Friday web cam shopping

Its Friday again :-)
Click on the link below to join us in the store and have a look via the web cam.
Meeting: 27April2007
I look forward to helping anyone who wants to look at yarns or patterns with our in store web cam. Remember you will get 10% off your first web cam purchase and free shipping over $50.
Hope to see you soon
~Megan

Knitter's night

Last Thursday was our month Knitter's night. We had fun as usual.

Darcy is wearing her first sock. She is new to sock knitting and has already cast on for the second sock.

Helen is wearing a beautiful sweater she knit from Cherry Tree Hill Potluck Bulky. I love the colours.

Deb is working on a vest of Cotton Patagonia. Turning out very nice. Too bad the colour isn't good in that picture.

Carol our newest knitter is working on a top down pullover. We are inventing the pattern from an old favorite sweater.

Meika is playing with knitting needles. She really loves my knitting needles. She didn't have any knitting done to show - can't seem to keep her knitting on the needles.

TGIF Web cam shopping day :-)

I am happy to announce that every Friday seems to get better with the web cam shopping. Click the link below to experience web cam shopping in real time. Get great customer service in the comfort of you own home ... or office for that matter ;-)
And don't forget I'm still offering 10% off and free shipping for first time web cam customers.
So come check it out
~Megan

Meeting: 20April2007

Weavers are lots of fun

I had a fun weekend at the Weavers retreat. I was 1 of 6 vendors at the retreat. When the weavers and spinners were all busy the vendors had down time. Of course I knit socks. I am working on my husbands Opal Autumn socks. They are turning out great. I even converted a couple of great weavers to sock knitting. Anna (sitting concentrating hard) had to learn everything. She got a crash course in knitting and purling and when I left she had 4 rows done. She will do great.

Jane already knew how to knit so she just needed a few pointers and she looks like a pro. Jane is a wonderful weaver and has a fantastic shop for weavers and spinners. I even bought a chenille scarf kit from her. It is time to dust off my Rigid Heddle loom. So I guess the conversion went both ways. The weavers inspired me too.
I also got a great offer I couldn't refuse to buy a spinning wheel. I will get it on Tuesday. I am going to keep it at the store. I bought some fleece from Joy. She has sheep on Cortez Island. I met her last year when I went to the retreat at Hollyhock.
If you are coming to the International Fibrefest in Abbotsford you will get to see all of these vendors including me. We are all going to be there. May 11-12. I wonder if Jane and Anna will have the socks done by then. I wonder if I will have my husbands socks done by then.

Blocking a shawl with a toddler

It was very fun, Meika had a very creative way to block the shawl. I finished the shawl a few days ago and needed to block it since I want it for the store window. Meika really wanted to help so since I wanted to encourage her knitting interest I let her helped.
I always use knitting needles to hold the edges straight. I have never invested in blocking wire. I figure 3mm and under needles are just right. Here are the pictures. The last one was after she went home. I forgot to get a picture of the shawl in the store window. It looks great. It is knit with Country Silk from Fiddlesticks on 5.5mm needles. The pattern is here. It is the same pattern we knit for the Teddy bear shawls at the retreat.

TGIF

Sorry, Im getting a bit of a late start. There is a weavers retreat happening on the island and my mom is going to have a booth at it, so I have been helping her a bit with that this morning. I am doing the web cam shopping today so click on the link below to begin your fun knits expirience.Come and see the new NEON Opal sock yarn and with the web cam you can almost feel the lovely Cashmere we got in. Dont forget on your first order you get 10% off and free shipping over $50. Hope to see ya today :-)

Meeting: 13April2007

~Megan

Here are some pictures from the Weavers retreat. It was fun tonight selling yarn. I am so out of my league here as I don't know much about weaving and spinning. It was lots of fun anyways and yarn is yarn whether you knit, crochet weave whatever we all love yarn. There were a few other booths I didn't get pictures of. They opened the doors and we all got busy no more pictures got taken. I will be there all day tomorrow too.

