Another eventfull week at the shop!

A really big thank you to Brett for designing a beautiful website for the shop!  Hats off to you!  Also would like to thank all who attended the Focus Meeting at the shop.  We are working very hard to make Calla Lily a great experience for everyone that comes in.  Although some changes have been made we do hope that you will understand.  Times are a little different than a few years ago!  So we want to offer you great things but keep ourselves in check. 

 No one has yet suggested my favorite way of keeping count of rows,
especially on charted patterns.  Find a xerox machine with an enlarger, and
make lots of "blown-up" copies of the graph (I usually run one enlarged
copy, and then enlarge it again.)  Then you have big, easy-to-read row by
row charts.  I use a highlighter to mark off each row as I finish it; it's
always OBVIOUS what row I am working.  Right now I am knitting an Alice
Starmore vest with something like a 65 row repeat; I made one BIG copy of
the chart for each repeat, plus one for the swatch.  I just toss each sheet
into the recycling bin after I've marked off all the rows.  This seems
obvious, I know, but I suffered thru the back of my first intarsia sweater
until I figured it out.

        I don't think that there is such a thing as too many markers.  I too
use the coiless safety pins:  I think it's Maggie Righetti who suggests
using them to mark increases and decreases.  I do this religiously, and
though my pin-studded knitting looks quite odd, it is a lifesaver if you
pick up your knitting at odd moments.  I can count safety pins marching down
my sleeve, which makes it easy to see if I need to decrease on the current
row, and how decreases I've already finished.

 Nancy Lutz
        lutz@platon.econ.vt.edu
       

Inventory Complete

WOW....what a week!  Inventory....I'd forgotten what it's like to do inverntory....Glad that's over with!
What to look forward to at Calla Lily in the next several monthes.  Sales!  Sales!  Sales!  Classes...our Retreat! 

We will be having some sales here at Calla Lily.....Patterns, Yarn.....Needles!!! 

Watch for our new website to be going live here in the next couple of weeks.  Until you see it we will have everything posted on the old one.....

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season and thank you very much for your support of the shop!

Donna