarn’s Sake on Thursday in a group trunk show with Lorajean Kelley of Knitted Wit, and designers Shannon Squire and Debbi Stone. Such a great way to kick off the crawl. A big thank you to Anne Lindquist for having us!
Marlene and Terri came by to show off their Tilt Shift Wrap and Fern Shawlette.
Leigh Anne wore her Fibonacci and Fan, knit with Knitted Wit’s Cedar and Snowy Cedar in Victory Sock.
Tami and I compared our Braided Wristlets.
And Sunday came by with her heavily modified RCYCMKAL cowl that matched her hair. Cool!
I made it to 3 shops on Friday: Twisted, Close Knit, and The Naked Sheep.
JaMPDX and Knitted Wit had a trunk show in the Twisted Annex, across the street from the shop. This space is also Twisted’s classroom space, where I teach.
The Knitted Wit wall in the shop was quite the rainbow.
At Close Knit, I swooned over colors with Sarah Kurth of Bumblebirch. Plotting and planning!
And I checked out Lisa Carney-Fenton’s clever designs that hide yarn ends inside an i-cord edging.
The pompom window at The Naked Sheep!
Sharon Spence of Stitch Jones showed me her new merino/silk worsted weight single ply. Scrumptious.
I visited two shops on Saturday: Wool ‘n’ Wares and Northwest Wools. I’d say I was slowing down, but there was a lot going on at Wool ‘n’ Wares!
The theme of this year’s yarn crawl was Portland Pastimes. And raising chickens in your yard is one of those pastimes. I loved the feathers on this partridge cochin hen.
There were five trunk shows inside Wool ‘n’ Wares, including Hula Hut Yarns (Cathei Baynes)
Scarlet Tang of Huckleberry Knits (love this Mithril and Bigger on the Inside combo)
Sivia Harding with her latest shawl design, which uses beads with several different shapes/finishes.
Not pictured: Miss Purl (I did buy her stitch markers and cute tin, picture later in post), Carl Herndon Woodworking (I love his seam rippers and his tabletop swifts), and the Aurora Colony Handspinners Guild. Full house!
Fellow Pie Bird (singing buddy) Claudia was working at Northwest Wools, so we had a quick catch up. She tried on my new SeaScape Scarflette, and it looked smashing on her.
On Sunday I went back to For Yarn’s Sake for Sincere Sheep’s (Brook Sinnes) trunk show. I fell in love with her new silk/merino lace weight. The blue (St. Bart’s) called my name, very loudly, and then the green followed.
I put it all together with this gray Cormo, but now that I have it home, I realize that I forgot to check for tonal contrast. I blame the yarn fumes. I think the wonder fluff needs something either darker or lighter; this gray is too close.
No worries; for now I just like looking at the glowing colors.
I finished my crawling at the Knitting Bee, but I forgot to take a picture!
Here’s most of what came home with me. Biscuit approves.
Yarns from Sincere Sheep, Hazel Knits, Knitted Wit; lidded pint glass from JaMPDX, Dumpling bag from Binkwaffle (my third!), stitch markers from Miss Purl, and more needles and locking stitch markers. Wait, more project bags and needles? Yes, this normally monogamous knitter has more design projects than usual, which means I need more tools to corral them.
Next year’s Rose City Yarn Crawl will be March 1-4, 2018. Mark your calendars!
In other news, I’ve picked a winner for the Rain Chain Shawlette giveaway. Friday V will get a pdf copy of the Little Luxuries e-book, and 2 balls of Knit Picks Gloss Fingering in Clover. Congratulations, Friday!
PDXKnitterati 
What fun!
That looks like -so- much fun. I’ve never been to a Yarn Crawl, and this looks amazing!