Three projects that I’m still knitting and wondering how I can “up” my hours to 36 in a day instead of 24:
- DC KAL Sweater (one more sleeve and the ribbing to go)
- Noro Scarf (I’ve already picked a few more Noro colors that I must knit)
- Wollmeise Scarf (ditto. I want to make a Krauterbeet for myself.)
(The photo? Gale’s Art BLF Roving. It just arrived today. I thought it would make a colorful photo to start out the blog today. This is her regular BFL. We will have more of her Black BFL roving next.)

Three things that I’m putting off this weekend in order to get more knitting time:
- laundry (having no kids in the house all week did help to reduce the laundry load)
- cleaning (ditto. The house has stayed amazingly neat and tidy.)
- cooking (good time for eating out, right?)

Three places I will visit this summer:
- Ohio (TNNA Market is next week – I’ll go find more fun stuff for us!)
- Florida (taking a family trip down to see Web Guy over the Fourth of July)
- Indiana (to get both kids off to college in August. I can’t think about it.)

Three places I will not visit this summer:
- Colorado (my favorite vacation spot in the midst of St. Louis Summer Heat)
- Germany (even though it’s my turn to visit Claudia the Wollmeise)
- Michigan (although eventually I will get there to visit Friend Meg and Cool-Yarn-Store-ThreadBear!)

Three Eight+ fun things that will go up next week:
- 8 brand new colors of Noro Sock (oh, they’re so pretty. I took the photo so it’s not WH/Web Quality, but you get the idea of the new colors, until you can see them up next week.)
- 21 brand new colors of Araucania (I love knitting this yarn)
- Woolly Boully, Sheepaints, Gale’s Art BFL Roving (see first photo for a sampling), new Shibui and Claudia HandPainted colors, The Loopy Ewe Zephyr Stitchmarker Set, etc.

Three Six+ new lines that you’ll see here soon:
- Neighborhood Fibers Yarn and Roving
- Spirit Trail Fiberworks
- Hazel Knits
- Malabrigo Worsted Weight
- Sugar Bunny Blvd
- Yarn Love Roving
- Indigo Moon Yarns
- (and a few more that are still a secret)

Three more fun things coming soon:
- our new Duets order which will contain some previous cool colorways that many of you have been asking for. Angela is the Queen of Heels and Toes Sock Yarn!
- new Knitting Bags (because we all know that I have a thing for bags. And I know you do, too. You’ll love these.)
- new non-wool sock yarn options (and some new wool sock lines, too)

Three things that made me happy this week:
- the best-ever Molasses Sugar Cookies that came in the mail from Michele in Maine
- emails from my two kids who are away
- yarn shopping spree from the new stuff that came in this week because I needed more in my stash (1 Woolly Boully, 4 Araucania, 2 Sheepaints and 4 Noro. In case you wanted to know.)

Three things I’m doing this weekend:
- eating out at Granite City because my friend Janice keeps telling me I have to go there
- picking up Knitting Daugher and Mum-in-Law from the airport (yay!)
- planting flowers in the flowerpots by my front door because it’s time, FPS.

Sheri anyonehavethreethingsthey’dliketosharetoday?

It always amazes me that so many of you are up late at night when I do a Sneak Up. I’m definitely a Late Night Owl and when I do a Sneak Up late, like I did last night, it’s fun to see how many of you are still up. (Of course for those of you overseas, it’s a whole different ballgame.) Sometimes being a Night Owl has its perks, and it was definitely time for a late night one. We hadn’t done one at that time in awhile. Last night we put up lots of fun stuff:

• Yarn Pirate Merino Tencel
• Lime & Violet Sasquatch Sock
• sKNITches Syncopation Striping
• Gypsy Knits BFL
• All Things Heather
• Great Adirondack Silky Sock
• J.Knits Superwash Me Sock
• Malabrigo Lace (about 20 colors – and about 25 more on the way!)
• ShibuiKnits
• Mrs. Kwitty’s Sock Sacks and Pocket Pals
• Lawre’s Laine BigBags
• Offhand Designs Bags
• Sock Blockers
• New Wendy Knits patterns

And everyone was very quick to find it. We’ll be working on all of your orders today! (Note – the sKNITches is sold out already. This was Sam’s last self-striping order for us, but she has promised that she’ll keep doing Loopy’s Red Striping Socks in the future! And of course we’ll continue to have her wonderful semi-solids and variegated yarns here.)

