#36 of 365 - American Heart

Thanks to Darla, I knew that today was the day to wear red in support of the American Heart Association's Go Red campaign in support of Women's Heart Health.

Here's a random assortment of women I saw today at the Sew Expo, that I went to again today, wearing red, including my friend Lis, who I hadn't seen in quite some time. It was a treat to catch up with her.


I also spend some of the morning with Katte and her Mum, showing them around Ravelry and then off to the Expo as I wanted to purchase Cheryl Oberle's Sweater Book and show her my hand spun and knitted shawlette as she's a knitter and spinner as well. That's Cheryl and her newest shawl and me in my handspun shawlette.















And this is Mercedes, who's trousers were too hard to resist... That's right, it's fake fur insets on the green corduroy flares. Too fun!



...all you need is Love...

#35 of 365 - How I Spent Some of My Day

This morning, I talked Erin into going to the Denver Sew Expo at the Merchanise Mart in Denver, obviously. It's a sewing expo that runs for 3 days in February every year. We were going to pass by it today on the way to delivering me to Sheila's house in anticipation of dog sitting in Broomfield for the next week and we had the time to check it out, so we did.



We ran into Katte whilst we were there. We also saw Barb, Marlene and Betty, old dear quilting friends from Denver and Boulder. We checked out the vendors and spent a lot of time in Cheryl Oberle's booth petting yarn and checking out the shawls. We got to see her latest shawlette just of the needles and we all love it. I can't wait til the pattern is available. Besides Cheryl's yarns and books, the only thing that really interested me was the banana fiber yarn, lovely colours with an interesting texture. Erin was not so fond of the texture, but I was okay with it.



...and yes, I am wearing Ishbel again. I even gave lessons to other patrons on how I wear it...

Now I am at Sheila's, knitting and visiting whilst waiting to go to the Wiseharts for the supper and then on to the house of dogs across the way...



Sheila sez Hey Rebecca!

#27 of 365 - The Misty Moors

I love yarn, if that isn't already obvious to you, my dear readers. I chose this yarn because the name was so evocative and it has every colour that I love all in one strand.

I found this great sock yarn from . It's a colourway called Misty Moor (scroll down for the colourway). I was going to make Cheryl Oberle's Highland Triangle Shawl (scroll down to the Folk Shawls book) from it, but even with 800 plus yards, it's not enough. So instead, I am going to make Ysolda Teague's Ishbel with it. It is one of the shawls going towards my 10 Shawls in 2010.

Since I own shirts in every colour in the yarn and since the Ishbel won't use both skeins, I will make a pair of socks with the remainder. Then I will have a set, either to wear together or apart depending on how chilly it is. I will likely use this pattern Zokni, since I liked it so well when I knitted them up for Erin.