Good morning knitting friends,
We had an unbelievable day yesterday at the store. Everything you see in this picture I took last week has been sold. These black shelves are empty. The big Golden Retriever puppet, ball winder, swift sold all gone to new homes. I had 34 sales slips to record, A lot of puppets and other gifts in addition to yarn. I was there till 6:30 recording the sales and closing down. This task usually only takes me 15-20 minutes instead on an hour and a half. The snow was almost 4 inches deep by the time I left the store. There was no snow when I arrived, With more snow moving in today, we may not see as many knitters driving 50 miles or more to come to our sale. I am hoping to have some local knitters show up to take away more yarn.

Some of the people that came yesterday are coming back to just sit and knit. They enjoyed the excitement of the knitters planning projects and everyone seemed to be helping each other plan projects. With so much creative juice flowing it was an exciting place to spend the afternoon. There is still so much yarn left. It seems to expand to fill in spaces that open up.

With all the blowing snow I was happy to only have to drive a few blocks to get home. I can see the courthouse dome from my house in the winter and hear the bell ring out the time. It is a good way to keep track of the time when I am working in the garden. I just read my knitu email this morning and found this letter about fixing holes in sweaters. It would be a great way for me to close a couple moth holes I have in a off my cream colored cashmere sweater that I just love. My only problem is that I do not own any felting needles. I sold them at the store but since I did not need them I did not bother to take any home for myself. I will place another order with notions Marketing on monday and get some felting needles for myself. If anyone reading this wants anything else needles, books, or whatever I would be happy to add your order to mine. This may be the last time Notions will let me order. The sales rep said they will not sell to me once my retail store closes. I have to build a web page with shopping cart and reapply for an internet account. Since I do not plan to be doing a big internet business I may not bother to get set up with a new account.


Hi Knitters:
I'm glad to hear that Colgate toothpaste is such
a good stain remover. It will be added to the arsenal.
I have used hairspray as a solvent for ink, and then
detergent to get rid of the hairspray.
At the last Knitting Guild meeting a knitter
brought her husband's favorite (storebought)
knitted hoodie which had a hole in the middle
of the front, by the zipper. Very visible.
The yarn store owner (and host of our knitting guild)
used a felting kit--centred the hole on the bristle
brush, right side up, and a piece of matching wool yarn,
and then pounded it with the sharp needle tool. She did
it a few times to make sure all the edges were tucked in,
trimmed the resulting fuzz from the inside, and VOILA!!
It was cured!! Invisible mending! She said it would probably
only work with wool. Possibly wouldn't be as invisible in
a light colour. We were amazed and delighted. We are all
searching through our collection of sweaters, looking for
holes to mend.
Marlyce in Windsor, Ontario