There are just 2 days left in the great annual Diva Yarn SALE! Everything except books is now 30% off! Wow!! yarn, needles, totes, patterns, buttons and YARN .... you need to come and see the selection! Now is the perfect get ready for the holiday gift giving knit time.

We have anew fixture in Diva! It is a wonderfully textured, vintage style wire shel unit. I bought it from a fellow vendor at Sock Summit in Portland and I added it and another to our FELTING corner. We have such great new roving and felting books that the whole corner has come alive.

Since I think this holiday season will be the one of handmade gifts; a little felted animal would make a great tree ornament. Come in for an idea or two!

This new title in crochet has just arrived at the shop and Cathy made a little star granny square from it. I had not seen a star granny square before and I am delighted at how pretty and unique it is! We have an awesome collection of crochet titles and magazines. Crochet is so exciting this past year and we are seeing design potential that I just never knew existed before. I'll see a picture and think how pretty that piece is and then find myself saying, " that's crocheted?! ". Wow! I feel an awakening coming on....

This is a shot of the Portland Bead Fest display. Judy, Phil and Jacob did a pretty nice job without my creative input! It took me three days of sorting and labeling to make set up easier for them.







A picture of Jacob ice skating while in Portland for Bead Fest. Judy said once he finally let go of the wall around the rink; he wasn't too bad a skater. I used to like to ice skate as a kid but since I only had a friend's used, dull skates; I do not think that I was very good!

I would post more often to the yarn shop blog if only I could figure out how to not at the exact same moment be posting to my blog! Someday, maybe, I will understand this computer world. Knitting is so much simpler.

This picture is for Carmen in Tucson. It is a photo of one of my studio work tables as I sit down to make jewelry for my upcoming show this weekend. Creative minds can be creating messy spaces!

I had thousands of things to take pictures of in my yarn shop but I settled on the stitch markers that I make. I love being able to combine my beads with something useful in the yarn business. I also get to use up my odds and ends of beads to make them and I think I have fabulous odds and ends of beads! Some designs are listed on my divyarn.com website but I really enjoy knitting using beaded markers and it is very satisfying when customers purchase them.