It’s all good…

It’s busy here, very busy and I’m completely in awe of bloggers like the Yarn Harlot who sit down every day and share with the world.

Here’s my catch up of happy things to share…

• Namaste bags are On The Way- probably in the hands of Parcel Force as I type.
• I’m absolutely loving my WIP; Vine Yoke Cardigan in DB Rialto Aran – no pix yet though.
• Very selfishly I’m knitting myself a Scroll Lace Scarf in a rich pink Silk Blend colourway to actually wear instead of for display and loving that too.
• I’ve ordered a delivery of Sheep Poo goodies!
• DH and I had the world’s best ever Parent’s Evening – our child is a magnificently intelligent angel (we should, like, totally video him screaming ‘I Hate You’ at us and show his teacher, she doesn’t believe he’s capable of any naughtiness. To be fair he only hates us when we’ve been really mean, say asking him to get dressed/clean his teeth/go to sleep…)
• Ma & Pa are visiting this weekend, as is my best friend, Jenny, who I’ve known forever and haven’t seen for years.
• November Sock Club is bound to be more beautiful even than October’s and I ordered spare (ooh how did that happen?) so once I’ve posted it out later this week I’ll have leftover for ME! Or, of course, for my lovely customers….
• Brownberry Yarns is officially booked in at Knit Nation in July 2011
• And hopefully we’ll be at Wonderwool Wales in April 2011…

Yay! You’re all caught up and I don’t feel so bad about keeping you all in the dark for so long 🙂

Next time, I’ll do pictures and everything, I promise.

Bring it on Knit Nation… I’m ready for you!

Well, almost 😉

I’ve been frantically finishing WIPs to display on my stall so that now currently enjoying the magical blocking process are:

1. Travelling Woman shawl in the U-boat Crazy Zauberball

2. Ysolda’s Scroll Lace Scarf in the Europa colourway of Manos Silk Blend

I’m very happy with both of these… or at least I was, until I saw this…

I don’t drop stitches. I just don’t. Ever. The, um, downside of this is that I have No Idea how to fix it. You can probably see that I already made a bit of a hash of pretending I hadn’t dropped anything, ending in the blue pin. The red pin is holding a loose bit of cast off edge. All I can hope that someone comes round and rescues me, otherwise I’ll be taking the shawl, still pinned to a sofa cushion, to the show with me, with a big sign pinned on saying HELP!

But setting that aside for now I have been getting some things packed, see?

Empty space where the yarn was this morning! Now, you’ll remember me saying before that I have the best dad ever* (B, of the Big Needles fame)… so last time I saw him I said “Dad?? can you make me something to hold all the colours of Superwash DK?”. After some debating over the design and a trip to the local hardware store he made this…

Which from the side looks like this…

How. Cool. Is. That?!!! It holds 100 balls of wool and spins round and everything! And you can load it before the show and simply plonk it on the table! The only thing is that I already need a second one ideally….

I’ll save that bombshell for just before Wonderwool 2011 😉

So, back to it… there’s more to pack, things to print off, bits and bobs to hunt for and lists to tick off 🙂

*Mum is fabulous too, and I’ve learnt over the years that I’ve not to show any favouritism… I love you both!