Miss Babs Blog

Stitches West 2017 Preview

Veronica Parsons

Stitches West 2017 is nearly here! We'll be at the Santa Clara Convention Center this February 23-26 for a great show. We have five big booths for all our colorful... Read More

This Week in the Studio - 7.25.16

Babs Ausherman

What's happening this week in the studio? Wild Iris dyeing, super-secret dyeing, and a little update about our show schedule. Read More

Summertime! and Our Vacation is Over!

Babs Ausherman

Back to the studio after our week off!! Many of us went to the beach with family, some of us went to the mountains with friends, and some of us did the Staycation. It sounds like we all had a pretty good time, got rested and relaxed! And now! It's time to start getting ready for SSK over in Nashville, TN in mid-July and Stitches Midwest in Schaumburg, IL in early August!! Come see us! We'll be doing some new things and have some new colors and project ideas... Read More

"State of the Studio" - 2015

Babs Ausherman

The POTUS (President of the United States) gets a State of the Union and GOTN (Governor of Tennessee) get a State of the State, I might as well get to have a State of the Studio. 2015 brings us to a bustling year and we are absolutely busting at the seams in the studio in terms of people and yarn as we prep for shows. And we want to thank everyone who participated in the Annual Gratitude Sale! It emptied our racks - which now means I am dyeing madly... Read More

May Musings

Babs Ausherman

As always each year seems to fly by faster and faster. And here we are in May already, it seems like it was just January and February. I was counting days in my life (multiplying actually) and realized that given how many days I have already lived, I should have this thing figured out and be more graceful and effective and smooth and...wwll you get the picture. I still have good days and bad days just like everyone else. I am happy that the irises are blooming and the pileated... Read More

Spring is Here!! and More about 2014

Babs Ausherman

We are barely into the fourth month of the year and it has already been very...busy, crazy, emotional, whelming and overwhelming, and filled with lots of dyeing and readying for shows. Personal and business has been much intermixed--not always what one wants, but sometimes you just can't not mix the two. Many of you know that my apprentice, Jen H., was was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which has required chemotherapy and radiation. This has been a difficult space of time for all, and most of all for Jen who... Read More

Heading West

Babs Ausherman

This coming week is all Stitches and all #StitchesWest! We have been able to ship quite a bit of yarn in spite of the fact that Jen H. wasn't there to dye and process and wash yarn like she normally is. Everyone else in the studio stepped up to help out! In spite of how much we have shipped, I actually have some extra that I dyed to leave here for the website so that those of you not going to Santa Clara will still have some things to check... Read More

Acer Cardigan in Progress

Veronica Parsons

Stitches Midwest is coming up fast and I'm working on my Acer Cardigan as a new sample for our booth! I'm knitting it in Yowza in Oyster, which is a soft warm grey. Yowza is probably my favorite yarn to knit sweaters out of (and one day I'll get to keep one for myself - so far they have all been samples.) Acer is a lovely cardigan by Amy Christoffers with some cable-and-lace detail. I've actually had it in my queue to knit for a long time, so I was... Read More

The Flower Garden

Babs Ausherman

Last year in August, we headed off to do what we call our Midwest Tour. We head to Stitches Midwest in Schaumburg, Il and then a week later we are at Michigan Fiber Festival in Allegan, MI. When we left, I knew that some drainage work was going to be done which would include needing to dig across one of the four tiers of my flower garden. When I came home, three of the four tiers was covered up by clay dirt and to nicely finish it off, a... Read More

Getting Ready for a Show....

Babs

All those last minute things that have to be done. My DH suggested a few years ago that I make a standard list of things to remember in getting ready for a show. Maybe he's right and I should do that, but so many things seem to be different before each show, especially when shipping to the West Coast, which we will do 2-3 times this year. We leave in a day or so and the time that seemed so long, now seems so little. Crazy! All the little things... Read More