I wrote about Sock Summit coming to town last weekend, and there was a pretty amazing element this year: a live-action race to card and spin a batch of freshly shorn wool and knit socks from it! From the article: Three lambs huddle in a makeshift corral inside Portland’s Convention Center Sunday morning. In a … Continue reading Race from Fleece to Foot at Sock Summit
Sock Summit 2011 returns to Portland this weekend with tons of classes, events, and even a sock history museum (“a real-live exhibit of historically important and accurate sock replicas from the oldest pattern we can find, right up to the current time, all knit by people like you.”). I went in 2009 and it was … Continue reading Sock Summit 2011: From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
My favorite local yarn store, Twisted, posted about Stephanie Bryant’s Handknit Heroes recently and it sounds awesome! From the Handknit Heroes site: Imagine you’re a teenager, and you have some… special powers. Maybe even super powers. And one day, at a sleepover, your best friend in the whole world tells you—you’re not alone. So begins … Continue reading Handknit Heroes