New class schedule is finished!

August has been a good month. The relatives came and left, birthday party for Ellie was a success, spinning class was great, spinning sunday was even better but I missed most of it due to a medical test on Monday. All is well, but the prep was the worst, if you know what I mean! This little sweater was knit for my Granddaughter, Ellie, by Shelley Hermanson out of the Karabella Aurora 8 - it is so beautiful! www.karabellayarns.com


One of the highlights this month was the addition of a class from Annie Modesitt. If you have been reading her blog you'll know she and her family are looking at moving to Minnesota.
She was kind enough to add a class the day she came in to town. We have 10 new combination knitters, including me. I really like and I learned how to do cables without a cable needle. If you come in soon I may be able to show you before my computer brain loses the information.
We had a great time--Annie is such a comedian, even with a pretty severe attack of breathing problems due to the rain that night, she was her very funny and entertaining class. Hopefully, she will return.

I worked on the new schedule for a couple weeks and hopefully all will find some class that they would like to take. It should be up today on the website. Every time I do this news letter, I proof it and have a couple other people proof it and still I find mistakes (or Shelley finds mistakes). So, if you are reading it and find a couple typos please excuse me! I try my best!

There has been some movement across the street at Connor's old restaurant. The rumor is, it will be a restaurant with morning fare as well as sandwiches and a wine/beer bar. Sounds interesting and I hope it opens soon. We can sit and knit over there or bring it across the street. Some of my customers want a ladies night with wine and cheese. I'm trying to pick a date, and will post it on the website when we can arrange it.

I've ordered some interesting new yarns for the shop - this is the most fun part of owning your own shop. The shopping! It's difficult to choose but I really do keep my customers in mind when I'm buying and try to fit the yarn to what I know they will like. For instance, we have a pullover vest class coming up and I found a great yarn to use for this vest. It's called Vesio, I believe, I'll have to double check that name when I get to the shop, but it self patterns and will be so cute on this little vest. I just got permission to use the pattern from one of the magazines, so I'm very excited. We also added a "Sock of the Month" class which should be alot of fun for Shelley.

Catherine is back in the shop during the week now and I'm sure grateful and happy to have her back. Shelley is going to work Sat. and Fri. afternoons this year. I could still use one more Saturday person if anyone is interested. It's good to be back to Fall.

It looks like rain today. I was hoping to work outside for awhile before going to work. Pull a few weeds, scrape the deck, do the wash, sew a purse, pick up the house, spin some peach silk/merino, and find the right color for my living room. Do ya think I'll get that all done before 2 PM.???

My daughter was over yesterday, Jenna. We're having a 21 year celebration for her. She arrived from Korea, August 9, 1985. She was 3 1/2 years old. We were making invitations with a cute photo we had originally received from the foster mom's in Korea before she arrived. We had a little trouble figuring out something clever to say on the invitation, so we called Dad and he came up with a very appropriate celebration. It's called "Chu Suk" and it means bountiful abundance. This is one of the greatest Korean Holidays and it begins in August. So it was very fitting for Jenna and for our family. We are serving a Korean Dinner that all my children love, Beef Bulgogi, rice, cream cheese wontons, cabbage salad, Kimchi (for those brave soles) and Dairy Queen cake. She is very excited.

I did some dyeing on Friday, I nearly forgot to mention it. I dyed some Alpaca (beautiful Turquoise color) some of Annika (from Sue Ross's fleece) Corriedale/Romney - peach, blue, green (lovely) and some grey corriedale which came out turquoise, also. I like to keep using my dye pot once I have it mixed up so I keep throwing fleece in there. I love playing and experimenting with dyes. Oh, I also hand painted a few skeins of Merino from Henry's attic. If anyone wants yarn from Henry's attic just let me know, I can order it in bulk for you.

Well, I hope I can figure out how to get photos on here soon. I'm so slow at this computer stuff. I can do it on Frontpage very easily but this seems more confusing. Oh, Well.
Happy knitting!