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Here's what Day 2 of the Rose City Yarn crawl held in store for me:

Close Knit - 2140 NW Alberta Street.  This funky little shop is located in the Alberta Arts District of Portland and seems to capture the attention of a younger yarn buying crowd.  The area was a lot of fun because of the vibrancy on the street.
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The Naked Sheep Knit Shop - 2142 N Killingworth - This shop, located in a northern suburb, feels like it is a suburban yarn shop, meaning there were a lot more shoppers my age there.  It was here I got the best buy of the weekend, 5 skeins (over 1,200 yards) of a dark blue Cascade 220 for less than $30.  It will be used to make something for myself.  (Portland does not tax yarn, making it a very affordable place to buy yarn.)

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Let me just rattle off the names of the other three stores.  Twisted - 2310 NW Broadway, Happy Knits - 1620 SW Hawthorne Blvd and Yarnia - 3773 SE Belmont.  Yarnia has been mentioned here before; it creates yarn to your specifications by combining different thread types and colours.  

But enough -- we are interrupting the regularly scheduled program to show you photos of Gussie in her new costume.

I am not getting that Lovin' Feeling from her

Except for it being big around the head it seems to fit

Ah~~the pink tail was the right call

Then, Pete, the cat, had to get involved

And just like Mike, my cat, there was a time to get out of the thing as well
I see I need to adjust the width of Gussie's neck so the next costume is big enough to fit over her head but not so big that it falls over her eyes.  I made it bigger because it seemed too small, perhaps I shouldn't have.

Thank you Sue and Lex for sending along the pictures.  Hope your menagerie continues to ¨enjoy¨ wearing the Bunny Costume.  It should get some use what with Easter just around the corner.


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