Yarn, Coffee and Pastries

It doesn’t get any better than that.

I spent last weekend at the Nordic Knitting Conference in Seattle, sponsored by our own Nordic Heritage Museum.  Teachers and students from around the country (and beyond), housed in a wonderful old brick building.  Plus a discovery in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood of the best pastry I’ve ever had.  And that’s saying something (I’m constantly researching!)

When I walked into my first class I saw a dozen or so balls of yarn waiting for us.  The class was titled, “Two-color Garter stitch, and the instructor supplied the yarn for us.  She was from Sweden, and had brought along yarn from a small spinnery in Sweden,Ostergotlands Ullspinneri AB .

The owner of the spinnery had come along to the conference, and brought some of this lovely yarn along to sell at the gift shop (it’s unavailable in the U.S.)  I usually wait until the last day of these things, and then have to choose from among the picked-over goods.  Not this time–I took one look at the few beautiful skeins she had brought along and pounced.  Three hundred meters per skein–into the stash it goes.

And a skein of Toots LeBlanc & Co. luxuriou$ 60/40 Merino/Angora–the fingering weight in light gray.  The scarf she had in this gorgeous stuff was like a cloud.

All in all, a terrific weekend.  New goodies to post in to my stash on Ravelry.