With my sister! We just went to the market place, there was no way I could afford any of the classes. My sister drove, oh thank God! To much stress and excitement for me that would be. So the marketplace was suppose to be $20.00. However I saw no place to pay when we went in to the market place. So we just walked in. I saw people wearing badges, people wearing wrist bands of blue and pink, and people like us with nothing. No one ever said anything to us about that. Not even the vendors when they sold their wares to us! Of course I was waiting for the heavy hand of the law to descend on our shoulders, but it never happen. My sister was much more savior fare and wasn't worried about it.
I saw so many different kinds of yarn, alpaca, muskox (so incredibly soft!), wool, mulberry silk, BANANA fiber (really, really shinny!) No linden yarn that I could see however. I decided with my massively reduced fiances, that I would concentrate on what I didn't, and not lose my head. So it was stitch marker and blue yarn for Brian and Barb's soon to be baby boy.
I was pretty stiff at first.My sister started looking worried, because I wasn't buying anything or really going into the booths. But I could see, that those booths didn't have the right kind of yarn or any stitch markers.I have, unbelievably, do have a problem spending large sums of money on something, even although I have PLANNED to do so. I walked into booths, looking for the right kind of blue yarn. And every booth we walked into, people spoke to us! Everyone was so friendly! Well, I finally found the yarn I was looking for! Sweet Georgie in tourmaline! Sock yarn/fingerling, $22.00 a skein. I bought two to make sure. I want to make a sweater, and a hat, and booties! The sister relaxed.
My sister at first stayed out of the booths, and I was greatly worried that she wasn't going to enjoy her self.
Well, that was until we found the right kind of yarn for her! It turns out that my sister likes multitexured yarn. She used to do weaving in the 80's and this stuff was right of her alley! Even better if it was sparkly and shinny! I soon talked her into buying one skein/hank of yarn for her self to experiment with. So, into the booths with me she went.
My sister had three candidates, one sari skein, which she was delighted (and amazed) to find out it was recycled Indian sari dresses, secondly a yarn make of five strand, different weights, type of fiber, metallic, and thirdly a skein of stuff that was a mesh. There was a scarf she was almighty taken with made of out it with a thread of sequins knitted on it in a technique that made it ruffle. The yarn was like $22.0 and so she didn't feel bad about buying it, I bought the roll of sequins for it, which turned out to be $30.00! Yes the sparklies cost more then the yarn!
With that I was done with the market place. I did have more money on me, but I was afraid to spend it, (and I was right not to, the trash bill came the next day). We took another look around, there was a BIG cardboard box fill with bags of skeins, and they were on sale, but the lowest was in the $40's and then a class let out and the attendees swarmed it.
With that we tried to leave, I say tried, because we couldn't figure out how to get out. We ended up in a lobby, and sister wondered out loud how to get to the car. Behind us was a vogue booth, (and I noticed that was where you payed for the market place. Augh! Don't look at us lady! But the lady in the booth asked us whether we wanted our parking validated! It reduced it to $12 from $24! Then she told us how to get to the parking garage! As we left my sister used the machine to pay for the parking. She asked the other people in line whether they had gotten their parking validated and , one lady proclaimed that she had asked the Vogue people twice but they said they weren't doing it that day!
And then we had lunch at the King's Head Inn!