I had a fun trip down to Fort Lauderdale with Web Guy over the weekend. Amazingly (sadly) I didn’t finish my DC KAL sweater on the long car ride. I really can’t explain this. I am not a super fast knitter, but I think I knit along at a pretty good clip. I didn’t knit for the first few hours because we were talking and I was watching the scenery, but after that I was knitting pretty much the whole time. I’m still focused on being done by June 1st, though. Hopefully next Wednesday I’ll have a photo. Have you checked out all of the sweater photos that are rolling in from the KAL? It’s SO fun to see what everyone has done! Keep the photos coming. If you get yours into our photo gallery by June 1st, you will get the bonus. (Check back on the blog on June 1st – we’ll let you know what your reward is for completing it by June 1st.) We will continue to stock the DC Classy for you, and we also have a whole bunch of Malabrigo Worsted on order, because I think I need to knit a sweater out of that, too. We’ll start up another KAL this summer (not a sweater this time – it’s too hot to have a sweater sitting on your lap while you knit) – watch here for details in a couple of weeks. (Like the squirrel photo? Apparently you Floridians have very friendly squirrels. This guy looked like he was going to jump up on the railing to see us.)

Look where Loopy landed this week – Alaska! My Mum-in-Law took Knitting Daughter up there to visit Wonder Husband’s sister and her husband. (That would be KD’s aunt and uncle.) What a nice graduation gift, don’t you think? Loopy is having a marvelous time. I’m not sure he’s going to want to come back from there. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. I hope you have some fun plans for Loopy this summer. A few of you have already started turning in your photos with Loopy. (He has already met Lucy Neatby and now he wants to dye his fleece purple, FPS.) The postcards will continue to go out in orders until they run out. We’re only putting them in your first order after May 1st, but leave us an order note if you need another one in a later order. We had a lot of fun seeing where he went last summer, and we know you’ll rise to the challenge this summer as well.

This month’s contest is easy and follows along the question of Night Owl vs. Early Bird. Leave your answer in the comments and we’ll use the random number generator to pick a winner one week from today. Here’s the two part question: Are you a Night Owl or an Early Bird? And what would be your ideal time of day or night for a Sneak Up to go up? (Note – those of you who are regulars here, have kind of figured out that Sneak Ups normally happen in the earlier part of the week – M – W, but we do try to vary the times in order to catch everyone at their best time at one point or another.)

Sheri whowouldideallyliketobeBOTHanightowlandanearlybird-howcanImakethatwork?

Lots of celebrating going on at our house this week. College Guy and Mum-in-law came in last weekend, just in time for Knitting Daughter’s graduation from high school. I know this picture is a little blurry, but this is her on the way back up the aisle at the end of the ceremony, beaming because it’s official – she’s done with high school! She is a happy gal. We went out to dinner afterwards to celebrate with her, and then the Senior Class had an all-night lock-in that was a lot of fun for everyone. KD came home at 5:30 the next morning, ready for some sleep! Today, it was back to being a Barista at 6 am and making her mom a Venti Skinny Hazelnut with one Sweet and Low.

The other celebration we had this week was for College Guy’s 21st birthday. The actual date was last week (and thank you all for your wonderful birthday greetings for him, as well as graduation greetings for KD on Monday!). Since he was in the midst of finals on his birthday, we waited until he came home to do a family party for him. (My poor family – two celebrations, two nights in a row. Everyone held up remarkably well through the whole thing.) We went and found these awesome cupcakes at a cupcake bakery in town yesterday. They’re delicious and huge and I wish this place was just a wee bit closer to my house. Or maybe not. I’m still trying to figure out how one can own a cupcake bakery without eating them all every day.

We did some re-stocking yesterday and put a few things up, but we’re not doing an official Sneak Up this week. (You know when we skip a week, that always means an overload for the next week. But we’ll be ready for it.) We only get College Guy home for one measly week this summer (oh, and 3 days at the end of the summer) because he has a great internship in Florida for the summer. He leaves on Saturday already. I’m driving down there with him (knitting time plus time with CG = one happy mom) and will be back on Monday night. It’s a good thing that this is Memorial Day Weekend. That also means an extra day of knitting for everyone, right?

