Christina, Renate and I were in Hartford, CT, this past weekend where we attended the STITCHES conference.  This was both pleasure and business.  While there, I attended a class taught by J.C. Briar about various methods of casting-on.  Who knew one could cast-on with the purl stitch?  Not me.  In fact, I was so excited that when we went to lunch I wanted to teach the young waiter.  I showed him the purl cast-on method;  the long-tail double cast-on, which is great for socks, and the German (sometimes known as Norwegian) cast-on, which is also great for socks because it’s so flexible.   Unfortunately he didn’t really seem that interested.

I did a meet and greet at the Universal Yarn booth, the talented people who produce my Blossom Street Yarn, signed at The Woolpack and Yarn Barn booths and shopped, shopped and shopped!