Rose City Yarn Crawl 2012 - Day 3

Sunday I ventured out with Dawn-Marie to finish the last eight stores I needed to finish my passport. Dawn-Marie was also new to all of the yarn stores, so I was introducing a second person to the wonders of all things yarny!

We started out Northwest Wools and Dawn-Marie found a few skeins that needed to come with her.

Northwest Wool's prize basket

Northwest Wool

Melissa, owner of Make One

Make One's prize basket

Close-up of a tiara. Two ladies had crocheted tiaras to wear around during the crawl. I also seem to remember a group of tiara wearing ladies at Sock Summit.....

Dawn-Marie had needed to stop at the Mill End store and since it was down the street from Make One, it only made sense for her to come on the yarn crawl with me. ;-) We found some trim and fabric that she needed, plus buttons to go along with the yarn. I found trim and a remnant that I'll make bottle covers for largess. 

We ended up having another argument with the GPS system after leaving Mill End. It wanted us to get onto the freeway so that we could take it up a couple exits to get to the next place. I knew that if we stayed on the current road we could get there too. This did cause a little backtracking because we ended up going to Gossamer first and then going over to Twisted but we got to see some cool old houses and a gold statue along the way so it was a scenic detour.

Gossamer

Gossamer's prize basket. Knitting friend Debbie H won this basket, so I personally know one of the winners!

Twisted and I think store owner, Heather talking to a worker

Twisted's prize basket

Cool window display at Close Knit

Close Knit

Close Knit's prize basket

Naked Sheep

Naked Sheep's prize basket

There was a Lo-Lo bar demonstration there and I got a nice hand scrub and used the Coco Mango bar because it smelled like an umbrella drink in bar form. Turns out though that I'm allergic to the hempseed oil that they've added to their formula, so I'm going to sell my bar to Stacey.

Dublin Bay - scored parking right in front of the shop too!

Dublin Bay's prize basket

Anjelika's Yarn Store - Anjelika holding my completed passport and alpaca dyer - Chris - Upstream Alpacas on the left

My completed passport and I think the only one turned into her. 

Anjelika's prize basket

Another turtle for Rachel! We spotted this because I parked in front of the bar  so we could get a slice a pizza at Hot Lips.

I had the broccoli with hazel nuts and squash sauce pizza. It was pretty good! The nuts added an extra twist to the pizza. Dawn-Marie had the bacon, potato and cheddar - big chunks of bacon with thin slices of potato. She thought it was good.

My limited yarn crawl haul

We stopped at Saint Cupcakes before heading home. Dawn-Marie had never been in the shop, but had sampled their dots at zoo events (she volunteers at the zoo).

Whew! I made my goal of successfully getting to all of the shops and didn't make it by the skin of our teeth on time either. I hadn't been able to do that last year and so got to visit four shops I had never been into. After seeing them, I'm sure I'll be back to at least three of them. Turns out I was one of 278 people that completed the crawl. Pretty impressive number for the amount of people that I'm sure were out crawling. Did you crawl?

Rose City Yarn Crawl 2012 Day 1

The first day of the yarn crawl I had already committed to doing a demo with other SCA people at a middle school in Forest Grove, so I was busy talking and showing spinning to groups of 13 year olds with Kelley. She took my spinning talk and showed them inkle and card weaving. Also in the room with us was the Baroness doing a cheese demo. Afterward we all went to the Grand Lodge for socialization and food, so no crawling.

I did invite Lisa along with me on Friday. Lisa had taken a nalbinding class the weekend before. In fact on Wednesday, she came over and I helped her make a couple of nalbinding needles of her own. So she was excited to get yarn to practice her new skill. ;-) We were able to get to nine stores that day:

For Yarn Sake in their new bigger location

Their prize basket

Kathleen at All About Yarn

All About Yarn - missed the basket in the window behind Kathleen. A  skein of yarn came home with Lisa.

Wool n' Wares - new to me shop in West Linn

Inside Wool n' Wares nice little shop with some nice snacks to perk us up

Wool 'n Wares prize basket

Wynona Studios in Oregon City - another new to me shop

Had a lovely discussion about pygora fiber with the spinner on the left

A lovely surprise in Oregon City. We didn't know it was there until  walking back to the car

The plan had been to leave from here to go to Make One. My phone's GPS took us on another route and so we had to argue with it just to get to Yarnia. It kept wanting me to do a U-Turn and go back to the freeway.

Yarnia! Make your own cone of yarn, or buy already made ones. Two cones tempted Lisa to come home with her.

Yarnia's prize basket

Happy Knits! There were a lot of people here

Lovely Melinda is busy selling their cute little bird kit that's the store  mascot.

Happy Knits prize basket

We took a break at the Barley Mill to eat lunch since it was conveniently across the street from Happy Knits and just up from Yarn Garden. Yarn crawlers have to be properly fortified to make it through you know!

Yarn Garden and their prize basket a few more skeins jumped into Lisa' s arms to come home.

Knit Purl's prize basket

Knit Purl - a couple of US 00 needles came home with me from here

Turtle in the doorway of the shop next to Knit Purl  - I took its picture for  Trtlgrl  Rachel

Another turtle for Rachel, inside the needlepoint shop

Turns out we were parked less than a block away from Saint Cupcake, so even though we were running short on time, I had promised Lisa a stop there. She had never been, but I think she'll be stopping back in! We each brought home a couple of dots to eat later. She wasn't impressed by their cookie - too hard.

Cindy at Urban Fiber Art - tired but still able to come up with an amazing smile!

Urban Fiber Arts

Urban Fiber Art's prize basket

Cindy had found these little spinning wheel miniatures. Very cool! Like the sheep too. ;-

See the tiny little socks? The dyer came up with the clever idea of knitting the little socks so that people can see how her yarn knits up. 

As we were leaving Urban Fiber Arts, Lisa was heard to squee YARN! with a skein in each hand of Shepard's Wool. A new yarn convert has been made! A long day but its not over yet! More tomorrow.