Recent projects

April made this little stuffed elephant. Here's a little "apple" hat that I made last weekend.

I'm finally up and running again!

Hello again, everyone! I've been unable to blog for a while, because my computer became infected with some kind of virus or spyware or some such thing right before Christmas. After several visits to my home over the last two months, the computer techie finally threw in the towel and admitted he couldn't remedy the problem, and ended up just wiping my hard drive clean, so now I'm back to square one, as if I've just taken my computer out of the box. What a pain. And what really irks me is that this virus came from a site that I went to while searching for a red and white candy cane striped hat pattern. What kind of warped brain would attach a virus to a knitting site? It's way beyond me that people don't have anything better to do than trying to make life miserable for others.

So, now that I've got my venting out of the way (forgive me for that, but thank you for listening☺), let's move on to much more fun things...like knitting! Which I'm assuming we've all been doing a lot of this winter, since this nonstop Arctic weather hasn't been allowing us to get outside.

We're going to start classes again, the first one being a needle felting class on Saturday, April 9th. Karen will be coming over from Lewistown to give the class, and as soon as I get more detailed information from her, I'll post it here. And hopefully, I'll be able to get a picture of the project she'll be doing that I can share with you.

Also, we've got a store on eBay where we're selling everything in the store at a reduced price. So please, check it out and see if there's anything that strikes your fancy! And if you live in the area, you can stop by the store in person and save on the shipping and handling.

Above is a picture of a sweater I just finished in Plymouth Kudo. This is such a nice yarn to work with, and I love the resulting striping effect. This yarn will also be on sale on eBay.

I hope you're all surviving this bitter cold winter, and getting a lot of knitting done!

We will be closed until January 8th. See you all in the New Year

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!