sheep in the city

Relaxation is sweet.. (part 1)

How sweet, you ask? Check it out for yourself!

These were made by Amy who I now believe can make anything...go check out the Huppa that she knit for her brothers wedding (scroll down to the June 28th entry), it's amazing! She knits, she bakes, she does it all! Thanks Amy!

My second weekend in Vail was perfect, it couldn't have been better...well, unless maybe it was a bit longer. Some of my knitting buddies came up to knit for the weekend in Vail with my mom and I, and boy oh boy did we have fun! It all started with that secret project that I was sewing up last week. They were indeed little goodie bags for all the girls.

Click on the picture to see the color-coordinated goodies inside:) There was lotion, pens, sticky notes, gum, and of course candy! Plus, my mom and I bought plain votives and candles and wrapped yarn around the votives to spruce them up. We had so much fun putting them together.
I found the pattern while I was looking for the perfect backtack project over at Thimble. She has some really great tutorials set up. I made a total of 10 zippered bags, any more would have driven me crazy...but I now have a whole new respect for all the indie crafters out there who are into production sewing. Seriously.
Here's a shot of the whole finished line up:

My mom and I were preparing for everyone to come up on Friday morning when she pulled out her collection of wine glass markers and inspiration struck. She had these beads that looked kinda like yarn balls! We had to use them:

Click for a close-up!

As far as knitting goes, it happened night and day around this place. We, of course stayed up late on Friday night...and you would expect a bunch of people on a weekend retreat to sleep in...but we didn't. Cathi brought her Espresso machine and made all of us yummy coffee drinks. Mine with more candy than coffee, just the way I like it! The knitting got started around 6:30-7:00am on Saturday morning. It just made me laugh to see a room full of women knitting away that early. Some of us moved on to making stitchmarkers later that morning, and then it was off to the local knit shop in Minturn called The Yarn Studio. I've talked about this shop before, and it's always one that we go to at least once during a visit to the mountains. This display of ArtYarns Super Merino caught my eye right away:

They make such pretty colorways, I could hardly resist, but resist I did, so no new yarn for me. I did walk away from the store inspired though. Look at this knitted ice cream cozy! What will they think of next?
Stay tuned for the second half of our weekend adventure. Get a peek at the Black Water Abbey trunk show that we had, our midnight treks to WalMart for yarn, and much more!!