Where Hands Create.

Today is another beautiful day - the kind where you simply cannot help but smile!  I have been traveling a good bit - and the best thing to do when you travel is actually look at another person and smile.  The fun is that more often than not they are shocked, then eventually smile.  However, the best is when you smile just for yourself and it brightens your own day. 


Today the weather is awesome - sunshine all around and small early harbingers of Spring are visible here and there. How can you not smile when you see daffodils along a fence line?


Cats always make me smile - and mine really do ham it up a good bit.   Here is Laurel looking so royal as she perfectly sits on my Calorimetry headband....  Just prior she had been "meatloafed" on top of it - and you know she had a cat smile.


Then there is Noro!  Yesterday we were sewing together our Scarves to Throws from last year - and Peggy let us borrow her finished masterpiece to provide inspiration!  Doesn't Noro look great on Peggy's throw?!  Peggy, I know you are smiling!


Then how about some of our great customers/friends who have finished projects?!   This is truly one of the best things of being a knit shop owner - seeing happy customers who have great looking finished projects!  The projects are first for both ladies - a first felted bag and a first garment!


For me - I love to finish projects - especially when they are great looking.  During Ravelympics able to finish three projects - only two of which are suitable for sharing.  The other project (Jolly Green Giant Mobius) was so so unattractive that we opted to not share via photos, but Mom and I had a tremendous amount of laughter as it was cast off the needles.   Just think green, fuzzy, and ugly - and you will have the vision. 

The first project I finished was a Kumara scarf in gorgeous Thai purple; makes me feel a bit Austin Powers! 


My second project was also in purple - but this time light purple (Purple Poem) for a very summery scarf in Creamy (80% milk protein) yarn.  This is a great free pattern - Whipped - that can be downloaded from Ravelry.  Just needs 400 yards of fingering weight yarn.