I went to bed at ten last night and slept for ten hours! I thought surely that would take care of my fatigue and I was perky this morning. But once again this afternoon I got tired and could have easily taken a nap. Why don’t I, you ask? Just not a habit I want to get into. The computer overheated about two and shut off so I “rested” in Clint’s recliner for an hour. Then I took a shower which helped me to revive. I needed to revive since this was rehearsal night.
Continuing the Madrona saga…. Saturday morning was the class with Sally Melville and our “nightmarish” outlines! We basically played paper dolls in class. We cut out various lengths and shapes of tops, then various styles of pants and skirts and tried them on our body shapes. I didn’t really find any that made me jump with joy. Although, if I can shave off some of the side lumps, there are possibilities. So that will have to be my goal. At any rate, Barbara and I survived the class. At one point Sally was modeling the layered look – an asymmetrical vest with a tunic type shirt underneath that looked like a nightshirt to me, and slim pants. Of course, she is a beanpole. The two gals behind us thought it looked chic. All a matter of perspective. They are from Seattle where it might look upscale. Out here in the boonies, folks would think we were wearing our nightgown!
Saturday the hotel had a concession stand in the Pavilion so Barbara and I got lunch there. I had a great chicken Caesar salad. The chicken was nice and tender and not dry as it so often is in something like that. Barbara had some sort of wrap that fell apart in her hands. We were joined for lunch by Pat Fly, one of the vendors we’ve known for years.
After lunch we headed for the Market as that afternoon would be our only time to shop. I bought some yarn to knit a scarf that a gal was wearing in the Color class on Thursday. I also bought some yarn and a pattern for a sweater. Don’t know that I’ll ever make that particular sweater but the yarn is beautiful. When we were done at Market we went back to the room and took care of Sunday’s door prizes. After that we relaxed until time for the banquet. I headed down at 6:15 and saved places for us at a table. The banquet entrée was salmon. The speaker for the evening was Elsebeth Lavold. She is Sweden's premier knitwear designer, artist, and instructor. Elsebeth's contemporary knitted Viking designs and patterns are based on her meticulous study of historic Viking symbols and patterns of ornamentation from Scandinavian craftsmen of the Iron Age, including the Viking era. This was the subject of her talk that evening.
Julianne with pony tail and Barbara in striped shirt
Barbara went off to her class on “Essential Skills for the Self-taught Knitter” with Sally Melville and I went to Gloria Tracy’s class on “Design Guidelines.” Julianne was taking a class with Cat Bordhi on “Hybrid Sock Architecture.” Gloria let us out 10 minutes early again so I dashed over to the Market to see if anyone had the knitting gauge she told us about. I finally found one at the Village Spinning booth so I got one for both me and Barbara. I was anxious to get home and try out the Knit Picks needles that Gloria said were “off.” I joined Gloria and another gal from class for lunch and afterwards went up to the room. Barbara and Julianne were having their lunch in the room and Julianne had moved all of the things out of our room. She assured me she had everything.
We all went back to class and then met up again at the registration desk for our last chore of the event. We collected the name tag holders of anyone who passed our way. We also made sure their name wasn’t on the door prize list. We still had a number of door prize winners who hadn’t claimed their prizes and those have to be mailed out. At six we went up to the fourth floor hospitality room for the teacher reception. This was for any teachers who weren’t flying out Sunday night and we “angels” are always invited to that. They had three kinds of pizza, Caesar salad, spanitikopita and a couple of different kinds of brownies. Whatever kind of pizza I had was really good.
Around seven we started getting ourselves together and headed out of there. We got to my house about eight. Got my things unloaded and after I got my suitcase unpacked I suddenly realized I didn’t have my boots. I called Barbara and they hadn’t seen them so I called the hotel. Someone checked the room and found them so they gave me a number for when I came in to pick them up which we did on Tuesday as I mentioned.
And that was it for Madrona 2009! Had a great time but I’ve been exhausted ever since. Tomorrow I’m off to Ellie’s to see the girls. Rehearsal went well tonight. When I got home I had an email from Phyllis. She is one of our Fiber Friends and was going to sit and knit in our display on Sunday. She had to cancel as she just got diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This is her second bout with cancer so I was sure sorry to get that news.
Since I can’t seem to get untired, I guess I should hit the sack and try for another good night’s sleep!
No man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives. - Woodrow Wilson
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