WWKIP Day re-cap

This year's Worldwide Knit In Public day was way more fun than last year (and I thought last year was fun).

It was held at the Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro. Tami organized the event this year and she did a phenomenal job! She was able to get 3 LYSs to sponser the event - Kathy's Knit Corner, The Knitting Bee and All About Yarn. Not only was there "door" prizes, but there were these awesome Swag Bags (for the first 40 knitters). At knit night last week we got a preview of the bags and what was in them and I really really wanted to make sure I got one.

Owen and I arrived early to the event to see if there was a need for set up help. Not really because they had it under control, however, I took a roll of tickets for the door prizes and handed them out to people - later I found out that the store had their own people that could have handed out the tickets, but I had fun doing it, so oh well! Owen went and found us some food at the farmer's market and then we all waited until 10am when we could snag our bags! You would not believe how fast the line formed! I was at or near the front and got the coolest bag made by Sara and all this stuff inside:

3 knitting patterns - 2 by Kathleen and 1 by Cindy
3 discount coupons from the above mentioned LYSs
Yarn samples from Stitch Jones, Fearless Fibers, Frog Creek Fibers and Abstract fiber
Fiber sample from The Cupcake Factory
and a Stitch marker from Girly with a twist


Look how nice the bag is inside! There are some pockets to hold needles and also a tab for keys or something




I admit to being a fiber piggy. I traded out my abstract fiber yarn for a cupcake factory sample, and at the end Carissa gave me 2 more! I am excited to try them out, her colors are really pretty!


My mom eventually showed up to the event, but did not get a bag...she didn't believe me when I told her she needed to be there early! OH well.

As for the knitting in public part, I worked on my Cookie A. sock (Sam) from her book Sock Innovation in Nodding Violet colorway from Blue Moon. I actually didn't get much knitting done because I was talking so much to everyone, and as of today I ended up with negative done, because I had to rip it all back to the cuff from messing up the cables so much. When will I learn that I need to have a plain pattern to work on when I'm going to be talking a lot???

There was an unofficial yarn swap going on where if you brought yarn you could take something from the pile. I brought in a few odd balls of stuff I knew I wouldn't use, and the remnants of some past projects. I walked away with two cones of a purple glitzy yarn to use in core spinning.

The door prizes were pretty good this year - lots of yarn and books. I won a Rowan pattern book, that was cool!

For lunch Owen went and got us some pizza from the farmers' market. And sadly, at 2pm we all had to leave (due to a wedding).

I didn't actually take pictures at the event, because I was not thinking, but you can check some out at Cindy's blog, I might even be in a few!

Even though I'm on a "fiber diet" I couldn't resist a few sample baggies of fiber - I got a bamboo and a fiber made from milk! Cool! Both are from the cupcake factory.