Do you live in Charlotte?

If you do, you might go to Charlotte Yarn soon and see this:

I just shipped off a nice big box of lace for Charlotte yarn on Monday. I think some of these colors turned out beautifully!!! Hopefully they will have it out and ready for you to purchase soon. The yarn is Mystical World (80/20 Merino/Silk) in a lace weight yarn.

I started a little something yesterday.

This is Girl Friday. That is the back. So far, I have completed the 4 inches of (just shoot me) 1x1 ribbing and the first pattern repeat. I am very pleased with the pattern thus far. I actually saw this sweater on the designer at SAFF and ironically, I had just printed it out the day before! I have opted to not do buttons for the closure but to use a shawl pin instead. I ordered a gorgeous shawl pin off of Etsy today so I'll show you some pictures when it gets here.

I am modifying it just a bit since I am using a DK weight yarn instead of a worsted weight. I am doing the width size for large but the height size for medium so we'll see how that works out! I didn't want to use needles that were too big in order to get gauge so I'm going to knit a little bit of a bigger size. Sounds good in theory, right?

The yarn is Knit Witch Ancient World in colorway Apollo. I thought about going with Diana for the colorway but I really love this browny-gold color!

Correction on Esoterica yarn!

I just realized an error on my labels for the Esoterica yarn. If you have this yarn, you purchased it from me at SAFF. I am so sorry about this error. The label reads:

70/20/10 Merino/Silk/Cashmere

What it should ACTUALLY read is:

70/20/10 Baby Alpaca/Silk/Cashmere

I am so sorry for the confusion!!

Knitch!!

One of the other stops we were able to make on our Atlanta trip was to the brand new Knitch location in Virginia Highlands!

I love the new spot, it is a perfect location with actual parking even! The new shop has lots of light to show off their beautiful yarns. I love how they even have a chalkboard in the meeting area - Brilliant!

One of the best things about Knitch, from Wayne's point of view anyway, is that Knitch is now located right across the street from Wayne's most favorite woodworking shop - Highland Hardware. I know Kim and the Knitch team moved here just to make all the knitting husbands happy!! :)

A visit to Georgia Tech

Finally! We were finally able to coordinate schedules with Nathan and go visit him at Georgia Tech. I suppose I can stop feeling like a horrible mother now.

The campus is HUGE but we were finally able to make it over to the dorm.

See how spacious it is? I have no idea why he keeps coming back to Kennesaw every weekend......haha!

We took a little tour of the campus and rode the trolly. We made our way to the bookstore and bought some t-shirts!

We had a really fun time with Nathan even though we weren't able to stay very long. We didn't get to meet Nathan's roomate unfortunately but I was glad to see that he is at least much neater than Nathan. Maybe his habits of actually folding clothes will rub off on Nathan!

Atlanta Knitting Guild

I gotta tell you, we had a GREAT time last night at the Atlanta Knitting Guild! There were probably 100 people there and they are SO INVOLVED in so many projects in the community it was really inspirational to see! You can read more about their charity giving HERE. Everyone was so nice and seemed genuinely happy that we had come to speak. I always enjoy telling our "Knit Witch" story!

We did a lot of stuff while we were in Atlanta yesterday. Each time we go down there it seems that our day is just packed with all kinds of stuff! I'll tell you about more of it next week.

Have a great weekend! Tomorrow we are going to the Toccoa River Cleanup here in town - I hope we don't freeze!

New Stuff

Anyone know what these are going to be???? All guesses accepted!

Taking our show on the road again......

First of all - DAD!!!! If you are out there - why aren't you returning our phone calls????? Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......................

OK..............back to the blog.

Tomorrow morning we will be leaving out bright and early to go to Atlanta for the day. We have LOTS of fun stuff planned like going to see the brand new Knitch in midtown!!! I am really looking forward to this! And, apparently, the new shop is across the street from the big Ace Hardware in midtown (the one that has like every wood working tool known to man in it) so my husband is really excited too!

We will also be doing a couple of other fun things and then we are going to speak to the Atlanta Knitting Guild tomorrow evening! This will be a lot of fun. Even though I am a member I have never actually been to a meeting! So, I'm looking forward to that. I need to get my speech all finalized today - nothing like waiting to the last minute to get things done, right?

I hope that if you are in the Atlanta area you will come visit us at the guild meeting tomorrow night. We will have some of our yarns and bowls as examples of our work so you will be able to do some touching and feeling of our products before you buy them! You can find the meeting time and place information on the Atlanta Knitting Guild website.