6.1.14

i was remiss last month and missed maia's birthday on the 23rd.  so belated happy birthday wishes to a wonderful lady!  june birthdays:  norma r 6/6; pat c 6/7; maryann w 6/9; and linda m 6/13.  stop in at the shop to get your $5 gift certificate good for your birthday month and i hope you all have a very happy birthday!

clarice is now living comfortably on the farm and my floors have all been spit shined.  life would almost be back to normal if i didn't have to bottle feed her 4-5 times a day.  i don't mind but you really have to work your schedule around it.  she will be down to 3 bottles soon, as the less milk she gets, the more she will be inclined to nibble on grass and hay, which she needs to do so that her rumen develops.  she seems to be adjusting very well.  just like with a small child, she if fine when i'm not there but the minute she sees me she starts bawling!  i have spied on her and i know that she is playing and doing just fine.

this past friday was the first friday she wasn't visiting the shop and this note was found on the door:

WHAT'S NEW?

my daughter was kind enough to secure some funky

trendsetter yarns at a store in boulder.  they are called Metals and Joy.  Metals is an unusually long eyelash yarn with a long eyelash strand of sparkly metal - some copper, some iridescent, some gold - unusual and hard to find.  Joy is a sweet funky yarn with ribbon flags - perfect for embellishing an out of the ordinary project.

SALE SALE SALE

i am looking into carrying a few new lines here at the shop but i must think about moving yarn OUT before i can move any more IN.  sooo, i am putting all crystal palace yarns on sale at an additional 10% for the month of june as well as all cascade yarns.  i know ten percent doesn't sound like much, but take that off of an already super price and it is a very good bargain.  ALL patterns are 10% off as well!

dates to remember

tues 6/10 knitters anonymous 1-6

thursday 6/12 purlin girls meet at the bean at noon

fridays shop open 10-6

upcoming classes*

felt landscapes june 9 and 16

pin weaving june 11

felt sheep june 25, july 2 and 9

*see website for details

the felt flower and EZ peezie pin cushion classes went very well and some beautiful creations were born.

fundraiser concludes this friday, june 6th!  this is your last chance to get out here and get a bargain and raise money for scott trimble's trip to italy for the ultimate frizbee world cup!  please help!  i will be notifying whoever was the highest bidder on the items.  you're missing out on some wonderful things if you don't get out here to bid this week!

PHOTO GALLERY

SOMEBODY loves yarn as much as i do!

deni visiting anthony in portland

clarice's last visit

5/18/14

this has been quite a couple of weeks.  i just got back from kentucky, where i was taking a felt coat class as well as a fiber class on the feltLOOM.  i had such a wonderful trip.  the class was amazing, kentucky was beautiful, and i got to see all kinds of horse, sheep, and cattle farms.  i am not going to post any photos of my jacket until its done.  some of you know about the thoroughbred horse farms but let me tell you - the barns alone look like beautiful brick homes!  some of these farms are thousands of acres.  rolling green fields as far as the eye can see.

Lanette, from Lan Mark farm, is the inventor of the FeltLOOM, which some of you had seen at the Pgh Knit and Crochet festival.  she and her husband, don, were wonderful hosts.  they have a 330 acre farm and raise cattle, various breeds of sheep, donkeys, and an alpaca.  they have SEVEN month-old lambs which are being bottle fed.  don had a contraption where all seven bottles are together and all seven of them were drinking at the same time.  unfortunately my phone had died and i couldn't get a photo.  six of them were snow white and one was black.  i'm sorry i couldn't share the photo with you but it is an image that will be etched into my memory for a long time, i'm sure.

back home, the sheep were sheared yesterday and the washing of the fleeces begins.  in past years, i literally put the huge fleeces in ditches on the farm but now that i will be getting a feltLOOM this summer, i will be able to use my fleece for rugs so all eight of them will need to be washed.  not a LOT of work but a lot of time soaking them in hot soapy water, rinsing, and soaking over and over til the water runs clear.  they all look so skinny and i feel bad that the weather dipped down with them being almost naked.

