Category Archives: Festivals and Gatherings

South Sound Yarn Crawl 2012 – Day 1 / Puget Sound LYS Tour 2012 – Day 2

Today. Was. Insane. I knew it was going to be. Today was the first day of the South Sound Yarn Crawl – with 8 LYSs – and I still had 15 LYS left in the Puget Sound LYS tour. So my goal today was to complete the entire SSYC and visit at least one of the [...]

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Puget Sound LYS Tour 2012 – Day 1

I didn’t get to as many stores as I’d hoped…but I got to almost twice as many as I expected. Stats: LYSs visited: 6 Knitty Purls, Langley Coupeville Yarns, Coupeville Ana-Cross Stitch, Anacortes Beach Basket Yarns & Gifts, Blaine NW Handspun Yarns, Bellingham (Apologies to NW Handspun for the sole crappy picture – I wanted [...]

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Am I nuts?

I think the answer to this question is probably generally yes. So I guess I should be asking…am I more nuts than normal? See, I was already planning to do the the South Sound Yarn Crawl (SSYC) this weekend: 8 LYSs, both on and off the Kitsap Peninsula where I live, over the course of [...]

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Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat 2012

I blame Lucy Neatby for this picture: I blame no one but myself for this one: …but those are stories for another post. Until I was moving out here, I’d never heard of the Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat. I was bemoaning the fact that our moving timeline meant I was going to miss Sock Summit [...]

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Madrona 2012 – you in?

I am! And I. Am. Psyched. The Madrona Fiber Arts retreat will be my first west coast fiber festival. I’ve been to Rhinebeck once and Maryland Sheep & Wool twice, but nothing off the east coast. And although one of my favorite parts of fiber festivals is buying the yarn (Exhibit A), another one is [...]

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