This weekend is the Rose City Yarn Crawl, with 15 LYS’s participating.  Knitters from all over the place have been saving their money, planning projects and purchases – waiting for this event.  Is there another city in the world with such a plethora of wonderful yarn stores as Portland, OR?

I will be appearing at two stores this weekend, doing demos of Annetarsia techniques, signing books, answering questions, and checking out what knitters are purchasing and excited about.  Can’t wait!  Today I will be at the Naked Sheep Knit Shop, in North Portland.  This is a delightful, cozy shop with a loyal and close-knit clientele.  I love being there.  Tomorrow, I am visiting For Yarn’s Sake, in Beaverton.  This is a large store with so much yarn and inspiration all around, that I think of it as knitting Nirvana.  I will be at each store from 2-5pm – Naked Sheep on Saturday, For Yarn’s sake on Sunday.

Coming with me will be “Ziggy Zaggy” in progress.  I’ve started the first zig zag.  I haven’t buried any ends yet, I will be demo’ing that for knitters this weekend.  The pattern is starting to show, but it will continue to reveal itself as I knit.  Intarsia garter stitch is so much fun to knit!

Happy RCYC, everyone! Hope to see some of you, be sure to say Hi!