Sock Summit 2009
Taking Sock Knitting Almost Too Far!
August 6-9, 2009
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
Sock Summit Team
The Sock Summit Team is essentially seven lunatic women with a thing for socks and a very big plan.
ST-1 (Sock Team 1)
Tina Newton is the driving force behind the Sock Summit and a general all round smart cookie. She specializes in figuring out not just really great ideas, but how to make great ideas actually possible. She is the Sock Summit’s chief cook and bottle washer, and has been the special liaison for all of our wonderful vendors and sponsors. In addition to generally being the brains of the operation, (and before the Sock Summit consumed every moment of her life) Tina uses this superpower to run Blue Moon Fiber Arts, invent the brilliant idea of “Sock Camp” and make really wicked vegetarian chili for her husband and three kids. When you see her at the Summit, give her a hug, and for the love of all things woolly, help her find her walkie-talkie. We know she’s going to lose it.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is Laurel to Tina’s Hardy, peanut butter to her jelly, and a hardworking knitting philosopher, blogger, humourist and New York Times Bestselling Author. (She likes typing that a lot.) She lives in Toronto, Canada, but thinks Portland is pretty awesome. Stephanie’s been responsible for all of the words that surround the summit, making sure the whole thing (mostly) makes sense, and is the special liaison for the hardworking and fearless teachers. When you see her at the summit, give her a hug and help her find her walkie talkie, her room key, and Tina. She’ll have lost all three.
Cat Bordhi—if Tina is Jelly, and Steph is peanut butter, then Cat is definitely the bananas sliced on the side. Cat Bordhi is a knitting visionary, the first person in 800 years to come up with a new sock architecture, and the author of several wildly insightful books about knitting in general, and socks in specific. She has been the special liaison to the world of dreams for the sock summit, and is chief in charge of imagining all that is possible. When you see Cat at the Summit, give her a hug, and don’t help her find anything. She doesn’t care that she’s lost it.
ST-2 (Sock Team 2)
If ST-1 is the car, then ST-2 is the engine. These are the women that we can’t live without.
Debbi Stone is a native of Hillsboro, Oregon, a socketeer with Blue Moon Fiber Arts, and Tina Newton’s right hand woman. If Tina makes a summit mess, Debbi cleans it up, and frankly, not only will she have a great spreadsheet about it, she’ll look great while she does it. If a vendor has a problem, Debbi is there to help them, and she’s going to sub-specialize in making sure Tina doesn’t lose her walkie talkie in the first place. If you see her at the summit, give her a hug and make sure she hasn’t lost her own.
Rachel Harvey, also of Toronto, is Stephanie’s number one, and the ST-2 liaison to the teachers. It’s Rachel’s job to make sure that the teachers are happy, the students find the teachers and that everybody has chairs to sit in when they get here. If there’s a problem that Rachel can’t solve, we haven’t met it yet. Wielding her formidable Clipboard of Power, Rachel will be easy to spot at the summit, so when she goes by, give her a hug and be sure and ask to see her walkie-talkie. She loves it too much to ever lose it.
Debra McVae saves peoples arses by the minute, and if she can’t go to work at the dye tables at Blue Moon, then Tina almost doesn’t want to go there. Debra has never lost anything, and if you have a problem, Debra is the answer. That’s why we’ve added Debra to the vendor team. She is Debbi’s right hand woman and the vendors go-to gal. When you see Debra at the summit, give her a big hug, and know that she’s probably found what you lost.
JoAnn D. is the customer service queen of Blue Moon. JoAnn is kind and organized and really, really smart. If you are an attendee (summiteer) then JoAnn is your go to gal. There is no problem that she cannot solve with grace and humor. We are really lucky that she took the summer off of her studies to help us, help you. When you see JoAnn at the summit and you will easily spot her, give her a hug. JoAnn will then help you sort what needs sorting and find your way. She is awesome with lists and maps.
