Crazy for Ewe

The shop is brimming with exactly what you want to knit and need to wear right now - lots of fresh spring produce!  I'm especially excited that we've finally received our big order from Manos del Uruguay in all the fibers and colors you crave.  We still have the trunk show, and I'm going to do a Facebook Live event as we open each box and see all the new lovelies!  It's all my effort to lure you to the more

It's cold and rainy outside my window, but that's okay because I know spring is not far off.  I bought two big bunches of tulips today because I am hungry for spring and everything that is fresh and new and happy.  As a friend reminded me, it is time for me to put on color.  It is time for the whole earth to put on color, and what a show of colors we have for spring!

Spring knitting is my favorite because it's plenty cold, so I can still knit with and wear wool, but I get to play with those beautiful refreshing colors of spring.  After 

I've spent the past few weeks handling all the things that need handling when someone you love passes away.  The big things, like the funeral, are hard because it is all so raw, but, they are also easy because wonderful and caring professionals who deal with this all the time are on hand to help.  It's all the little things that have to be done.  It's the dozens and dozens of tiny tasks, more

Going through my mom's boxes looking for pictures to use for her service, I found all kinds of treasures she'd saved -- from letters of my misery at summer camp to scrawling drawings I'd done.  Even then it was clear that my talents were verbal rather than artistic.  Despite her encouragement and indulgence with all manner of media, I simply never progressed past stick figures and their landscape equivalent.  That's okay, because drawing was never my interest -- I only drew things more

Thank you to everyone for your support to me during this very difficult time.  Thank you for understanding the missed newsletters and the postponed classes.  And thank you for your cards, thoughts, prayers, and presence.  As most of you know, my mom was admitted to the hospital on January 31st, and released to Hospice House February 9th where she entered into eternal life more

Browsing the internet, there is no end to the click-bait with promises of titillating news about this or that celebrity, adorable images of baby animals, and quizzes to test your knowledge of the arcane.  I've been known to click on them more

Last week I posted this picture of the Crazy for Ewe team at our weekly meeting.  It's so wonderful and inspiring to get together with these amazing women and plan all the fun things for the shop.  Here we are, four very different women, each with our own strengths and weaknesses.  It is exactly those differences that make it a powerful more

Tomorrow's Fast and Fabulous project is this cute headband from Blue Sky Alpaca.  Our version is worked with one skein of cozy Berroco Quechua (pronounced Catch-ooo--Waa and rhymes with betch-you-saw).  it's a great little piece to keep your ears warm without messing more

The other day I was in Kelly's Yoga Barre class at SPICE.  At the end of class, after stretching, we all lie down and close our eyes for shavasana, or corpse pose.  Aptly named, because after Kelly's classes, I am pretty much dead.  Kidding, not kidding.  Anyway, while we lie there, awake but fully relaxed, Kelly gives us some gentle suggestions on how to breathe and how to focus.  The other day she said, "Notice, without judgment, more

Our featured yarn this week is Berroco Quechua, a beautiful sport weight blend of merino, baby alpaca, and yak.  It's a lightweight fabric with a soft 2-ply construction that shows off your stitches without being heavy.  It would make a great Featherweight Cardigan, or a stunning shawl, such as Lockett.  Designed especially for two colors of Quechua, Lockett features a fun shell more

We had a wonderful time with Christine Forester of Aalta Yarn on Saturday.  She brought tons of beautiful samples to show us, including the Easy Folded Poncho from Churchmouse which highlights Aalta Truth's beautiful soft drape. Truth is a more