Nov 3
Well, it's been a solid six weeks since the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, and I haven't filed a report.
This is mainly because it ended up being kind of a disappointing day for me: I had intended to go with several friends, but instead, I spent Saturday morning at the vet with Morgan the cat, who had a UTI and needed some antibiotics.
You may remember that earlier this summer I participated in, and posted about, a group knitting project conceived by local artist Seann McKeel.
The "You Are The Chosen One" project has been completed, and will be on display in downtown Portland (on Couch St, between 6th and Broadway), through the month of September.
Yes, it's time once again for my all-time favorite fibery event, the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival!
In its 15th year, the weekend show (and workshops and sale!) is September 24-25, in Canby, Oregon; with workshops also held on Friday, September 23.
Apr 10
Out at Staccato Gelato yesterday with DH — yum! — we came across this call for knitters to support a public art project:
Some info from the project's website:
You Are The Chosen One is a community knit mural composed of 100– 12 inch x 12 inch squares and 8 border pieces. When completed the squares will be sewn into a billboard that reads "You Are The Chosen One" and will be displayed downtown Portland on NW Couch in the fall of 2011.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Click a section upon the mural grid at this website to reserve a space.
2. Your name will be added to the contributor list and your email will privately be sent to me, Seann McKeel, and I will only email you with announcements about the project.
3. Knit and send your 12 inch x 12 inch square
4. Send your story to be posted on the website (anonymous okay) answering why you are the chosen one. What were you chosen to do in your life?
DEADLINE: July 1, 2011
My very favorite fiber festival of the year is almost here!
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, or OFFF, is always held during the 4th full weekend of September at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby, Oregon. This year, the dates are September 25th & 26th (with classes also held on Friday the 24th).
Sep 29
And it's MINE! Yay!
This yarn comes from "Plum Crazy Ranch", and I bought it within 30 minutes of arriving at OFFF on Saturday morning. The creator said she'd had it hanging up for a year and a half — which at first I thought meant, no one had bought it for a year and a half, which I could not believe — and then she continued, "but I decided I could finally part with it."
Once again, it’s that time of year — my #1 favorite fiber event, the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, is this upcoming weekend!
Why is it my favorite? Probably because it was the first one I ever went to, when we moved here from Texas. You have to understand that handknitting was not nearly as popular a decade ago as it is today — and certainly not in Texas, it wasn’t. When I entered the Canby fairgrounds and saw what looked like the WHOLE WORLD of yarn and knitting and books and fleece and animals and classes and and and…!!
Well, unless you’ve very recently come out of a coma, you’re aware that this past weekend heralded the Most Awesomely Amazing Knitting Event Ever in the History of the Universe, right here in PDX.
A couple of weeks ago, I insisted on performed my annual act of knitting "celebrity": being a judge for the Knitting Bee's "Naked Bears" clothing competition. Hey, not only do I get my 15 minutes of fame — I also get to have some fun hanging out with knitters and a couple of free glasses of wine, as well as chocolate truffles. What could be easier?
Hooray!! my favorite fiber festival of the entire year is right around the corner!!
This weekend is the annual OR Flock & Fiber Festival:
www.flockandfiberfestival.com ~ every year on the 4th Sat of Sept in Canby, OR.
Sep 9
Ya know, it’s hard to blog when the things you are doing are (a) things that you can’t write about or (b) boring.
In the second category lately are many administrative things, like setting up fall class schedules and working on websites. The good news is, the Polar Bear Patterns site is coming along nicely — well, at least it’s functional. There are still a few things to work out — mainly I’ve been having issues figuring out just how to glom everything I do into one place. It’s harder than it sounds: patterns, classes, general knitting, etc. At least, it’s harder for me than it sounds like it ought to be. I’ve been doing everything myself up to now, but I’m thinking I may soon need some professional help. (And I’ll need someone to work on my websites too — ba-dum bump!)
Wow! Here we are at the end of the UFOlympics, and the decathlon results are in…
… and I made it!
Yes, you may well have been questioning why there is a total of 12 UFO's on my UFOlympic "decathlon" list. (Actually, there are 13, because I had to add one UFO #0 that I forgot about when making the original list.) But it's a good thing.
Hey, there – just a quick plug today, for my pal Deb’s mini-sock club that she’s just unveiled!
(ed. note — it’s not a club for mini-socks, it’s a mini-club for full-size socks.)
Hey, are you getting as sick of the UFOlympics as I am?
It was fun to begin with — it was great to get a couple of projects out of the way and all that — but I’m getting a definite feeling of stuck-in-a-rut now. Maybe this is why the real Olympics only last a couple of weeks, instead of seven… ya think?
Well, it's nearly halfway through the timeframe I set for my personal UFOlympics. (In fact, it's only about 40% of the way through, if you don't count that "vacation" time I spent with strep.)
