I love how the play of color, reflection, light and shadow create an abstract image. Taken at the Salmon River in Oregon.
Tag: Oregon
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract
Here’s my contribution to this week’s photo challenge, Abstract. Taken in downtown Salem.
The challenge:
This week, turn the concrete and familiar into something new and mysterious.
~ Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Wordless Wednesday: Hood River
A brief Wordless Wednesday this week, thinking of one of my favorite places – full of outdoorsy adventure, awesome weather (dreaming of the summer heat at the moment), gracious residents, and a terrific yarn shop – Hood River.
Wordless Wednesday: Rocks, Stones, and Boulders
Weekly Photo Challenge: Future
I can see the handwriting on the wall…
Wordless Wednesday: Yarn Shops
I have found local yarn shops to be, often, little oases of beauty. It makes sense, really, that the owners might have an artistic sensibility and would create a lovely space to be. Here, then, I share some images of my favorites with you.
I have a few more favorites, but, for various reasons, don’t have photos right now. Those favorites include Knot Another Hat in Hood River, Oregon and Close Knit and the Knitting Bee in Portland, Oregon. All great places to spend an hour or an afternoon!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape
My contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, taken from the Fort Dalles Readiness Center overlooking the Columbia Gorge.
This week, it’s all about landscape photography. Show us your best establishing shot, out in nature or in an urban setting.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half-Light
I glanced up from my work one day to see the golden late-afternoon sun slanting upon the neighboring downtown buildings. I put aside my work, picked up my camera, and went for a stroll:
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
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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