Fall off the blog wagon

Whew! Sorry for disappearing for a bit there.  Things have been busy on the work/life front and have prevented my word-smithing for a little while.  I am back and hoping to get back on a two a week track here.

Since last post... it is Fall! We are putting away the shorts and digging out the sweaters.  We have had a cute new couple of arrivals at work and new moms are getting the hang of things.  New dads too! I have learned plenty of new baby rearing tricks by being in such close proximity.  Today I had a good lesson on swaddling.

AB and I are busily prepping for our first ever craft show!  We were able to get into Apple-Palooza with Woolen Wood items to be featured.  On Saturday, October 25th from 9am-6pm Woolen Wood will have a booth at the craft fair!  Come by in order to pick some apples, have some cider, try some pie and shop the shops.

So we've got about two full weeks of prep time left and things are shaping up well.  He's been at the lathe while I've been at the knitting machine down in the basement.  He's made several great bowls and is making a variety of types of pins to hold my felt collars together.  

This is an example of the small knit clutches I am pulling together.  The technique is a process that draws the stitches up from a lower portion of knitting and creates great ruffles.  Felting the wool then works to make the ruffles more pronounced.  I have vintage zippers that work to close the bag and become handles too.

Finished collars and shoulderlets hanging ready for display.  We will refine our booth display this weekend with luck.  We are going to use A La Crate for our display and I am excited to incorporate our items with some awesome vintage pieces.

Here some knit pieces off the machine await the finishing touches.  They will get cleaned up and felted.  Then they will be sewn into bags or prepped for shawl-dom. 

The final phase is to hand sew the labels into the piece.

Don't be fooled by the bag labels, these turned wood bowls are hand made.  But they do require proper seasoning and moisture monitoring.  The shop bags make for a helpful environment to keep the roughed out bowls the proper moisture level.

A couple of cherry bowls, a walnut bowl and a variety of shawl pins waiting to find their forever homes.  Fingers crossed that they pair with my collars and shawls at Apple-Palooza!

A couple newer bowls awaiting final finishing touches on the work table.  Currently not remembering which kind of wood these are...AB can help me out later and I will update!

And  the real star of the show... this wonderfully perfectly spherical walnut bowl!