Miss Babs Blog

Jennifer J

Babs and Marly are teaming up for a colorful discussion that will include prizes and of course, Color! Please join them at Noon tomorrow (EST)January 14. Marly has been sending out yarny smiles from her Podcast for quite a while and Babs is making her sophomore appearance as a guest on a podcast. The listener dial-in number is 347 - 539 - 5589 and we hope that you are free to join us live or listen later while enjoying your evening knitting cuddled up on the couch! The Yarn Thing... Read More

My, Oh My...the Year Has Flown By Fast!!

Babs Ausherman

I simply cannot believe that we are here in December and I am thinking about cleaning out and starting fresh. I know, I know I am a bit early with this, but last weekend I managed to clean one of my attics out (yes, there are two of them in my house on either side of the knee walls.) In part, I needed to do this is because there is enough stuff in there that it's hard to get at the Christmas decorations, and also because I feel a need... Read More

Winner from the Last Post

Helen C

We picked the winner from our Thanksgiving giveaway today, and I couldn't be happier with the wisdom of the Random Number Generator! The winning comment was from Sandra J: "I’m thankful that after nearly a year and a half of being out of work, I got a job last month! Don’t make enough to buy yarn right now, but I’m also thankful that I have a stash and a future." I have emailed her to ask which color of Ephemeral she would like, and we will be sending... Read More

Being Thankful, and Other Related Things

Babs Ausherman

This time of year I start thinking. Around here, most of the people say, "Uh oh, she's thinking" and it probably means another To Do list is about to be shared with them. But there's something about the change from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time that means that I slow down a bit. I have more time to think and to ponder because of that. I go slower. I am already thinking about next year, but I am also thinking about this year and what has happened for us... Read More

Rambling about the Studio and Being Back Home

Babs Ausherman

So we've been back in the studio for most of the past month busily dyeing for orders from shows, for the Bliss Trunk Show that was 10 days ago in Brentwood (Nashville, TN), as well as some special things for Thanksgiving and the gift season. It has been wonderful to get some full nights of sleep, to spend some time with our loved ones who don't see us much during October when we're at the end of prepping for shows and then being on the road. I missed the last... Read More

The Website and Fall Shows

Babs Ausherman

We are getting close to our last shows of the year! Rhinebeck and SAFF are this coming weekend and next. You will notice that we are having to take lots of everything off the website. We will leave some things on, but in some bases, we just have to take everything! This is not how we like to do things, but this fall it just has to be this way. Here's a sneak peek of our van loaded with boxes of yarn... After our two shows, we will take... Read More

Rhinebeck and SAFF - Coming up Fast!

Veronica Parsons

Autumn is here and two big shows are coming very soon! We are dyeing like crazy to have lots of beautiful yarns for you. Here is some yarn drying in the studio... And some yarn waiting to be twisted... Of course we’ll have lots and lots of your favorites - we are practically bursting with gorgeous skeins of Yowza and Yummy - but Rhinebeck will be the first place you can see Katahdin, our new light fingering weight BFL in giant 1750-yard skeins. Looking for a... Read More

The Winner is.... (And what is this plant??)

Babs Ausherman

Thank you everyone for sharing your plants and fallishness. The winner is.... Cheryl M! I have contacted her and await her response. She wins a skein in the color of her choice of Yummy 2-ply Sock yarn and a Martina Behm pattern in Miss Winkle! Also, I forgot to include this picture in my blog post the other day. I saw this shrubby plant on the edge of our driveway and have never noticed it before. What the heck is it?? The balls are made up of very pointy... Read More

September - Here She Comes!!

Babs Ausherman

In just two days, September will be here. It always marked the true end of summer to me, even though the days were often still hot, the light had already begun to shift and the days were getting ever so slightly shorter. As a kid, I hated it. As an adult, I often think about how I have missed most of summer and how did that happen?? When I was a kid, summer lasted forever, now it seems like it is two weeks long. How did I miss vacation time?... Read More

On The Road and At the Studio

Babs Ausherman

Babs here...Jen and I are on the road between Stitches Midwest and Michigan Fiber Festival. At home, it has been raining cats and dogs and frogs. Roads, and driveways, and basements are full of water! Here's a picture Carmen took this morning of one of the roads in to where my house and studio are. Apparently the road from the other direction has the asphalt coming up from it and and will be turning into a mud/clay mess?? The real reason for this post is to let you... 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

Smurf Spinning!

Babs Ausherman

I haven't been spinning much lately, but I decided to do a little last week after I sprained my ankle. I've been sitting a fair amount, and I actually needed to exercise that ankle a little. So I thought a little spinning might do the trick. It seems to be helping. The colorway I chose is Smurf and Turf in my BFL and Silk blend. I use a Schacht Lady Bug to spin on. Here's is one of the bobbins of with half of the fiber spun on it... Read More