Whew!

All I can say is thank goodness Monday traffic is lighter than the rest of the week. So Cal temps have dipped a little and it seems more like our winter. Life at the LYS was really crazy. Didn't sell much but at one point we had 3 different customers all learning something different.

I had told one customer that I would bring in my current summer afghan because I thought that the pattern was the one she was looking for. It is a pattern from a very old Lee Wards kit. Basically shells and chains worked in 2 colors in a manner that each side is a different color and makes a heavy fabric ideal for putting under a baby on the floor etc. Turns out that the pattern wasn't quite what she wanted but she is going to make it anyway.

Next was an unexpected surprise. A customer that I had helped a couple of years ago dropped in to get help with a pattern that she was having difficulty with. The project we worked on before was a felted purse in mohair that taught both of us how to work knitted short rows. Today we learned how to increase. She is making a small neck scarf that starts out with a humoungous number of cast on stitches. The next few rows have lots of decreases followed by about 3 inches of plain stockingnet. The piece is finished with lots of rows with tons of increases. Finished scarf is ruffle, straight, ruffle. She is using koigu (KPPPM). It is going to be incredible. It was great fun to see her and hear how the bag turned out.

I have finished 3 of the first motifs for the wall hanging that the Crochet Club 2011 will ultimately become. While I was spot on in the gauge swatches I did, these motifs are running smaller than what the pattern says I should have. So now I am going back and forth between frogging and just living with a slightly smaller wall hanging. We shall see.