Sheri headinghomefromLoopyCentralearlytodaytohangoutwiththekids

This week we have Cheryl Potter, owner of Cherry Tree Hill Yarn, in the Limelight. Cherry Tree was one of the first companies I ordered from when I was setting up The Loopy Ewe. My first skein of their sock yarn was in the Green Mountain Madness colorway and I was hooked as soon as I saw it. We started with just a few of their colors (I don’t remember how many) but now of course we have all of them for you. (As well as a lot of exclusive colorways from them in the past year.) Cheryl is a delight to work with and a great business woman. I know you’ll have fun getting to know her a bit today!

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Loopy: Hi Cheryl! First of all, how long have you been a knitter, and who taught you?
Cheryl: I began knitting at the age of 8 with some Dazzle yarn my mother bought me at Woolworths. It was sparkle yellow and lime green and I knit myself a t shirt top. Remember this was the 70′s so I was really hip. It was my first FO with my mother’s help of course!

Loopy: Sparkle yellow and lime green? Actually, The Loopy Lady’s first sweater was in a yellow and lime green, back during that time, too. That’s funny! Do you have a favorite thing that you like to knit?
Cheryl: Large multi–directional garments are my favorite. I hate to finish a project so I make sure it’s something big like a rug or an afghan or a large shawl or jacket knit with fingering weight yarn.

Loopy: You hate to finish a project? That’s interesting! What’s the most difficult project you’ve attempted?
Cheryl: I’m knitting a large tapestry shawl out of Supersock right now and I must say it is daunting. It took me 2 weeks just to graph the motifs with Stitch and Motif maker and there are no repeats. But the color combinations are just amazing and you can use so many in a tapestry.

Loopy: You’ll have to put a photo on your blog when it’s done. We’d all like to see that. When do you find time to knit?
Cheryl: I like to knit nights and weekends. On trips to yarn shows I make my husband drive so I can knit in the truck. When the weather is really bad in winter it gives me a great excuse to knit while watching a movie during snowstorms. Of course we have a generator so that I do not have to knit by flashlight when the electricity goes out.

Loopy: What made you take the next step and look into dyeing your own yarn, and how did you learn how to do that?
Cheryl: Back in the dark ages when I was in college, handpainted yarn was in its infancy and Kaffe Fassett was new to the knitting world. I took one look at his book Glorious Knits and knew I did not have the patience for all those bobbins but I did want all those colors. So in true Indie Dyer style, I space dyed my own yarn and called it faux fairisle. I must have knit every garment in that book twice. I did not know then that there even was something called handpainted yarn. In graduate school I took it a step further by visiting the Navajo Indian reservation while pursuing my fine arts degree. At that time Navajos were hand dyeing Brown Sheep yarn for their rugs and wall hangings. I established an account with Brown Sheep and began dyeing and selling my own yarn. It was my very first handpainted effort and with this yarn I was “discovered” by Interweave Knits magazine.

Loopy: No doubt you were one of the first true “indie dyers”. How do you come up with your colorways? And do you have a personal favorite?
Cheryl: We live in the wilderness of Vermont and most of the colorways are inspired by nature. This rural pastoral area is pretty much untouched by technology–no cell towers, for example–and the lush and vivid colors of the Green Mountains are breathtaking. Whenever we visit some exotic place we come up with a color: Misty Moor from visiting Scotland two years ago, Caribou Creek from camping in Alaska last year. My favorite is still Wild Cherry because it was such a joyful discovery. While walking property to buy land up here in the Northeast Kingdom, we came upon a forgotten orchard in a clearing in the woods. The berries and cherries and apples were delicious shades of burgundy and mulberry, russet and scarlet. It was like walking into a fantasy land that time forgot. That clinched it for me–I had to move up here into what the locals call God’s Country and the less reverent just call The Kingdom.

Loopy: I am particularly fond of Wild Cherry, too, as that is what my socks are knit from. (And that’s the colorway that we send out in “Loopy’s Red Sock Kit”. You know we order more bags of that colorway than any of them!) There are a lot of dyers out there these days, how do you stay fresh and unique in what you do?
Cheryl: I like dying custom colors, like the ones I do for you. It takes you away from production work and into a more ethereal place. I started small and sometimes it is just so much fun to dye small non repeatable batches. This is why we do Potlucks and Lottery, just to keep on experimenting and pushing the color envelope.

