Miss Babs Blog

Babs Ausherman

You may not know it, but Spring is my absolute favorite season. Why? Because color returns to the landscape along with more sunlight. Yes, I am a SAD sufferer, but... Read More

It's November 2018!

Babs Ausherman

Well, I can't believe that it's November. It was only January or maybe June just yesterday. This year has flown by! I have barely blogged and not really stayed in... Read More

Vacation... and the Trees and Gardens Go Boom!

Babs Ausherman

The past 10 days I have been on vacation. How glorious it has been! Oliver and I drove to Florida where we had rented an AirBnB in Jacksonville Beach. We... Read More

Whoo! It Was A Hard Winter!

Babs Ausherman

All I can say is "Thank God it is Spring!" I am so happy to see green stuff coming fully alive, and to think that I can actually plant something... Read More

2017 Year End - Musings

Babs Ausherman

What a year! My whole world has changed and yet so much of it is the same. The loss of my husband just over a year ago, a new studio... Read More

Continued - A Year in Time

Babs Ausherman

This is a difficult subject for me to talk about, but as you will be seeing pictures in the future from an obviously different location I need to talk about... Read More

A Year in Time

Babs Ausherman

Somebody asked me yesterday how long it had been since my husband, Ron, had died. We counted and it was 10 months to the day. The first few months after his... Read More

This Week in the Studio - 7-31-17

Babs Ausherman

This week sees the parents and grandparents among our staff thinking about their kids going back to school. Many of the Tennessee schools open later this week. Wow...this is when we... Read More

This Week, This Day, This Hour

Babs Ausherman

So today is Sunday. My first day off in two weeks. Thirteen days straight, although driving north and south on I81 is sort of time off. I love driving and... Read More

Another K for the DK

Jennifer J

First off...Thank You! Naming things is a constant activity here at Miss Babs, and generally we enjoy the process, have fun with it and make it a game. Finding a name for our New DK yarn was makin' us crazy! Thank you all for the suggestions and words that led us breadcrumb-like to our New DK's name...Kaweah DK.Your Mountain suggestions drew us to the western United States where we found another "K" to add to Katahdin and Kilimanjaro. The word Kaweah is Yokuts Indian for "crow" and names not only... Read More

Vacation, Workshop Classes, and Asheville Nostalgia

Babs Ausherman

It's been a quick week. But isn't that always the way with a vacation week? When you are dreaming about it weeks before, you think about all the things you are going to get done, or not do, on those 9 long days. So now it's over. I did not get done near what I had on my list, but I did get some very important things done, or not done. I actually relaxed. My mind has calmed. I had some nice talks with my husband. I cleaned some of... 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