Jul 21
OK, so I know I said I wasn't going to work on the UFOs during my "vacation".
Well, that was before I got strep throat on the very first day of my "vacation". I mean, it's not like I had this penciled in on my calendar:
Jul 15
Wow, this UFOlympics thing is getting to be quite an eye-opener for me.
For one thing, I have started to realize just how little time I devote to knitting in the course of a standard week. I mean to the actual act of pulling one loop of yarn through another. Sure, I spend plenty of time writing about knitting, and teaching others about knitting, and working on my someday-I’ll-have-a-new-cool-website-about-knitting — but as for ACTUAL KNITTING, it seems to be an endangered species at my house.
Jul 10
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UFO #1, the fifth bear mitten: FINISHED 07/09/08.
Final time: 2 days!
Yarn: donated acrylic stuff.
Pattern: from Twisted.
announcer’s voiceover: She’s certainly maintaining a very competitive pace thus far, but can she possibly keep it up throughout the whole event? We’ll have to wait and see.
Ummm… I have good news, and bad news.
First, the good news: UFO #0, Brioche st hat: FINISHED 07/07/08.
Final time (offical Swiss, of course): 2 days.
The crowd goes wild!
Yarn: Manos del Uruguay silk & wool.
Pattern: my own Polar Bear Pattern.
Shameless plug: this is a sample for a class I’ll teach at the Knitting Bee in Sept.
Well: I’ve been seriously winnowing out the UFO pile in preparation for the Games of Summer. I’ve had to revise my rule a bit, and I think I’ve got a goal now.
Jun 26
OK, I got game. (Whatever that means.)
I also still got plenty of UFO’s.
So, here goes: I’m officially entering the 2008 Summer UFOlympic Games.
Welllll, kind of officially. There’s some wiggle room there, I think.
May 27
Hey, we’re back from our trip to [Sasquatch->] over the Memorial Day Weekend. And it was an interesting weekend.
(BTW, this post really does include something pretty interesting about sock heels too, although that bit’s way at the end. Just skip down there if you must.)
The Farmhouse will not be open full-time this summer, due to a family illness.
Read more on Announcement: New Summer Hours at Farmhouse Knit Shop…
On Tuesday, I and several hundred other PDX area knitters spent an enjoyable evening with the Yarn Harlot!
I didn’t win the Oregonian’s contest to tag along when they interviewed her, but I did get an honorable mention –
Apr 1
In no particular order, here’s some great pix I’ve received of bear mittens, in response to the free Polar Bear Pattern offer!!
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In case you still haven’t heard, here’s the short scoop:
Due to personal reasons,
Sandi has cancelled the Wednesday night "Knit Night"
at Farmhouse Knit Shop
for the rest of March and April 2008.
Watch this space for more info on when Knit Night will resume!
Mar 19
Don’t forget!!
Thursday, March 20, is "Won’t You Wear a Sweater?" Day, in honor of what would have been Mister Rogers‘ 80th birthday (Fred Rogers died in 2003 of stomach cancer).
Mar 12
I’m pleased to announce that my first "cheater" bear mitten is completed!!
These things are BIG. I happened to have my once-a-day can of Coke with me, so I included it in the picture for scale.
It’s Saturday night of our designated "Fun Day", and DH is out at a buddy’s house watching college tournament hockey, drinking beer and eating crap.
What am I doing? I’m turning my studio into a bear mitten factory.
Feb 27
The title of this post may sound like the title of an adorable childrens’ book waiting to happen: but the reality is just sad.
OK, while they aren’t exactly my favorite POLAR BEARS… there are some Malayan Sun Bears on the other side of the globe that need some help. Knitted help, in fact.
Feb 26
On Saturday, DH and I went downtown to play a little bit in the nice-ish weather.
His idea of fun was to pick up some tickets for the upcoming Joe Jackson show, have lunch someplace new, and take some photos of the downtown bridges.
Dec 21
Both my sister and a college friend recently sent me copies of this Wall Street Journal article about knitting.
More specifically, it’s about "Sock Wars", where the idea is that everyone playing the game is an "assassin" and has an assigned "target". You are supposed to "assassinate" that person by knitting them a pair of socks, and then you send them to your target before your assassin sends a pair of finished socks to you.
Nov 13
Well, this sucks.
I was all set to go to the [Madrona Fiber Arts->http://www.madronafiberarts.com/] festival for the first time.
It’s pricey, but after several of my friends/students went last year and took a “Tailored Knitting” class with [Jean Wong->http://www.knittingwithjean.com], they all said, “You need to take this class!” Lots of math, lots of persnickety finishing and fitting. Beautifully fitting garments. Sounds right up my alley.
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