Are you a hoarder

Just a little story for you.

I buy yarn, like it's food, I compulsive shop on the net for it, and obviously can't walk past a yarn shop without coming out having spent way to much.

Well my brother will remember this part of the story well, the above yarns I first bought when I started knitting some 4 - 5 years ago. From my most favourite yarn shop in Wales, I bought a pack of each colour, knitted a couple of shawls from it, and before the week was out, I'd sold these shawls. Luckily my brother was coming to visit me the following weekend, so with instructions, to both him, and the yarn shop, and lots of wonga passing hands, he happily brought with him the stash, I tell you when he arrived with the yarn, I'd bought 50 packs of each colour, and there are a dozen 50g balls in each pack. OMG if you could have seen his car, he couldn't even see out of the back window. HAHA

Well I reassured Timi and my son (who's room I was about to stash it all in) that's I'd knit it all up, and not to worry.

So here we are, just over 5 years later, I was convinced I'd used the last bag of each shade.

yes all 100 bags, 1,200 balls.

So imagine my delight when on Sunday I had a little rummage through my huge recycled fireworks box which lives in my bedroom, and holds a mass of fabric, findings, some of my 1000 or so yarns, and basically anything I might need to keep me busy. I thought I'm sure there is one more bag left at the bottom.

With the biggest smile, I found another half dozen or so bags,

So yeah I guess I am a hoarder, but for good reason.

i Just hit 800 sales on etsy

apparently I'm a knitting fairy :-)

I thought I'd just share this with you, it made me smile first thing this morning, A prospective customer, who's in the midst of placing an order wrote this to me. :

'hi, OH MY GOODNESS!!! i found your shop and am convinced you are a knitting fairy....i am blown away by how exquisite, yet totally hip your designs are, i adore everything'.

Not only did this message make me smile, but yesterday, the word 'hippy' kept ringing in my head, some person, some while ago, suggested my style was hippy. I've mulled this over and well, all I could keep coming up with is 1. the person clearly doesn't know anything about style. and 2. she probably wouldn't know hip if it hit her in her face.

So my little karma god clearly felt my discomfort with these words ringing around in my head yesterday, and sent a little note via my new customer, who unbiasedly, referred to my designs as 'hip'. :-) what's the chances of that ah. so today I don't have the word 'hippy' ringing in my head. :-) It has suitably been replaced, with 'knitting Fairy'

Etsy FP 4/9/09

This was on the FP on Friday night, a treasury curated by Get Ready,Set,Go (GRSG)this is her shop.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5953420&ga_search_query=Getreadysetgo&ga_search_type=seller_usernames

She makes some really cool looking treasuries, and so often they appear on the FP, and well it would seem I'm one of favourite choices for inclusion, Practically every week she writes me, and tells me she's put me in her latest treasury. - thanks GRSG it's much appreciated.

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Sometimes I'll make something, and never actually wear it myself. These collar are one of those. Well up until yesterday. Having made/created the first one in October 2008, I knew they looked great, and would finish off a winter/autumn outfit with some funk. But due to most times when I went out last winter I was on my scooter, (which was flipping cold) I didn't want to ruin it. So yesterday, as their was a chill in the air, I popped this one with the snake skin strap around my neck, skinny jeans, white sweat top, and a chocolate 3/4 length woolen jacket, and wow, it looked amazing, I even got an order for a black one, whilst queuing at the post office. HEHE.

My head is not spinning, honest,

Well if August taught me anything, that was to not get my head all in a spin, it was a good learning curve, for knitting deadline pressures. September has started off, much where August left off, I didn't think it would be possible. At the end of day 3 (3rd September) my orders are currently sitting at 27 items sold. thats basically 9 orders a day. WHAT....

Anyway I think this is mostly due to Etsy sticking me in their gift guide, and their 'September to remember Storque article. http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-a-september-to-remember-4928/