End of the Yarn… Show Over!

ByCarolynMB


Well, sigh and yipee… the last (and biggest) show of the year is over, and though I have a ton of my cardis to knit before Christmas and get them to my clients the pressure and stress isn’t the same.

The Chicago One of a Kind is great and it was neat this year in that it was grown by 100 artisans and we had 52 Canadian artists. Busy, lots of fab stufff to see and learn from, colleagues it was good to see here.

Among my clients was this one pictured above modelling one of my older cardis (which I wear all the time) who, as you can see, took her job as a model seriously!!!

Now for home…..

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