TNNA Long Beach 2011

We had a good time this year at TNNA, the National Needle Arts trade show. I had a really fun day with Marsha, our cruise director and tour guide, and my sister Nancy, the world famous kung-fu master of the credit card.

Be Sweet yarns had tons of eye candy, as usual. This year Nadine seems to be bringing in a natural color palette next to her candy store brights.

We had a lot of fun checking out Imperial Yarns. These yarns are grown, sheered, spun and dyed in Oregon and are gorgeous.

Helen Hamann's booth was a color feast, so many beautiful brights!

Of course, Manos del Uruguay didn't let us down. They're launching a new line of colors that can be seen from space!

But don't worry, they still have our old favorites!

I think it's time to stop here, I still have more but let's save it for tomorrow! If you want more right now you can hop over to Nancy's recap at the beautifully redesigned NobleKnits.com blog.

Savor.

I want to be happy and show you pretty pictures of my yarn adventures, but I can't. I'm sad. In the last day we've learned that our good friend died suddenly, another friend fell with a stroke and is in the hospital, and a family relative lost her battle with brain cancer. None were old. All are making me slow and contemplative. Stop, breathe, relax and enjoy. Be happy you can.

A feast for the eyes

Look at all that yarn! Woohoo! This past weekend was the big yarn trade show called TNNA and I'm still trying to digest all the things I saw, people I met, and new ideas that came to mind. I'm excited to have some fun stuff to blab about for a while, I'll start with this photo of my sister and me. Have you met her? She's NobleKnits.com.