Extravayarnza

I worked my buns off today at the shop. I realized rather abruptly that classes started up again tonight & over the summer our class room has kinda turned into a back stock/ sewing room...

I brought home my drum carder & 4 (yes 4! ) boxes of fleece & roving. All had migrated there in the last couple of months... The sewing machine had to stay because I sew my messenger bags there when it's slow. But it (and all the fabric) found a new home on top of the yarn sample book case. All the yarn was put away... all the boxes were torn down & recycled... the walls and table were scrubbed... floors vacuumed... at the end the whole room sparkled.

Here's the photographic proof that yes I really can clean when my mind gets set on it.

Good thing too, this Fall has our best class enrollment yet! There's still room in most classes & we're setting dates for a second go around of the Intro to Lace & the Thrummed Mitten class in case you didn't make it into the first session. You can find the class schedule at Rae's Yarn Boutique under classes.

Lynn opened up the class season tonight with a Fruit Hat class.
I was a bit inspired and whipped one up when I got home. (I earned a new project, I don't know if I've ever cleaned that hard before)
Trent would have nothing to do with modeling it, but Siouxsie really liked wearing it. She wore it around for almost 10 minutes before it fell off. Perhaps she's not just deaf, maybe it's brain damage. I swear she didn't even notice it was on her head!

I used Socks That Rock Heavyweight & Cashmerino Astrakhan. You could easily knit 4 or 5 newborn sized (cast-on 64 sts) hats using 1 ball of each. Or maybe a fruit hat and a matching little sweater?
It really knits up cute!