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.

Shop Updates!

Several of you wrote to us last week to let us know that our discount page was a little, eh - messed up to say the least. Thank you so much! Often times we don't realize that something is amiss until one of you lets us know. We have some new stuff and some updates for you so - here it goes!

- The Discount Page has been fixed and there is now a bunch of new stuff on it.

- The Yarn Bowl Page has several new bowls on it but they have been going fast!

- Cauldron is now up on the website - 80/10/10 SW Merino/Cashmere/Nylon

- Esoterica is now up on the website as well - 70/20/10 Merino/Silk/Cashmere - this was a VERY popular yarn at SAFF so we will be updating quantities soon as they are getting low

- We should have some new spindle bowls up on the site in the next 3-4 weeks or so

- If you have ordered a custom bowl from us we should be starting work on those this week now that Wayne is starting to feel like a normal human being again

If anything seems wonky on the website please let us know. Thanks!!

Never a dull moment

There really is never a dull moment around here. This is good because it keeps you all supplied with good, interesting (well, interesting might be a stretch) blog reading. Thursday morning at about 3AM Petey started barking like CRAZY. This is extremely unusual for him. Generally, when it is time for him to go to bed - that's it - he's down. He does not want to be talked to, petted, let out, get excited about anything, fed, nothing. We get up at around 6 or 7 - Petey gets up at about 9 or 10.

He was just going on and on and on so we got up, Wayne went downstairs to see what the ruckus was and I looked out of the upstairs window. I didn't see anything and Wayne didn't see anything either. When he let Petey out Petey got this really defensive posture, started growling and barking and all of his hackles were up. Still, we didn't see anything.

Later that morning when we got up we went outside to find this:



Bears LOVE birdseed. All 3 of our feeders were smashed to bits and one of them had been carried out to the driveway. Thank goodness there was no damage to our car! Let that be a lesson for us to remember to close the shed doors at night too. If a bear went in there looking for food they could really cause a mess and a lot of damage to Wayne's tools and such out there.

This is the hook that one of the bird feeders was hanging on. It has been pulled almost straight. It's a little out of focus but you get the idea. Obviously, this is not a opossum we are talking about here!



This was something large. Like bear-sized large. There were also some rather large teeth marks in one of the feeders. The people who live behind us up on the mountain have been complaining about nuisance bears off and on. The funny thing is that Liz and I were having this conversation just this past weekend about when we thought we might see a bear on one of our properties. I told her that I bet it would be pretty soon.

So I guess it will be a while before we put our birdfeeders back up as we don't want to attract them here by any means. This is why we bring our cats in at night! Petey knows what he is talking about!

Have a great weekend!!!

S.E.X. at SAFF???

So, I'm sure you are all wondering if I participated in any S.E.X. during SAFF. Why yes, yes I did. Not too much because we were so busy but I did manage to squeeze in a couple of things. I had really wanted to go visit the Knitting Notions booth and pick up a few things and I was planning to do that on Sunday. However, since Mr. Man got sick I really didn't leave the booth too much that day.

First up - Bugga!!! Gryphon was kind enough to trade me a skein of Bugga! for a yarn bowl. I picked "Blue Lobster" - you know I am such a sucker for blues! The picture has been shamelessly swiped from Gryphon's website but I don't think she will mind too much since I am giving the the address to go over there and shop HERE. However, poor Gryphon never seems to sell anything so she never has any Bugga! on her site for you to buy.

Here's a cute story for you. On Thursday when we were setting up Gryphon and Kate (of Dragonfly Fibers) needed some help setting up their booth. We were happy to help so Wayne, Katey and I went over there and helped them to get everything all set up. Katey went over first and as a joke I gave her one of our shopping bags (that has Knit Witch and our logo printed on it) and told her to tell Gryphon to hang this up in their booth. It was a joke of course.

Wayne and I went over there and we joked with them about the bag and I started to get it and take it back to our booth. Gryphon was like "Oh no you don't! We are keeping that here!". Ummmm - why? She then took the bag and wrote in big purple letters on it "WE LOVE KNIT WITCH AND HER SEXY MAN!" and then proceeded to hang it up in the booth. It was hilarious. I don't know why no one seemed to think about getting a picture of this.