NEW STUFF

today tom and i took a ride to the waynesburg sheep and wool festival.  its a small show but very quaint and unassuming.  i secured two new lines to carry at the shop:  river ridge fiber works -  beautiful handspun, hand dyed yarns from a talented textile artist, melody weed located in lusby, maryland; 

and Michelle's Assortment from aurora, ohio - decorative shawl pins and brooches for shawls, hair, scarves, cowls, cardigans.  

make sure to stop and see these new items at the shop as the photos do not do them justice.  also while in waynesburg, i found a couple of farms who carry the beautiful curls needed for the felted sheep class, coming up later in june.

clarice is still living in the house and is making regular appearances at the shop on fridays. i will surely miss her when she has to move up to the barn, which will be in the next couple of weeks. 

sheila giving clarice a hug

CLASS UPDATE

our embellished sweater class wrapped up this

week.   nancy premoshis is a great teacher and the girls are moving along with their beautiful sweaters. sorry to the afternoon class - i forgot to take a photo since i was in the class and happily embellishing for a couple of hours.  will post pictures as they are finished.

we are hoping nancy will teach more classes in the future, so stay tuned!  

UPCOMING CLASSES

EZ PEEZIE pin cushions -tuesdays may 20 and 27 from 10 - 12 at the shop (two spaces available)

TUNISIAN CROCHET - wednesday may 21 from 10-12 OR 1-3 at the shop. *

FELT FLOWERS - both a.m. and p.m. (classes are full)**

*overflow allowed us to put on two classes that day, making spaces available at this time

**if anyone else is interested, i can put an additional class on the schedule.

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

thursday 5/22 purlin girls meet at the bean at noon

saturdays 5/24 and 5/31 craftique fiber art group meets at craftique 10-12

tuesday 5/27 knitters anonymous - shop open 1-6

wednesday 5/28 close knit girls meet at panera murrysville 6-8

fridays 5/23 and 5/30 shop open 10-6

for those of you who wet felt, i have just received a small shipment of ball brausers.  ($25 each) these are wonderful tools for your wet felted projects.  get yours while they last because they are not easy to find.

cat not included

i was remiss last month in not announcing our april door prize winner:  kay farabaugh!

FUNDRAISER REMINDER

only two short weeks left for the silent auction fundraiser for sylvia elliott's grandson to raise money for his trip to boston then italy for the world ultimate frisbee tournament.  items include but not limited to:

yarn, books, roving, a drop spindle kit, knitting mouse, raggz gift certificate, and much much more.  please check it out, as we would like to help scott pay his way to this tournament that he has trained so hard for.  please support our efforts!

funny quotes at the shop last week: (i did NOT make these up)

"why is there a banana in my sleeve?"

"MOM!  YOU SHAVED YOUR HEAD!!"

"what makes the clay female?" (the subject was fimo)

"my mother was a ho, my grandmother was a ho, and her mother was a ho."  

credits go to cathy rosensteel for the banana quote, thea mc curry for the shaved head and ho comment - (hough is the last name officially), and kay farabaugh was questioning how clay could be female.  

just goes to show you, you never know what's going to happen on any given friday at RaggZ!

 

last friday at the shop.  our beautiful donna!

clarice checking out the roving

cathy holding baby cakes

the kiln has arrived!

zinnia riding on joey's back

may 3 2014

hey there!  what a busy couple of days i have had lately with my three beautiful children all here at the same time.  this blog will be short and sweet for that reason and also because my half brother, rich, is driving in from ohio today to visit for the weekend and also meet the kids for the first time.  for those of you who don't know the story, i only found out i had a half brother in ohio and half sister in nebraska in 2011, just before my mother died.  it still seems weird to me.  rich and i keep in touch more than jackie and i but she works a lot and is busy as well.  so i'll be sure to post a picture or two of all of us in the next newsletter.

anthony and deni both arrived on separate flights late tuesday night.  anthony heads back to oregon sunday afternoon and deni heads back to colorado tuesday afternoon, so the visit is short lived but better than nothing!

the other news on a personal/farm note is that we had premature twins born to black eyed susie last saturday (4/26).  unfortunately the mom just left them and zach found them after one little nanny had already died.  he came running in the house to tell me and i threw my car harts on, as i was dressed to go out to dinner in an hour, and went up and scooped the remaining live baby up.  she was so listless and cold it was pathetic.  we gave her the required subcutaneous shots of dextrose and B complex.  when they are hypothermic you do not feed them, as their bodies cannot process food.  we brought her home and put her in a warming box for a few hours, milked the colostrum out of the mom and when she awoke she was able to drink a little out of the bottle.  it was touch and go for the first couple of days but zach was home and he spent a lot of time with her, exercising her legs.  she was also born with no teeth which meant she is 10-17 days premature and was probably about 4 pounds.  a full term kid weighs approximately 7 pounds and has 8 teeth.

