Where Hands Create.

There are also a number of awesome festivals that you can enjoy outside...    On June 20th, there will be the first ever Comfort Country Day Fair.   One of our customers, Melissa, shared the information with me - and it just sounds too cool! You can find the festival on 87 going towards Fredericksburg - watch for the signs.   Here is a snippet of Melissa's email to me about the event.

"A large centennial ranch in the Comfort area has been set aside to preserve it from development into a subdivision. To introduce it to the public a small festival is scheduled on the ranch on June 20th. We will be trying to preserve some of the old skills and talents along with preserving farming and ranching. On June 20th the public is being invited to enjoy some of this and see some of what we will be trying to do. There will be storeytellers, a chuckwagon cook, milkers, cheese makers, Native American dancers,wagon rides, vaqueros, mule farming exhibition, Jack Russel races, birds of prey, a blacksmith, master naturalists and historians. We would very much like to be able to include weavers, spinners, knitters and anyone else who would like to participate in the event.  We will be doing some children's activities also. The event will run between 10am and 5pm. We have space available for campers and camping if desired."

As you will note - they are looking for weavers, spinners, and/or knitters to participate.  If you are interested - please contact the shop, and we will get you in touch with Melissa.   If you don't participate - at least you can go see the animals, watch folks with the "old skills", etc. 


As always, I am always digging the chance to take pictures of the great finished projects, and this time around I have quite a gallery of beautiful projects as well as those "finished" smiles!

We have had the best time with our Wrap Me Up! knitalong over the past several months!  Now we are getting to see some of the finished wraps - and you will note that everyone's looks great and so different.  We were lucky this week to see three - and hopefully we will see a few more "wrapping" up over the next month or so.




This past week, I took several days of vacation time, and it has been a treat to be at the shop a bit more than usual.  Unfortunately, I haven't gotten as much knitted - but have had a great time touching all the yarn.  (True Yarnoholic, huh?).  On Thursday it just felt that we needed to shift around the shop and "freshen" it up a bit.  Mom had been saying she would like to have the fingering yarn together as we have gotten such a great variety - and I was hoping to cluster the Berroco better....  The dominoes rolled from there - and we are so pleased with the result.  It is a little challenging to find something now - but we will learn.  Just hope that this doesn't drive Dad totally crazy - he had just learned where things were...

I do love my "day" job, but there is a cool feeling driving west to Comfort on a Monday morning.  Plus, I got to see the two shop cats in the window when I walked up the steps this morning.  I am believing that they were happy to see me and not just hungry!


Well, off to rest a bit (aka knit) before I return to my "day" job tomorrow.  However, before I close - I do want to share how appreciative we are of the amazing community of fiber enthusiasts who have embraced The Tinsmith's Wife.  There is something special when you have an amazing group of women sitting around the table - who are all ages, walks of life, and there is just a general warmth.  Fiber is an amazing bonding agent, isn't it?   

Happy June!