December is coming

Had a busy day at Harpenden Christmas Carnival yesterday - my best yet. The weather was great - clear and sunny, after a bit of a windy and rainy start and there were lots of people out and ready to start their christmas shopping.

I also sold some yarn on Etsy this morning, so I'm off to the post office shortly to send that. I've had quite a few sales recently and my basket (see last post) is getting a bit depleted, so I'll have to get dyeing again!

Quick update

Here's a picture of the yarns I've got on sale at the moment - I arranged them in a basket for my Fibre East application and thought they looked good enought to share! I've just dyed some rose-pink too, which will be going on Etsy as soon as I can photograph it.

I went to a local school Christmas Fair last night, really to support a friend of mine who works there, but it turned out to be quite busy - just goes to show that things don't always go the way you expected!

Wheathampstead Farmers' Market last Sunday was rather quiet - disappointing for pre-Christmas and I think I'll have to review that one at the end of the season. So far this year I've lost money by going there and you don't need to be on Dragons Den to work that out!

I'm at Harpenden Christmas Carnival on Sunday - looking forward to it as it's usually fun event and sales should be good too. I've been making up some nice colorful hats as the weather's getting colder - they should be all ready by then.

I'm on Twitter now too - see the button on this blog to follow us!

A Busy Weekend

A busy weekend is coming up!

I'm at a garden centre christams fair near Royston, Herts. all day tomorrow (Saturday) and then at the ususal Farmers' market at Wheathampstead on Sunday morning.

It's the first time I've been able to go to the Garden Centre fair, although they have asked me in previous years - let's hope it's succcessful as it's a long way to go and I'm having to take my own table! Wheathampstead could be OK or people could all be waiting for the Harpenden Christmas carnival, which is the week after and is usually very busy.

I'm getting ready for the next Fibreholics round too - out 1st December - and have been busy dyeing this week - check out my mini etsy feature for a couple of new shades of yarn.

And finally, I've applied to Fibre East for a stall at next year's event - if I'm accepted it will be my first show.

Into November

November at last and Autumn's truly here - grey, misty and generally damp outside. Great weather to be at home knitting though!

Harpenden was a bit quiet for sales, but I think people there are holding themselves back for the town Christmas fair, which is at the end of this month - I hope so anyway!

I'm off to St Alban's this coming Sunday - the weather forecast looks good and I'm hoping for strong sales. When I was tidying up I found some winter scarves in lovely bright colours that I had finished and put away somemonths ago, so I'll be taking them with me and making a feature of them on the stall. Plus I have got my holly garland out of the loft, for a not-so-subliminal message that Christmas is coming!

I'm venturing onto twitter for the first time as I've heard it's a good way to share business news - I'm not really into social networking so I'll see how it goes!