Psudo-sod = knit grass for art's sake.

Yesterday was spent sitting and knitting at the Huntington Beach Art Center with my new friend, Amy who has an exibit at the canter currently on display. She is part of an exhibit called "MANufactured", exploring models of painting and sculpture through the use of such manufactured materials as plastic, fabric, and fiber; including Cathy Breslaw, Amy Caterina, Maureen Shields, and Tomoko Suzuki.
Amy is on a mission to knit an entire Psudo-sod car cover and calling on all knitters to participate by knitting a swatch for her. I sat and chatted, laughed, knit sod and even sold some yarn while i was there.
Psudo-sod is one strand of brown worsted weight yarn held together with one strand of grass colored eyelash yarn, knit on large needles, all in garter stitch. Sounds yucky from a yarn standpoint but actually resembles grass when worked up. Stupid Blogger isn't latteing me post pics so go over to my personal blog to see the pics i snapped of her progress as of yesterday.
The car cover project isn't the only thing on display. She has Forest Fire Friends which are large knit animals and some other pieces using Psudo-sod at the Huntington Beach Art Center.

Yummy Yarns

I posted this on my blog, but I just love the colors I also had to post here. This is my current inventory for both Etsy and also the Dec. 1 craft fair. This is from the dye party at Aubrey's and the Saturday night of Zona's crafty adventure at Piecemakers.

I haven't put anything on Esty yet, but I did put up my store banner.

"You like me....You really like me!"

This weekend was my first foray into selling my yarn to the general public face to face. And it went well.....really well!
I had a booth at the local Piecemakers Harvest Craft Fair and sat there for 2 days spinning and chatting with all kinds of people. There were people that walked up to my table and "Ooooo" while touching and squeezing the twisty colorful hanks but then they'd look up and say "what is this?". They didn't realize that it was yarn. I guess when you aren't familiar with handspun and all you see are factory spun balls and hanks at your local Michaels you wouldn't know yarn comes in other forms. Anyways.... there were only a few of those people. For the most part it was people that were facinated by the whole dying and spinning process and coudn't decide which loveley hand to take home. Lots of children would stop thier parents and come stand by me as i spun away and explained how the "fluff" came from the sheep and what i did to it. I think that was my favorite part of the weekend......explaining the process to thecurious and wide eyed kids.
By the end of Saturday my inventory was severly depleted. I had sold more than half of what i brought with me! My dress form was naked of her scarves and accessories - all sold!

Anne, Aubrey and several people from our Weds night knitting group came down to visit with me throughout the day and i met several people that might come by some Weds night to knit with us.
On Saturday night when i got home i scoured the house for more knit accessories to adorn the dress form, worked up a quick scarf and dug out a few hats to bring along for Sunday. Sunday moring i ditched the baskets the yarn had been in the previous day and spread out my remaining inventory on the sheep printed tablecloth. Everything filled in nicely and it didn't look as sparce as when i worried it might.
Sunday was a slower day as far as attendace but there was a slow steady pace of purchases and it was a good day afterall. Rachel came by and sat with me for a while and knit while helping out with customers. She also brought yummy apple cupcakse to snak on. Yum!
Anne came by and put up some of her beautiful handdyed yarn and people were ooo'ing and aaahhh'ing over those as well. It was nice to see her selling some stuff as well. She even did a little drop spindle demo for a fellow spinner!
Overall the weekend was a success! I made way more than i would have anticipated and i will be doing it again in December. Anne is going to share the booth and i think we are going to make a killing!