Loopy: Tell us about the Maple Syrup your family does! We’d also love to hear about your family. (Love the photo of the Sugar Shack!)
Cheryl: My family is totally involved in the business. My husband makes his very cherry Maple Syrup only for yarn stores. It is the fanciest grade available and he does it all with horses and bucket the old fashioned way. His sugar house was built in the 1700′s and some of his maple trees are 150 years old. My older daughter just graduated from college and among other things is an Indie Dyer. She has a blog and a website and loves to talk about dying on Ravelry. I have seen her dye sheets and overdye sweaters she did not like the color of, and recently we did a project together involving a horse blanket. Her big thing now is helping other small dyers find ways to buy small amounts of yarn and dyes inexpensively. I wonder where she found her contacts? My younger daughter is only in 8th grade but she works for CTH all summer. Last year she earned enough yarn money to purchase her own Quarter Horse. He is the horse pictured wearing the handpainted saddle blanket my other daughter designed on our CTH homepage at www.cherryyarn.com

Loopy: How fun that your daughter has turned dyeing into a business, too! You have a new book coming out soon – can you give us a bit of information on that?
Cheryl: It is called Skein for Skein and it is all about substituting one yarn for another and making it work. I’ve teamed up with 3 friends who work for other yarn companies and we’ve all picked 4 designs to show you what works and what doesn’t work. This is the first time I’ve been allowed to publish designs that don’t work. I hope knitters will enjoy our bloopers.

Loopy: We always like to know about bloopers. Anything else you’d like to add?
Cheryl: Thanks Sheri, for being so adventurous with your sock yarn. I think your customers must love it that you are not afraid to get unique colorways from us and they must love the fact that you name them yourself. I enjoy visiting your website because it is so interactive. Some day we should do a dye class together!
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Sheri happyhappybecauseWebGuyishomefromcollegeandmum-in-lawhascometovist
andKnittingDaughtergraduatesfromhighschooltonight!Woohoo!!

Just to prove that I’m balanced in my stashing, I wanted to show you the refrigerator stash. You all know that the freezer stash is all about the chicken br*asts and the pantry stash is all about the almond stash. When I was cleaning out the fridge this week, I realized that the fridge stash is all about pickles. Six jars of them in various stages of fullness/emptiness. (WH saw me photoing this and asked me if I wanted him to go get the Sam’s Club-sized jar of dill pickles that I had already thrown out in the garbage can five minutes earlier. I said, “No, thank you.” Or something like that.) Six misc. jars of pickles. FPS. At least I know that I have stashes in each food storage area in my kitchen. Just in case I need them. Kinda like I have my sock yarn stash, “just in case I need it.”

