Ok party people!! This retreat will be epic! For real! We met Jeanne (the “ranch wife” as she calls herself) and she is awesome. I had a million questions after leaving and her love for the ranches history is absolutely contagious.
Enjoy this photos and I will share more tomorrow (after smooching up my fam, sleeping and COFFEEE) he he
Happy knitting
xx
Ash
What a gorgeous place! We are talking, planning, arranging, and getting excited for October! The retreat will be held at the Imperial River Co. a lodge right on the Deschutes river! A fast moving river, hot spot, for the fly fishers and white water rafters. It’s seriously a ‘heaven on earth’ kind of place.
It’s starting to rain and the dark sky looks magical and I can’t wait to see the sky open up.
Here is a taste of what we’ve seen so far…
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Can’t wait to share trip to imperial stock ranch! Yes it deserves italics 😉
xx
Happy weekend!
She’s done it again! The shop looks amazing and there is a whole new batch of fun cowl kits. New kits filled with awesome yarn that has not been kitted up before. Come check it out and see how Shelli has switched things up.
Happy Friday!
xx
Ash
Packing for a knitting retreat… Well I started preparing for our weekend retreat at Imperial Stock Ranch!! Yeee!!
The retreat sort of fell through.. But we really wanted to go still so its happening for a mini group. A pre-retreat, retreat! Excited to give you a taste of what we will be experiencing in October! {Reserve your spot asap}… After you see InstaGram pics and blogs and hear my incessant talking of Imperial Ranch you will be obsessed too.
Sooo back to my packing… Made some meals and stashed them in the freezer, prepared snacks, and baked Paleo treats for the Fam while I’m away.. Then the hard part. Packing. What shoes do I bring? How many projects? I’m going to a ranch- dirt, dust, the wide open 😉 and Omigosh have you checked a bag lately?! Paying for my clothing and toothbrush to have a seat (in cargo!) seems a LOT ridiculous! So no that won’t be happening. So flip flops in the bag Frye boots on the feet. I still felt torn between clothing and knit projects. Maybe ill wear the same outfit everyday so I can fit more yarn in… Or I can be completely realistic and bring ONE project because with all good intention aside that is all there is time for⏳
When I found out about the retreat I practically had Imperial on speed dial. I called had a lovely chat with the owners daughter in law and ordered a sweater kit. I started it, wound my yarn and packed it tight. I’m hoping being at the ranch will be motivation to wear it by the end of the weekend.
I’m romanticizing about sunsets, barns and beautiful animals (and cowboy coffee- black and strong)
We will be posting photos on InstaGram {if we have service} through out the weekend and ill definitely do a post about this adventure! Super excited!
Happy Knitting!
xx
Ash
Mothers day… To a knitter (you know the kind who LOVE knitting…) is a day to get away with knitting all day! Am I right?! I know I am! Family, food, getting out side in this gorgeous weather, yes all of that. But knitting mostly 😘 However this past Sunday was filled with a whole lot of family and fun… And I didn’t even end up knitting until everyone was home and the kids were in bed, ha! So much for assuming knitting would make the perfect day.
{You know what they say about assuming 😉. }
It was the best Mother’s Day! The best company, yummy food, and awesome weather!
We had breakfast and hoola hooped
(ha ha .. So fun!)
And there was cake baking with my sweet cousin
The brother played music for the kids (and tuned the guitar😁)
My mini rocked Madre’s newest creation (keep an ear out and one eye on Ravelry!)
And there were other beautiful things from awesome people
Hope your day was as happy (and fun) as ours!
Happy Knitting!
xx
Ash
It seems ironic for a person, me, who incessantly talks to create something called a ‘quiet book’. I should rename it really. Something more like the really cool book made of felt. Yes that suits me much better.
So I have been a tad… obsessed with the felt we carry now. Its soft thick and i just lust it! and I have a thing for those little wooden russian dolls. The hand painted ones are my favorite. Soooo I cut out some dolls and scene – what a great idea for a kids toy right?!
First I cut my dolls and clothing,tee pee, fire, hats… accessories then I put them on the pages to create my scenes, then I glued the doll parts together. Once the glue dried I stitched them (for safety 😉)
Oh My Gosh!! I play with it!
Happy felt cutting….
xx
Ash
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Here is a a project I did recently. Added a little fun to our house….
A few yards of Pom Pom trim and some hot glue and your ready! The trim on the planters turned out so cute. It's so sweet and adds a happy touch.
Inspired by 'Anthro' my BFF added some to her bedroom curtains. Super cute.
