Well, for three days in a row this weekend, I ended up in the same place as Sarah Peasley. First she and her hubby visited my open house at Foster Center. Then on Saturday we knit together at Yarn for Ewe’s Knitters’ Night Out.

And today I visited my friend Nancy McRay (who is somewhat responsible for the fact that I picked up knitting again 2 years ago, after not knitting for a decade) at her new artspace/artyarn shop. They are painting and stocking shelves at this point but she will start having some business hours later this week. Very exciting… a lifelong dream for Nancy, who also is an amazingly accomplished weaver and weaving teacher.

Nancy teaches fiberarts/weaving at Bailey Community Center, a converted old school something like Foster Center but in East Lansing (and not owned by the city the last I heard). I took my only weaving class from her there, and made a gorgeous rug. I didn’t like working a loom at all, but I did love the rug, thank goodness!

Anyway, Sarah took some digital photos when she was there and put them up on her blog. There’s a picture of me with Nancy. Most of the yarns in the store are handpainted locally, mostly by Nancy, but not only by her. The space is just FULL of gorgeous, unapologetic color! ColorJoy! (Speaking of ColorJoy, the sox here are a pair I knit for my friend Ulyana many months back. She loves them and I really need to make her another pair one of these days.)

More details on Nancy’s space will surely come later as I learn more. It does look like she’d like me to teach socknitting there, and how could a woman like me ignore an opportunity like that? I will look forward to that.

Meanwhile, go check out the pictures!!! Sarah gives details on location and a couple of wonderful pics (including one of Terri, Sarah’s friend and a member of the local knitting guild, in a comfy chair by the fireplace in the store…gotta love it).

I am still working on the summer sock design, due April 1. I always want to offer waaay too many sizes so I’m crunching numbers (how many stitches around for a small woman’s foot versus a toddler, etc) instead of knitting. I like knitting better!!!

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