Stitches East - Day 2 - 11/09/2013

The mother, daughter adventure continues with another day of learning, shopping and fun fun fun.

 

You might have noticed something interesting about Mom and I look closely and see if you can find it.

How about now, check this one out.

There you go, yes Mom and I were representing Flowertown Knitting Guild at Stitches. We wore our guild shirts both days thanks to Mom's handy dandy washer and dryer.

Our only class on Saturday was Blocking with Patty Lyons, she is super awesome. After Patty's blocking class we went to hear Rick Mondragon (editor of Knitter's magazine) talk about the magazine. Check out the scarf it is an original pattern of mine and I got quite a lot of comments on is, so much that I am going to write up the pattern and send it to two of my NEW test knitters. YEAH!!!

Rick is on the left and Benjamin Levisay, the CEO of XRX, Inc. is on the right. I know people :)

 

Check out this panoramic that my Mom took of the Market.

I know it is small, so here are some other singles of the market.

 

 

Huge huh!!!!!

 

 

Well, to keep you wanting more I will hold off on posting about the items that I won, got for free or bought  at the expo, later in the week.

 

 

Knitting back home in SC,

Victoria

Stitches East - Day 1 - 11/08/2013

Stitches East

Mother and daughter take on the world of Knitting Conferences!!!

 First up was Basic Bead Knitting with Deanna Van Assche. We made a fabulously easy knitted/beaded bracelet. It was one of those projects where you are told specifically NOT to over think it, just go with the flow (photos of the finished project to come). My favorite Deanna quote was, "You can be perfect later, get the skill first."

Second on the list was our Magic Reversible Cable class with Cindy Craig. We made a 6 in. bookmark (photos of the finished project to come). 

Third on the list was How to Pick your Fiber with Stacey Trock. She had a fiber petting zoo, ooooohhhhhh-aaaaaaahhhhhhh. Stacey is a wealth of information and like a pixie jacked up on coffee, so cute. 

I love Melissa Leapman, she is an extremely talented knitting designer. 

So as if the Stitches conference was not enough there was a party/open house at my Mom's local yarn shop, Creative Fibers in Windsor, Ct.

We went, we ate, we knit, we met new friends, I shopped and little ole' me won the very first door prize and sweet shawl knitting kit (photos of my loot to come).

So it is late and Mom and I have another day of classes and meeting people tomorrow. I will let you know how day two goes.

Happy with Knitting Fever,

Victoria