one fine day

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of going to a Ravelry party at Artisan Knitworks in Grosse Pointe Park. I've only visited this shop once before, but this time I fell in love with it even more! It has a very unique style to it. Half of the shop is like a gallery; featuring fine handknits, jewelry, felted accessories and more. The other half has the best selection of indie dyed and handspun yarn I've ever seen in person! Also they carry some roving, spindles, and other fiber goodies. Oh, and I can't forget to mention the amazing selection of buttons! Glass, shell, wood, even vintage! I have a weak spot in my heart for vintage buttons. I resisted the urge to rummage through the HUGE box they have of the vintage buttons alone!

The party was a blast. I met quite a few people who were all very nice. I also can't fail to mention the yummy spread of snacks! Tasty cheeses, cookies, cupcakes and even homemade vanilla ice cream! Unfortunately I couldn't make any purchases that visit, but one skein in particular made me swoon with a vengeance. It was from Autumn House in their Herdwick yarn, which is a chunkier sock yarn that makes great boot and clog socks. The colorway was Moorstalker which was this gorgeous mix of teals and tans. Someday it will be mine. Oh yes, someday....

another day

Lately I've been whittling away at my list of 101 goals. They still need a little tweaking, but it has been feeling really good seeing how much I actually get done during the course of a day, a week, etc. I've been spinning, knitting, reading and cooking.

Speaking of spinning, I've been trying to work on my relationship with the kick spindle that the husgeek built me for Christmas this year. It was a wonderfully sweet thought, which I know he put an incredible amount of time, effort, and patience into. But I reluctantly admit it doesn't work as well as I thought a kick spindle would. It's awkward and there's a slight catch in it's rotations. But I keep trying it out, hoping in vain that something clicks.

Please pay no mind to the hideous pink carpet that we inherited with the house. ugh.

Also, I was trying to take some pictures to upload for my stash to Ravelry. But I've come to release that my camera is strictly point and click. Oi vey. Everything came out very blurry or completely incorrect colors. No macro = crap yarn pictures! This is going to have to be my hanging out camera. Thus, Husgeek's camera and I need to have a heart to heart and get on speaking terms again! I can't post anything to my etsy shop until I can get decent pictures to properly show off my goods.