Jane admiring her newest yarn. In case you have any doubts... she was delighted with it, and with good reason. it is lovely!!
Kate fiddling with her camera
Laurie wearing her gorgeous shawl
Laurie and Gail at Ocean Sky in Eugene
Lori in our shared booth at BSG. it looked fabulous!
for now, i'll just say that Black Sheep Gathering was true to form... fabulous! i'll put up some photos and fill in text later. gotta get ready to leave with Kate this a.m. to drive to Duvall today, then tomorrow look at the house/property we might want to buy if we can work out all the details, then take Amtrak back home on Wed.
Tuesday: well, i'm ready to start packing to move to the place we looked at today! it's really, really nice and would work SO well for us all. it's on 5 acres with a lovely 4 bedroom house with wrap-around porch, lots of living space inside and out, huge kitchen and a finished basement which Kate thinks would make a wonderful space for spinning, sewing, fiber stash, dyeing... and whatever. i totally agree with that. and then there's the barn which isn't really so much a barn... 3 car garage on one end and residence on the other end, with loft which could be easily finished as bedroom/office/den kind of thing. the living space is the opposite end from where the house is and the entrance and porch face the woods. there are fenced pastures and some sheds and even a small building with a "man cave" which Chris has already claimed. there's just too much there to go into detail. if we can eventually sell our 2 houses and get some issues worked out, i'll put up pics and go into more detail. looks like C&K will list their house beginning of July! so, the whole adventure is beginning to look like something that will happen.
and BSG was a 3 day high of fondling fiber, spinning with friends, seeing and hugging lots of friends, carrying on tradition such as dinner at Ocean Sky with 14 twisted sisters and friends. and i did come home with fiber... lovely luscious fiber from Lori (photos later when i can find it again in my still packed fiber bins) and some merino/bamboo sock yarn from Patti which has already been cast on and is a sock in progress!!
taking amtrak back to portland tomorrow.
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I REALLY missed seeing you all! Jane, you are true to form! Gad I miss you! Fabulous yarn! Kate, so glad you are one of us. Laurie...wish I could touch that shawl, cuz it has to feel even better than it looks and it looks awesome! Sure wish I could have been at Ocean Sky...great company, great food. Gail you look great. And Lori, the booth is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. But where was Lynn N? Somebody please tell her I just spent the last two days natural dyeing, and I now have 30 new skeins of yarn and a case of chiggers from picking plants in the wild.
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