Portland sure has a lot of knit bloggers

I went to the first PDX Knit Bloggers meet up tonight. First I made my way over to West Linn to meet Patty, who offered to carpool with me. Well, I went along for the ride while she used the GPS and got us right where we wanted to be - Knit Purl. As we walked in, I thought it seemed pretty empty, at least until one of the staff there pointed us downstairs. That's more like it! A room filled with knitters, cookies, brownies, and glasses of water. Perfect! Sat myself down, and eventually we all introduced ourselves. The smarter, more well prepared ones had cards to pass out. Oops. But I did write down names and blogs. Oh, and while I was doggedly writing out the chart for my shawl edge, completely oblivious, a gorgeous deep eggplant skein of ShiBui Merino Kid yarn landed right in my lap! Knit Purl had door prizes for people with stickers underneath their chairs, but one prize went unaccounted for. So it was tossed into the air and right to me. Reward for working so hard, or karma, I'll take it.

You can't quite see everyone(and the ones here are only make up half the PDX Knit Bloggers list), but here are:

• Angela - The Enchanted Daffodil
  
• Barbara (and her incredible knit-enabling partner) - The String And I
• Bobbie - Tiggywinkle Knits
  
• Chrispy - Pursuit of Fiber
  
• Cindy - Knit For Joy
  
• Dawn - Dawn's Projects
  
• Deb - Fearless Fibers
  
• Duffy - FiberQat
  
• Judy - Persistent Illusion
• Karen - non blogger (for now) who is *just* starting to knit
  
• Kelley (and fluffy non-knitter Xena) - Yarn Rambles
  
• Lynn - The New Homemaker
• Melissa - Days of Tea and Knitting
• Mims & Peggy - k2tog
• MonicaPDX - Animorphia
• Natalie - I am addicted
  
• Patty - Fiberly One
• Rodger - Over Abundance
• Sara - the quacking fiber addict
• Tammy - Lavender Knits
• Terrisa - who works at Knit Purl and is starting a store blog soon
  

That was so much fun! Great group of people, all kinds of beautiful (and soft) projects to ogle, luscious yarns to drool over at Knit Purl. We'll have to all do this again soon!

(oops - missed Natalie, who is now on the list)