Stitches West

Greetings to all. This weekend, Mom and I went to Stitches West. I got to show Galina my progress on my first shawl. We met Skaska's Australian cashmere contact, another contact from Alaska and friends from Oregon. The Oregon connection dyes gorgeous yarn. Unfortunately, she opened her Eugene, OR site as my daughter was moving back to San Francisco! Coincidentally, her husband is the new dean of students at University of Oregon, where my son is still in attendance. Mom and I had dinner with all of the above (George & Galina and all their friends). WONDERFUL evening. And, of course, the next day, we reneged on our vows not to buy any yarn this year and made purchases from all three booths. We also learned a bit of Estonian knitting (aka Elongated Stitches) and about Ergonomics and knitting (aka Don't Knit In Bed - yeah, sure . . .). The mantra for this year was swatch, swatch, swatch.