So many possibilities… The tea cup actually is an Anthro buy from the rents a few years back 😉
Happy crafting!
xx
Ash
It’s interesting what brings us from one season in our lives to the next. My Mom, Shelli, has worn many hats. She really is the ‘Jane of all trades’. She was the stay at home Mom who coached my softball, helped my Girl Scout troop, drove me to surf camp at fourteen and let me be independent. She is the worlds best Mom and always puts my brother and I first.. Well maybe my kids now;D Her knitting career started as a kid with my Great Grandmother, Thelma, and her truly awesome domestic life skills. So when at fifteen I had suggested to we learn to knit she did what any mother to a teenager (who suggests hanging out!) would do…. She hauled butt to the closest knit shop and signed us up. The shop she found was in Santa Rosa and was an old victorian house. The front end was the yarn shop and the back was the woman’s house. I thought it was so cool. We took the class, our teacher was patient.. I was fifteen so one can imagine. I of course was not interested in making a gauge or a washcloth ha. So she set me up with a set of DPN’s ( I am a firm beleiver in ‘if you don’t know it’s difficult… then its not’) I made a beanie for my boyfriend of course ( I later married the boy… Yet to forgive him for not LOVING the beanie I knitted him so excitedly- don’t knit for boys unless asked to) Over the years I knit random things but didn’t take another class. My crafty friends and I would get together and make hats, mini pouches… Nothing big. My Mom however was busy taking every class and diving into a new love… Fibers! I was nineteen and living in South Lake Tahoe when my Mom told me she was going to open a yarn shop. ‘Before someone else does’ is what she told me. I pretty much moved home immediately and May of 2004 she opened Knitterly. We started in a tiny tiny corner of another shop called ‘shelter’ (funny huh) then moved to a bigger, that’s an understatement, building a few doors down. We literally rolled the racks down the street wrapped in saran wrap so the yarn wouldn’t fall off the shelves. My parents are very resourceful and my brother has a lot of friends who will work for my Mom’s baked goods;D
Two years at that location, out of the walking traffic and a few side view mirrors being taken off by the busy traffic later… She moved the shop again. This time to it’s final home, #1 Fourth street! We have now been open for nine years, just this month and we love the location or neighboring businesses and our loyal customers. With my Mom’s need to ever better herself and business an online shop was being discussed. After a lot of time, talking, planning, and yarn shopping… She did it!! May 1 2013 Knitterly the online shop opened. In a comedy of errors we have managed to get LOTS of photos on the site… however some are lacking in true color accuracy. The Habu and Be Sweet seem to turn out fine but Twirl is looking less than it’s fabulous self. Being a new shop there will be some, understandable, errors. But she has an awesome team that is constantly working hard to get things running smoothly.
For now you can buy Habu, Be Sweet, Freia, Imperial, Isager, Madeline Tosh, and last but not least Twirl. It’s so exciting! I can hardly believe it’s open.
The websites new “face” will be getting some ‘work’ done as well ;D you will love it!
This is why my intention of all last weeks blogs did not come into fruition, my apologies…. It was ‘under construction’. Whitni our computer chick and her team have created a new look. an online shop and a pretty face for our blog. She will be linking up my old site to the new one until it’s all moved over. Thank you for your continued patience and reading the blog. I love that you do!!
I am so proud of all the hard work my Mom is always putting in to her life, career and family!
She rocks!
Check out our shop and website.
Happy Knitting
xx
Ash
We have become a little fancy! Shelli’s Necessary Cowl pattern is now available in the super cute/ easy to travel postcard! On the reverse side there is a little info on Shelli and the shop. (And a cute photo)
I love it!
Happy Knitting!
xx
Ash
We will be saying good bye to our cute, not so little, chickie babes this week. Butter and Egg Days bring our awesome town more chicks than Easter.
Seriously will be hard to follow up that window display – not much as cute as those little fuzz balls!
We do still have some fun puppets if you missed out Saturday…
This week I’m sewing my kiddos a puppet “theatre” for the many Folkmanis puppets the Omi (AKA Gramma) has supplied. We have a few sewing books and I can’t wait to try out this pattern.
I also have some fun Pom Pom trim ideas to share… It’s gonna be a good week!
Plus my Mom and I are working on Imperial Stock Ranch sweaters and I can’t wait to do a little show and tell.
We also (I’m getting help from the shop girls with this one) have some book reviews! Love those right?! I am a book freak and buy them faster than I could ever read – or knit. Which leaves me with stacks of books all over our house. Book reviews are priceless… Could save a trip to the used book sales for an unread book😉
Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Ours was filled with adventure, snow,
sunshine, friends and family. We even hung out with Laura and Huck from Jimmy Beans Wool … Good fun comes when yarn shops collide😉
Happy Monday! Happy knitting! And stay tuned this week for some fun projects!
xx
Ash
