Planner, Party

Wasn’t that last post from David nice? Now I can stop poking him to post on here.

In my job descrption I am lucky enough to be responsible for the classes that happen here at the store. Right now I’ve planned out a lot of our July schedule and I’m waiting for confirmations from our wonderful teachers. In July all of our classes are free when you buy the materials here in the shop. We have a great line-up and I’m proud to have our teachers so ready to instruct and provide their knowledge to you, the wonderful, willing public.

Yada yada, onto the thing that’s got me REALLY excited.

About 3 years ago Jenna and Hannah had this great idea for having an all-night knitting party in the summer, to celebrate the shortest night of the year and it was a roaring success! Some of you may recall my post about it oh-so-many-moons ago. Well it’s coming up again. Sadly, it won’t be the shortest night of the year but it will be in the summer. Second weekend of July. For 10 bucks you get a night of movies, coffee, help, we’ll even have a contest and a few clinics to address specific issues/techniques.

This button here will let you add the event to your Google calendars so that you don’t forget! You can sign up over the phone, in the shop, or on our wesbsite.

This whole day I just feel like a big ol’ party planner. Now all I need is some celebrity clients and I can hit the big time!

- RodgerPM

Socks Without Borders

A lot of you familiar with our store will be familiar with our profound love for Larissa Brown (Author of KnitAlong). Not too long ago, over at her blog StitchMarker, she announced the Socks Without Borders fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders.

Well, there has been an OVERWHELMING response, and our store is now filling up with these squares!

We couldn’t possibly be more thrilled! We’re receiving between 10-20 squares every couple of days, and it seems like there’s no sign of any stopping.

So, I’m here to urge you to not let this fantastic charity opportunity pass you by. One of these squares can be knit in a sitting (or maybe a couple if you’re easily distracted like I am).

We’re also taking each square that comes in and labeling it with the knitter’s name and their location. If you look closely, you’ll see some of the squares who came to be with us from the UK! Postage for shipping these has been pretty affordable (somewhere between 4-5 stamps for several squares it seems, of course you’ll want to check with your post office before just assuming that will be adequate).

There is also an effort to get an entire quilt made out of Abundant’s own Plant Dyed yarn – and we’ve even got some for you to knit it out of! So if you want to knit a square but don’t know what to use – stop by the store! We’ll wind you off some yarn and you can be part of the store’s very own quilt

We’ll try to have patterns/info printed out for you at the store to make it as simple as possible. But for more info, please visit Larissa Brown’s original blog post here. We’ll also be looking for all the help we can get to stitch these together, so that’s another excellent way for you to contribute to the cause.

Not much longer now kids, and we’ll all be hanging out at Sock Summit! I can’t wait!

Is This What Adulthood Feels Like?

Today after I woke up and showered I grabbed the early bus to work and after I got off I walked into Lili’s Pattiserie just up the street from the shop to grab a turkey and Swiss croissant for breakfast. My point here is: I never, ever do that. Waking up early? Practicing a routine? Who the hell am I, my mother?

Not that I wouldn’t want to be my mother. Well, I mean, I wouldn’t want to be my mother. But I wouldn’t mind bearing a strong resemblence in temperment and since I do it’s just as well that I don’t mind.

Anyway, it was sort of pleasing to take the uncrowded bus and the leisurely walk and eat the delicious pastry. I mean, I didn’t woop and holler or skip but it felt productive and fun. I vacuumed the shop when I got in, I put away the yarns from last night, prepped for our sale today. (Yay Mother’s Day!)

Is this what it feels like to be a grown up? It’s not half bad – except for the going to bed early.