Commercial time

Have I been busy. The TV camera crew just left after shooting this years commercial. While they are here I am the gofer but after they are gone I have to put everything back where it was. Sometimes it is weeks after when I find something in an unusual place.

This year all three Yorkie girls and the two local granddaughters were actors. Annika is an experienced actress by now and knows the ropes. Natalie finally decided that she was old enough to say something so got a speaking part. Emma is the Yorkie with the most air time as she is steadiest. Lily sat nicely in a lap but she is shy and didn't like that they moved things around. Winnie bounced around on her hind legs and may miss the final cut. Annika delivered Emma's lines as Emma wasn't talking. She was just so excited that she got to sit in a yarn basket where she normally isn't allowed.

I am getting better at this now and have decided to treat it like a kid's birthday party, I clean after they are done! It takes about two hours and the crew is very good but when they leave, I look for a cup of coffee. Today was the perfect day for a commercial shoot. We are being told that there is a big storm coming, so folks aren't doing much driving around. The shop was relatively quiet. This morning I understand that they got snow north of us along the shore and they are saying that we will get some later today and all weekend but not as much as they will get further south of us. It's about time! We have bare grass now but the very cold temps have left us.

I am still trying to get Annika's blue sweater done for her birthday. The sleeves are longer then the body and since I do both at once it is seeming to take forever. This is the pattern cover picture of the sweater. I am knitting it in an aqua blue, mohair. I think that it will be really cute when I get it done.

Now time to run, I am trying to get some new things on the web site. I have updated the yarn products page and we are adding a pattern page and a tools page. We carry so many good patterns from very good pattern designers that we need a page to tell everyone who they are.