Solitude Wool: report from NYC and back to market this weekend
Howdy!
It was quite a weekend in NYC at Vogue Knitting Live. Thanks to all of you who came to the booth, and welcome to those new to the email list. I will just hit the highlights of the fun stuff and not bore you with the fairly extreme behind the scenes action of getting in and getting out (phew!).
The best part of the weekend was meeting new customers and even better…customers returning that met us last year. We so appreciate your support and enthusiasm about our efforts to make beautiful, useful yarn, support local small farms by providing a market for their good wool and share our love of different breeds and types of wool. Another highlight was seeing all the beautiful hand knitted sweaters, scarves, skirts, shawls etc. etc that paraded by the booth including a number of show and tell items that people made from the yarn they bought from us last year. A highlight for me was the fabulous scarf that Nancy Marchant (author of Knitting Brioche) knit from the Corriedale/Corriedale cross yarn:
Sue was wearing a vest she knit from Sally Melville’s book, and who should come to admire it but Sally Melville! pretty cool. And Nancy Bush came to visit us with Nancy Marchant…see that open wallet? Now Nancy has some Solitude Wool Targhee yarn. We wonder what she might make with it? There is something to look forward to.
This Sunday we will be back to the Dupont Circle Farmers market in DC. Ahhhh home!
We are going to bring the yarns we were highlighting last weekend:
The Targhee, including a number of new colors that aren’t on the web site yet (give me a week or so…)
The Romney, ditto on the colors
The Shropshire double twist and the great ruffled scarf (free Ravelry pattern)
and the Corriedale bulky. Vogue Knitting highlighted pillows and throws in their winter edition and had a display near our booth of the them and a covered ottoman. Too bad they used such soft yarns, they were already showing wear. If they had used our Corriedale for them they would look beautiful for years and years!
The Clun Forest solid dyed. This is marked down because it is the last of the batch, but there are quite a few skeins of each color. This is a great opportunity!
The weather forecast for Sunday is nice. Do come!
and if you are wanting something in addition to the list above, do email me and we will be happy to bring it along: f-fsolitude@mindspring.com
Thanks!
-Gretchen