January 17, 2007

• Seattle!

  I spent a week in Seattle attending the AAS Meeting and visiting my
  friends Amberley, Britta, Molly, and Ben. Here is Seattle in pictures:
  
  Seattle in Coffee:
  
  1) Starbucks in Seattle with the Space Needle.  (Manicure from Head-to-Toe Day Spa in the Admiral District of West Seattle.  Go there.  It's amazing.  Especially the steam room and Loi the manicurist.)
  2)
  Carosello Coffee, in West Seattle, where Britta works, where I never
  remembered to take a picture of my coffee because I was usually running
  late for the bus.  (You should get coffee there.  They are friendly, it's tasty, and there's free Wi-Fi.  Also, you can buy cheap furniture next door...)
  3) After dinner at the AAS Banquet.
  4) Seattle's Best, with random downtown buildings on Pike (or maybe Pine) in the background.

  Seattle in Yarn:
  
  1) Seattle Yarn Gallery, in West Seattle
  2) A section of the very hilly walk to SYG
  3) Plymouth Yarn's Baby Alpaca Grande from SYG that got immediately
  added to the short row rib scarf. This yarn is nothing short of
  heavenly to knit with because it is ridiculously soft.  (FYI, if I make this scarf again, I'd probably use worsted weight yarn and smaller needles.  It's really wide, especially since I don't live in a very cold climate...except for this week...)
  4) Hilltop Yarn up in Queen Anne, a short bus ride from the Convention Center
  5) Yarn from Hilltop: the greens are ultrafine merino that will
  probably end up as a hat and the purple is superwash worsted (!!!!!!!)
  that will become something for Baby Katherine...swatching already in
  progress.  (Superwash worsted wool is approximately impossible to find, hence the large number of exclamation points!)

  And now, the most amazing yarn news from the trip:
  
  The top photo is the ball band from the Baby Alpaca purchased at Yarns
  2 Ewe in Houston. The bottom photo is the ball band from the Baby
  Alpaca purchased at SYG. SAME DYE LOT!!! More exciting than I can
  express in words, really. See, I bought two hanks in Houston
  anticipating making a plain garter stitch scarf but then decided to do
  the short row rib one, which takes waaaay more yarn. So I figured I'd
  just buy another hank, not even try to match the dyelot, alternate
  between the two for a bit near the join, and hope the short row shaping
  would hide any color variations. No need! I got the same dye lot
  thousands of miles away! Whoop!

  
  Seattle in landmarks:
  
  1) Cute luggage carts at Sea-Tac
  2) Pike's Place Market
  3) The Frank Gehry building that houses the Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum (Guess which one I went to...)
  4) A strip club run by women famous for its funny signs...this was the day of the Seahawks/Cowboys game
  5) & 6) A mockup of the James Webb Space Telescope (basically, the next Hubble Space Telescope) at the meeting...so cool! (And behind the JWST is the hospital where Mrs. Deeds worked...)

  Space Needle:
  

  Seattle with the Deeds Sisters (and animals):
  
  1) With Amberley, after a good night at the bar, watching the Sonics lose
  2) It's an Ashley sandwich with Deeds bread!
  3) With Britta, who is not a gangster, just had dirty hair
  4) Gorgeous flowers that Amberley brought me
  5) Spicey in the sweater I made for her. I seriously underestimated her size, so her sweater was more like a tube top and she looked like Britney Spears. Luckily, it's a look that works for her.
  6) Chloe, looking all pretty after she spent the day at the groomer
  7) Eli, perched on his favorite post

  Seattle in snow:
  
  1) & 2) Ok so technically these aren't in Seattle (duh) they are from the plane flight in.
  3) The lightpole outside Carosello...it was a little bit windy too...
  4) View of the front yard (from inside!) on my last night
  5) Snow falling!
  6) View of the front yard the morning I left

  Seattle in Food:
  
  1) Pepperoni pizza from Pegasus Pizza
  2) Holding the Pegasus menu, with pegasus pictures in the background. We ate at Pegasus in 1998 when we visited my cousin Mercedes (Baby Katherine's mom) and it has been a Pagnotta family legend ever since. And yes, it is as good as, and possibly better than, I'd remembered. Mmmm...

  So that's Seattle! If you want to see all of the pictures, click on this album:
  
  

  

  Seattle Trip!

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