A few weeks ago I was on the road again, this time to the Kawartha area. My first stop was to stop in and say hello to the ladies at Happenstance Books and Yarns in Lakefield. Lakefield is such a pretty town and the drive along by the river is beautiful.
From there I drove to Lindsay to Kawartha Yarns. I showed Naz the Fall collections and she showed me how to cable without a cable needle.
Last week was the first Downtown Knit Collective meeting of this season. Here's a shot of part of the membership.
Each September the DKC invites representatives from the various yarn distributors to come and talk about what's new and wonderful for the upcoming season. Normally Chris gives the presentation but he couldn't this year as we had a supplier in for a visit. So, I did the presentation for the first time. I focused on Twelve and our Alpaca Cashmere Tweed. From Lana Grossa it was their fantastic sock yarns. Lang's Tosca is an absolutely fantastic yarn. I love it so much I'm on my third garment out of it. Dale and Jo Sharp are wonderful classic lines and the big excitement is that we are now the Canadian distributor for Cascade 220 and Noni patterns. After all the presentations are done, members come up and fondle the samples. We have lots of free patterns that they can take with them.
As I mentioned, the big excitement is Cascade 220. We're starting out with 53 solid colours and 7 hand paints. I laid the skeins out on the big table in our show room in the order they appear on the shade card.
Don't the colours look amazing?
As I mentioned, the big excitement is Cascade 220. We're starting out with 53 solid colours and 7 hand paints. I laid the skeins out on the big table in our show room in the order they appear on the shade card.
Don't the colours look amazing?It was knitting group last night. It really is an extremely interesting group of women. Kersti had finished the Argosy shawl. I'm thinking it would be lovely done out of Tosca. I'll have to check it out. Today is Mary's birthday and Kersti and Christine had decorated the store in her honour. Carla brought the most scrumptious chocolate cake, no butter but lots of wonderful chocolate. I love chocolate!
Well, I'd better go. We close at 3 on Fridays and I'm getting my hair cut right after work. Yeah!
Happy Knitting!
Susan
