This was our tent area also a couple of years ago - we have a larger tent this year, which is great because rain is predicted so all our treasures will be under cover. 
So wish me luck - I'll be there for the next six days.
The pattern is a free download from the Lion website and I plan to make more - I love the way it turned out, and with a minimal of finishing. (The front edges really do match - I need to block it a little more).
The busy scene inside the Mill. 
These were the raffle prizes. No, I didn't win anything (so sad). 
I bought the silk "hankies" from this woman, who very sweetly showed me how to pull them apart and knit with them. Her business name is "Play at Life", which I love, and I love the soft colors which I chose. 
And I couldn't resist buying something (anything!) from a booth with this name! I got the purple sock yarn here.
I bought the funny little mirror from Stitchy McYarn Pants, who writes a very funny blog and cute books. 
Diane and I made an excursion to see the location of "Levitated Mass" on the grounds of LACMA. The huge boulder (now swathed in white plastic) will be moved over the channel on the left and people can walk under it (which I might do next year). http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/levitated-mass 
A short flight up the coast to Washington, and here is Son #1 standing in front of his newly completed (almost) house. He still has to finish the porch and do some landscaping. Tod hasn't wanted to post pictures himself until it was really finished, but he said I could post these for him.
Here's the man himself, with sliders and the beginnings of a deck behind him. He picked up the vintage dining table at an antique shop in Tacoma. Only the island of the kitchen is visible in the picture. 
Over to the right is the living room area, another bright and sunny spot. Tod made the beautiful coffee table. 
Here's the upstairs hallway, leading to the guest bedroom. 
The new garage stands where the old mobile home was. That's Tod's Isuzu which probably will never die - it has over 400,000 miles on it now. 
A few more trees were cut down in the front of the house as well, so now there is a view of the lake from the upstairs windows.
From left to right, here's Judi, Laurel, Judi's daughter Sophie and her son Aaron (graduating from the Air Force Academy next month), Thomas and Tod.
I used three different yarns on this sweater - one row of each, repeated endlessly. Never again! One problem was that the color is dark blue, and the 5-stitch rib pattern only showed on the right side - the wrong side showed all purls, so unless I was really counting stitches, I had to keep looking over the top of my needles to make sure I was doing the ribbing correctly (yes, I did put in a few stitch markers). And the three yarns kept tangling up, especially since two of them were boucle types. But I do like the finished product - it's not even itchy as I had feared. The front has a crossover flap that widens up as you sit down - very comfortable (although the extra fabric over my tummy is not the most flattering). 
This is a close-up of the stitches.
I bought some wonderful yarn - PUR, by Shoppel Wolle - because I thought it would be perfect for an entrelac scarf. I've been wanting to make something using entrelac for a while. After the first row of squares, I decided the yarn was a little too heavy for a scarf, but I found the technique very interesting, although pretty time consuming and not for TV-watching. I also practiced knitting backwards - thanks to a lesson from Debbie at another Guild meeting. I actually remembered how to do it, and it saves a lot of time with entrelac. So the scarf was frogged, and now the PUR is going to be for a mitered squares pillow.
This is the entrance to an elementary school on opening day - all ages and faiths. 
Backgammon in front of a cafe.
Pomegranates freshly squeezed and corn-on-the cob. 
A policeman is sitting in the shade behind his colorful booth in Sultanahmet Square. 
We passed this exquisite building several times before I was able to take this picture. 
These are more typical apartments.
This is the former office of the Orient Express - one of the original train engines is parked at the side.
The twirling monk is a familiar motif for tourist souvenirs.
Istanbul is always surrounded by the past. Here a medieval fortress stands near a major intersection. 
Remains of the city walls.
Remains of one of the aquaducts. 
The ubiquitous ad for cellular phones, and a reminder of the favorite ally of the Turks. 
The owner (on the right, below) has greatly expanded his business after taking over from his father, and has now trained about 2,000 Turkish Nomad women (after determining the men were too unreliable) to weave these beautiful rugs. They come first to the center for a few months, where they are given a rudimentary education and taught to read and write. They then all work from home, and employees go around supplying materials and collecting finished rugs.
The business even grows its own mulberry trees and raises the silkworms for the silk rugs. The silk is taken directly from the cocoons and skeined. 
A couple of sample looms were set up for demonstration. The weaver is working to the patterns seen in the diagrams. The rug colors are looped above. 
I learned to tie the special knots, although not nearly as fast as the weavers. 
The center has a large room where completed rugs are available for purchase. The owner gave a lecture, with luscious samples, of rug complexity, from 1 to 10. Number 1 is the simple Kilim with a flat surface, followed by increasing complexity and textures in wool. 
These are samples of the 8s and 9s, with complex patterns and cashmere and silk yarns. 
This photo shows a reversible rug. 
This is Number 10, a woven picture. You can see the fringe at top and bottom. You had to touch it to realize it was not canvas but actually knotted. 
