I don't have any pictures from the retreat.  I usually forget to take pictures and almost all of the photos on this blog were taken by George.

I had registered for the Saturday evening banquet and an all-day class on Sunday.  The banquet could have been a little lonely, but while waiting outside to get into the banquet hall, I ran into Fred and Jen Hagan.  I worked with Fred at two different companies for several years and his wife is a knitwear designer who's becoming better known.  They run Fidgeadh Yarns together.  If you go to their site, Fred is modeling most of the men's sweaters that Jen designed.  We had a great time catching up before and during the banquet.

I also went to the Marketplace on Saturday afternoon where I bought way too much yarn.  It's gorgeous stuff and I plan to use it all.  I ran into Charisa and a few other people from the Portland Yarn Crawl in the Marketplace, and then sat with them while we all showed off what we had bought.  I then got into a conversation with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot, and a friend of hers.  I'm such a fangirl.

I drove back down to Tacoma on Sunday for an all-day class with Janine Bajus on selecting colours for fair isle knitting.  I've enjoyed reading Janine's blog Feral Knitter for several months and she was great in person.  Janine took us through a lot of colour theory and then had us knit a fast swatch using colours we selected from a photograph along with any other values of the colours that we could find on the table.  We had over 300 colours to choose from and I think I can say that the entire class had fun.  I have the swatch somewhere, but I can't find it right now.  When I do, I'll post a picture of it.