Adventures at The Vogue Live Knitting Event Part 1.

Yesterday was a fun filled day. I spent it with friends who have the same love for knitting as I do at The Vogue Live Knitting Event.  My plan was to post last night but I was exhausted. (15,550 steps for Fitbit users) Kate described it perfectly, "happy exhaustion." I will make several post about the adventure and give you as much detail about the event as possible in case you attend this one or a similar event in the future. Everything from the layout, types of yarn, strategies to keep from being overwhelmed and food choices. So follow my post and take the trip with us. 

 We met very early because we wanted to be at the Vogue Marketplace when it opened.  We had a long ride into New York and an equally long walk to the Marriott once we arrived. As expected there was plenty to see during our walk and I will post pictures. We arrived on time and we were pleased to find there was a coat check ($4 for coats) which meant we didn't have to carry winter coats around all day. 

We had decided to have patterns in mind that we were going to buy yarn for so we wouldn't be buying yarn that we would have to find a pattern for down the road. We also brought tote bags to carry our treasures home. The Marketplace was on two floors and every inch was covered with booths and venders selling yarn or things associated with yarn. It seemed overwhelming, a word used by Donna many times. The perfect word at first but with our strategy it was not as overwhelming. We decided to go up and down each isle and Michelle had a fab idea. She had a notebook and wrote down the booth number, who found yarn there and for what pattern so we could return later. This was a great idea because we agreed not to make any purchases until we had made one complete sweep of the Marketplace. With these strategies in mind we took our first steps into wonderland. Yarn endless yarn. Stay tune for part 2.