New Knitted Items

It's been a fairly productive week for me and Etsy since DH has been down with a serious cold. Total listed this week for sale is FIVE!!! I can't believe it! My sewing machine is getting cleared off slowly but surely of knitted pieces needing finishing. Think I'm down to two items and one about an inch from being off the needles and onto the sewing table.

So since the poor hub will probably be down with this cold all weekend, here's what I'd love to accomplish since I'll be on my own:

1. FARMER'S MARKET!!! YES!!!! I need to get down there and meet some local artisans I've met the past couple of weeks on the internet through the Lincoln Handmade Team.

2. Get a washcloth or two done for an employee who is moving into Lincoln as a house warming gift.

3. Finish the two items on sewing table and list in the store.

4. Find a good outlet for 7" zippers for new idea to put in the store. Any ideas for where I could find zippers at wholesale?

5. Actually do a proto-type (if not the real deal) for new idea. OK, that means I'll have to purchase at least one zipper at retail.

6. AND NOT CLEAN!!!!!! (I think that's the best one yet) giggle

Have a SUPER weekend, y'all!

New Stuff

Check out the store - there's three new items to look at. Didn't get near where I wanted to be at by this time today, but three is WAY better than none. :)

This last blankie was inspired by the one I made for my niece Kate's new baby, Diana.

A Hurried Update!

OK, tomorrow is huge, can't blog. Shouldn't blog. No time for REAL to blog. So this is what, in a nutshell, is hopefully going to be completed this weekend for the store. Or maybe not. But anyway, Friday is absolutely chuck full of things to do. (I don't like not blogging) Here's a peek..... remember, things aren't completed so it's still a guessing game.

But first.......... THIS.........

..........the beauty after the storm last night. Incredible. OK, back to the store.....

This lace piece is from a pattern I dug up that is almost 100 years old! WOW! OK, at least this old gal was super excited. :)

OK, any guesses what all this will turn out to be?

New Group - Why Not?

I was contacted yesterday by Christy, a local knitting and paper artist, who I met through the local Lincoln Knitting Guild last year. She also has a store on Etsy. Christy has come up with a marvelous idea for promoting local Etsy store owners on the home front, a way to get Lincoln's own artisans and craftsman out and in public. Extremely glad she remembered me as I did not join the LKG this year so I don't attend the meetings.

She has started rounding us up in a Flickr group which is a great start. Posting ideas, goals, photos and such right on Flickr. Now I need to sit and think about designing again and goals. Yikes to the goals, but it will be good for me.

The group is called Lincoln Handmade - so here's another group you all need to watch out for. I've looked through some of the members' items so far and talk about creative! Everything from jewelry and art to knit and crochet items.

My goals this week as posted in the Flickr group: (help keep me honest out there)

The TygerLily says:
Goals: 1. Make list of places for DH to take photos of me Saturday for WWKIP Day to post somewhere later for comic relief. :)

2. Post 3-4 items in shop - a push for me to do finishing touches.

3. Start designing process for new purse.