Bring it ON!

Just try to imagine with me the cooler temps, the rain, the cool autumn breezes.  Leaves falling and how the wind blows them around in swirls and the sound of dry leaves underfoot as you walk down the street!
Needing your jacket for the first time after several long hot months is a favorite memory as well and thinking about what projects I might need to knit up for the long winter ahead for friends and family and myself!
As the new fall yarns start to trickle in, I start to think of these things.  My first project  was Link, a new yarn from Berroco.  It requires a size 35 needle, which I now carry in the shop.  It was so fun to knit that first scarf and I would say it took maybe an hour to knit?  There is a scarf pattern included on the label of Link, but Berroco put out a cowl and a hat pattern on their website at www.berroco.com.  You can also sign up for Free Patterns, with a pattern in your inbox every Friday!
I was at my daughters this weekend and couldn't wait to show off the scarf...looking at my size 35's , she asked to use them while I was there and she used worsted weight yarn to knit a scarf, with 2 strands held together, and then I taught her how to do the 3 needle bind off to hook the two ends together, making it sort of a cowl, so she could wrap it around her neck twice.  It was completed in several hours.  Her sister was so jealous, she used the rest of the yarn to knit herself one too! She knit her scarf in one sitting, while we were sitting outside watching the kids play in the homemade water slide!
My husband makes fun of me for having a one track mind.  I am always thinking about the yarn shop.  I'm not sure I know how to talk about anything else...  I found a shelving unit that stacks in graduated sizes, at a yard sale, while we were out of town.  Perfect for yarn and the shop!  I also went to an antique store and looked for ways to display handmade items, not to much luck there.  But I am always looking!  I am expecting a big shipment of new yarns Sept. 1 and I have to be ready!!

We have been at 601 Main, Winfield, KS for 1 month now!  Still waiting for a sign, but looking for ways to advertise the store in the way of yarn bombing objects located in the front of the store.  A post for one and most recently the street sign.  I am having way to much fun! I am hopeing yarn bombing will catch on and our town will be decorated with lovely yarns to promote the love of it!
So bring on the new fall yarns and the weather that soon follow!  I am ready!!

I'm happy to report we made it through the first week at 601 Main!  We certainly more busy than I thought we would be and even several first timers in the shop as well! 
The tempurature outside still isn't where I would like it to be and we are figuring out ways to keep it cool inside as the air conditioner still isn't keeping up.  And maybe because it's just so darn hot!
Our sign person hasn't appeared with our new signage yet, but using our old metal sign from east 9th, it will work until we get the real thing.  The windows are darkly tinted, so can't really put anything in the window that says yarn or quilt....my hubby is making me a sidewalk sign out of two write and wipe boards to put on the sidewalk too, so that will help.

iYarn is INTOXICATING!

It's still amazing too, the people that are walking through the front door looking for a liquer store. Saturday was our first Knit Day since the move and one of our knit friends brought in some of her stash in 2 6 packs!  What a hoot!

Amost forgot, the results of the fair knitting and I forgot to take pics of everything....I'll do that next week.  Displayed at the shop and I blog at home.....when Im not so distracted! lol
Now that the fair is over, I can turn my thoughts toward the shop hop and it will be here before I know it!  New products should start arriving in the store any time now!  The fun part will be trying to figure out where to put it all!
Besides some fun new yarns, due to arrive soon is a lotion bar called Lavishea, in Citris Basil, Cucumber Melon , Lavender and one called the Yarn Bar.  I tried these lotion bars a few years back and I absolutely loved them and I think you will too!  They make a great addition to a gift or great for traveling and keeping in your purse or knitting bag!

One more thing before I go, I wanted to share my first yarn bomb at the new place.  There is an ugly leaning iron post our front in the street that was screaming for a knitted koozy thingy...more are planned, but I might need some help!  We have a light post, street sign and a fire hydrant!

Say what you must, but I think it's adorable!  I just hope I don't get arrested!

I only type to give my hands a break from knitting.  I started 2 new projects.  One is a shrug and I am using AslanTrends chunky yarn and a cowl using a new color, (in the shop soon), which is a soft shade of lime in the Lustra yarn, which I was itching to knit something for the shop.  It is so soft and shiny and will will make the leaf pattern I am using look awesome!

My knitting misses me....later!!