this is zach holding her when we first got her warmed up

now she is thriving, running the house, her teeth have come in and she is doing well.  she won't go up on the farm for another week or two until she is good and strong and when the weather gets a little warmer, as now she is acclimated to the house temps.  i will put her in a stall with her mom just for the company and companionship but the mom will not take to her well most likely and will not let her nurse so we will be 'stuck' with the chore of bottle feeding for the next few months.  its tough at first because she needs to be fed every 4 hours right now.  oh well she is a little darling and i don't mind.  zach is charged with naming her since if it wasn't for him she would have died as well but as of today, he hasn't given her a name.

deni,cristin, and aster at the shop with the baby

kay gets to hold baby

thanks to our little friend beth gray, the shop now has a cat.  its supposed to be temporary and i don't know what gender it is, but it is friendly and has taken over the table.  he/she is laying on my calendar as i write this so eventually i will have to slide his/her big behind off of it so i can list upcoming events.  he was found at beth's house so anyone knowing of anyone with a lost big orange and white house cat, please let me know.  i don't really want a cat at this time but i don't want him/her in a shelter.

NEWS:

i have just been approved by ravelry to be a LYS who sells ravelry patterns here at the shop!  i'm excited about that.  haven't figured out the particulars but i will do that soon.

new yarns have arrived from pagewood farms including hand dyed velvet ribbons.  kim mcguire in her infinite wisdom made some gorgeous purses out of ellarae yarn - a very bulky wool that felts beautifully.  one skein did a nice sized purse.  so i ordered some of that as well and it is available here at the shop.  new colors of gina yarn have arrived as well.

pagewood fusion

pagewood hand dyed velvet ribbon with fat cat in the background

ok here is where i slide the cat off the calendar…..

may birthday wishes go out to melissa m on cinco de mayo (5/5), and sylvia e. on 5/14.  have a beautiful day ladies and come get your birthday certificate worth $5 off of your purchases.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

saturdays 5/3 and 5/10:  craftique fiber art group  10-12

thursday 5/8:  purlin girls at the bean noon

monday 5/12:  greensburg fiber art meet up group at panera 2:00

thursday 5/15:  class 2 of 2 for the embellished sweater

NO KA tuesday 5/13*

shop open fridays from 10-6

*i will be in kentucky a couple of days that week to take a class on the felt loom

NEW CLASS:

PIN WOVEN NECKLACE

wednesday june 11th 10-3 (break for lunch)

where:  dotty westerveld's (we can car pool)

$65

cost of class includes pattern, pins, board, and warp thread

see website for details

remember to check out the other classes coming up including tunisian crochet, felt sheep, felt flowers, felt landscape, and ez peezie pin cushions!

that's it for now ladies.  gotta run - everyone will be converging on me soon (happy happy joy joy!)

hope to see you soon!

mid april 2014

hey everyone
before i begin to blab, let me remind you that the shop is CLOSED THIS FRIDAY 4/18 DUE TO THE EASTER HOLIDAY.
although we had snow yesterday, i am almost certain that was the last cold blast and we are on our way to beautiful spring weather.  this has made me think of sheep (another new one born last sunday), pastures, flowers, etc and has prompted me to finally get classes scheduled, so here are the new upcoming classes:  as with all classes, pre-
registration and prepayment is necessary to hold your spot in the class.  for further details, check out the website at raggzfiberart.com

EZ PEEZIE PIN CUSHIONS

two tuesdays, may 20 and 27th 
10 to 12 at the shop
$25 includes all materials*
*no previous felting experience 
necessary

TUNISIAN CROCHET

also known as the afghan stitch, a simple 

stitch using a long crochet hook,creating 

a dense, heavier "fabric."

wednesday, may 21  1 to 3 at the shop

instructor:  sylvia elliott

$25

bring your own cotton yarn to make a

dish cloth or pot holder.  we have

enough of the 'needles' for students

to borrow for the class.

FELTED FLOWERS

this photo shows one type of flower prior to felting

after much clamoring for a felt flower 
 class, it has finally arrived! we will make several different flower types.

wednesday may 28  10 to 12 OR
                              1 to 3 at the shop
select either morning OR afternoon
$30 includes all materials*
*some wet felting experience is
necessary

FELTED LANDSCAPES

try your hand at making a wall hanging

landscape!
mondays june 9 AND june 19 
1 to 4 at the shop
includes all materials except stick
$50
*some wet felting experience is
necessary

the first class you will lay out and wet
felt your landscape.  for the second class,
we will be doing some hand embellishing.
start looking now for an interesting
stick to hang yours from!

