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Crafty Snargle

After years of being blog friends, I finally met Sarah face to face this week.  She was in town for a conference and we got together.  twice!   It was so much fun.

Monday we met at Art Fibers.  Can you believe it was my first time there?  I was amazed at the yummy yarns, but stuck to my yarn diet.   I must finish a few more things before I can justify the money for that kind of yarn.   Oh, but it is lovely yarn isn't it?    Then we killed some time at Noe Knit and grabbed a burrito and went to a stitch & bitch

Last night we met up again.   We spent a long time browsing through knitting & sewing books at Kinokuniya book store in Japantown.  I'd been there before but never bought anything because I thought the patterns were too hard to read. Sarah showed me the basics of reading the charts and thus empowered with knowledge, I bought a couple books. 

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The one on the left is a 'Start Series' which is nice because almost every step has a picture so it's easy to follow along.  And look at the cute bunnies wearing all the sweaters from the book.

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The book on the right is harder to read.   I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why my pattern has two sleeves before Sarah told me the one sleeve was for another pattern.  Doh!   I'm going to be ambitious and try a cabled pattern.

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I'm really excited to start that sweater, but I want to finish a few other little things up first.  Hopefully it'll be the motivation I need to plow through some finishing.   Thanks to Sarah and these websites I feel able to tackle the Japanese pattern.  However, I'm not totally on my own.  It's always helpful to have a friend who know Japanese just in case.    Especially if you know said friend can be bribed with chocolate and vodka.  (you know who you are!)

Comments

Hmmm..i wish I could have gone last night, but a free concert was beckoning. I would love to meet other knitbloggers though...since I have only met 2.

I love that cabled sweater. Far beyond my knitting abilities though. I wont even entertain the idea.

That was your first time to ArtFibers! Dude! and yo, I have to go to that store.... thanks for translation links!

Thanks so much for being my SF hostess! I had such an awesome time being able to combine knitting with a business trip :) and get you into Artfibers! (all the way downtown....)
I can't wait to see that cabled sweater! It's going to be very pretty.
It was great meeting you - thanks again!

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