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Gotta love ‘80s music!!

Any­way — I’ve been away for a week. Shame, shame!

But, I’ve been busy!!!
I’m get­ting together items for my first Arts & Crafts show! :yay:

I’m very excited! I’ve been mak­ing wrist bags for the show.
Here’s a few:
summer05/Mvc_049s

They work up so fast!

Aside from that, I’ve been crank­ing out dish­cloths for the In Hot Water dish­cloth swap, squares for the Blue Squares, Too swap, and gifts for my Autumn Secret Pal!

Did I men­tion that I’ve finally decided on a gift to make for my Step-mother??? She fell in love with the Renais­sance Home­spun I was work­ing with a few months back, so I’ve decided to make her a scarf with it! I’m think­ing a match­ing hat, too, but I’ll just start with the scarf and see where inspi­ra­tion leads me!

Today, I am on the hunt for the new Fam­ily Cir­cle Easy Cro­chet mag­a­zine!
There was much buzz about it at Cro­chetville yes­ter­day, and although it wasn’t sup­posed to be on stands until Aug 23, there are quite a few places that seem to already have it out!
I’m going to check Michaels and Books-A-Million. My LYS (yes, I have one — did I tell y’all?!! — oh, I’ll come back to that), mainly caters to knit­ters, *@@*, so I doubt it’ll be there, and Hobby Lobby is closed on Sun­days. — SHEESH! You’d think they could make an excep­tion just this once!! :rofl:

Any­way, my LYS. Appar­ently, it’s been here for over 30 years (insert jack­ass sound here).
They’re only open a few days a week, so get­ting over there is going to be chal­leng­ing, but I did go about 2 weeks ago.
I walked in, and I really believe I heard angels singing!
It was just wall-to-wall yarn! Yarn of all kinds — kinds I’ve never seen or heard of before.

There wasn’t a Lion Brand, Red Heart, Caron or Bernat in site!
No Sugar & Cream, no Peaches & Creme… it was all new-to-me names!

There were 3 women in there, sit­ting and knit­ting (tee hee).
I know the look on my face was like see­ing a moun­tain of gold in front of my, and one lady smiled, and said ‘First time here, huh?‘
Guess the drool made it obvi­ous.
She showed me all kinds of yarns. I touched, gropped, fon­dled all kinds of every­thing! I saw a ball winder for the first time!
Gosh, I was in HEAVEN!
I stayed there about 45 min­utes, and only had a few $$ to spend.
I did buy some heavy weight cot­ton yarn (which I used to make this),
and a wooden “N” hook.
The hook had been in there so long, that it had dust on it, and it was only… $2.50!!!!!!! The ladies snick­ered when I asked about the price, since the knit­ting stuff was all new, and had the ‘new’ prices to match. Guess cro­chet just ain’t ‘hip’ here… shucky darn.
:crochet:

Any­way, I got some cot­ton blend var­ie­gated yarn, too. Ver­rrrry pretty. The col­ors remind me of RH’s Ocean, but muted.
Can’t recall the brands of any­thing right now, but it was the most $$
I’ve spent on 3 skeins of yarn! … and every­thing I bought was on clear­ance, except that FULL priced wooden hook, :rofl:

So, my LYS vis­its will be few and far between, but I’m glad I have one, and that I went.

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3. WIP it… WIP it good!
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