FELT SHEEP!!!!!

ok folks this is it!  this is a sheep you 
knit, stitch together, then felt.  in 

this class you will learn some short
row shaping techniques.  the class is
THREE weeks:
wednesdays, june 25, july 2, and july 9
10 - 12 OR 1 - 3  select a.m. or p.m.
$35 and includes the pattern only
requires basic knitting skills - see website
for materials list

a 4th class, which is optional, will be 
added to do some additional needle 
felting to add curls to your sheep 
to make it more realistic.  the info on
this class will be announced after this 
class has been completed.


that's all i have scheduled for now.  phew it takes longer than you think!  but i have 'on deck' more classes coming up late summer, early fall including but not limited to:
felted gnome homes, a felted clock (YES a real clock), felt vessels, felt pumpkins in the fall, peg loom, arm knitting, pin weaving, and fixing simple knitting mistakes.  be sure to check the website at raggzfiberart.com for more details on the classes.  contact me via email or phone to register for a class.

WHAT'S NEW AT THE SHOP??

new improved bling bites from pagewood farm as well as loads of beautiful fibers from opulent fibers in oregon.  

new colors in brown sheep seconds (burly spun $9 caribbean waves, victorian pink, and periwinkle); worsted $3.50 pink, teal haze, autumn harvest, violet fields, supreme purple, red hot passion; bulky $3.50 lemon drop and christmas green.  

also some hand crafted wooden knitting needles made by a lady in lawrenceville.  the sizes i received are 17's, 35's and 50's but susan will be making me 19's and some smaller sizes as well.  these one-of-a-kind needles are certainly beautiful and i can wait to use some myself.  i posted this picture on Facebook and that day kay farabaugh came to the shop early enough to get first pick!

CLASS UPDATES

the felt cuff class was fun and i am never ceased to be amazed how students all start out similarly but end up with such different and unique end products.  also our embellished sweater class is ongoing - we all got started at our first class on april 10 and we meet again may 15 to put our rectangles together and learn how to embellish them.  pictures below in the 'gallery' of both classes.

FUNDRAISER

raggz is holding its first fundraiser.  sylvia elliott, a member of the craftique fiber arts group and the friday chubby knitters club (also the instructor for the tunisian crochet class) has a grandson who has played ultimate frisbee for 3 to 4 years and was recently asked to go to Atlanta to try out for the world team. This involved players from all over the U.S.A. and of 20 chosen, Scott was one of them. The next step is a week in Boston to train, then to Italy where 56 countries will compete for the world championship. Ultimate Frisbee is a fast moving and fun game to watch.To see how it is played go to ultimatefrisbee.com and somewhere there will be video of a game.

Scott is 18 and lives in Gibsonia with brother Kevin (also a player) Mom Nicola and step dad Mike.  Sylvia tells me he is a good student and hard working kid who is paying his own way, not only going to school but working several jobs to pay for it all.  mind you, NONE of the expenses are paid for by the organization - each person has to pay his own way in its entirety!

SOOOOOOOOO for the month of may and into june, i will have a silent auction of sorts set up here at the shop.  the auction items will all be fiber related and each item will have a sheet where you can bid.  of course to the highest bidder go the spoils.  i will be donating items and i am asking that anyone interested, please donate as well, to help scott pay for his trip to boston, then italy that he has worked so diligently towards.  the bidding will start may 2, so please let me know what you would like to donate.  the sheet will have the donors name on it and the value of the item as well.  i hope to get a lot of support for scott, as its so nice to see a young person who doesn't expect the mom and dad bank to pay his way.  please consider helping! 

i will be posting photos of the donated items on my Facebook page or you can come to the shop to see them in person (my preferred method).

now onto regular business…

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

wednesday 4/16  4-6 close knit girls meet at panera murrysville
friday, 4/18 SHOP CLOSED - GOOD FRIDAY
saturdays 4/19 and 26 craftique fiber arts group meets at craftique
tuesday, 4/22 shop open 1-6
thursday, 4/24 purlin girls meet at the bean 12-3
friday, 4/25 shop open 10-6

