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What do you Love for Valentines Day?
At this time of year, I turn my energies to studying the marketplace, learning new techniques, and planning the business for the year to follow. I love spending time with my knitting friends, and we recently went to the Vogue Knitting Live show in New York City, where I bought lots of books and viewed many shops and vendor booths. I now am officially a collector of 'stitchonaries' - visual dictionaries of stitch patterns. I love learning more and refining my skills, so I am taking some 'serial' classes where we study the teachings and techniques of knitting masters Elizabeth Zimmerman and Nicky Epstein. Many of these concepts will find their way into new knitted items for next fall and winter. I love sharing my passion for knitting, so I am teaching a few classes in lace shawls at my local yarn shop, Stitch Your Art Out, later this spring.
I love making aprons, which I hope brightens hearts and kitchens. Fabrics are carefully selected from high quality materials, and coordinated to fit into modern households and lifestyles. I started with holiday aprons, which were successful, and was asked to create aprons for Mother's Day. Then I added autumn motif aprons. And now, for the first time ever, I made aprons for Valentines Day! I had a blast playing with the cheerful colors and adding contrasting black & white motifs to the set. Stop by Tait's (814-466-3411) to see them!
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| Take a break to dream of Paris or have a cuppa |
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| Cheerful colors to ward off winter gloom |
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| Fresh crop of little zip bags, and the interiors are fun, too! |
As winter isn't over yet, we still have some lovely knits available, including exciting pieces from participating fiber artisans on our website . At Tait's I just added some new fleece scarves and a few new items.
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| Merino wool, wool alternative blends and soft fleece scarves at Tait's |
