WEBS-phenomenon

Lately things have been crazy busy round the yarn store….

The kick-off to the busy season was my trip to Stitches South, which was a little slow but fun none-the-less. The most eventful news I have to report was the lovely lace yarn I stashed from the Sanguine Gryphon and the lovely Merletto mitts I was knitting while I was there (photo forthcoming).



Fuschia skein
name: Gaia lace
fiber content: 2 ply silk cashmere lace
color: view from the mountain

Black/blue/purple variegation
name: Sappho (of course)
fiber content: 2ply merino
color: brings back the sheep

The main source of wildness has been our 35th anniversary sale, which has spanned both April and May. However, it was really only preparation for the maddening weekend of the tent sale, which was last weekend. I have no photographic evidence of the lines or the mess or the free yarn scramble, but the WEBS blog is pretty good at all that.

In the aftermath of the sale I am sitting with my feet up considering the madness that is the yarn business and considering what a stress I’ve let my little hobby-turned-obsession become. What was once a reprieve and a fascination has become less than lighthearted. I fear that I have let my stash grow fangs and projects are piling up a little scarily.

Ultimately, I do not want to become a grocery cart lady. Meaning, I do not want to be the kind of shopper that compulsively buys yarn without intended purpose or time in which to use it. I want to leave my options open for further inspiration without burying it in stash yarn. Would it be so outlandish to use the yarn I have and only buy when I need more (yes). I may have to impose a yarn diet. Sigh.

Prepare yourself for a WIP intervention post. It’s time to air the dirty laundry…

I will finish with a couple of photos from Stitches South...we do have a good time on the road....

Backed Up Blogging

Okay, the busier it gets the more there is to blog about, the less time there is to blog at all. Therefore I am aggressively attempting to catch up on back-blogging. Expect to see multiple postings!...



A few Sundays ago I hosted a spinning/knitting brunch with some of the retail staff from WEBS. I would call it a wild success. My new and fairly spacious apartment was packed with ladies and amazing food and spinning wheels. I’m not sure there is a better Sunday afternoon that I could conceive of.





KT brought organic bacon and lemon poppy seed French toast. I made eggs and fried potatoes with a three seed sauce which I improvised from another recipe. Deb made homemade salsa. We had fresh bread from local bakeries, mimosas, coffee, homemade pastries galore. I tried to get a picture that gave a sense of the magnitude of food we had on our hands, but I fear it doesn’t give it justice.





Honestly, breakfast took the majority of the allotted time we originally allowed for the brunch. But we stayed late to get a good amount of fiber arts in. KT generously allowed me to use her wheel which was my first foray into spinning. (In the spirit of full disclosure I did host this brunch with the ulterior motive of learning to spin from my cohorts.) Most of my fellow colleagues learned to spin from one of our resident spinners a couple months ago and I have been dying to get in on it. The staff has spinning fever, half the girls have ordered wheels and I have yet to get the drop spindle going. They very patiently let me mangle some roving before getting down to business.

We hope to make this a regular event and I dare say that everyone had as much fun as I did. I snapped a couple of rudimentary photos while we were preparing food just for blogging’s sake. Now that I’m finally getting around to posting this, I think we’re due for another!