New Hand Painted Yarn

Last week was my week to go crazy over hand-painted yarns for the store. The first picture is hand dyed sock yarn from HPKY. Next month I will be getting some hemp blend yarn in the same colorways for a purse class I am teaching at the end of the month. I am also getting a little of the wool/silk blend that takes the dyes in jewel-tones.

The second handpainted yarn is from Linda Boozer, a customer/ vendor of mine who is also an alpaca farmer. She had the alpaca cleaned and spun at a mill but did the the hand-dying herself

I am going to be opening up an E-Bay store as soon as tax season is over and offer these as well as some other great sock yarns and hand painted yarns and rovings.

Quick Class Update

The Ribbon Shawl class will be this weekend Saturday March 31 at 1pm. Only skill needed to make this elegant shawl is the knit stitch and a simple increase and decrease. I will be updating this blog with the April schedule and some beautiful new handpainted yarn this weekend.

By the way a reporter from the Anniston Star came by the store last Thursday night for Knit Night. Monday morning my husband and one of my customers were right there on the FRONT PAGE of the newspaper along with a great article about the store along with another picture on the second page of the story. He got my name wrong, called me Pam and Linda at different times, but he got the store name right so I really don't care.

Knit Night

Had a great week this week. Lots of new customers. And a lot of people showed up for Knit Night.

Kim finished her throw made out of Suss Love.

Make sure you click on the pictures and look at the detail.

Customer Projects

Susanne came in today with a couple of projects she finished.

This is the same braided scarf that was on the cover of the Vogue Holiday issue. Instead of angora/wool blend in red, she used four different shades of pink in Cascade 220.

She also did the capelet from the cover of the Winter issue of Vogue. It turned out a bit big so she fulled it a little.

March Class Schedule

Just a quick note.

Have my class schedule for March for the store.

March 3 1pm Felted Purse Class $15.
Learn the basic of felting and knitting in the round

March 10 1pm Tunician Crochet Pillow $15
Pick up a new crocheting skill

March 11 1pm-5pm Spinning Sunday
Store will be open. Bring your spinning wheel or use a store wheel to practice. Knitters and crocheters are also welcome.

March 17 1pm Ribbon Shawl $15
Make a simple but elegant spring/summer shawl

March 24 1pm Elizabetb Zimmermann Practically Seamless Baby Sweater $15

March 31 1pm TBA

All month on Friday and Saturday 10a-12pm Knit Along with Pat will feature a shell top made with SWTC Bamboo. No fee. Help will be available as needed.

It's going to be a long day tomorrow (today)

I've been back at CNN for two weeks now after two and a half months on sick leave for my broken leg. My leg is still bothering me a lot. Especially when I'm on it for long periods. Wednesday-Thursday is the worst. I got up at 2pm today after 4 hours of sleep because I had errands to do for DH. Then I drove to Atlanta from the farm in Alabama to go to work. In the morning I will leave and go straight to the shop, which is open until 9p for Knit Night. If I'm lucky I will get an hour nap before the store opens. Despite the long hours, I still wouldn't give it up. The advertising I've been doing on the local cable company is starting to bring more people into the store and my regulars have been wonderful.

I did another intermediate knitting class, using the multi-directional scarf as a final project. This is my version done in Gipsy. I've done this scarf at least four times including once with some of my hand spun yarn

DH has finished the major knitting on his first sweater. I am doing the finishing on it. I'm going to try to get it done while he is in Florida. I will post it when it's finished. He has already started a second sweater.

This is one of the scarves he made for the store. The pattern is mine and is done out of Cascade Lana Grande.

Break over. Better get back to work.

Well I'm up and blogging

I planned to start posting well before this but starting the shop while working full-time at CNN took more time than I thought. My DH did a wonderful job remodeling the shop. It is absolutely beautiful and I feel loved every time I walk through the door.

I already have some of the nicest customers in the world. When I broke my leg in November, two of them stepped right up and took over running the shop until I was on my feet.

I put the wall of wool as the main picture on this blog because I am proud to have one of the largest selections of Cascade 220 in the Southeast. I am hoping within the next year to have all available colors.

While I have been recuperating, I have done a lot of knitting. As usual starting more projects than I have finished but I do have a few.

I finished the Plymouth Shrug using Cascade Lana Grande while I was in the hospital.

Dr. Vandervoort put me in a leg brace when I started walking again. Rather than use the horrible orthopedic stocking I made a pair of knee socks with Cascade Fixation.

This is a reversible cable pattern I made up. I did it in SWTC Phoenix which is 100% soysilk. It drapes beautifully.

Well, I better go get prepared for my intermediate knitting class today.