Off to Portland

Well, Deb's off to camp and I'm off to Portland, OR today for the Sock Summit. It's shaping up to be the knitting event of the decade! I'm so amazed that there are so many luminaries at one event. Here's the teacher list:

• Cookie A • Star Athena • Deb Barnhill • Judy Becker • Lorilee Beltman • Anne Berk • Cat Bordhi • JC Briar • Nancy Bush • Laurel Coombs • Angela Davis

• Carson Demers • Amy Detjen • Laurie Drew • Abby Franquemont • Chrissy Gardiner • Priscilla Gibson-Roberts • Marjan Hammink • Anne Hanson • Sivia Harding • Stephen Houghton • Janel Laidman

• Judith MacKenzie McCuin • Betsy McCarthy • Denny McMillan • Melissa Morgan-Oakes • Lucy Neatby • Tina Newton • Heather Ordover • Clara Parkes • Stephanie Pearl-McPhee • Karen Ratto-Whooley • Deb Robson

• Merike Saarniit • Joan Schrouder • Charlene Schurch • Amy R Singer • Meg Swansen • Barbara Walker • Anna Zilboorg

My roomie for the trip, Julia of Patternfish is actually taking a class with Barbara Walker!! She's very excited to say the least. I expect to hear details : )

I'm taking our sock patterns and our books (and various other bits and bobs to sell) but I'm also taking the yummy sock yarn from Fibre-Isle (Prince Edward Island). Deb knit up a couple of sock samples in the natural coloured bison sock yarn (see her blog entry for July 21st below). That's one of the hand-painted skeins below. Lovely, lovely yarn. Sylvie's sister has a bison farm (?) ranch (?) in Quebec.

Sylvie also sent me a few non-sock kits to sell including the beautiful shawl below.

OK! Time to hit the road!

-Lynda