December – Woosh! Where has the month gone? For me, the clock always seems to speed up as the holidays approach and the year is ending!
My month started off with teaching a class at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown NC for their Holiday in the Mountains week. This was a special holiday class I titled A Winter Wonderland in Beads and Knitted Lace. I had four enthusiastic and wonderfully creative students – Tricia, Ginny, Alice and Reyn. Check out Tricia’s blog where she shares her photos from the Friday afternoon showing.
John is visiting for Christmas, and my son and daughter are in town, but other than that I am not having very much time for holiday celebrations. I am up to my ears in knitting!
I have a rush project for Mountain Colors and Lorna’s Laces which I just couldn’t bring myself to turn down (I really liked the marketing premise and it has good potential), so I can blame no one else but myself for getting into this time pinch. That, along with the other new patterns I hope to release next month and various samples for yarn companies have me busy-busy-busy. But I am happy and life looks good.
As a member of Association of Knitwear Designers (AKD), I volunteered to knit some 
swatches for the Great Wall of Yarn (GWOY) that will be displayed at the TNNA trade show in Long Beach CA next month. Here are the yarns that I will be swatching.
As just one of the many benefits of being an AKD member, it is sort of neat to get to see and work with new yarns and colors — sometimes even before they are released! I’ll post more information about each yarn over the next few days, along with pictures of the display samples I am playing around with.
Enjoy the week of holiday celebrations! Happy Christmas Eve and blessed Christmas Day to you and yours.