Bleating Moments

to all my friends, customers & anyone else who is looking at my site. We are in the warmer clims of Florida for the winter and are enjoying the sunny days immensley.    I have to state that I have been somewhat lazy and have not done very much of all my pre-planned projects! Some Christmas gifts were finished and I am working on a mitred afghan for our travel trailer,which we are living in for the winter, and a little x-stitch has been achieved, also.......I have read several books.   We have been staying on the Atlantic side of Florida for the last 2 months and I have been enjoying a reunion with a friend who is also a Kiwi. We worked together before we were both married so it is such a hoot remminising about things we did when we were 18!!!

The show list is up in the web store. Click on Customer Service and then go to Locator. I have cut out alot of shows this year as it is proving too much for me, but you can still purchase the goodies on the web store. When we return in April, there will be a full store up and ready for you. Right now, it is just the product that I can carry with me.( it is amazing how much will fit in those storage bags you suck the air out of!!!!)

Until then, Happy Knitting

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to all my wonderful customers and those who look at my site. My wish for you all is that you have a memorable time with family and friends and a safe and happy 2012, with of course lots of knitting!

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to balance a business and your homelife. Those of you in my position will certainly understand. This is my situation this winter as my honey wants to get out of the Michigan winters and go south, like the geese! We live in a travel trailer for 5 months so there is no room to take all my product that is on the web store. Sooooo...... the only solution I can come up with is to take with me the most popular items you seem to be wanting at this time and take the rest down until we return. I hope this will not distress you too much as I have had much distress trying to think what to do.  If you do not see it on the storefront it does not mean we don't carry it, just that it too is on a holiday!

We want to take this time the say a big THANK YOU to all who supported us in the past year and to those that stopped by our booths and webstore and said hello and got to know the product line. We are working on our shows for next year so keep watching the site. To all of you, our wishes for a wonderful Holiday season and blessings for the New Year.

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we had in West Branch at last weekends show. We took our travel trailer this time and it was a challenge to get all the booth stuff, 30 some containers, into the inside of it and still have room for us. It all worked out and as always, we enjoyed meeting you all and especially the camp fires at night. Thank you for your support.

Our next and final show of the year will be Fiber Expo in Ann Arbor, Oct 22 - 23. We will have a couple of new items to finish the year out. From Little Wool Co we will have a worsted weight tweed and from Touch we will have a cashmere blend, along with the recently added Stansborough Grey 2ply and 8ply. We hope you can make it to the show.

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The new color of 2ply lace/weaving yarn from Stansborough is in the store and it is sooooo beautiful. A light silvery grey. As you already know I cannot get this yarn all the time and my present supply of both the 2ply colors is all that will be available for up to 6 months!  I have a scarf pattern done using the 5 8ply colors. Each color is represented two times, with the beginning color done 3 times so both ends are the same tone.

Next week we are off to the Northern Michigan Lamb and Wool Festival in West Branch Michigan. The show is Saturday and Sunday. It'll be an experience for us as we are taking our camper this time. We have to pack the whole booth into the camper for the trip, which will not be too bad (if we can get it all in!), but on Sunday after we close down, we are spending the night so I guess we will be climbing over tubs to get to the bed and bathroom!! At our age that will be a sight!   Hope to see you at the show.

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is their 8ply DK yarn in 5 grey based, almost heathered colors. I have a scarf pattern already printed and I am almost finished knitting it in the 5 colors. Then I can get a pix to attach to the pattern. The yarn is very nice to work with tho not as soft as a merino. It reminds me of the hard wearing Shetland yarns so will be perfect for those sweaters and jackets. I have been told that it has a great luster when washed and will not pill. All the colors start out with the same grey yarn as the 2ply so that is why they seem to have a heather look.

There is more of the 2ply coming so if you don't see any on the web store it is because we are out of stock. This next shipment will be all I can get for the next 6 months so don't delay if you are thinking of trying it.

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in Chicago and the weather was perfect. It seemed like there was more vendors, but it is hard for me to say for sure as I can't get away that much for a walk about. As in the past, it is thrilling to see all the customers and the great knits they are wearing. Let me say a big thank you to all of you who ventured into our booth and took some of  New Zealand home with you. THANK YOU for supporting us. You never know who will show up.......I had a wonderful chat with Maggie Sefton, author of those great knitting murder mysteries, and Candace Eisner Strick was so enchanted with a red yarn I had, she had to take it home with her. You all just loved the 'Middle Earth Yarn' from Stansborough.....it's all gone so I have to get more for the next show and the web site.   

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is just around the corner and I am frantically trying to get everything done. There will, I hope, be a few new products, but my dilemma is that while we were away, one box was sent to the wrong address and was therefore sent back to NZ. I hope I get it back in time as there is a new cashmere blend in it.  Also, another box of new yarn is sitting in customs now so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. In this box is a new yarn, an 8ply version of the Stansborough yarns in several colors. Can't wait to see this. We will also have more of the lace Stansborough. For those of you not familiar with this yarn, it is the same yarn they weave all the costumes for the Lord of the Ring and the Narnia movies with. The lace is not always available as when movies are in production, all the fiber goes into the costumes. It comes from a special breed of sheep that was reintroduced when these movies started. New also for this show is a new lighter weight mohair from Touch and comes in a kit,with 3 patterns for hats and fingerless gloves. New samples and some bone china tea cups made in England. Lots of goodies and more new samples. Make sure you stop by and check out the booth.

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for a lovely holiday that is not fiber related, tho I'm sure I will be hitting the yarn shops where ever we go. A wedding on the west coast prompted this trip and we can also spend time with our daughter in LA. Of course, there will be plenty of knitting going with me, (we are travelling in our camper), along with other needlework. I have some samples to finish for the upcoming shows.

I will be back and ready for the Stitches Midwest event in August and hope you all have a wonderful and safe summer.

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in the Detroit Race for the Cure on Saturday, I decided to go ahead and give the donation to Breast Cancer research early. I was able to donate $25. Thank you to those of you who purchased the scarf kit. While we still have a few of those left, I received a shipment from Knitsch and in it was the perfect color for the 'pink ribbon' kits. I decided to design a pair of footies to wear on the walk and my knitter is now proofing the pattern, so I may have some ready for my next show. We all like choices, so now it is a scarf or socks!

Also received a big shipment from Touch and in it is some new items I think you will like as well as patterns. Be sure to find your way to our booth at the upcoming shows. Of course I had to get the needles going on the new patterns right away. That's me, always working on several things at the same time. Guess that came from my years as a shop owner when I had to show my customers what the yarns looked like. Once I sold the shop, I had all these UFO's that had to be finished! Isn't that what keeps us happy tho'!!! Having more projects than time!

Gotta get back to the needles so you will see something new at Hoosier Hills in a couple of weeks. Stay dry and happy knitting!

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