Amazing Malabrigo Day!

Good Morning Everyone!

WOW!! What an amazing MALABRIGO DAY!! Thank-you to everyone who showed their support for this beautiful yarn AND ME! The morning started with the KAL gals, knitting away on their Antipodes sweaters, they are just stunning! Vibeke brought "healthy" oatmeal, peanut butter with chocolate chips cookies, she assured us she'd drastically reduced the amount of sugar, therefore making them healthy. Hook, line and sinker for me, I ate two easily and I got the leftovers (which I mostly shared). From the moment Donna arrived from Plattsburgh, the shop began to fill up, it pretty much stayed that way until I closed. There were a few lulls, Lisa and I were able to sit and have a chat by mid afternoon, she needed clarification on Where Are The Leaves shawl. I'd mentioned making this the next KAL, guess what? It's official, it's the next KAL. Annie picked out yarn, Panchita came in to buy yarn for it and Lisa has it cast on. It is super cool and is the perfect candidate for a KAL, it's confusing!!! Not confusing in a bad way either, just that it takes a bit to wrap your head around it. It only took (3) of us to decipher it and now it's clear as mud. Here's the link https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/where-are-the-leaves As you all know, I'm not really a stickler for the rules when it comes to KALs, in a perfect world, it would have been cast on this past Saturday. We can make the official cast on date November 21st, the THIRD Saturday. The fourth Saturday of the month is Small Business Saturday, MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! That should give everyone plenty of time to finish up the current KAL.

I'd mentioned last week I was expecting an order from Artyarns, it's here and almost gone ( I haven't even taken it out of the box)! I am not disappointed, I'm thrilled, I will be ordering more. Iris thought it was a good idea to have the colors available I used to knit my Thistlewood, I agreed. She was generous enough to send along her Simple Yoke pullover as a shop sample, that was a great idea. Lisa decided she wanted to knit the Thistlewood but opted to use the pink Tweed for the main color and three of the mini skeins for the color work. Sandy and Claudine are going to knit one of the ponchos using the Gray tweed, and I'm drawing a blank as to who bought the lovely Gold, maybe it was Donna. Needless to say, I am so excited that you are loving this yarn as much as I do. It is a beautifully luxurious merino and cashmere blend, hand dyed by Iris in White Plains, NY.

I've been working hard to get everything together for this year's Advent Calendar, it's going to be a bit different, it's not a bad thing, PROMISE!! I've always believed in supporting other small businesses whenever possible. I decided it was important to focus on giving my business to Vermont/ US/ Women owned businesses. This year's Advent will feature 12 days of Christmas, and in case you are wondering, there will be no Partridges In A Pear Tree. In the past I've done 24 days, but in an effort to work with smaller companies, it was challenging to find 24. You won't be disappointed, I am so excited by what I put together, you will absolutely love it. I have a limited amount, once they're gone, they're gone. Karen has already put her name at the top of the list, let me know if you would like to be included, they are $150.

Congratulations to Lisa, Donna and Heather, they were the prize winners of the Malabrigo giveaway! They each received a skein of Mecha to knit a pair of Arc Mittens and a packet of Soak.

The shop will be opening a bit late on Thursday, October 29th, I have a follow up appointment at 10:15 and should be ready to go by 11:00. We will be meeting tomorrow evening, Wednesday 6-7:30 for Stitch and Bitch, I hope you can join in the fun. Make it a great day and I'll see you soon!

Katy