My booth is the first picture

Aurelea Wools

Jane Stafford

Pagen Creations

New Sock Yarn

First I want to show you the cutest Easter basket, then on to the new sock yarn. We had a fun easter with Meika. She had more fun with the fake grass and jumping in and out of the basket than anything. I will be cleaning up plastic grass for months. We had a lot of fun

The new sock yarn is Opal Neon. It arrive on Thursday and I am in love with the colours. I want a pair of 1934 and 1933 for myself. I also got in the Atumn Hand painted yarn from Opal. It is amazing. My husband want a pair of these. I told him I wanted to knit them by hand for him instead of on the machine and you know what he said. "Well I want a pair not just one." I think I am getting a bad reputation for knitting just one sock. That made me realize I do need to finish some pairs so he might just get a machine knit pair. We will see. It might be a matter of principle now.

Both are available at the Web Store.

Happy Good Friday

Meeting: 6April2007
Click on the link above to come and see Fun Knits Yarn Shop live on web cam. You can shop and chat and ask questions or just pop in to see what its all about. Hope to see some of you today :-)
Megan

When babies meet

The Mom's and Grandma's have more fun. Last week in the store we had a fun meeting. Keira and Meika met for the first time. Meika is 2 weeks older than Keira. Karen (Keira's Grandma) and I have been waiting for this moment since before they were both born. We went through the pregnancies of our daughters together and shared our knitting for the newborns etc. So this was a big moment. So what did the girls do - well what do any girls do when they get together in the store - They shopped. It was very cute. As if either one of them needs a new hand knit sweater.

Another original Teddy sweater and Happy Knitters

Thanks to Marilyn for emailing me this picture of her original Teddy Bear Sweater from the retreat. This is a great little sweater so I am glad to get a picture of it. The group from White Rock left before we got our Teddy bear group pictures. Here is the picture of the White Rock group knitting on the ferry on the way home. What a happy looking bunch. That is the only way to enjoy a ferry ride.

Mother Natures April Fools joke on us

I just had to blog about this. Anyone who knows where I live in BC knows we hardly ever get snow. Well we are really getting it right now. I can't believe it April 1st and its snowing. The 2 pictures, Megan and Meika playing in the snow. They made a Snow bunny. (Picture will be on the blog later. Megan has it in her camera.)also a picture of my spring flowers out in bloom. See the size of the flakes. This snow is actually sticking on the ground. Very pretty but I hope it goes away soon

New colours of Floral Spectrum Sock Yarn

We have some new colours of Floral Spectrum sock yarn list on the Web site.
They are Lilac, Lobelia and Country Garden. We also have something for the spinner and needle felters. Judy Maclean had some dyed tops for sale so I am offering them on the internet too. They make me want to take up spinning. I know nothing about spinning but I am sure going to learn soon . This fibre is beautiful. Go have at look at both additions to the web store.

happy mega meeting friday

Hi everyone.
The retreat was so much fun, I hope next year Meika will be sleeping all night so that we are able to stay at the camp. I hope to see a few retreaters on the mega meeting today.
Don't be shy, come see the store and chat with me. I'm still offering 10% your first purchase from mega meeting and if that order is over $50 I will throw in free shipping.
See you soon
~Megan
p.s
click on the link below to begin your mega meeting experience
Meeting: march3007

~Karen ... I got it working, hope to see you soon :-)

When Bloggers meet

There is something magical when bloggers meet. When you read someones blog you get to know the person a bit. You certainly get to know what style of knitting they like even what colours they prefer. You can also get a sense of what they are like. Same with email friends. I met a lot of people this weekend who read the blog. I met one person who I have got to know by email - Audrey. It is great to finally meet her.

I met Peg whose blog I follow, I told her she is just like her blog. She is just like I imagined she would be. Brenda whose blog I have followed for a long time and I have known for a while as she is a great customer also got to meet Peg for the first time at the retreat. I think bloggers have a special bond. This picture is Brenda and Peg with their Teddys.

The next pictures are of Mary and her Teddy. She made an original Teddy Bear sweater. Isn't he handsome. I was quite impressed how quick she whipped up that sweater and then dictated the pattern to me from memory.

I have got a lot of feedback about the retreat and most of it was positive so I talked with Camp Homewood today and they have given us next years date. The 2nd Spring Knitting Retreat will be March 28-30th 2008. I hope to see many of you again and lots of new knitter too.

