A Numbers Game

30 working days until I pack up for Filberg

5 days until my first Whistler market

38 more kids hats to complete my inventory gaps

8 more pounds of fibre to hand paint

6 children's sweaters to seam together

3 fibre related goodies I am waiting for in the mail

10 more days until Sonia comes back and settles into the studio

14 days to my intermediate spinning class

2 spots only left in that class

17 the conceivable number of hours in the day I can knit without screaming in pain

1 great supportive partner

All the Right Ingredients

• the rain intermitent
  
• the crowds vibrant and curious
  
• the organic coffee to die for
• the customers delightful
• the vendors at the high end of their craft

Do you know when something just feels right? This venue just felt right.


oh, and a dog with fuzzy bunny slipper feet.

Pretty

I want to knit this.

Drive By about Car Free

Car Free Day on Main Street was amazing! Mariegold brought her indoor furniture so we had stuffed chairs and tv tables for the knitters. There were felting demos, looms warped up and me on the wheel. It was trippy to spin for 8 hrs straight. I think I have hurt a few things, but I have 2.2 lbs of squishy happy fibre to show for my Sunday.

Monday, the fibre goodness continued as I joined the troops in the line up at Maiwa to register for my class in the fall. The short 3.5 hour wait gave me a chance to finish up a little something....

Gotta run. There are some purple hats that need finishing.

Black Sheep Gathering

I opted out of the event I have been looking forward to for months in an effort to stay home and get my inventory under control --basically just more of it-----so I am a Black Sheep gathering of one.

Having to walk away from something that I thought I really wanted made me double my efforts to show that something better would happen if I stayed closer to home. I think it has.

All of this wool just jumped out at me while I was at the studio yesterday. Hand spun wool, hand dyed seacell and hand dyed 8 ply camel from Handmaiden. (all delicious little treat yarns). Just enough of everything to make this scarf and a not exactly matchy hat of gigantic proportion.

I've spun a lot this week. (the benefit of my spinning class on Wednesday and the carding group on Thursday) and the finished yarns have been taunting me, so much so that I think one of them is not getting tagged for the show next weekend.

Oh scrumptious knitting, I've missed you. knitting this hat is dreamy.

What happens in a week?

The first Ladner market and the two most handsome shoppers and my last shoppers of the day. I can't say enough to thank people for the warm reception at this market. The volunteers, the shoppers, the other vendors.....it was the most fun I have had at a market in ages.

Please come and visit me at the next one---June 26----I know it's going to be a great sunny day.

Oh, and things get very purple....All kinds of yarn and many versions of purple.

And friends to help you tag. I would not have gotten through the marathon tagging day without Kim's help...

There was a lot of fibre and a lot of iced coffee. Thanks Kim. Oh and the rest of the week...just some teaching, some paperwork, some strategic planning, my last GST filing and spinning some of the squishiest fibre from the best batts I've ever carded...Could it have been the silk noil, the shiny alpaca, the BFL, or all of the above.....

Derailed

I've had this yarn in my stash for over a year. It is a Fleece Artist Mystery Yarn from Birkeland that I think is a merino nylon sock yarn. The colour is exquisite and I finally had to use it. So I'm feeling leaves and find a really nice Horseshoe lace that looks very leafy to me and I'm off to the races.

I love the yarn and how it looks. It absolutely glows. But this I do not like.

And this happened at only the 3rd pattern repeat. Officially the earliest I have gone off the rails. I have some really nice dyed Shetland that I received in a swap recently. Think I'm going to spin for a while.