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The last couple weekends have been laced with relaxation and play and have included some of my favorite summery events. The first important ingredient here is time (yippy) and following close on time’s heels, the appropriate weather for sitting on the back deck chatting, knitting, being entertained by wild life and sipping your beverage of choice as the day comes to a close and quietly slips into night. Here is one of our visitors;
Attending the Art in the Pearl festival in the Pearl District of NW Portland where three park blocks are closed of to traffic and are filled with artisans, musicians, dancers and food. An end of summertime celebration that just makes your heart sing. I love meeting all the talented artists and experiencing life through their perspectives and mediums. My favorite this time was an archeologist who uses topographical maps as her canvas and then creates and image with dye and ink, adds words and bits from nature… and then magic. You could barely get in her booth. Her art really spoke to me, because it seems like it has risen from an ancient deep place. I bought one for a friend so no picture here or she will see it.
And...then there is the music drifting in and slowly enticing you to move towards it. What finally lured me to the stages was a heavy passionate Latin beat. I love the guitar and especially anything Latin and these two men well… heartbreaking one moment and hip swaying the next. By the end of their set I was emotionally drained and very happy. I was not the only one either, I saw lots of tears streaming down happy moved faces. Toshi Onizuka and Mariano DeOrbegoso. They were both amazing musicians but I have never seen anyone play the guitar like Toshi Onizuka. A really fun and artistically diverse experience.
Weekly shopping becomes a community supportive event here in the summer. Portland and it’s surrounding environs are rich with Farmer’s Markets. Stalls loaded with everything from fresh picked veggies (a vegetarians dream) to bread still warm from the oven. There are flowers galore and cookies wine cheese farm fresh eggs… you name it. I like to Market hop depending on my mood but my favorite and easiest to get to is in the park blocks on Saturday morning by PSU. This week there were dahlias every which way you turned bright, happy dahlias. Oh and tomatoes… and...you name it. Bountiful harvest indeed.
September 14, 2009
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Today is the day, probably around 1:00 p.m. our time, (Pacific). All of the new colors and a whole bunch of our color friends we have not seen in a bit are back for a visit. There are 6 brand new colors. All fallish and all playing with one of my favorite colors, the oh so earthy and humble brown. I definitely go through color phases where I am just thoroughly possessed by a hue. Where I want to immerse my whole self and explore it to its core. All the subtle nuances, shades, tints and textures. I feel like I have just started this particular brown journey, so consider your yarny selves warned, more are coming. I’m actually pretty thrilled in playing with these. I think I have figured out how to take one of my favorite painting styles and transfer that process to yarn dyeing.
The new color names are: Green-eyed Monster, Strange Brew, Gail’s Autumn Joy, the Witching Hour, Vine Maple and Fall “On Tap”.
We also have a glorious new yarn that we are have been playing with for a couple of years. I finally was able to ge t the pricing on it I wanted, so here is it. DeVIne… because we think it is. We had this out a bit last spring at Twisted PDX and at a few shows. DeVine is 100% Merino. It is a 16 ply bulky yarn. Each of those 16 plies are a 2 strands loose ply. This gives the yarn it’s nice round buoyant quality and makes for some quite spectacular stitch definition. It loves to be dyed almost as much as we love dyeing it (which is a lot). One of out test knitters told me recently that she thought that DeVine was kind of like Socks that Rock on steroids, an apt and funny description. I am interested to hear what you think.
(Well and look at that this posted with out me wanting it to and I am not even done and this is like the 5th flippin time. So posting in progress I guess? Great, have not even spell checked it and again with the not finished and this is sooo not a user issue so all you techies out there don’t even.)
OK back to yarn…
Sock Summit has hired Blue Moon to sell all that is leftover Swag-wise from SS09. There is not a lot left and once it is gone that is all folks. We have the tote bags, notebooks, lanyards, buttons and the Orion pattern hard copy. There will be a Sock Summit Swag category on the left side navigation area of the Blue Moon site. So hit shop online and then the sock summit swag and viola there you will be.
Ok I think that is all I have right now. Well actually, I might have a lot to say to Express Engine but I do believe I will take that up with them.
Have a great weekend!
Oops almost forgot. JoAnn goes on a much deserved vacation after today ( just for a week). Bye JoAnn we will miss you, have a blast.
September 11, 2009
I kid you not.
See bunnies on the beach. I did not believe it at first either, thought it was a trick of the foggy morning the first time I saw them or that I was way more exhausted than I thought. There they are and I have to say bunnies on the beach are pretty whimsical. I could barely photograph them they tickled my funny bone so much. They love the beach.
I think they were litter mates from the way they were playing.
“Yo dude where did you go?”
“hmmm, think I’ll hide behind this lovely rock.”
“oh wait.... so much better in here. Cozy too.”
“Busted!”
“Yeah, well catch me if you can bunny boy. I am the fastest furry beast out here.”
“Whatever”
“Weeee...”
“Whose the hopper?”
“ I’m flying”
“Catch ya later”
“Yep, see ya at the Hedgerow.”
September 8, 2009
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