I'm not sure I can let mom sell this one.......

I was already romancing this fabric. I even made a blouse out of it with the GREAT 1930's pattern for Christmas last year and THEN she goes and makes this ADORABLE apron! With red dingle-balls even!!!! I think it needs to come home with me tonight and I need to wear it at my Holiday Party tomorrow night. What do you think??

Felted Beads and Bracelets!

We had a fantastic group of home school students and their mothers come make felted beads and bracelets with us! We all had so much fun and they all made beautiful bracelets!





It was a good day!

What I did today.

Mom and Linda convinced me to leave my desk work today and join the sock animal class. I thoroughly enjoyed it! This is the monkey that I made for my nephew, Connor, for Christmas. He's a Curious George fan so I'm hoping they can be buds. We had so much fun with the class that we made sure to schedule one more session before Christmas. So the next date is Saturday, December 12th from 1:00-5:30 and you have time to finish one animal in class. You have the option between a monkey, cat or dog and Linda is working on an elephant that may be ready in time for class. Hope to see you there!

Wooo! What-a-Month!

I'm back! So sorry I disappeared there. October was overwhelming - I don't know what we were thinking! The Fiber Retreat was a great success! The move went as smoothly as it could have! and our Grand Opening was wonderful! Here some photo recap:

The Downieville Workshop. All the girls were busy little bees!

Linda Waddle taught us how to dye at the retreat this time around! It was SO much fun!

Our Shiny New Classroom Tables!!!! Aren't they pretty?

And our shiny new cutting table!

Pictures from the grand opening are coming soon!

Taking Shape

Things down at the packing shed are starting to look like something.


This is my office. Mom, Dad, Steve and Scott keep calling it "Emma's Box". I'm not too partial to that name, but I'm happy to have something that I can make phone calls in! It won't look so much like a box once it has it's door and window and mom's going to hang all of our button holders off of it!

All Framed In

Mom's studio.

Another view of mom's studio. There's going to be a little, corrugated metal roof on that brace.

This is going to be the classroom space. It doesn't look very large in the photo, but it's going to be perfect, we promise!

That's my office there on the left with the classroom space on the right.

Mom's studio on the left, office in the middle with the classroom on the right there.

Mom's studio is there in the middle. All of our fabric is going to be along that wall on the left.

I hope you're enjoying the updates! We'll let you know when we set our move date!

Felted Wedding Bouquets

Beverly, our knitting coach here at the shop, asked Mom and Carin to felt Calla Lillies and Cherry Blossom Branches for her daughter's wedding. We were all SO thrilled with how they turned out!