It’s time to welcome new Loopy Groupies again! You get to Loopy Groupie status when you get your 6th package from us, and we love sending you something special when you reach that stage. So a warm welcome and lots of hugs to the following people who have become LG’s since the last Blog Welcome List: Wendy in DA, Karen in Canada, Renne in ME, Patricia in DE, Sandi in NY, Heather in NY, Sarah in NH, Marita in Canada, Alison in WA, Diane in PA, Elaine in WA, Nicole in PA, Heather in D.C., Julie in AZ, Anne in NC, Melissa in IN, Timmie in NC, Kristin in Canada, Teaira in NV, Carol in CA, Lani in FL, Liz in TX, Mary in IN, Lisa in VA, Cathy in VA, Patricia in MO, Ami in Idaho, Candice in NC, Ann in PA, Carrie in WA, Suzi in GA, Sheri in CO, Marnie in Canada, Pamela in VA, Lisa in CT, Susan in LA, Janet in PA, Margie in MD, Loren in VA, Stephanie in Canada, Christy in MI, Natasha in CA, Barbara in TX, Deborah in IL, Kim in PA, Cristi in NC, Jamie in NY, Molly in PA, Jennifer in FL, Michele in SC, Frances in FL, Carol in NC, Shannon in MD, Shainna in WV, Marie in RI, Kristen in MD, Jennifer in ND, Anne in OH, Betsy in IL, Katie in CA, Anna in OR, Jill in GA, Dawn in IL, Katie in TX, Kathy in IL, Melanie in VA, Lizzie in OH, Michele in AK, Lynne in CA, Lauren in PA, Amy in TX, Deborah in VA, Mary Jane in TX, Barbara in NJ, Carrie in NY, Tami in NY, Jessica in TX, Janine in TX, Kerry in NY, Pauline in OH, Keri in MO, Rae-Ann in PA, Sara in KS, Julianne in CA, Sue in CA, Kathy in IA, Karen in VA, Mary in KY, Kathy in SC, Sharon in NY, Christine in MA, Mary Ann in NY, Karen in MA, Laura in Canada, Deirdre in Canada, Beth in MN, Julie in WI, Linda in MA,Jamie in MI, Dorothy in GA, Megann in CA, Denise in NY, Bertha in MA, Kate in OK, Eve in PA, Leslie in MS, Polly in NH, Bethany in AL, Jennifer in CA, heather in NC, Jill in RI, Dawn in MA, Michelle in Canada, Eva in CA, Rita in Australia, Debra in AL, Susan in MA, Stacy in OK, Paula in IA, Dawn in NC, Lisa in NY, Melissa in D.C., Kristina in CO, Jodi in LA, Natalia in MO, Jenifer in CA, Alexis in CT, Helene in NJ, Nicole in MA, Margaret in MI, Kirstin in IL, Megan in IA, Carol in IL, Megan in CT, Gretchen in PA, Cathy in NC, Carol in PA, Michele in MI, Vicki in IL, Jessica in OH, Eleanor in Canada, Amanda in TX, Carole in PA, Terry in VA, Kati in CO, Andrea in CA, Angela in OR, Terri in IL, Diane in Canada, Deawn in NE, Danielle in MO, Doreen in NC, Barbara in LA, Mary Ann in CA, Tracy in VA, Jane in the UK, Kathy in IN, Kim in CA, Jill in KS, Jennifer in MO, Erica in Canada, Alice in PA, Sherry in MA, Krista in AK, Kym in MI, Susan in NY, Julie in MA, Linda in MN, Pattie in OH, Camille in AR, Pam in CO, Susan in NY, Paula in NY, Denise in TX, Bonnie in TX, Jill in CO, Kajsa in Malaysia, Michelle in GA, Suzanne in FL, Alicia in GA, Judi in MN, Stacey in GA, Melissa in MO, Wendy in CT, Katie in VA, Hayly in KY, Beth in CA, Beth in ID, Melanie in OR, Beth in MI, Donna in MO, Kelle in MI, Sandy in NJ, Vicki in CT, Nikki in GA, Diane in ME, Jan in MI, Beth in KS, Lisa in MI, Gabrielle in CA, Karen in Ca, Catherine in New Zealand, Susan in MO, Janet in OH, Rebecca in FL, Faith in NJ, Thea in NY, Melissa in D.C., Leslie in CA, Carol in VA, Jennifer in CA, Sandra in WY, Hallie in CA, Janet in IL, Melodie in NY, Anita in KT, Jessica in CO, Bridget in MI, Joanne in CO, Michelle in MO, Cheryl in MO, Jill in VA, Kelley in IA, Grace in NM, Aimee in CA, Karin in NC, Andrea in Canada, Cindy in TX, Jean in Illinois, Joyce in MO, Mary-Ethel in Canada, Shelley in OH, Jessica iN CT, Kathleen in MI, Kimberly in TN, Brenda in MI, Debra in WA, Julia in NY, Anita in IA, Linda in OH, Jerri Lynn in NY, Cindy in WI, Monica in VA, Alison in FL, Christine in PA, Sarah in PA, Suzanne in MI, Megan in PA, Jessica in MO, Julie in NJ, Angela in OR, Elizabeth in NJ, Penny in NC, Mary in FL, Carrie in MN, Tori in CA, Constance in CO, Kiyomi in NC, Jessica in A, Rebecca in OH, Barbara in MS, Patricia in IL, Kimberly in OH, Lisa in TX, Hester in IL, April in NH, Jessica in MD, Alicia in IL, Betty in CA, Adrienne in NY, Iva in VA, Marissa in TN, Erica in IL, Andrea in WA, Beth in FL, Michele in CO, Melissa in CA, Nancy in IA, Jeanette in NY, Cynthia in PA, Karen in UT, Nancy in NJ, Heather in IL, Stephanie in MI, Becky in WA, Makana in MN, Linda in IN, Dorothy in PA, Gayle in TN, Kimberly in MD, Sandra in OR, Elizabeth in VA, Veronica in TX, Gabriele in UT, Emily in NY, Joanne in MD, Shelley in South Korea, Patti in KS, Susan in IL, Marie in MD, Janet in NC, Myriam in MI, Melissa in CA, Holly in IN, Tina in MS, Marcia in WV, Lacinda in IA, Debbie in TX, Mary in WA, Misty in MS, Tina in OH, Sharon in GA, Jennifer in KS, Susan in OH, Leslie in MI, Lynn in OH, Melanie in WI, Alisha in MS, Jessica in KS, Elaine in NE, Martha in NY, Alyssa in OR, Amy in NC, Michelle in MO, Susan in MD, Elaine in MD, Kristen in MD, Jordana in OR, Sarah in CA, Karen in CA, Maureen in OR, Mary in SD, Brenda in New Zealand, Holly in the military, Lorin in HI, Sidney in TX, Debra in MO,Rita in CA, Gaynor in CA, Linda in CA, Cerina in Cuba, Debbie in CA, Rebecca-Anne in Australia, Pamela in NC, Sonya in KY, Larissa in MD, Heike in Germany, Catherine in MI, Margaret in OR, Connie in TX, Therese in WA, Diane in Australia, Deidra in VA, Anna in NY, Sheila in CA, Sarah in MD, Melissa in IN, Star in OR, Liz in MS, Joan in VA, Patti in CA, Beth in VA and Jean in MI. (Next time I won’t let so much time elapse between blog welcomes – jeesh. As always, if we have screwed up and missed you in this Welcome List, please email me so that we can get you on the next one!)

