This weekend is the annual fiber festival put on by our local spinning guild. Our shop has a big booth there, so it’s a working weekend for me! Bits of our booth: Denis and his parents (here for a visit) brought the girls to the festival this afternoon for a bit. Their new rainbow sweaters [...]
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The sweater is done! Look: I can’t believe I knit a whole sweater in 17 days, that not only fits but looks really great on me too. :)
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Hello there, I’m Bizzy Sheep…OK, not really, but I’m knitting an entire sweater during the Olympics as Bizzy Sheep (from our Dizzy Sheep daily deal website). I have to be crazy, but the yarn, the pattern, and even the buttons conspired to make me temporarily lose my mind and agree to do this. It’s the [...]
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Dizzy Sheep is going on a voyage, à la Flat Stanley, to visit various friends around the country. I made him a little travel case, and we had a little bon voyage party this evening. If all goes as planned, he’ll be traveling until the fall!
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Our anniversary sale is going on this week, so we packed up the kids and all went to the shop so I could be there all day – Anna’s still nursing a few times a day, so I can’t really leave her for an entire Saturday. While Denis and the girls were hanging out on [...]
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My brother needed to borrow a sheep for a photo shoot, so I lined up all the sheep I could round up in our house in 10 minutes and took a picture so he could decide which one he wanted. This does not count the beanie baby lamb I found moments later, the second Gund [...]
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The shop has a new online component – a deal of the day website for yarn!
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Anna went to her first fiber festival today. I don’t think she was too impressed with the fibery beasts (she slept right through seeing any of them) but she loved all the colors we saw. Some of those colors came home with us: Clockwise from 12:00 – Black Cherry Panda Bamboo yarn from Spininng Bunny, [...]
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The yarn shop has been open for one entire year! To celebrate we’re having a big sale through the end of the month. If you’re local and love yarn and fiber, stop by!
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Carrie and I wound up at the shop this afternoon, and she told me she had a question for Grandma. So I walked her back to the office and told her to go ahead and ask. This is what she really needed to know: “Grandma, who’s in charge of the yarn shop when I’m not [...]
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