knits and design
Posted in knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 20th, 2010
I promise you if you come into the shop and ask me how my trip was, I will give you an earful! My trip was sooooo great! I always look forward to the fall market BUT it’s usually equally as much stressful as fun. Great to see the new yarns, yes, always, BUT there are [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 13th, 2010
This is a photo of the card I’ll be bringing home showing the popular colors for fall 2010. Trends are on the flip side: SHEERLY BELOVED- light knits perfect for layering. URBAN DE-GRAY- The perfect polished shade that showed up all over the runways. GILTY PLEASURES- Gold, bronze and burnished metallics rock! ANIMAL INSTINCTS- Wild [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 11th, 2010
Education classes run Thursday and Friday before the market opens on Saturday and this year TNNA tried something new called TIPS. TIPS consisted of 6 thirty minute sessions presented by various exhibitors such as yarn companies, publishers, designers, etc. I thought I’d share with you some of the sessions I attended. My first session was [...]
Posted in market update, shop news on Jun 15th, 2009
last day for me, anyway! The show still goes on another day, but I fly back on Monday. This time flying through Memphis (never been that route before, either) so let’s hope it’s a smooth flight and gets me home before dark! Day four… where do I start? I’ll just say that we have lots [...]
Posted in market update, shop news on Jun 15th, 2009
And the moment you’ve all been waiting for- news from the market. I am easily over-stimulated with purely visuals like this market can be, so my technique is to walk the entire show floor – and pick up info, look for new and exciting gotta haves, make notes and take it all back to my [...]
Posted in market update, shop news on Jun 14th, 2009
The first full day for me was Friday in Columbus: market doesn’t open until Saturday so this is a day of classes and meetings generally. We’re not allowed to take pictures inside the market, but outside is allowed so I took my camera along to snap a few for you here. The Great Wall of [...]
Posted in market update on Jun 13th, 2009
Ok, guys, I’m here- day one was not fun- all the travel stuff, ‘ya know. I’ve always (well, mostly always- but you aren’t reading this to hear about that part of my life!) lived too many miles away from an airport to make travel plans easy. In my life there has nearly always been a [...]
Posted in market update, shop news on May 29th, 2008
Next week I’ll be out of the shop and off to my annual market to see the newest and the greatest for the fall. Please let me know if there’s something you’d like for me to look out for! My loyal group of volunteers will be manning the shop: De McGlashon, Vicki Buel, Kathleen Oldfather [...]
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