Photo Shoot

We did our photo shoot last night. We transform the office into a temporary studio. We've used the same photographer for the last several years. He's the retired fashion photographer from the Globe and Mail. He's also very French and very nice. I sort of act as stylist for these things, making sure that garments that have special features get shot at angles that will emphasize them. We had a lovely young lady as our model. This was her first time in front of the camera. She was really nervous at first but she soon relaxed. Alain was very good at making her smile. I took a shot of Alain taking a shot of Keating. Today Chris chose the shots that we will use for each pattern. We usually try to show a couple of different angles on each pattern. I'm in the process of making sure that the patterns are correct and formatted properly. Then we'll get them off to the printer. Once we get them back and proof them the printer puts them together into tear off pads. We then make sets of each pattern and send them out to all the stores. People always like to get something free.

We're also putting together binders for all the stores. These will include all the shade cards for the Cascade yarns we distribute along with most of the Estelle shade cards. We're also send a King Cole shade book.

I'm testing a new sample that arrived. It is 60% merino,20% alpaca, 10% silk and 10% nylon. It feels pretty nice but I'll haven't got far enough on it yet. It looks like a sport weight. I'll report back on my next post.

I was just talking to Karen at Sheepstrings. She'd just read my last post about the Eagles concert. She'd been at the Tuesday show and loved it as much as I did. We both agreed that we'd have loved to go to the Thursday one. She's been trying to find their new CD and can't. I was planning to go to Walmart to get it for myself so I told her I'd get her one also.

The warehouse is a hive of activity right now. We've got Annie and a young guy pulling orders. Chris tries to arrange it so that shipments come in on a staggered basis but as usual Murphy's law steps in and they all come at once. Our knitting needles came in. That was two full skids on its own.

Well I'd best get back to my patterns.

Happy knitting!

Susan

The Eagles

I went to The Eagles concert on Monday night. It was fantastic. My friend Joan called me last week to see if I wanted to go. She'd been given two tickets. Of course I wanted to go! They played some tunes from their new record but they played a lot of their past hits. They did some of their solo tunes also. Joe Walsh was amazing. Well, they all were. They sound just as great today as they did 30 years ago. They played for over 3 hours. The concert didn't end until 11:45 and I didn't get home until 12:45.

I've been taking Mondays off for the past few weeks. It's been nice have long weekends. I've been working on a baby sweater out of the new pale pink Arequipa It's almost finished. Of course in the meantime I've started a scribble lace shawl out of black Arequipa and the new bright colour of Woolly Bully. We had this done a few years ago out of Watercolours and Woolly Bully but we've discontinued Watercolours so thought it would work with Arequipa. It's looking good. I'll have to finish it this weekend because we're doing our photo shoot on Tuesday after work. The photographer we use is the retired fashion photographer from the Globe and Mail.

I went to see Pick Up Sticks in Bradford on Wednesday. They have a new puppy, a 14 week old Golden Retriever named Rocky. Talk about a cute puppy and so good. He didn't bark once the whole time I was there. Here's his picture.

I'm leaving early today to go to a funeral. My first singing teacher passed away this week. They wanted former choir members to participate so I'll me singing in a choir for the first time in many years. After that I'm off to see a new children's store in Unionville. (We have another side to the business in the gift industry which I'm involved in also.) Then I'm getting my hair cut.

Happy Knitting!

Susan