Meet You There, Sis!

I talked my sister into doing this with me:

Craft Yarn Council of America's

Certified Instructor Program in Knitting

September 10, 2008

8:30am - 8:30pm

Doubletree Hotel

Portland, OR

It's being held in conjunction with this:

2008 Fall Knit & Crochet Show

A Crochet Guild of America (CGOA) &

The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA) Conference

September 12-14, 2008

(with classes beginning Sept. 11)

Oregon Convention Center

Portland, OR

We have homework:

For the 12-hour Certified Instructor's Program:

• 5” x 5” swatch of each of the following (6 total): Stockinette, Ribbing, Cable Stitch, Yarn Over or Lace Pattern, Fair Isle, and Intarsia
• Two knitted items we've completed (clothing, household, or decorative)

For the 3-hour class we're taking at the conference Friday, Fully Fashioned and
Fabulous:

• Swatch #1: With smooth worsted weight yarn and appropriate knitting needles, CO 13 sts. Work Stockinette St for 1", ending after a purl row. Slip sts onto holder.

  Swatch #2: With smooth worsted weight yarn and appropriate knitting
  needles, CO 28 sts. Row 1 (RS): *K1, yarn over, K1, SSK, K6, K2tog, K1, yarn
  over, K1. Repeat from * across. Row 2 and all WS rows: Purl across. Row 3: *K2, yarn over, K1, SSK, K4, K2tog, K1, yarn over, K2. Repeat from * across. Row 5: *K3, yarn over, K1, SSK, K2, K2tog, K1, yarn over, K3. Repeat from * across. Row 7: *K4, yarn over, K1, SSK, K2tog, K1, yarn over, K4. Repeat from * across. Row 8: As Row 2. Repeat Rows 1-8 twice, ending after Row 8 of patt. Slip sts onto holder.

  Swatch #3: With smooth worsted weight yarn and appropriate knitting
  needles, CO 22 sts. Row 1 (RS): P8, K6, P8. Row 2: K8, P6, K8. Row 3: P8, slip
  next 3 sts onto cable needle and hold in back of work, K3, K3 sts from cable
  needle, P8. Row 4: As Row 2. Repeat Rows 1-4 until swatch measures approx. 4" from beg, ending after Row 4 of patt. Slip sts onto holder.

  Swatch #4: With smooth worsted weight yarn and appropriate knitting needles, CO 32 sts. Row 1 (RS): P2, *K3, P2. Repeat from * across. Row 2: Purl across. Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until swatch measures approx. 4" from beg, ending after Row 2 of patt. Slip sts onto holder.

  Swatch #5: With smooth worsted weight yarn and appropriate knitting
  needles, CO 22 sts. Row 1 (RS): K2, *P2, K2. Repeat from * across. Row 2: P2,
  *K2, P2. Repeat from * across. Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until swatch measures approx. 2" from beg, ending after Row 1 of patt. Slip sts onto holder.

She's arriving in Portland from New Orleans on Tuesday, September 9th, by this:

I'm arriving in Portland from Seattle on Tuesday, September 9th, by this:

Turn that picture around, and you'll see how we both get to Seattle Friday night. You can bet our needles will be clacking in rhythm to the train the entire way!

Also on our agenda:

• knitting
• acquiring a fleece
• picking
• dyeing
• carding
• spinning
• LYS shop-hopping around Portland and Seattle
• music-listening (Kell's Irish Pub in Pike Market... Ockham's Razor is playing Saturday night, so B will get to see what we're talking about!)
• staying up too late
• giggling
• drinking lattes and Italian sodas
• catching up
• regretting that we don't live closer to each other
• scheming our next (mis)adventure

She takes the red eye home to NOLA Sunday night.

I start singing another rendition of my famous Miss-My-Sister Blues shortly thereafter.