Stitches and Thrills

I never got around to show the finished dog sweater with the double thread sockyarn. (My model is smaller than the actual dog).

Yarn shops are dangerous! At least for people like me. =^x^= There they are, all cropped together on the shelfs in the stores cupboard. Their wee voices calling and luring me. ("Take me home. I am so super soft. Oh look at my colours. Feel my texture.") I wish I could take them all home! But alas my budget forbids me. For a couple of custom orders I needed yarn in colours I do not have on stock. So this week I had to go to both yarn shops in town. So it was Ribbels on Saturday. I could just stare at their wall of yarn all afternoon. And 'n Steekje Los today, where I bought these sockyarns for a custom order dog sweater: I wonder which yarn she'll choose! Both shops are very lovely, because the women working there really know their business. In general I would say Ribbels got the bigger assortiment. And would maybe appeal more to the advantaged knitter. But  'n Steekje Los has more convenient opening times. A...

Yesterday was my first time attending the Sunday market as a seller. The splashing sunshine wasn't the only surprise that day. When boarding the bus that was to take me from the railway station to the fairground, I found myself surrounded by about fifty spotty teenage boys. As it turned out there was a computer game event in the neighbouring Westergas Fabriek. Then there was a bear on a bike. Zsuzsa of ZsBcreations was quick enough to make a picture of it: =^x^= Zsuzsanne is demonstrating this sundays work out: to beat the wind in messing up your booth. It was fun to share (or "gezellig" as we say in Dutch). Booths from left to right: MissMinoes , ZsBcreations , Pinipiru , Swiedebie , ThongbaiTatong   Small impression of my booth: ***********Next Sunday Market: November 7th 2010***********

Sunday October 3rd in Amsterdam. You are welcome to my booth on the Sunday Market . An opportunity to actually fit and try a Miss Minoes hat, before buying. I'm also bringing the new Eco-cotton Baby Collection!

Very soon available in my shop Miss Minoes on Etsy  : Baby and toddlers hats of organic cotton. The themes are favourite Miss Minoes themes: Kitty Hats and DJ Hats. NEWS: I'm planning to have a stall at the Sunday Market in Amsterdam on October 3rd, November 7th and December 12th 2010.

More awareness is needed about the toxics used in the main cottonproducing business. As a consumer I find that organic cotton products are usually only a fraction more expensive than chemical cotton...in Euros/Dollars. But if you are looking at the REAL price we are paying, than a chemical cotton t-shirt costs a whole lot more! PLEASE do watch the video on Pini Piru's blog: Pini Piru: Why choose organic cotton...? : "The Conventional Trap from NI Magazine on Vimeo. And still most big company's use bad cotton instead of organic....! Why??"

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