Mad dash!

It's been a bit of a mad dash around here today.  Thank goodness Pete had today off!

First, I wanted to get together a post for whip up on French monochromatic cross-stitch designs.  I have the design I included in the post over there  coming from Stitching Bits and Bobs.  Bobbie, the owner, has been a peach!  I had to special order the thread because it takes a *ton* of the same color (*duh*) which had to be dyed up all in the same lot.  I'm hoping to get everything to start on it in the next week!

I also had to get all the fabric for my quilting class washed and pressed today.  It's in the washer on *super* gentle cycle as we speak. 

The rest of the morning has been taken up with work (lots of orders for Black Sheep Bags since I was featured in an article in CNA Magazine!)  This did give me time to get caught up on the crafting podcasts though.  Here's some new ones (episodes) I listened to:

• About Time -- Great interview with the Yarn Harlot.
• KnitCast -- Marie's 1st Anniversary show with lots of guests!
• Cast On -- Brenda's latest episode with some interesting ideas on advertising and podcasting.
• FiberCast -- New to me.  Not really about knitting -- this podcast is more about spinning and fiberarts in general.  Great episode with info on raising Angora bunnies.

So you see. . . it's been a busy day.  And I still have a quilting class ahead of me!

And Liz, you have *completely* changed my mind about CVM!!  I am in love and will not be happy until I have a whole mess of CVM in my hot little hands.  I think Theresa & I will be combing MS&W this year for this lovely fiber.  I'm now thinking that the dyeing process must not have been kind to the CVM I had, because the lovely chocolate brown stuff you sent was so soft and springy that we could hardly believe it!  Thanks again!  We are having a lot of fun trying out these new fibers and were ooohing and aaahing as we fondled each one. 

Comments

[Chris]

Wow, so many great things going on for you right now - yay!!

[Liz]

I'm so glad Julie! Now you see why I couldn't let you have just that awful CVM experience! :) It is such a joy to work with. I hope you enjoy all of the fibers I sent. They're all different from one another and I love them all. :)

Oh, and I have a link on my site for my CVM fleece source... (In case you need any more enabling....) ;-P

[Jewels]

I love that you put podcast info up - I keep forgetting them since I'm not used to being hooked on them yet, lol. thank you