Stitches East 2006

Wow.

Bernie and I arrived at the Baltimore  Convention Center at about 9:45am, 15 minutes before the Market opened yesteday. We had to wait in line until 10, but it was so worth it. Honestly, I had no idea it would be so incredibly BIG.

Bernie and I started on the right side and worked our way across. At noon, we'd made it about 2 rows over. At that point, we decided that we'd need to go back on Sunday as well. Fortunately, we made it through the whole thing in one day, but we weren't quite as thourough as the day progressed.

I'll post pictures of our haul later today (I haven't taken them yet!). We were both amazingly restrained, I must say. The amount of stuff there and the number of vendors was just overwhelming.  Also, we met/talked to a ton of cool people during the day.. Everyone was so friendly. We met Stitchy McYarnpants and she signed Bernie's fabulous new book while we laughed our asses off in the booth (people stared, dude.)

May haul in list form:

Tess' Designer Yarns DK Cascade Silk in subtle blues
Tess' Super Sock & Baby yarn in blue/purple/green
Faroese Scribble Lace Shawl kit (also in blues)
Candy-colored fingering weight wool
One glass button
Very short size 0000 needles for bead knitting (they have cool glass beads on the ends too!)
free spiced pear jelly from Tess'

See? I said I was restrained. I'll post Bernie's haul later too. I can't remember everything she got and she's still sleeping right now. I'll post more as I think of it.

Edit: for all you Swampstockers out there, we saw TOM and his wife, Susan, in their booth. That was strange, but cool!

Comments

[Spyder]

hehehhe

you said 'fingering wool'.

[Caren]

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