A Very Fun Retreat

This weekend was very fun. The retreat went well and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I had a lot of fun and it was great to meet so many knitters. There were 40 knitters at the retreat. All ages and all levels of knitting experience. I have a lot of pictures. I didn't even get my camera out until Saturday so I don't have any pictures of the store packed with about 30 knitters on Friday night. It was fun.

On Saturday morning we started the Teddy Bear sweaters. The first pictures are of people working on the sweaters. Charlotte 11 years old was our youngest knitter at the retreat and she knit a fun pink teddy sweater. Then Saturday afternoon I thought what better for knitters than to play with yarn so they got 25 samples of different yarn to play with. I didn't get any pictures of the Yarn sampling as I was too busy. .

I got lots of pictures of the Fashion Show/ Show and tell. This was a great activity. What better for knitters than to get to look at other knitters knitting.

Roger's Gansey, Marilyn's wedding shawl, Mary's Escher inspired seal sweater. Myriam's shawl and Carol's Award winning Stary night socks

The retreat ended today with some wonderful group shots of the well dressed Teddy Bears. Some of the people left early today so their Teddy's didn't get in the pictures.

Charlotte was very proud of her first sweater. She knit this with very little help from her mother. She doesn't really like knitting on double pointed needles so I think next year she will learn the magic loop method of circular knitting. The next picture is Megan, Meika and the Teddy all wearing the Pinwheel sweaters.

A few group photos of our well dressed Teddy's and their owners. This was fun I think we will do this again next year. I will blog more about the retreat tomorrow. I have a lot more pictures. We have an original Teddy sweater, pictures of bloggers meeting etc....

no mega meeting today

Due to the Knitting retreat and the very busy day I'm going to have getting ready for it I wont have time to do the mega meeting today. I will be doing it next Friday so Look for mega meeting on next Fridays blog.
Hope to see you then
~Megan

Just 1 more day

Just 1 day until the retreat. I am excited. For everyone coming to the retreat. Please bring a good variety of your knitting needles. I mentioned in the hand out to bring 4 - 5 mm needles. Some of the sweaters need smaller and 1 needs 5.5mm dp and 16" circulars. I have lots of needles people can borrow if they don't have that size or the store has a good stock for buying needles.
Please drive safe and I look forward to meeting all you wonderful knitters. We have 40 people coming to the retreat. I can't even imagine how fun this will be. I will certainly post lots of pictures and details after the retreat. Note to myself- Don't forget the camera....

Happy St. Patricks Day

Here are some pictures for St. Patricks' Day. I haven't put any pictures of Meika on the blog for a long time. She is so cute and especially cute today all in green with her shamrock hair band.
Here she is cleaning the house. Child labour
Here is a picture of Sweetie. Many of you may remember him last year when we got him . You need to scroll down the post to see Sweetie. As you can see he has improved a lot. He is now happy, playful and very healthy.
Lastly here are some of the bears all dressed and ready to go to camp next weekend. We have a few more waiting for sweaters. I am really busy getting ready for camp. It should be a lot of fun.

10% off your megameeting purchase

Its Friday again everyone. That means its mega meeting day again. So join us , come say hi and tell me where you are from.For a limited time this spring I'm giving mega meeting customers 10% off, and if your first purchase is over $50 I will throw in free shipping.
So click on the link and join us for another mega meeting Friday. Chat ,shop, ask questions , just have fun.
Meeting: march162007
I have the camera pointed out at the store so you will see the entrance and all the beautiful yarn when you log on. Hope to chat with ya today
~Megan

T.G.I.F

Hi Megan here,
Its Friday again, and that means its mega meeting day. Now don't be shy when you sign on . There is a chat box just below the web cam. Say hello and where you are from. Also I thought I should mention you have no obligation to shop or buy anything. But if you wish to do so it is allot of fun with the web cam. I love shopping in my pj's :-)
So come on in to fun Knits today and have a chat with me, tell me about your projects, ask me questions, let me know what you think of mega meeting.
I hope to see you today.
Just click on the link below and sign in, its so easy.
Meeting: 9march2007