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Ready to Help... our own Elf!

 

Well, he really isn’t our own elf, but he sure is darn cute!!!!! New grandson, Jacob,  is wearing the Andean Hat that is coming with us to Stitches Midwest. Yepp, we are packing for it!  The store looks like an actual hurricane has came through.  Jjust wait until we take the shelves, Susan will be selling [...]

Sisters . . . And A Rainy Day!

Aren’t they the cutest things? What else is there to do on a rainy day at the lake?  Go to Knitting Today and work on their new sweaters.  I really never dreamed they would become avid sweater knitters at 15 and 17! 

And, for a close-up on what they are doing? 

Haley is a few rows in on [...]

drumroll . . . and the winners are:

Sandra Kleven and Cindy Clark!!!  Thank you everyone for posting your UFOs.  Email me, Sandra, and we’ll get your winning product out to you (Cindy — you can come in since you aren’t too far away ).  Congratulations and thank you to everyone for posting!! 

There’s another giveaway at:

http://knittingtoday.com/knews/2010/05/19/packing-it-up/

It will end June 19. . . . [...]

Packing it up

It is my last morning to sit on the porch outside in 70 degree weather with my first cup of coffee in the morning. I hear the weather back in Indiana isn’t so nice.

A little progress was made on Cassidy. I had to figure out where I was, tear down and fix some cable [...]

Tara picked 17

Is that because she will turn 17 next year?  Anyways, number 17 was . . . drumroll please, Nancy Wilson! 

Nancy receiving her winning book, Knitted Gifts

And here she is just sitting down after a hard day of teaching. 
No, she isn’t an employee, but is a valuable part of our teaching team and she was teaching [...]

Congrats Ravelry — 500,000 strong and still growing!

Tell me, if you are a member of Ravelry.com, just how has it changed your knitting life?  What part of it do you use the most and why?  And, if you haven’t joined up yet?  Why  not . . .

 I just might have some Ravelry schwag to give away to someone come December 1 . [...]

BTS at Stitches Midwest

BTS = Behind The Scenes, an acronym we use at Emmaus Walks for the go-fers

And, here are some shots from BTS at Stitches Midwest and, yes, Tom was definitely the “go-fer” and we couldn’t have done it without him.  My thanks to the whole team that helped man the Knitting Today booth, Claudia from Yarn Sisters [...]

those UPS men, they never stop working . . .

I feel bad, sort of, that on Tom’s vacation he has to load a truck, drive, unload a truck, move boxes, unload inventory, fill shelves, and at the end of a long weekend refill boxes, move boxes, reload a truck and drive again, unload, etc.  I think he’ll then leave the reshelving to the rest of [...]

Tom’s March Madness “FCCTCC” Contest

Join Tom in a Knitting Today-sponsored “Felted Clogs College Team Colors Contest” (now known as the FCCTCC). Simply knit your favorite college team color clogs using the Fiber Trends clog pattern (available at http://www.knittingtoday.com/go.mvc?ID=80252), embellished however you wish to represent your favorite team, and send a before and after picture with FCCTCC in the [...]

Superbowl Door Prize Winners

The lucky door prize winners, at Superbowl Sunday, were Vicki Rowe, Patrica Click, Bobbi Debusk, Debby Jokisch, Anita Sparkman and Susan Bell.  Hurry in and pick up your prize.Â