sheep in the city

Estes or bust!

Before anyone is completely shocked by the fact that I bought NO YARN at the wool festival, let me show you how my week ended last week:

I went slightly crazy when I read that Tuesday Morning was carrying CottonEase at their stores. I blame Lauren and Brynne for letting the public know. But I have to say that Brynne gets the prize for buying the most CE...she bought 163 skeins!!! Holy crap, that's a lot of cotton! I didn't buy nearly that much...and wouldn't you like to know how much?! Ha!

So, now that you know that information, maybe you'll understand my lack of purchasing at the festival, but I'm getting ahead of myself! Friday night Michelle invited the group over to knit and sleepover so that we could all get up in the morning and head to Estes Park. I haven't been to a sleepover in...oh...about 12 years or so. The food was good, I amazingly enough, kept knitting all evening, much to the amazement of my friends! And I was actually the last knitter standing, or sitting rather, at 1:45 AM when the party ended! I headed home at that point because I needed to pick up my mom, so I got home around 2:15AM, was too wired to sleep, kept knitting, and finally went to sleep around 4:00AM. My alarm went off way too soon at 6:20! Sheesh, what I do for knitting! We all convened at Starbucks and drove up together...then we were finally there! The time had arrived...we had all been talking about this for months!!

What follows is a lot of pictures of us being silly, and lots 'o fibery goodness! Read more at your own risk!!

First, the funniest thing happened to me! I was recognized by a reader of Sheep in the City! She came up and asked if my name was Stacey, and if I had a blog?! And she told me that she doesn't have a blog, but that she reads mine! How fun is that?! Click
to see the evidence! I did manage to take a picture with her...but I can't remember her name! I think I was so shocked that anyone would recognize me that it just went in one ear and out the other! Sorry! If you read this, leave me a comment so that I can put your name in here!

Can you see the love that we have for all things yarn?

Cathi lovin' the Koigu and Interlacements. Cathi...you can love the Koigu...you just can't loooovvee the Koigu?! :)

This is the yarn that I "almost" bought, damn! I kind of wish that I had it...oh well, there will always be more yarn on another day. But isn't it fun colors?! (Amy I totally thought of you when I saw this! It's totally Stacey/Amy colors!)

Libby loves to mug it up in front of the camera!! She is a crack up! Michaele is next to her, and Wanda was still doing some serious shopping in the background:)

We did take a break for lunch, but upon finding this sign:

We decided to shop more, and eat less, and just grab something on our way home.

Here's the whole gang, right before we left, everyone's holding there second round purchases since the first round had already been taken to the car!

In the back it's Wanda, Libby, Michelle, Cathi, Lesley, and in the front with the shorties is me, Cynthia, and Michaele. Make the rounds to these blogs when you get the chance to read about and see their pictures and interpretations of the day! One girl was even inspired to write poetry about it!:) And the day wouldn't have been complete without a Llama picture! Here's Michelle who was very excited that she got to touch a llama!!

Here's the one purchase that I did make:

It's a gadget that will keep your cast on tail nice and neat, plus it's pretty! You can view some of the other knitterly jewelry that Mary Snyder designs here. Enjoy!

I did finish my OSW on Saturday night, after all the festivities! So, I'll be posting an actual finished project soon! Can you believe it?!

Posted by Stacey at June 19, 2005 11:31 PM