So, the bag stayed and people actually came to our booth looking for "my sexy man". Of course, Wayne hated this - poor thing. They left that bag up there all weekend. On Sunday I went over there and I told them that some day, when they hit it big like Knit Witch and have their very own printed bags that I would return the favor and hang one of their bags up in our booth. This was, of course, hilarious because I don't think there is a knitter anywhere who does not know about Sanguine Grypon and her scrumptious yarns and why she sells out of stuff as soon as she puts it up on the site!

On Saturday night there were drawings for all kinds of prizes at the Fiber In at the Holiday Inn. The first prize up for a win was a Knit Witch yarn bowl! Guess who won?? ME! How ironic, right? I was allowed to choose another prize - so all quick like before it got snapped up - I grabbed the lone skein of Miss Babs yarn that was present - YAY! I got a skein of Yummy in colorway Crazy S. I had to actually take this picture because I didn't see one to snag off of Miss Babs website darnit.

SAFF - Day 2

First of all - a shop annoucement - Some of you have written to me and let me know that there are some problems with the discount page on our website. Thank you SO MUCH for letting me know. I updated the page yesterday with lots more goodies but I can clearly see that there are issues with the page. I feel certain that this is because I tried to update it myself since my poor hubby is still sick. So, as soon as he is up and among the living a little later this morning I will see if he can help me get it straightened out. In the meantime - if there is something on there that you are interested in please email me and I can invoice you directly - that way your stuff won't get sold once the page gets back up and running properly.

Now............back to your regularly scheduled SAFF post:

Saturday was a lot of fun!! I was actually surprised that Saturday was not as busy as I was expecting it to be. It seemed like Friday was much busier which I find a little unusual for one of these shows. The other vendors agreed. But, we still had a great day and had a little time to have fun too so that is always nice!

Saturday night Wayne and I were going to get together with Hockeymom and Hockeydad for dinner. That is 4 people, right? Well, we ended up with about 30 people there by the time it was all said and done! Ironically, we didn't go to the Asiana dinner because we wanted to opt for a smaller scale dinner instead!!! Silly us. We had a BLAST at dinner.

Isn't that picture of Gryphon awesome?? I think she should use that picture on all of her yarn labels from now on.

The highlight of the night was definitely telling the staff that it was Gryphon's birthday (which it was not) and watching that whole thing go down. Here's how my conversation with Katey went:

Katey: We are going to tell the wait staff that it is Gryphon's birthday

Me: OK - great!

Katey: Think we should do it?

Me: ??? Well.......yeah?

Katey: Gives me weird look

Me: I mean, if you are sure it is her birthday and all.

Katey: Smiling - No - we are sure that it ISN'T her birthday!!

Me: lightbulb goes off - OHHHHHHHHH - Then YES, in that case, you should definitely do it!

It was awesome! That girl is hilarious and such a great sport!

I even got to wear my new February Lady Sweater! This is JP and I.


Here is a shot of me and Mr. Man - right before he started feeling like death warmed over.

Seriously, I have no idea how I went the entire weekend without a single picture of Cristi!!!

SAFF - Day 1

On Friday the market opened finally! We were actually REALLY busy on Friday so that was great! Cristi helped us in our booth and unbelievably, we didn't get any pictures of her even though we spent an entire 3 days with her - we didn't get any pictures of her! What's up with that? Two bloggers - no pictures - go figure.

Here's a couple of shots of the market.

And a sneak shot of Jen and Miss Babs. We had a bird's eye view of the Miss Babs booth all weekend!

Fatimah stopped by to show off her socks she made out of our Orion colorway.

Later that night we went to the "fiber-in" at the Holiday Inn after Mr. Man and I snuck away for some yummy Thai food! It was a lot of fun and we met some great people! Thanks so much to Carrie and her mom for putting this great together!

There were lots of prizes donated and my number was the first one called! Guess what I won? A Knit Witch yarn bowl! Hahaha! They were nice and let me have the next prize down on the list - some Miss Babs yarn! Woo hooo!!!! I'll have to get a picture of it later for you. At the bottom of the picture it is the second skein from the right.