HAPPY MID TO LATE APRIL BIRTHDAYS TO:  jan l (4/21) and laura t (4/29).  have a great birthday ladies!

also don't forget i still have some hand made wooden yarn swifts.  these are a steal at $25 and come in very handy when you order yarn online and it arrives unwound.  

i have some very good news!  deni and anthony are coming for a visit (a short visit but i'll take it!) tuesday april 29.  they arrive around midnight at pittsburgh airport and i am so happy i could bust.  anthony is bringing along the bike he assembled for me and i am excited to learn how to ride again!  deni will also be here at the shop on friday, may 2 to visit with all of us so try to pop in to say hello.  its not often she gets to come here and i'm about over the moon with excitement so i'm not planning anything that week.  she leaves the following tuesday and unfortunately anthony has to leave sunday, as his band is going on tour.

well i hope i've covered everything so i'll close with wishing you all a blessed Easter and adding a few pix to the gallery below:

tom on his recently acquired 'new' tractor

the morning embellished sweater class (note monte getting special attention, as usual)

cuff class

cuff class

one of maia's cuffs

one of mary ann's cuffs

april fools day 2014

not only are buds sprouting, but our flock continues to sprout as well.  our newest kid was born march 29th on zachary's 30th birthday, so in his honor, her name is zinnia.   daffodil (aka daffy) is the mom, a goofy little tricolor, who's name suits her to a tee. dougie is her dad, a full blooded alpine with very long hair so black its almost purple!  she is our first nanny and her hair is black like daddy's.


 the other three kids born this year were all billies; both lambs were girls.  we think we only have one more nanny to go then we're done for this year. 

the little billy here tom named sluggo because he's so big!  boer goats are meat goats and are therefore much stockier.  he most likely weighed about ten pounds when born and has grown quickly.  although he's only two weeks older than the twins (below), he towers over them!

                                                                                               

the two billies to the right are portulaca's twin boys.  average birth weight is 7 pounds but they pale in comparison to sluggo.  haven't named these two as of yet.  portulaca is carmel colored, dad is dougie again but somehow she had a white one and a tricolor.




so i really do believe spring has actually sprung!  babies are born, crocuses are blooming, daffodil leaves are pushing up through the soil, maple syrup is all done, birds are singing, stink bugs are out (ugh).  i cooked up only 33 gallons of sap this year due to the erratic weather we had.  it has to be above freezing in the daytime and below freezing during the night for the sap to flow.  well it would flow for a few days then get bitter cold.  flow a few more days and get bitter cold.  i collected ten gallons early on but then nothing for a couple of weeks and sap goes bad after two weeks and it had to be dumped.  oh well at least i got just under a half gallon.  not bad for 9.5 hrs cooking time and weeks of trudging out to check the buckets and put empties out.  monte calculated it only cost about $50 a quart.  

WHAT'S NEW?

feza

feza yarns for starters.  i received some new colors in the alp premiere and alp dazzle, as well as candy deluxe, silk, ribbons, tokyo to name a few.  

i have also added frabjous fibers (roving and recycled sari ribbons) to the shop.

just arrived are some kauni yarns in everybody's favorite rainbow color way.  












before i forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES GO OUT TO:    lisa s 4/3;  susan b 4/4;  erin c 4/5; and our own purlin girls guru monte p. on 4/5!!!  have a sweet day ladies!  come to the shop to get your $5 off any purchase!

the 'real' monte

CLASS UPDATE

wow classes have been going great here at RaggZ.  connie and her friends had a private birthday party here making the felted lights.  the ladies did a great job and what a fun way to celebrate a friend's birthday - a private class, then lunch at a favorite restaurant!

nancy's finishing class went very well, as did part one of the felted cuff class.

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

wednesday  4/2 nancy's finishing class (room for one more student)*
wednesday 4/2 close knit girls meet in murrysville 4-6
tuesday 4/8 shop open 1-6
thursday  4/10 embellishment sweater class (room for one more in a.m. and p.m. class)*
thursday 4/10 purlin girls meet at the bean at noon
tuesday 4/15 and 4/29 EZ peezie pin cushions (only 2 have signed up -- this class may be cancelled)*
shop open fridays 10-6
*see website for details:  raggzfiberart.com

NEW CLASSES:

i've been busy trying to figure out what comes next.  plans are in the works for the following classes beginning end of april.
changing colors
felt sheep
bird pod
tunisian crochet
confident color two
fixing simple mistakes
boot socks
felted clock

however, due to my parking area finally getting enlarged, i will wait til the next newsletter to work out the details.  our contractor is going to work around fridays so the shop will not have to close so i will keep everyone updated on that situation.  but if in doubt, please call!


