SP12 Question of the Week #11

What is the best thing you've ever received in the mail?

Since I own a business of Italian imports, I get tons of stuff in "mail", being regular mail or freight. Lately the best was this:




No, it is not Chianti wine, but cashmere care wash from a cashmere goats farm in Chianti (actually, the only cashmere goats farm in Italy.)

Just arrived from Italy

Well, he got the hat here .....

WWKiP Day

June 14 is World Wide Knit in Public Day. If you are in the Bay Area, please join me at the Allied Arts Guild - if you do not know Allied Arts, this is a perfect excuse to visit one of the most charming places in the Bay Area. Once there, look for La Bottega near the Court of Abundance, we will be in the patio. Refreshments will be provided, there is plenty of space, and a delicious restaurant for a proper lunch if so desired.

1, 2, 3 ........

Last time I posted was how many days ago? 10? No, 11?

Note to myself, next year do not take, repeat, DO NOT, take any wholesale order for the yarn business while your other business is open 7 days a week. Last time I checked, still 7 days in a week (and 24 hours in a day.)

Anyway, if you are a member Full Toes Ahead, I hope you are happy with the colorway and the pattern. If you do not, what are you waiting for?

In the mist of skeining, dyeing, and re-skeining, there was one FO: I finally finished and felted the felted bag that was 95% done since August:



Needle: US 11 / 8.0 mm
Yarn: Lion Brand Lion Wool Solid 1 skeins = 158.0 yards (144.5m) in Sage and Lion Brand Lion Wool Prints 2 skeins = 286.0 yards (261.5m) Majestic Mountain
Pre-felting dimensions: 18x19"
Post-felting dimensions: 14.5x11"

But mostly there were WIPs while I am working my x-mas list.



Socks for my brother, toe-up, but see what I am doing? I have put the first sock on hold on some scrape yarn and started the second one from the other end of the ball. I have developed a real phobia about running out of yarn. It have not having good sock karma lately (after the Gryffindor sock, even the Jaywalker has been misbehaving, but we won't talk about that.)

I have received some wonderful stitch markers from Emma Crookshanks of Hufflepuff for Hogwarts Sock Swap I:



Aren't they beautiful? I do appreciate the paper as well!

But my good fortune did not stop there, I won one of the prizes for Knit Unto Others and a skein of sock yarn from Wooly Wonka Fiber is on its way to me!

My life behind bars

I took some photos of the place where I am spending my days and this the view I have from my space. I must say, life behind bars is not that bad!



And leaving the place to take a walk go pick up the mail, is not bad either:





If you live in the Bay Area and you have not been to the Allied Arts Guild, it is a place worth vising!