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So i got back late last night from MD and i had a GREAT time w/ my girls at MSWF. The festival was so busy and incredible. We did so much walking. My feet were KILLING ME!! I actually wore sneakers rather than my usual flip flops. (I was forced!!!) But the sneakers I took were sneakers I have only worn once before. the Pirate even asked me “OMG…did you just BUY those shoes last night??” nope. but i had only worn them once. teeheeeeee so my feet were hurtin’!! but they were clean. hahaah

So i got there on Fri evening and met up w/ the Pirate at the airport and we took off to find NanC’s brother and family’s house where we were to be staying. We got and got settled in and waited for BotGurl to arrive. She finally arrived, and after all the excitement died down, we all went to bed, excited for Saturday.

We got up and saw the incredible line to the the MSWF. We parked the cars and then ran straight to The Fold’s booth to wait for STR! The line was LONG. it was a 45 min wait just to browse and grab. THen the line to pay was another 30 min long. it was bizarre to say the least. I was shocked at how many people got in line just b/c there was a line. then they would ask ‘what is this a line for? so what’s so great about this stuff that we have to wait in line?’. weird!!!!

I had an armful of STR and was waiting in the pay line when this lady asked me “Geez…did you leave enough for the rest of us?” i only had 7 skeins! i saw some lady that had like 20!! So i said “there is plenty left! you should have seen some people ahead of us!” then she looked at me and said “HEY!! aren’t you the purse ho?” and i got a bit…frightened. haha. I looked at BotGurl and then looked at this lady again and said “Um….yes.i.am.how.do.you.know.that?” Then she said “OMG! I’m LINDA!! THe knitorious Mrs. B!” She was my secret pal gifter that gave me so much cute kitty cat stuff for the Warshrag swap. So we had to take a picture together!

My STR haul was pretty good. I got 7 skeins. Not a TON…but i did put a dent in my wallet. I”m lucky that’s the first place we stopped at or else i would have really gone crazy at all the other place we went to. but since this was our first stop, i felt the pain and had to watch what i bought as we went along.

So here is photos of the stuff i got.

I think i did OK considering i could have gone really wild. teeeheeeee!

So we got to walking around the main building and i saw the wheel i’ve been itching to buy. I’ve been wanting it, but i haven’t touched it….so I have been wanting to wait to try it before i ran off and bought it online. The Majacraft Little Gem II. I found one there. i tried it. i love it. now i want to buy it. now i just need to look for a good deal! anyone know of someone selling one used? hahaha

So while we were walking around and touching everything, we saw that Eunny Jang was going to be at the Interweave booth and of course, being a fan, i wanted to shake her hand and possibly take a picture. WE got there and i got a bit nervous seeing her standing there. and the first thing i said was “can i take a picture with you?” DUHHH. but she was nice and said “SURE!”

then i finally blurted out “i’m a big fan. i’m sad to see you are too busy to blog much anymore!”
she goes “ohh…yeahh…i’m sad about that too”
Me: I’ve left comments for you on your blog before and you’ve always replied. Thanks for that!
Eunny: Oh really? who are …?
Me: My name is Jennifer. I always sign my comments as “Jen da Purse Ho”.
Eunny: OMG! That’s YOU!?!
Me: YES!! (at this point i’m beaming). that’s mEEE!!!! OMG you know who i am!!!!

BotGurl stepped up after taking our pic and we started telling her how we thought she was the most perfect person to be the new editor of Interweave knits. She was flattered. I thought Eunny was super sweet. I’m glad I didn’t chicken out and I went and talked to her.

We also did the knit bloggers’ meet up and i was glad to meet a few fellow knitbloggers. We hung out w/ Terri and Kelpknits (I can’t remember her name right now…sorry). everyone was so nice!!

We ate lots of lamb, ribbon chips and kettle korn. ON sunday we did a bit of dipped cone goodness. I’d never had a dipped cone before. My gawd..it was tasty.

We got to watch the end of the Sheep-to-Shawl competition which was incredible. We tried bidding on the 1st place shawl…but we got out bidded FAST. so oh well.

After the competition and a bit more walking around…we all got unbelievably tired and wanted to go home. I found out i had to catch my flight at 5:05p. So i had enough time to race back, pack up all my crap and BotGurl raced me to the airport. I made it w/ time to spare. i was exhausted, but I had so much fun. We need to do Rhinebeck in October! hahahaha