Designing Knitwear with Kat

Never a dull day at SWTC

Yesterday, Jonelle and I had intended to wrap up the last minute details for the book we've been working on.  Well, that's certainly not how the day worked out. We got totally slammed with orders (not that I'm complaining!) so we spent a huge chunk of our time in the warehouse picking, packing, and shipping.

When we finally got a chance to break for lunch, I grabbed my stuff and headed for my car. But ss soon as I could open the front door, Harold whooshed by me so he could go outside. That big galoot headed for the shade and plopped down. Well, I didn't think it'd be a great idea to leave a massive dog outside by himself since he looks scary (Don't be fooled, he's a big baby.) so I tried my darnedest to get him back inside.

After about 5 minutes of trying to convince him to come back inside with me, I took a step back to analyze the situation.
110 lbs of stubborn dog vs. 130 lbs of famished girl = this dog is going nowhere

This is Harold looking at me, as if to say, "Sorry, but no. I'm not moving. Sorry."

I love my job :-D

Knit One, Purl One.....Slide One?

Yesterday I spent the whole glorious 90 degree day poolside with the Raffino family. Jonelle packed a *huge* bag of our new yarns for us to wind into balls, knit swatches, and dream up design ideas. We'll have more details and pictures of the new yarns soon, so sit tight! You won't want to miss these babies!

You can see here how hard we were working!

The kids had a blast going down the "fast slide" and all three of them double-dog-dared Jonelle and me to go down the fast slide. So we put down our knitting and showed those kids how it's done! It was really fun too til you get to the pool at the bottom. The water was freezing!

I think we were probably asked about dozen times what we were knitting. This one lady sat down with us and chatted for a few minutes about how she grew up in Canada with a ton of sheep and how she and her siblings used to spend their nights carding wool. Lucky! I think I spent most of my childhood nights either reading or playing on my original Nintendo.

Since today is Monday, we have a ton of weekend catching up to do so I'm off to take some of the pressure off my inbox. Happy knitting!

This is what happens when I leave two Raffinos in the building alone for too long.....

Click here to read how Joe and Jonelle tried to blow up the building.

I hadn't even been gone for half an hour! Sheesh!