Ohh my beautiful…

Busy busy busy!!!

 

Ok so! Last Tuesday my oh so fabulous knit group threw me a little welcome back party!! They were prepared with giant cupcakes, soda, wine, and gifts!!

 

And Elsa got me the most amazing book ever written!!!

I cannot wait to start cookin out of this thing!! I was reading thru some of the recipes and drooling.  It will be magnificent!!

  

 

Over the weekend I started work, which was aweeeesome btw.  And starting a new job during a reaaaaaaaally busy weekend is quite the feat.  The Portland Yarn Crawl was this weekend and since my favorite knitters and I had Friday open, we hit up the LYS’s before the masses did over the weekend.  We made it to Close Knit, Gossamer, Knit/Purl, Dublin Bay, Twisted, and of course back to Happy Knits.

The day was fun! Evan got some undyed yarn from Gossamer so he could dye it himself (which turned out pretty damn awesome), Anne got some gifts for a friend and something for herself, and we all got some free patterns from Twisted since we were a few of the first in the shop!

 

On Saturday, Anne and I had a podcast interview with Knithappensshow.com.  It was super fun and we got to talk about our yarn bombing, and hopefully got some people in the Portland area who listen to the show to come join us!  You can listen to it here.

 

Annnd then I think it was Monday, Anne and I decided to go to the Portland Building to add some crochet chains to an art exhibit.  Its called the Mother Tree Project and you can get more info here.  Anne brought her friend Annie, who learned to crochet on the spot for the project!  We used nettles as one fiber, and that was an experience lemme tell you. 

Here’s a couple pics:

 

 

Ok now that you’re all up to date, its time for more packing then bed!

 

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Vandals!!!!

So I met up with Annie, Elsa, and Elsa’s cousin Mike (I hope thats his name!) at Palio’s in Ladd’s edition.  Annie had a GIANT stash of stuff she had worked on while I was out of town, so she was ready to go.  When I pulled up on my bike her and Elsa were already putting pieces up.  We put pieces up on 4 or so trees, 3-4 benches, a few bike racks, street signs, light poles, a bus stop bench, business door handle & gate, & cables from a telephone pole.  Some of the photos I took are on flickr (there to the right) and the rest are up on my photography site. 

 

We had a TON of positive reactions today.  People would walk by and watch us and smile, a couple asked what we were doing so we let them know.  People in the coffee shop and bike shop were wondering as well so Mike went in and told them what was up.  We did have one woman who thought we should be doing something better than wasting yarn on poles and trees tho.   We decided she was just too uptight, and put up more pieces!

 

After that Annie and I walked to downtown, and stopped by the Vera Katz statue to place a hat on her head.  We then headed over the Hawthorne bridge and stopped at Chapman square.  I showed Annie the little hair piece I had put on the pioneer statue woman, and we decided the little boy needed a hat.  I put it on, took a couple photos, and not 2 minutes later a couple women walk by, see the hat, and say ‘We need to take that off!’.  I laughed, walked up and told Annie what they said, and backed up a little then watched them take it off.  We stood back and laughed at them while they took pictures of the statue for a good 5-8 minutes.  We still don't know why they would want to take it down, but oh well, we went back later and put it back on! Ha! Showed them!!!

 

After lunch we walked up to the Zoobomber monument and happened to run into Elsa, Mike and Brandie who were eating at Kenny & Zukes.  It was awesome to run into people I love being around!  Annie and I walked alllll over downtown today. We got more measurements and tons and tons of new ideas.  We definitely have our work cut out for us.