Knit City 2015 Day 2! And a Special Episode of The Knitter Punks Podcast!

Oh my god there's just so much yarn!!!! And amazing people!!!! And amazing stuff!!!

Knit City is THE Vancouver Fibre Festival! ...I mean technically there is only ONE Vancouver Fibre Festival - but it doesn't matter, Knit City is THE one.

Jocelyn and one of the Original Knitter Punks (OKP) Barth and me all have a Knitter Punks Knit City 2015 nerd out. We talk about ALL THE YARN we bought and all the lovely people we chatted with!

AND there's a promo code that gets you my newest shawl pattern Solarium for free! Only from now until Sunday October 4th at 5pm.

Solarium Shawl! 

Go pop over and have a listen! Look at our lovely faces!

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A Lecture by the Lovely Clara Parkes! #knitcity2015

First night of Knit City 2015! 

I didn't even know that I was going to even get in to the Clara Parkes lecture. Me and Nicola showed up rushing right at 6:10 to try and get tickets. They weren't quite sold out and we dropped all our knitting out of our purses as we rushed to pay for the last remaining few spots.

I didn't know what to expect of the lecture, yarn production hasn't been the thing about fibre art that has really kept my interest. I have spun and dyed yarn quite a bit, but the types of sheep and styles of spinning (and all the mills part of it) hasn't really been anything that I've spent much time researching. I didn't know what to expect and that was great because Clara Parkes was just wonderful. She drew me right into the world of bales of wool and of her amazing adventure with them.

Honestly I won't do it justice to talk about it, I would instead recommend that if you're able to go out and buy her books to hear more about her stories. She was just a joy to listen to! I'm going to absolutely track her down and chat with her during the rest of the Knit City weekend. 

I can't wait to read her book! 

I've slurped this image from her pinterest page.

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