Greetings from Anaheim, CA! I’m getting ready to head out for a day of meetings in demos but wanted to share with you some pictures from yesterday at CHA (Crafts & Hobbies Association convention). Enjoy!
With Kathy Cano-Murillo, at the Duncan Craft booth where she’s promoting her line Crafty Chica.
Promo poster in the Sterling/Lark Publishing booth for my May ’09 book, Pop Goes Crochet.
With scrapbooking queen, Sandi Genovese.
Drew and I teaching how to crochet beer cozies & bangles, at the Sterling/Lark booth.
A student posing with her finished bangle.
Sterling publicist Leigh-Ann Ambrosi, making a bangle.
Leigh-Ann pleased as punch that she learned how to crochet.
I snuck out of the convention for a bit to avoid the Paris Hilton appearance (to promote her craft line) craziness, and do a little in-hotel crafting for Tuesday’s Tulip paint demo.
Creative Juice’s Steve Piacenza & Cathile Filian working at the Plaid booth. They’re Mod Podge’s national spokes people!
With Knitty Gritty seasons 7 & 8’s supervising producer, Kelly Erlich.
With Cathie Filian and Drew Emborsky (aka The Crochet Dude) at our publisher’s party.
Publisher/author dinner at Buca Di Beppo in Anaheim.
Ok, off to Day 2 of CHA. Check back here (RH column) for Twitter updates, throughout the convention!
Our custom Fall boxes just arrived! Oh, plaid, how I 😍 you.
The Fall edition of the YarnYAY! Quarterly Box ships next month and is now available for presale. Reserve you’re today! (Link in bio, or go to yarnyay.com)...
It’s hard to believe it’s already been almost a year since Vickie’s Wednesday’s Snood pattern came out. We’re excited, though, to be able to revisit it with our new kits! Snap to it! (Link in bio, or go to YarnYAY.com)...
I am devastated by the loss of @hillcountryweavers founder, Susanne Middlebrooks.
I wrote a longer tribute to her on my blog and Facebook (links in bio). In short, though, she had been sick for a long time but had been a master at not letting the illness get in the way of her living. So, it was often unimaginable that she wouldn't be with us for longer. Last June during an industry convention in Chicago when Susanne came over to the bar booth I was sitting at and plopped herself next to me to chat, I had no idea that it would be the last time I'd get to see her. I'm so thankful though, that when we parted ways to go back to our respective meetings, it was with a hug. Rest in purls, my friend....
When I came across this Knitting Needle Patent greeting card by @patentpress , I couldn’t resist selecting it as one of the items for the YarnYAY! September box! (Link in @vickiehowell bio or got to YarnYAY.com)
What looks like part circular knitting needle, part Tunisian crochet hook is illustrated as the patent drawing for flexible knitting needles. This greeting card memorializes the creation of tools that we stitchers can now, not do without!...