Stitches West

Stitches West is over for another year and it was incredible. It was great to see all our circuit friends after the winter lay over. It's like the circus rolling into town, everyone arrives, sets up, the people come, everything gets packed up and we roll off to the next town to do it again.


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Location:Santa Clara, CA

Stitches West

I wish I had something to report, but I still haven't figured out the picture thing and we were way too busy for me to do any walking around. I can say that a lot of beautiful sweaters, scarves and shawls made of RedFish yarns came into the booth for Show and Tell. We were so busy that I didn't have time to take pictures of all of them.


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Stitches West

There were an unbelievable amount of knitters at Stitches today. I could prove it if I could figure out how to get photos from my iPhone to my iPad. I will work on it.


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Location:Santa Clara, CA

Stitches West

The drive to Santa Clara went smoothly, no weather this year, but every thing is really dry. The almond orchards were just starting to bloom, the garlic fields were up enough to smell and the sunset over the bay was beautiful.
Since vendors with more than 2 booths get to move in first in the morning, we are having breakfast with John Marshall while waiting our turn. We haven't seen John for months.


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Location:Santa Clara

First day thoughts and deeds

I plant 20 trees every year and this job was completed today! They weren't exactly trees per say but upright Rosemary plants. When you live in the desert, anything that grows 6 to 8 foot tall can be called a tree in my book. I put them along my North fence line where they can soak up water from my neighbor's lawn overwatering.
I also learn two new things every year and spent some tree planting time thinking about what I want to learn this year. I finally decided on learning the ins and outs of Crackle Weave. Our friend Susan Wilson published a book last year on Crackle and it features a beautiful scarf on the cover made from RedFish DyeWorks yarn.  My second project will be to learn line dancing. I'm jealous of my friend Lisa having all the fun. So there it is, Crackle and line dancing.
From last year, I managed to become a half-way decent gluten-free baker and have managed to learn knitting. I have a sweater half finished, front and back done with sleeves and hood to go. I was hoping to have it finished by "Stitches West" in March but I think that is a pipe dream.
My volunteer work will continue at the library doing Adult Cooking Class, except this month because it was decided to do Blood Sausage. I'm sorry, even if I wasn't a vegetarian, that sounds positively disgusting! This choice was made because of the book "The Belly of Paris" which is the Foodie Book Club book of the month.  I also volunteer for "Threads" at the library. We are trying to get people interested in getting back to basics with sewing, weaving, knitting and other thread things.  We are slowly growing into a great "Sewing Circle".
My book reading/listening list totaled 60 for the year.
All in all, last year was a great year, life is good. That's the end of my thoughts and deeds.

It was a great year

I am ending the year by the fire knitting, my loved ones are near and we are healthy, happy and ready to enjoy next year.

50/50 Silk/Camel Sample

Once again I'm weaving on Thursday! Spent a good 3 hours and got the silk/camel sample thru the reed. Decided on 36 epi, 3 to a dent in a 10 dent reed, 10 inches wide. This yarn is very fine, so the sample should be shear.