LYS Tour 2010
Last weekend was the annual LYS Tour around here. The yarn stores band together, offer a free one skein pattern and a discount on the yarn to knit it, and us knitters run around crazily getting our passports stamped at the stores - 25 this year! It was my first year actually touring on the tour, since last year I attended every day at one store - the one where I worked. :)
Thursday night after work I headed to 4 of the stores that are more or less on my way home from work... Weaving Works, Bad Woman, Full Circle (this was a new one for me) and Fiber Gallery.
Friday I met up with a couple of friends and hit So Much Yarn on our way out to Bainbridge where we visited Churchmouse and had a lovely dinner at Cafe Nola.
We got to "ride" the scooter:
And then got totally soaked running to the ferry in the rain...
... while eating ice cream from Mora!
A lovely but very chilly evening.
The next day some of us joined a bunch of others for a trek northward to 11 yarn stores! One of the stores had some lovely knitfiti outside.
Amy knit most of Fay's socks on the drive:
After some dinner we took yet another ferry home.
Then on Sunday a few of us hit the remaining stores, where we found this hilarious Opal yarn:
An Austrian pop "singer", Antonia, wears a different slutty outfit on every ball band! We're not sure exactly who the target audience is for this yarn, but it was too hilarious to pass up, so a couple of us bought some:
(Click the first picture to enlarge for a view of more of the outfits!)
All in all an amazing weekend, now back to the secret knitting!
Listening to: The Outsider ~ A Perfect Circle, Reading In Bed ~ Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, Digital Bath ~ Deftones
Thursday night after work I headed to 4 of the stores that are more or less on my way home from work... Weaving Works, Bad Woman, Full Circle (this was a new one for me) and Fiber Gallery.
Friday I met up with a couple of friends and hit So Much Yarn on our way out to Bainbridge where we visited Churchmouse and had a lovely dinner at Cafe Nola.
We got to "ride" the scooter:
And then got totally soaked running to the ferry in the rain...
... while eating ice cream from Mora!
A lovely but very chilly evening.
The next day some of us joined a bunch of others for a trek northward to 11 yarn stores! One of the stores had some lovely knitfiti outside.
Amy knit most of Fay's socks on the drive:
After some dinner we took yet another ferry home.
Then on Sunday a few of us hit the remaining stores, where we found this hilarious Opal yarn:
An Austrian pop "singer", Antonia, wears a different slutty outfit on every ball band! We're not sure exactly who the target audience is for this yarn, but it was too hilarious to pass up, so a couple of us bought some:
(Click the first picture to enlarge for a view of more of the outfits!)
All in all an amazing weekend, now back to the secret knitting!
Listening to: The Outsider ~ A Perfect Circle, Reading In Bed ~ Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, Digital Bath ~ Deftones
Labels: knitting trips, randomness
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9:02 PM
2 Comments:
It looks like you guys had a great time except for the rain part. Love the colors of yarn not so much on the slutty dressed singer.
Glad you had such a great time.
I agree with you on it being confusing who the target audience is for the yarn.
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