found an interesting article i think you would like:  http://www.treehugger.com/culture/dont-stop-knitting-its-keeping-you-healthy.html

MARCH DOOR PRIZE WINNER:  (DRUMROLL)……… MARLENE SMITH!!!

i've been busy finishing up my felt boot class and am getting ready to begin a nuno felted top.  i'm still getting my upstairs reorganized before i allow myself to have fun felting.  but i did finish my wonky felted clock.  

last friday we had a good time at the shop and our friend, donna stopped by sporting a new 'do and a puppy!

time to close now and i'll post just a few more pix below.  see you soon!

PHOTO GALLERY

fun times at the show!

dulcimer derek and my beautiful instrument!

spring!

i survived my first pgh knit and crochet show!  i may have brought more yarn home with me than i left with, but i'm sure that is not surprising to anyone.  i also brought home a nice head cold but as of today it's on the mend.

what fun the show was!  cathy rosensteel, betsy orr, sylvia elliott, ali and ardis mock were my helpers and i have to say it was a very positive and fun experience.  i could not have done it without their help.  we had two meetings prior to the show to put our heads together and it made a huge difference.  thanks so much ladies!

its hard to believe it took up a good three weeks of my time tho - two weeks getting ready and a week trying to get everything back together here at the shop.

i was pretty nervous about it at first, not knowing what to take or how to set it up but having emptied out the dining room and set  everything up in there made a huge difference.  my mind was racing all week making lists and running up and down the stairs.  it finally all clicked and i realized all of it was NOT going to fit in tom's truck so we both had to drive.  after that it was all downhill.  unfortunately i broke out in hives and was itchy all weekend - went through an entire tube of cortisone cream.  its not polite to be scratching when you're trying to talk to people about knitting, is it? 

while we were gone, portulaca gave birth to twin boys and buttercup had a boy the week before.  comcast has not been working properly for me the past week and i can't bring up any of the photos unfortunately but i'll make up for it next time.

i've been working diligently to get the shop back in order to re-open this friday.  i have really missed seeing everyone on my usual friday chubby knitters club.  so i figured since i had everything in total disarray, i may as well rearrange it all.  the shop will look very different next time you stop by, especially the porch and living and dining room.  the kitchen is pretty much the same except cleaner.

WHAT'S NEW YOU ASK??

while at the show, i opened two new yarn accounts.  i now have an account with blue heron yarns and also with a small studio called unexpected peacock (there's a story there somewhere).  both are beautiful yarns.  blue heron has been around a while and is well known; unexpected peacock is new and i am the first shop in pennsylvania so far to carry natasha's hand dyed yummy yarns.

i decided it was time to do spring cleaning in the yarn department and i now have a section where the yarns have a red line through the price and are all half off.  still adding to this but there's quite a variety - wool, linen, cotton, etc.  check it out next time you come over. 

UPCOMING CLASSES:

monday 3/24 jump ring bracelets (last call for this class) 1:00

wednesday 3/26 finishing class at 1:00

monday 3/31 felt cuff class 1 of 2 at the shop at 1:00

also don't forget the upcoming embellished sweater class (april 10 and may 15).  there's a morning and afternoon class and space for one or two in each.  

details for these classes can be found on my website

raggzfiberart.com

coming soon another boot sock class taught by sock nut laura mcguire.  these classes will be held on saturdays at laura's house.  details next month.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:

friday, march 28th jennifer le will be hosting a "Thirty-One" party here at the shop.  it will be extremely informal, with jen's products being displayed for the day.  no pressure - just check out the nice things they offer.  there are several knitting type bags with loads of pockets which can also be personalized.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

wednesday 3/19 close knit girls at panera murrysville

thursday 3/20 purlin girls at the bean and also the first day of spring!!!!

tuesday 3/25 knitters anonymous 1-6

fridays 3/21 and 3/28 shop open 10-6

last but not least, happy birthday wishes go out to:

diane p. on 3/21 (which happens to be my mom's birthday also) and kathy a. on 3/25.  have a wonderful day ladies!

sorry this is short and sweet with no wonderful pictures to share but hopefully comcast will have fixed my problem for my next newsletter.  i have missed you all and hope to see you soon!