After much sweating and rushing I got 17 lbs of yarn dyed, put up, photographed and listed in just a few days.  What a marathon!  But there are 3 new yarns in the shop, including yarns for weavers and some luscious silk laceweight.  And best of all I’ve started adding knitting swatches to my yarn listings as I’m able.  Sometimes cones are a bit over a pound and I end up with a few yards left over after putting up into skeins.  When that happens I’m now knitting up swatches on my knitting machine and adding them to the listing.  I’m awaiting some new photography lighting so I can get good pictures of my stitch markers.  I’m also going to be revamping all the st marker listings.  The first thing that will happen is that the large and deluxe markers will be going away for a while.  Not because they’ve been bad, just because I need to have some in stock, as I don’t now, and so have to have my assitant make some for me.  That means my materials will be in her hands, which means I can’t make them on demand as I do now.  But that’s a while away yet, so in the meantime, order all you want!

I’ve had to update my shipping policies.  While shipping to the US and Canada is fairly inexpensive the cost increases exponentially to ship to another continent.  So my shipping policies are the same for the US and Canada – 3.00 to ship all orders under 30.00 and all orders over 30.00 ship free.  But my shipping policies to other continents had to be altered because I was losing a lot of money, so the minmum order for other locations is 75.00 to get free shipping and the shipping cost for under 75.00 is 8.00.  I hated to do, truly I did, but I was losing so much money with overseas orders.  I really appreciate your understanding.

Paula is aware of the fundraising efforts on my part and she wanted to make sure I expressed her gratitude here for you all.  She is very grateful for all the support and help you guys have offered.  It has definitely helped, but she needs more help and I’m still taking 30% of every sale and donating it directly to her for the time being.  And, of course, you can always donate directly to her via PayPal using the button in the last entry.

School has started back up for me.  My break wasn’t very break-ish, I was pretty much going from the time I got up until the time I went to bed.  I used my ‘time off’ to catch up on all the work that’d been backing up.  Hopefully this class will be a bit less hectic and time consuming.