At last!

Well, I have been slacking on my promised post with more about Sock Summit. The problem, you see (other than all the secret knitting keeping me busy) is that I have camnesia. It's a horrible disease where I bring my camera to Sock Summit yet take pretty much no pictures. It's true, I have a couple of pictures of my socks in progress and a few more of food. That's it.

So I borrowed some from Shannon Okey.

Here's Shannon's picture of me in the Cooperative Press booth. It's not a great picture of me, but I spent lots of time in the booth, and I helped hang up all those socks. :) Plus, it proves I was actually at Sock Summit.



The Monday after Sock Summit, Shannon and I headed to Knit Picks where we got to hang out, see pretty yarn, and make some videos. Here's me about to be interviewed by Stacey:



Of course, my eyes are closed. Maybe there's a reason there aren't more pictures of me at Sock Summit!

And further proof... my friend noticed that I am visible in Harry's (Franklin's ball of sock yarn) Sock Summit adventure video. I'm trying to squeeze out of the Goth Socks booth at about 2:14 in the video.

So now that you believe that I was there, here's what I got...



Just in case you were wondering, I still like blue.

L to R
Canon Hand Dyes Charles Sock Yarn
2 skeins of Three Fates Yarns Tethys Sock
superwash fiber from MacKintosh Yarns
a Magic Ball from Sophie's Toes
Fiber Optic Yarns Foot Notes
Sanguine Gryphon Skinny Bugga

And the Goth Socks:



The two on the right are the same, I'm hoping to knit some gothy knee socks.

While I was photographing yarn, I thought I'd give you a sneak peek of some of the yarns that are going to be in my book - some of them are from Sock Summit, some aren't.



It's not a complete list, since some (strangely the warmer colors!) are currently being knit. But the ones pictured here are (L to R):

ms. gusset
Tactile
Swoonish
MacKintosh Yarns
more Swoonish
kitchen sink dyeworks

Now back to knitting!

Whew!

Last week was a whirlwind of socks!

Thursday morning I woke bright (ok, actually dark) and early to get on a train to Portland and Sock Summit. To be truthful, I was waking at 5am after a 2 hour "nap", since I stayed up til 3am packing and wondering where my summer clothes were once I heard it was going to be in the 80s in Portland. We haven't had much summer this year.

After a train trip of knitting and dozing, I arrived and sat down for a bit of knitting:



Then I met up with the lovely Stephania of Three Fates yarns to hand over my sock samples. I totally should have gotten a picture of them hanging in her booth, but alas I did not.

I helped Shannon set up at the Cooperative Press booth and had my first Voodoo Donut, scored a bit of Goth Socks when the market opened, and then went and sold CP grab bags until it closed again and we went to get dinner.

Friday morning I had a class, then headed to the market place where I alternated between helping at the CP booth and wandering the marketplace while knitting the socks above. I bought a few more skeins of yarn too. Just before leaving, Cookie A took a picture of my Twisted Flower socks!

I was lucky enough to have dinner with some fun and fabulously knitty people, including Kate Atherley who designed the My Vampire Boyfriend socks which I am currently neglecting - but they're awesome socks, and I'm totally going to finish them! - and Sarah from Sanguine Gryphon.

Saturday was more marketplacing and booth-sitting, and dinner with a friend who was down for just the day, then early to bed.

Sunday morning we could barely get out of bed - sometimes all the socky excitement is just too much! But we managed and headed into Sock Summit for one last fun-filled day. I skipped out for lunch and took the Max downtown with Lacey, where we knit socks... of course.



Afterwards I had a low key dinner with Shannon and then she got a tattoo! I love accompanying people on their tattoo appointments!

Then it was up even more early on Monday to head over to Knit Picks. I saw fabulous new yarns, met Stacey who I had only corresponded with by email, and filmed some video.

On the train home, I finished some socks:



Yarn: Jarbo Mini Raggi
Started: 4/29/11
Finished: 8/1/11

And the rest (including the yarn) will have to wait for later. Too much fun!