WWKIP Day

World Wide Knit in Public Day is June 13. As one of my friends says, "There are no good weekends" -- this conflicts with Car d'Lane. Next year it will conflict with Ironman, I think, which is a scary prospect.

Undaunted by this, we're forging ahead anyways and meeting on the lawn across the street from Bakery By The Lake -- the one at the Parkside Highrise, on Front street from 9am - noonish. Bring a chair, and your knitting or crocheting or your "The Shop on Blossom Street" paperback. More info is here: http://www.wwkipday.com/find_kip.htm?kipid=1332

I hope to see you before I have to dash off to open the shop!

In other news

Since the shop isn't exactly on the tourist track and only 3 people have ever asked (two of them producers), I don't carry any local Alpaca. At $9/ounce, with most skeins being 3.5 ounces, I think it's kind of a tourist thing, moneywise. Of course the shop does have local handspun and hand dyed yarns, and I just got in some undyed alpaca that's 220 yards/3.5 ounces. It is a suitable replacement for any housepet, I swear. I keep petting it, it is that soft. The yarn on the top in the picture is Eastport Alpaca, which is 70% US grown Alpaca and 30% wool, made in the USA.

Sadly, I'm not going to TNNA this year. I'd rather spend the travel money on yarn. I'm sure you all understand!