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May 8
Greetings! Well Green Up Day was again a huge success. As always, the turn out was great and lots of green bags dotted the spruced up, litter free roadsides. We had some needed rain, which was forecasted for today, but today turned out to be beautiful at 68 degrees and windy. I hope all of you who were lucky enough to make it to the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival had a great time...some year I'd love to go. Jennifer, from Northeast Fiber Arts, won three (at least) awards for her felted garments...her felted boots are amazing. Congratulations Jennifer! Thanks to all who got back to me regarding the custom list. I now have 28 women on the list and am in the process of updating the Create Your Bag Page with added text and all the latest designs. Stay tuned. I'm showing pictures of a bag I made for myself over the weekend...... I can guarantee that many of you have more of my bags than I do! I used an antique tapestry fabric and played around with the Madison Sweater Bag. This one is huge and I love it. It's the biggest bag I now offer. I love how wide it opens and how it sits beside my chair when I knit. I am offering one tonight (different fabric) but lovely too! So now, this size will be the Madison Sweater Bag (biggest)...and offered still will be the Madison (former Madison Sweater Bag), Madison Slim and the Madison Demi. My older son and a friend (Sarah) will be walking in the 14th annual Walk for the Animals fund raiser! If you want to support them in any way you can, I know they'd appreciate it! Here's the link: http://www.firstgiving.com/saragarside Bowie is a doll, see him here! http://youtube.com/watch?v=1TZidCANtaY The sun is bright, the wind is whipping and it's a glorious day. I'm so grateful for all I have...my family, my health, this business and all of you. I'm delighted when I receive emails about my bags and am touched when you share a part of your lives with me. It made me think today (while sewing of course) about knitting and what it means, and has meant, to me in my life. People often ask me how I find the time to knit and my answer is always the same...'I can't not knit'. It's such a part of who I am and what I do. I suppose we all define ourselves as 'knitters' but it means so much. I smile when I think of all the hats, scarves and mittens that kept my boys warm through so many of our cold winters...remembering the littlest red and white ones, to the last blue and black...before they moved on to 'snowboarding gloves'. I smile too, thinking of my stash in the closet just waiting to be worked with...and the current projects that bring me joy and satisfy my creative need. I've met many wonderful women, from the ones who took me aside many years ago to show me their learned secrets, to young women I know now...and I'm showing them mine. To the current knitters I know, as we share our love of it together. To all mothers...Happy Mother's Day...may we all have time....and knit. Warmest regards, Martha. |
