Today is my Monday

It's Tuesday and I am still sitting in my jammies trying to find strength to go get ready for work!  It's going to be a short week and my list is long. 
This year, I'm not cooking Thanksgiving dinner though, I am sooo thankful for daughters, but have to rustle up a pecan pie and some home made rolls, which I accomplished half that yesterday and tonight, will have to make the pie.  Not sure how well pie will travel with a dog in the back seat together....I guess we will see!
Finally posted our Holiday Hours on the web site:  http://www.mulberrycreek.net/
While your there, check out some great gift ideas!

Finished my mohair sweater yesterday.  I have it on this morning....hehe   but as I am drinking my coffee, I realize it's just mo-hair in my coffee!  It's snuggly warm though, might have to wear it today or tomorrow at the shop!  It needs a button or two or a shawl pin.  Not sure how Im going to wear it.  Ill get a pic of it today and post soon.
Now to finish up my Christmas knitting and a couple of requests from family members, and wondering how I'm going to get all 51 squares done for the Lands End/Warm Up America Project.   I have quit a few balls of yarn out for that...Im sure my knitting/crochet group will come thru for me !  Also , slippers for a group home in Oklahoma, need 35 slippers in all sizes is needed!  Im thinking next year only one charity project?  Or just start early?  I think Ill grab a few balls and see what I can get done on our trip this weekend.
And just when was I going to get to work on my Master Knitters Level 1???????
Oh, but I have the best job in the world!  Im not getting rich, (yet), but the people I meet, and the friends I have made through the yarn shop and not to mention the yarn I get to play with !  I thank God for the opportunity to get to do what I am doing.  And I am thankful for my husband , who supports everything I do!! 
I now have an hour to get ready to open the shop, but I can now cross blogging and updating the  website from my list!
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!

May 1 Mulberry Creek Quilt and Yarn Shop recieved water damage from a bursting water heater from the upstairs apartment.  Some of the yarn that was damaged was the cotton.  I think I had counted 90 some skeins of kitchen cotton that was totally water logged.  I can't throw out any kind of yarn and one of our group knitters said, I will help you wash it up we can knit with it and donate to charity.  So , that is what we did.  Someone said, stuff the skein in a sock and wash it, and that worked really well.  I did a whole load of yarn with my hubby's socks getting several skeins in one sock.  Took forever to dry though!  Then, it all got rolled into balls and thrown into the double washtubs it was orinially in in the first place. 

We knitted all summer making dish cloths and some made hot pads in different shapes and sizes and one even made kitchen towels with loop and button to hang it from. Another gal knitted a square with " I love knitting with my friends " on it..well, I had to frame that one to keep in the shop!  I counted about 75 dishclothes and towels and took them down to Eagles Nest, a not for profit organization to mainly to help woman and families in crises.  Great job ladies and thank you very much!

Sundae Hat

I knit this great earflap hat in one evening!  Berroco pattern from the pattern booklet for Sundae Yarn.  I hadn't knit anything with Sundae yet, so it was a nice project for this yarn. 

Still on the needles :  I started a cardigan with Drifting Gardens a mohair blend on size 13 needles is going rather quickly! 

I also started a cable band hat for a customer, turns out she has a small head and I need to measure her head before I can continue. 

AND a sock that is nearly ready for the short row heal that is STILL waiting for me!

Speaking of socks, the weather has turned on us and have been wearing my hand knit socks everyday! 

Today I had 4 gals show up to learn to knit this afternoon!  I think a couple of them already knew how to knit, just hadn't done if for years...just needed to remember how to cast on and they were off and running!  Just like riding a bike, right?  I invited them to Group tomorrow if they needed help.  I also had a class Monday evening with 4 eager learners and all did great!  Even the lefty picked it right up!  That always makes me happy!!

It pretty much rained all day today and I just wanted to curl up and knit somewhere...like on my sofa, but haveing a table full of new knitters was just as nice!

Happy Knitting!

Busy Week

Last Tuesday, when I walked into the shop, I knew it was time to start the Christmas transition. 
I dug out the Christmas Inventory and the decorations.  They are all over the back room, covering the tables and floor.  I opened the room where we keep the christmas trees, which had just kinda been tossed in when we were cleaning up after the flooding we recieved on May 1st ,(due to the upstairs apartments water heater blowing up and ran water into our ceiling all night, that caused the ceiling to collapse all over our main rooms inventory), and Trish decided she wanted to use that space to expand her fabric space.  SO, before we knew it, we had the entire shop in disarray!
We moved our sitting area the main room, leaving the cutting table in it's place and nothing left but the notions hanging on the wall.  Knitting notions to the north and quilting notions on the south. 
Now every bit of the yarn is in the north room, all the fabric is in the south 2 rooms.  Maybe it looks a bit more organized and maybe less confusing as you know, if you yarn, you go north, if you quilt, you go south...me explaining it just makes you confused , I know!
So, it took the entire week to re arrange and christmas still isn't out...maybe just a little bit.  After the last knitter left on Saturday, I stayed 2 more hours working on getting some of my Christmas inventory out and I guess there is always next week!  I will post pics of the shop when we are completely done! 

Tomorrow, I drive to Hutchison to Yarn (the store), where they have so graciously invited the shops participating in the Shop Hop, to come for lunch for an "after" meeting.  Im excited to meet the other shop owners!  Im a little nervous about the drive, as I don't do traffic well!  Im sure Ill be fine!  Then, Monday evening is our Learn to Knit Class.  It will be a long day, but worthwhile! 
Next Saturday November 13th is a stitch class where I will attempt to make a Dream Pillow, actually 2, for a couple of gdaughters for Christmas.  Not to worry, I WILL post pictures!

Knitting:
I finished a scarf I was knitting with the Jawoll Magic, not really happy with it, but it's done.
Today, I cast on for a cardigan with Drifting Gardens, a mohair blend.
I recieved a hat order, and I cast on for that one, but I need to measure her head as the band is knit first, in a cable pattern, before I can continue. She has a small head and I need to get it the right size for her!
I asked my mom to help me knit for shop displays and she's still working on a candy corn hat......sigh....well, Ill be up one next season!! 

Also, our knitting group is working on 2 charity projects:
Warm Up America/Lands End Feel Good Project.....I think we have 6 finished squares out of 51 needed.

Slate Valley Babtist Church is collecting things for a group of kids in Muskogee, Okla.  They asked us to turn out 35 or as many as we can, house slippers.   Better get busy!!