I’m Knitting As Fast As I Can

Here are the remaining photos I’m willing to share from the whirlwind weekend. Actually, I’m only holding back one photo and Carole knows why. Naughty, naughty, Carole.

After I picked Terry and Kim up at the airport, I took them to The Red Iguana, a Mexican restaurant that’s a Salt Lake institution. I think I messed up by suggesting that Terry order a mole dish. It was a bit spicy by wimpy, east-coast standards but she was a good sport as she subtly wiped the sweat from her brow during the meal.

After lunch, we stopped off at Temple Square and wandered through the gardens and into the Tabernacle. Here’s Kim and Terry inside the Tabernacle plotting an infiltration of the Morman Tabernacle Choir.

Then, we met up with Carole and Margene at Black Sheep Wool Co. We cajoled Terry into modeling Anne Carroll Gilmour’s latest creation–a felted witch hat she designed just in time for Halloween.

Then Margene and Carole had a turn.

Think how awesome this hat would look worn on top of a Hallowig. You can order a copy of the pattern by calling the shop (801-487-9378). I know you want one. I got mine from Anne on Monday, together with a plastic cone to block the finished hat and the wire for the brim.

Here’s one of my favorite photos from the weekend — Kim modeling the original Bee Stole which now resides in Salt Lake with Anne, the proprietress of Wooly Wonka Fibers.

And one parting shot of most of the group, taken in the waning hours of the festival.

Last week was crazy. In addition to the usual chaos, Margene and I gave a presentation to the Salt Lake Knitting Guild one night and I taught the second installment of my Baby Surprise Jacket class another night. Alas, there was no rest for the weary this weekend. But since the weekend activities included out-of-town luminaries and a fiber festival, I’m not complaining.

I promise a proper post with details will find its way to this page later this week, but first I have to catch up on some emails, laundry, and storage issues *cough, cough.* So I’ll leave you with a photo of:

• Margene blogging me,
• Me blogging Carole,
• Carole blogging Teresa.

Yikes.

Welcome to the new blog!

I assume you got here from my old blog, which must mean you want to know who won the soap in my contest. Well, before I announce the winner I first want to thank everyone who left a comment with suggestions on how to set up the new blog. There were 190 comments, in fact! Yikes!!!

The most common suggestion was to move the text away from the left margin and eliminate the large amount of white space on the right of the screen. When I set up the blog back in the dark ages, most people did not have large computer monitors and that format was necessary to fit all the content on the page. Obviously, the posts on this new site are centered on the page and all the text should be viewable on all screen resolutions.

Although some people thought the font on the old blog was too large, far more liked it. I like the large font, too, so I have kept the larger font on this site.

Other common suggestions were to add a search function and a gallery of photos. Both were great ideas. I installed the search function and created the photo gallery–I just haven’t added any photos yet. Hey, it’s a work in progress.

I got a fantastic suggestion from Polly who thought a drop-down menu for the archives would be nice. Brilliant! I added the widget immediately and you can see it on the sidebar. Unfortunately, not all my old posts survived WordPress’ automatic import feature so I’ll be working on adding them manually.

OK, enough chatter; let’s get to the real reason you’re here. The winner of the Blessed Juno, Hand Knit soap and the warshcloth was Stephanie whose name was chosen at random. Congrats, Stephanie, I think you’ll really love the soap.

I still have a few things to tidy up on this site, but I’ll be posting here from now on. I’m also still trying to figure out how to move all my Bloglines subscriptions to this new URL. A techie, I am not. For now, though, you can click here to subscribe individually with Bloglines. And as an incentive, next week I plan to post a free seriatim pattern as a welcome-to-my-new-home prezzie to all of you. I may even share my fool-proof method of Kitchenering sock toes via photos if I can get my Kitchener-challenged friend to help me with the photos on Saturday.

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And just because I can’t possibly have a post with no photos, here are some Fun Fur hats I made this past week for Kate.