Our Knit Group arrived this morning and worked like beavers putting yarns in their proper places:

Josh in the midst of all those books!

Patti in the Rowan yarns.

Laura with the awful task of sorting sock yarns.

Princess Leia, aka Birgitta, is having too much fun.

Mary with the alpaca yarns.

Cathy trying to add order to the wool yarns.

MaryAlice and Jackie straightening the silks.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the finished areas in the shop.

Sock yarns!

All those silks!

Many, many wool yarns.

A thank you is not very much to offer for all this excellent help. But thank you so much! We couldn’t have done it without you!

We have moved our shop from Maddox Ave. to 7151 Horseshoe Dr. still on Chincoteague Island and this is where we’ll be for a very long time. We’ll be opening to the public on Jan. 18th.

Day One: a shrink wrapped shop being loaded onto our pickup!

Day Three: Chaos for sure. Where in the world did I put????

Day 8: Believe it or not, order is being restored one day at a time (one yarn at a time?)

We’ve got the yarns and the colors for sure.

When on the Island, make sure you stop by after Jan. 18th. We’ll be ready!

Melody yarn and Swirl Shawls

Carole brought her swirl shawls she completed recently into the shop and they are so excellent I wanted to share her accomplishments. Keep in mind that each is knitted with a single colorway of Melody yarn.

Carole changed the ends on the shawl:

Very attractive finish to the shawl. Love these shawls!

What do you think? Does the celtic knot show up very much in the DK wt Felted Tweed?

Well, actually looking at the photo, I think it does. but in real life not so much.

Working on the fingerless mittens in Rowan Felted Tweed.

Several selected this yarn for their class projects. I’ve worked the first mitten almost to the bind off point. Love the yarn but disappointed with the color I guess. I picked a light shade thinking the celtic knot on the back of the hand would show up well but it doesn’t really. Maybe after I block it. Will post a photo in the next blog so you can tell me what you think.

Have you gotten all your shopping done? My lists are still growing. I never was one to get it done over the summer and early fall. It turns into a shop until I drop day or two, many orders on line, and then Christmas is here. Between knitting samples for the shop and the various retreats we have, there hasn’t been anytime this fall to knit gifts. Of course there are several baby blankets in the works and Christmas stockings that have a definite deadline. I’m looking forward to some down time to concentrate on these and get a few more projects completed. What are you working on? Are your gifts all finished and ready to send on their way?

Finished the cowl that I started before Thanksgiving with the Rowan Lima and the Fern lace cowl pattern. The photo doesn’t do it justice. The Lima is incredibly soft and warm as you would expect an alpaca yarn to be.