Wow, it's been awhile--this is a busy time of year for me, workshops, holiday shows, special orders for the holidays, fall yarns coming, etc., etc., etc.

Baby Bradley is growing, now 15#, and rolling over on his own. Here's a picture of him with his mom at his first football game. We spent the week with him (and of course, his parents) during the week following Labor Day and it was great. Our next visit will be in November, unless I can take a quick trip down to them!

New fall yarns:

ZAUEBERBALL CRAZY--a sock yarn from Schoppel-wolle, 75% wool, 25% nylon, 462 yds. Kind of a mouline with a gradual drifting rainbow stripe-thing going on. Really hot right now, I've sold most of the first order, the second is on its way. Price is $19.99 (4 cents/yd).

SUPER AUSSIE--100% superwash merino in a worsted weight, from Queensland. Eighteen gorgeous colors. 109 yds, $6.00 (5 cents/yd).

FILZ-WOLLE (LINIE 231)-100% feltable bulky wool, 55 yds, from ONLine, $6/ball (10 cents/yd). Should have been shipped with a pattern for felted slippers, but the pattern is on its way and should still be here in time for holiday knitted gifts.

EUCOOL--75%wool, 25%eucalyptus from Elsebeth Lavold. A dk weight yarn, 186 yds, for $8 (4 cents/yd). Twelve beautiful colors, and wonderful patterns! The eucalyptus makes this wool naturally moth-repellant.

and last, but not least. . . .

FIAMATO (LINIE245)--a 53%wool, 47% acrylic blend in a bulky weight, multi-colored, perfects for winter hats, scarves, and mittens. 99yds, $7 per ball (7 cents/yd), from ONLine.

Fall Classes have been put on hold. The spring and summer classes were poorly attended. I've been trying to figure out if it's the economy, if people were too busy, or if it's because I've recycled the same old classes for 4 years. So instead, I'm going to put my efforts into developing some new classes. I've started working on one for gloves done via the magic loop method. As always, if you have a need or an interest, let me know and we'll work it out for you. Just this past week, I did a class for mittens on the magic loop.

I got my packet back from the Master Knitter Program. Looks like I have a few redo's but I really haven't read through the comments yet. I will get back to it when things slow down a bit.

Our book club is now listening to "To the Nines" by Janet Evanovich. Very sassy, extremely funny and a little bit naughty. We were laughing soooo hard that we had to pass the Kleenex box around!!!! Join us if you can.

For those of you who might be interested in a knitting cruise: Go to www.craftcruises.com and view the info for the British Isles cruise in August 2010. Featured knitting instructors are Sally Melville and Beth Brown-Reinsel. I'm pretty sure I'm going, but thought it would be fun to have a group.

Well, my UPS delivery man just brought in 4 more small boxes. So I'll get to work unpacking them! See ya soon!