Today’s Wordless Wednesday is brought to you by guest photographer Cliff Herman (my DH). Taken while visiting family in Sedona, Arizona. Photos edited by me.
Thanks for the great pictures, Cliff!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance
Kelp and the sea – in flawless rhythm.
The Challenge:
There’s rhythm and motion all around us — this week, let’s capture some of it in a photo…
When I let my brain loose, allowing it to absorb what’s around me without trying to process anything in particular, what it often detects is choreography — unmistakable dance moves, often in unexpected places.
~Ben Huberman
Wordless Wednesday: Texture (Blue)
Giveaway Details
Hello dear knitters! This giveaway is long over, but the beautiful yarns and products are still lovely and worth reading about..
All of these lovelies were purchased last weekend at the Rose City Yarn Crawl. It was so much fun shopping for locally made fiber products. The Pacific Northwest truly has a strong creative community, and it is a joy to share a little bit of that with you.
My only goal while shopping the Yarn Crawl was to find skeins of yarn that caught my eye…oh, and I was looking for yarn in a PDX Carpet colorway. The first store I went to was Twisted, and right away I found it. Score!!
The Details.
1. Knitted Wit Victory Fingering.
I love this yarn! It’s the yarn I used (in Golden Delicious) for my Metolius River Mitts. It is amazingly sproingy, works up wonderfully, and comes in terrific colorways. I love how this colorway picks up the colors in the original PDX Carpet.
100% Superwash Merino, 4 ounces, 380 yards, in PDX Carpet. Purchased at Twisted.
2. A PDX Carpet notions bag by Rose City Totes.
This was purchased earlier, but inspired the theme of this giveaway grand prize. Interested in the PDX Carpet iconic design? Read here.
3. Rosewood cable needles.
Lovely cable needles made in Eugene. 
4. Black Trillium Fibres Pebble Sock.
This is lovely yarn. I bought a similar skein for myself, in a slightly less blue-toned colorway, and I can’t wait to see how it works up.
100% Superwash Merino, 100 grams, 380 yards in a one of a kind colorway. Purchased at Happy Knits.
5. Bumblebirch Heartwood.
I have heard whispers about this yarn. I have heard people waxing rhapsodic about it. It is truly, truly, lovely. The colorways have depth and the bases have a very pleasing hand.
4-ply fingering weight, 100 grams, 463 yds, 75% Superwash Merino/25% nylon in Glacier. Purchased at Close Knit.
6. One of a Kind Buttons button.
I was fortunate to make it to the One of a Kind trunk show at the Knitting Bee. Artist Candace Wilson designs these lovely buttons, and I got to chat with her for awhile. Her story is great, as are her buttons! This is the one I chose:
7. Blissful Knits Sublime Yak.
This yarn is just stunning. It is shimmery and just plain gorgeous! Truly exquisitely crafted.
Sockweight, 60% Superwash Merino/20% Silk/20% Yak, 3.5 oz., 400 yds in the colorway Abyss. Purchased at the Knitting Bee .
Thank you for your support.
xoxo, Carol
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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love
The Challenge: I realized that the universe is constantly whispering words of love: expressions of pure joy, respect, loyalty, and sacrifice for someone other than ourselves, and instructions on letting go and focusing on what is most important in this world.
That which is beautiful calls to me. It inspires me, and it can move me to tears – or to action. It reminds me of the greater reality beyond myself. Beauty illuminates the path to love.
Wordless Wednesday: Rose City Yarn Crawl 2016
I love Portland! It’s such a great city, for many reasons, and one of them is its totally artsy vibe. Portland recently had 14 local yarn shops participating in the 2016 Rose City Yarn Crawl. Some of my impressions:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony
Wordless Wednesday: Campus Stroll
Giveaway Update
This giveaway is long past completed. This is from 3/1/2016: I’m working on gathering the large prize, but in the meantime, I promised to post a picture of the current smaller giveaway prize.
Sometime this weekend, I will choose a winner via random number generator for this great PDX carpet print notions bag and a skein of Cascade Ultra Pima Cotton Fine in a pretty raspberry color.
A fun tidbit about this iconic design:
The SRG team [designers of the PDX Airport carpet] wanted the carpet to be northwest to the core, so they settled on blues and greens early on in the design phase. The final pattern corresponded to Portland’s intersecting North-South runways, as seen from the control tower.
~ A Brief History of the PDX Airport Carpet, Portland Monthly
I do love the PDX carpet design!!!
Thank you for your support!
Carol
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Leap Year Giveaway in my Ravelry Group
The last couple of posts have reminded me of some of my favorite projects that I’ve made that weren’t my own designs. I love this little frog pattern, Ribbit, by Susan B. Anderson. He was so much fun to make, and Susan’s patterns are always so well written.
Well, this little frog is my way of announcing that we are having a Leap Year giveaway in my Ravelry Group, Carol E Herman Designs. There will be smaller random giveaways starting this week, with a larger prize when The Cafe thread reaches 5,000 posts. Drop by, say hello, meet some new (or old) knitting friends, join us as we chat about this, that and everything! The first giveaways will be some cute notions bags made from fabric based on the iconic PDX Carpet (link to google images for PDX Carpet). I’ll post pictures of the actual bags and other prizes later.
I hope you will join us!
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Please note that the giveaway is in the Ravelry group, not here in the blog.
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