Monday, August 8, 2011

Comic-Con was a Grand Old Time

Well, it's been a couple of weeks of recovery, so I can blog again.

Comic-Con was exciting, exhausting, fun, and profitable.  I was able to sell a bunch of the steampunk stuff, plus 5 of my little felted hats.  One was sized for grownups, but the surprising thing was that grownups were buying the doll-sized hats for themselves, as fascinators.  One doll did get a hat.  I'm very happy that so many went to good homes.

Now that things have calmed down a bit, I have two projects lined up.  One is Stephanie Tee.  I'm trying it in a beautiful cashmere.  I'll see how the sleeve test goes tonight.  I need to do some serious measuring.

The second project is a brimmed hat Brimming by Lori Puthoff for my best bud, Dawn.  I looked around on Etsy.com for some special yarn.  It had to be a warm, non-wool yarn, so I found some "upcycled" cashmere worsted from SentimentalValu .    She recycled the yarn from a sweater, then plied it to make it worsted.  It's in the mail now.  I'm excited.  And the price is very reasonable.  And I get to knit with *cashmere*!

When these projects are completed, I'll start on the Christmas knitting.  Gee, it's only August and I'm thinking about the holidays.  Can't wait for the cool weather!