wildflowerknits

I promise you if you come into the shop and ask me how my trip was, I will give you an earful! My trip was sooooo great! I always look forward to the fall market BUT it’s usually equally as much stressful as fun.  Great to see the new yarns, yes, always, BUT there are so many decisions to be made and I don’t make decisions quickly. At least not yarn buying decisions. Now if it’s all about sweater design- that’s different.

I have to say that I went thinking I would come back with lots of samples to show you all. On Friday night there is an event called “sample it” where we can purchase (usually new) products to bring home. You have to know, too, that Friday night is packed with one event after another. I signed up for the “sample it” thinking I could get in quick, do my shopping, and still attend the panel discussion that AKD (association of knitwear designers) was putting on and important in my mind to attend. Overlapping with both of these and immediately following were even more goings on-the fashion show being one I always try to fit in.

I like to stay a little further from the convention center- gives me walking, thinking, clarifying time- and you need to know that I personally need a lot of down time- or time solely to myself. (that’s why I love living in the country). So – I scheduled in a lot of down time on this trip and arrived at the convention center maybe 45 minutes before sample it. There was already a crazy winding line that I figured would take me – what?- a given 45 minutes wait and then probably yet again 15 at least minutes and probably much more time to get into the door. And then what? I’d have all of 15 minutes in the most hopeful scenario to fight a claustrophobic space to purchase all the goodies and make quick decisions of what  to bring home and then sprint to the panel discussion. Well……………….. not.

So instead I went to the panel discussion which was great and took this picture to try to show you why I didn’t bring home all the samples I thought I would. Keep in mind that congested cluster of people really is a snakelike line- and off to the left it continued on. My place would have been probably 50 more people beyond the far left.

Tags: AKD, new yarns