Craft Sale

Here's our booth at the craft sale this weekend. Katy attracted a lot of attention with her sock knitting machine that you see on the stool there in the center, down toward the bottom. We had a really fun time!

Carol was showing me how she was knitting at her grandson's hockey practice Tuesday night. She said the skating rink was so cold, she needed to wear her mittens, but she also wanted to keep knitting to get scarves done for the craft sale.

We'll be back out at the store this Saturday, the 27th, so we'll see you this weekend!

Felted Slippers

Here are the slippers felted. I'm still working on the pair that I'm putting the Cocoon around the top. Carol's worked with the Cocoon before, in making several scarves, so she showed me how to pick up from the waste yarn and knit with the Cocoon.

Boot-slippers, pre-felting

Carol and I have been working on things for the Holiday Happenings Craft Sale coming up this weekend at the fairgrounds. I finished another pair of slippers last night, and I'm now ready to throw them in the washing machine. The brown slippers I only knit up to where you would normally drop a strand of wool and continue on with the fuzzy yarn for the top, and put the stitches on waste yarn, and after they're felted, I'm going to attempt to knit the tops with our new Cocoon yarn. We saw a picture in a recent magazine of a pair of slippers with the tops knitted in Cocoon, or a similar yarn, and they looked really cute. But I don't think those slippers were felted, so we'll see how this attempt works out.

Saturday, November 20th

We want to let everyone know that we won't be at the store this Saturday, November 20th. We'll be over at the fairgrounds on Saturday and Sunday for the Holiday Happenings craft sale. If you happen to come out to the craft sale, stop by our booth and say hi!

Holly's felted boots

Here are some felted boots that Holly made. Melissa put some leather bottoms on them.

Closed Saturday October 30th

Just a reminder that we'll be closed this Saturday, October 30th. I'm leaving Wednesday for a much-needed vacation, and will be back the first week in November. We'll be open again on Saturday, November 6th. We want to wish everyone a safe and Happy Halloween!

KnitWhits Ripley Hat

I finally finished the Ripley hat that I started a couple of months ago, and talked Makenna into modeling it for us. This pattern seemed a little cumbersome and time-consuming at first, but the further up I got, the quicker it seemed to go. I made this hat in CMR colors, green and gold, but I think this would be really fun using bright colors on all the "tuck" stitch rows. I need to dig through my stash and see what crazy colors I can come up with.