Sarah Jane’s Yarn Shoppe

At last I have finished the brown sweater, I have had some trouble getting the sleeves to fit just right, so I am with holding photographs at this time.  On a much better fitting note, take a look at the jacket Sally made out of the Marble Chunky -

The pattern says you can make it in a weekend, but I don’t think you would have time to eat or sleep if you made it that fast.  We have quite a few colors in this yarn, so you might want to take a weekend and whip one up for yourself. 

Here is one of the new yarns we have in called Balu.  Balu is made from wool, acrylic, chashmere and angora.  Georgia already made one of the scarfs from the pattern book, I love the scarf and have named it the “Gigi”.

Linda also finished the first square from The Great American Afghan, she said it was fairly challenging, but that the second square is quite easy.  You’ll definitely want to join her for the class to get things going.

I packed up the family, left Fort Wayne and the yarn shop and headed down to Florida for vacation.  I thought it was going to be great to get away from Sarah Jane’s for a while, but guess where we had dinner on the way down!

Sara Jane’s country cookin’ didn’t have any great yarn and no one was knitting, but they did have good food and really friendly service.  No, that is not a picture of my grandma on the sign!  If you are ever heading down 75 just past Dayton, you might want to stop.

Vacation was great, I didn’t get my brown sweater done, but I did do quite a bit of knitting.  I made a baby hat with pom poms out of Sublime.  I also worked on some stranded hats:  my first one was another baby hat made from Brown Sheep Nature Spun sport weight and then I switched to a hat for my son made from some more Sublime.  I really like the stranded knitting because it almost feels like magic!  If you haven’t stranded before, we have three different classes this fall giving you an opportunity to learn.