This year I was able to go to the Knit & Crochet show in Portland, Oregon. To be perfectly honest, I would go to a paper clip show if it meant a trip to Portland (love that city).

The trip itself was fantastic, but I’ll get more into that in the next posting. I had two crochet goals on this trip…shop and shop. I met those goals. I didn’t go to any of the classes while I was there, but I did make it to the Market Place, or should I say Fiber Wonderland. If I wasn’t careful I was going to need a government bail out before the day was done.

As I walked into the exhibit hall I was presented with my free goodie bag.  I’ve had co-workers shorter than this goodie bag. It was tall! This could only mean one thing…there was some serious shopping ahead and they knew it.

I managed to make it past two booths before my first purchase (a great crochet scarf kit from Foxyknits) and then made it two more booths and ended up with a beautiful mahogany crochet hook (resisting serious urges to buy an entire set…in every wood type they had). I had four more rows of booths to go and at the rate I was going, I was going to need four more goodie bags.

The hardest part was resisting the try-something-new urges. Drop spindles, spinning wheels, roving…argh! Heck, forget the bag, I needed a goodie bus!

In the end, I made it out with my wallet still in the green. But that was going to be short lived since the next stop was Yarnia!

Here are a few of my favorite booths at the Market:

Foxyknits  www.foxyknits.com

(check out the scarf kit here)

The Nantucket Bagg  www.nantucketbagg.com

(see photos of this great craft bag below)

RedFish Dye Works  www.RedFishDyeWorks.com

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