Sam wrote up a great trip report about the Climb4Life event with lots of pictures (some look to be a bit stretched and skewed, but we still love her :-D). I can only echo Sam's comments about how great the trip was. It snowed(!!), how nutty is that. We had a great time. It was neat showing everyone around Salt Lake, and the Follands were AWESOME for having everyone over. And Di too: she and Jamie had half the team staying at their house. My friends and family are so wonderful. I'm a lucky chick.

I'm currently in the middle of a whirl-wind trip around Europe (London yesterday, Zurich today, Neuchatel then Munich tomorrow, phew).

front: Taramin, Kim, and Sam
middle: Di, Joe, and Colleen
back: Jess, Keith, Greg and Andrew

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Posted by Jessica on September 27, 2006 4:30:26 AM EDT #

long overdue:

I got on a hat kick at the end of spring and made a bunch of fair isle hats with some Wool Ease yarn that I bought (one skein each of Heather, Dk Gray, and Maroon). It was neat to create different designs and see how they turned out. Here is the result of all that designing and knitting. (Yes, Joe, I know I promised you a hat LONG ago -- I told you, you'd be climbing with it in Utah).

All the hats follow the same basic hat pattern that I've used before. I really like the pattern. Its very easy to knit, and adjust. So really you can have fun making it an interesting hat by doing all the fair isle or intarsia knitting.

There are all plane-hats. I love to pass time on flights by knitting. All of these hats were knit on my flights in April, May and June. I designed them using Microsoft Excel, and just started knitting. Each hat was done on the same guage, but with a slightly different number of cast-on stitches, ranging anywhere from 100 - 120.

Because all of these hats were knit in fair isle, the only real restriction to the patterns was that there only be 2 colors used on any given row, and that no color spanned more than 5 stitches (to prevent the yarn floating in the back from being carried too long). As with any fair isle project, be careful with your tension so you don't get any puckering as you change colors (thats the tricky part).

Hat #1 - aka Joe's hat
the pattern:	the hat:
Hat #2 - the squiggly hat
the pattern:	the hat:
Hat #3 the white-ish hat (... it really needs a better name)
the pattern:	the hat:
Hat #4 the stripey hat (AND! Its reversible!!)
the knit-side:	the purl-side:

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Posted by Jessica on September 20, 2006 11:36:55 PM EDT #

The 2006 Climb4Life Event in Salt Lake City was absolutely amazing. I don't think I can really summarize it and do it justice -- We did SO much stuff last week... but lets give it a whirl... I'll do a better writeup later:

landed in salt lake; dinner at Red Rock Brewery; tour of the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Beehive House and Temple Square; lunch at California Pizza Kitchen; watched the Reel Rock tour; dinner at Porcupine Pub and Grille; hiked to Timponogos Cave National Monument; drove through Park City and saw the leaves changing colors; waited for Joe and Keith to come down from Mount Olympus after getting lost; ate some tasty Wasatch Pizza; did some yoga; climbed at the Quarry in Provo with Michael Reardon; watched the Climb4Life Film festival including this crazy guy Will Gadd who climbed icebergs; climbed in American Fork Canyon in the SNOW with Chris Lindner; won lots of gear in the raffle; climbed in American Fork Canyon again (this time no snow and I took a whipper); had a wonderful dinner at the Follands; and flew home. whew.

The event raised over $126k. Team Bury the Dragon raised over $26k. I raised over $1.6k. That is so cool. I am so proud to have been involved in Climb4Life and to have gone out with such a great team. I can't wait til next year.

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Posted by Jessica on September 19, 2006 10:01:23 PM EDT #