It had snowed the night before, and there was snow on the foothills on the way to San Jose. We had already purchased our tickets online, but the rest of the knitting world has also learned to do this, so the line was already long by the time we joined it, but it is always fun to talk to knitters and watch the fashion parade of handknits. My daughter was wearing one of her beautiful small shawls and people would come up to admire it. One lady reached out to touch the shawl and explained to us that that is 'the knitter's handshake'.As usual, we attended the market for two days. It starts to get really crowded around lunchtime, and I detest being crushed in crowds of oblivious women, even if they are wearing pretty sweaters. We get there early to snag a parking place and wait in line for the doors to open. We have developed our technique to avoid the crowd for most of the morning, and we leave when it gets bad. We had lots of fun, and there was even a celebrity sighting, since Ali MacGraw was there signing books for some charity or other involving animals.
I took a picture through the doorway before they allowed us to enter the marketplace. It is a huge venue with many, many booths from all over the country. It is yarn shop heaven, is what it is.
They had relaxed the rules about picture taking, so I'll show some more pictures of the yarn and garments tomorrow.
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