Eventfulness

Things are a little on the eventful side at the moment, especially today, I am taking the rest of the day off, feeling a bit delicate. So Sock clubs will all go tomorrow, etc, but I won't be answering emials today. Will be back on track tomorrow as normal.
xx

Shop update!!

Its started,

there are fibres, new hand dyed sparkles,  mini hand turned niddy noddy's, spindles, yarn.

yum yum yum

gotta dash off on a buddhust course,

more on monday
xx

Childish humour - names

I am sometimes extremely childish, and sometimes the different meaning of words in different countries makes me howl with laughter.

This will probably only be appreciated by Brits, or people living in the UK.

I just hope that this yarn company, never ever try and sell this yarn in the UK people might wince, hahahahaha

CLICK HERE AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE NAME and weight together of the yarn on the left

New treats.

So I got some treats for you guy's to spin on, oh yes, gorgeous gorgeous treats. And there are lots of them, but they are not easy to photograph so I will upload them into the shop a few everyday. They are Dragoncraft drop spindles, each one is different and unique and hand made. I am absolutely in love with them.....they are perfect for spinning yarn and are really very portable. They are nice weights too each one varies in weight, and they would make perfect presents.......
I will of course bring them to shows etc, but if you see one you like grab it, its the only one of its kind :-)

want to see some?

They are in the new arrivals and the spinning section :-)

xx

Back to the Rainy Isle!

So After we went to Seattle, we journeyd to Portland, and then onto Sheila's. Boy I was so damned happy to get there. And we had a great time, we met her Husband Walter who was so much fun, and the gorgeous dog Teddie, and it was lovely and restful, she has a lovely work area. We worked, ate, and chatted and had so much fun, and we planned world domination for Fyberspates in the US, and so we are starting.....its all really exciting, and will be launching a range next year, which means more travelling, and doing some shows in the USA, but I am becoming a pro at travelling now, so I don't mind, I am about 5% scared, and 95% totally excited. So as long as it stays in that balance I'll be fine, lol.

I had to show you this picture of Teddie, he's the cutest...

 

Well, I was due home on Thursday, which was meant to give me a days rest on friday before I did my dyeing workshop at Getknitted, and then we missed the flight connections in New York, and got stuck there, and seeing as the flight was 10pm at night on thursday, we decided to go and have a shopping trip around new York. There were two places I have always wanted to go in New York, the first is Purl Soho, which is a gorgeous yarn shop, so Gorgeous in fact, that it made me spend money on yarn, I know that sounds a bit bizarre, but I have immense self control normally, but the way this shop was laid out broke my will. I took lots of notes, I can tell you!! I accidently bought enough tilly thomas yarn to make a tank top, and some gorgeous hand dyed bamboo, again enough to make a tank top for autumn, so I need to get knitting, once I have finished my scarf and a little 4 ply cardi I am designing (although sort of can't find it) I will pop pics of all the yarn and books I bought tomorow :-).

The second Place I wanted to visit was Redlipstick, this was the home of the first knitting blog I ever read, and I remember it just blowing my mind, it was the first thing that made me realise that maybe there was a world for me outside of psychology, and to this day remains one of my favourite blogs. So I wanted to visit Stacey and her shop, and I have seen so many pictures on the blog over the last 6 years. So we went, and the shop was superb, just as I had imagined it, and it was so great to meet Stacey too, she was so lovely, I am definately taking more time out to spend with her next time I visit, it would be great fun, I just know it.

So there we go, a little summary of our trip, which is the last one for about 7 months, it will be nice to have entire months at home now, I have travelled approximately 1 week out of 4 in the past six months, which is fine, but now the crazy season is coming up I need to be there and get all my plans into action!

So I am updating the shop with things today because there are actually lots of things I didn't get time to put in the shop before I went, including some totally unique gorgeous resin spindles to add to the spinning section, and fibres and things. Then I will update on Friday as usual.

All orders will get shipped today too, thanks for your patience on those :-)

Oh and new website is being worked on, so I am hoping that will be ready in a week or so, I just need to finish the design and get it hooked up to credit card payments, and we are away, its a zillion times better than the one I have now, and it will have so much more information on it and better layoout.

Ok thats enough

xxx

Am much better :-)

Phew! Feeling much better in the past few days, think that might be because I am at Sheila's, and I am relaxed. Flying doesn't aggree with me, and seeing as we have done 7 flights in the past 4 days its not so good, still, only 4 on the way home :-(.

Anyway I will start with the fun, so we met up with Cascade yarns, and they took us, yep, actually took us to a baseball game with 800 knitters!!! Its called stitch and pitch!! It would be so cool to have something like this at the rugby games in the UK, not football as it would be the wrong atmosphere. Anyway it was so much fun!! Especially seeing as the game is quite long, so lots of knitting time, and there were lots and lots of stands of wool. But, the only thing I bought was some rosewood dpn's. None of the yarn really inpired me, the hand dyed was ok, but it wasn't anything unusual, or different, than we can find in the UK, (we are going to more yarn shops in the next few days though, so I am still hoping to find some special things).

ok, so you want some pics?

ok so where do I start.... before we got into the stadium, there was a market outside of the yarn shops:

Of course there were a few of these:

um can you see the silk garden sock yarn below.....if I see some more I will buy some, and do a blog competition for it.

A baseball...

and my free stitch and pitch teeshirt which I will keep for ever and ever:

Ok, and then for the baseball....

Here is the screen, see if you can read what is says on the top third screen....

(pacific fabrics).

Ok now for the actual baseball.....

And the most important part....the knitters.....

And this lovely lady I was sat next to worked for pacific fabrics, which was sponsoring the event:

It was hard to get good pictures of the knitters, but there were about 800 lol!!

and this was a moose what knitting needles.....what can I say?

And well, I just had to put this one up......

Recognise this sheep oops I mean person......

xxxx

USA

I am sick, have a fever and can't stop being sick, damned aeroplanes, I am sure its the recylcled air, anyway, all I can manage is watching the Waltons on TV, have no idea about what the USA looks like yet, or what the food tastes like :-(

Just want my belly to stop hurting and my temperature to go down.

Hope you are all ok, had a few emials about the clubs, everything went out, I was packing the clubs 2 hours before I left lol, and literally chucked them through the post office door with a wadge of cash, so they should all be with most of you.

This is the last time I am travelling for an entire year, I never ever want to go on another plane ever ever ever. :-(

As long as I am better by the time I get to Sheila's I don't mind, I am so looking foward to meeting her and spening time I don't want it to be spoiled by me being ill. grrrrrrr.
xx