Today’s recipe is for Banana Pudding and it’s wonderful! It doesn’t last very long around our house. (I know the picture doesn’t look all that appetizing – a food stylist I am not – but it tastes yummy!)

Banana Pudding

2 pkgs. instant vanilla pudding mix
4 cups cold milk
1 can Eagle Brand milk
1 box vanilla wafers
5-6 bananas
1 sm. container of Cool Whip

Mix pudding mix with milk as directed on package. Blend in Eagle Brand milk. Stir in Cool Whip. In a deep round glass bowl, layer vanilla wafers, bananas, and pudding. Repeat at least 2 times, or for as many layers as you can. Crush a few vanilla wafers and sprinkle on top. Refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.

Sheri whohasabusyweekendaheadbutwillstillfindtimetoknitandspin!

Another busy week here at Loopy Central and we have all hands on deck! Well – really I used that saying just so that I could show you the fun hand models that I have here. (But the busy part is true. We’re working very hard on all of your Sneak Up orders from this week. It’s going to take us another day to get through them all.) The wooden hand is from Barnes and Noble. I got the man size because the lady size looked so small. And the porcelain hand just arrived this week from this website. It’s a “vintage glove form”. Now I’ll have to knit a single fingerless glove to put on there (because you know I’m all about single socks and gloves. Although honestly, the white one on the wooden form is my only single fingerless glove so far.) If you ever see any other fun hand forms, send me an email. I like having the around. And besides, the Little Loopys also find them entertaining.

I spun up some roving over the weekend. This is Ravenswood from The Sanguine Gryphon. I know the photo is a little bit dark, but when I used the flash, it took out the shine that is in the roving. This is a merino/silk combo and is so easy to spin and feels wonderful! So far I haven’t knit anything with any of my handspun skeins. I bought a couple of one-skein books and have some great pattern ideas, but just haven’t done it yet. Has anyone out there made anything fun with their handspun? It had been too long since I had been on my spinning wheel and I can see that I must stay in practice, or I seem to go backwards a little in my skills. I have that Creatively Dyed Seacell up next, and then we just got a new order of The Dyeing Arts Roving in this week (here’s the sold out page to see some of their past colors) and I absolutely love Tara’s colors. So that will come next. (Psst – we also got in an order from sKNITches and one from Yarn Pirate. So we have fun stuff for you again next week.)

Speaking of fun, look at this photo. It’s entitled “Shades of Ewe” – get it? (Can you see the Little Loopy in there?) We participated in a St. Louis Yarn Shop Crawl on Saturday, and one of the gals who came by brought this photo that her husband Roy had taken for us. He has this great business called “Shades of St. Louis“, where he photos St. Louis landmarks in the reflection of sunglasses. He’s now branching out into “Shades of America” as well. Take a look at his gallery on his website. I particularly like the ones he has taken of local schools.

Ok. Back to packing orders. Y’all you guys all y’all every one of you Loopy customers are the best.

Sheri whokeepsgettingdistractedbyboxesofnewstuffcominginthedoorFPS