Nathaniel and I are leaving for las Vegas next thursday. The shop will be shut down from wednesday til the following wednesday. We will not be doing custom orders or shop sewing until i return. We are going for a wedding, Nat’s step-sister is getting married. Nat bought a chocolate pinstripe suit and will be sporting his chuck taylors a la David Tennant Dr Who style. Me..i am not sure yet what i’m wearing since i have a few options. All of which are black. This is a non-black tie wedding. I will be posting a few pictures of us all dressed up thought...i never see nat in a suit. Anyways...the piddeloop sewing team will have an update on friday May 30th. I do not have a time yet..so watch for the mailing list email.

This picture doesn’t even do her colors justice. Anyways for lush pretty color photos go here
then pick out what you want and email her up and blammo! you will have pretty pretty skeins that look like this:





And the best part? you are buying handmade and supporting another friendly independent dyer! her yarn is worth every penny. Also i bought some to make a clapotis so you will soon get to check that out. Hurry before it’s gone!

I got a box filled with love from the city of brotherly love itself PHILLY! Mariss & Sherry sent along some gifts to just say THANKS and HI! They are so awesome. First thanks to Mariss she sent along some Herr’s Black pepper and sea salt potato chips. These are my number one favorite east coast only flavor of potato chip. You can’t even get something remotely close here at home...we’ve tried. TASTYKAKES! Apparently these are only made in Philly, according to Nat. He also says they are FAR superior to hostess or little debbie or anything like that.





Then she packed some pretty gocco prints on stationery she’d made:


and the crowning glory? a BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL ink/watercolor drawing of our bags. One bag is her own, and a few are sherrys and other’s when they meet up at Rosie’s to knit.







Thank you SO MUCH for such a kind and special gift mariss! I will be finding a frame for it.

Sherry sent along some green and yellow things. She saw that i was yearning for summer and a lot of yellow and green items have been catching my eye. She sent along some pretty yarn from black bunny fibers it has a small bit-o-silk in it and it is so soft.





Then from her etsy shop a special set of BASSET HOUND stitch markers and DPN holders and a sachet of moth guard!







Thank you so much for your kindness girls. mmmmmmm tastycakes!

I also had a bit-o-help for some Red Rock Fiber Works Yarn Love, via a yarn elf. You see, Mary-Kay only sells wholesale at the moment and you have to enlist yarn elves who work at places like Colorful yarns in Colorado to buy it for you and send it all the way to Indiana!



look at the cute drawings that were on my package! Thank you Stacey, you really are wonderful and kind. Now what was inside?



Left to right: Boo light, cookie monster and avalon all aspen sock all 100% superwash merino, all too beautiful to really capture in photos but you can see more here

Did you checkout our latest update? no? we put a lot of love into all our handsewn bags. Even in the photogrpahy here’s a few of my favorites that sold earlier today:











i also love these stickers nat got to share with me



i made some more buttons and nat bought me a squeeky crab for when i feel crabby



and here’s something some of you might enjoy seeing..our fabric cabinet that resides at wendy’s.



samuel guarding the zippers





i am also loving my pouch i finally made for myself





ok that’s probably enough love for today...nothing like a big ass picture post huh?

Ok My sister and I, The Piddleloop Sewing Team are having a little update in the shop tomorrow Friday April 18th at 10:30 am central time! Shipping will start TUESDSAY. I"m sorry I stated Monday in the email, but i forgot i am staying in chicago an extra day to see Iron & Wine play with Califone at the Vic Monday nite with nathaniel.

I have some new Etsy Stitch Marker Love for our bags. New sellers for you to check out. FIrst up is Rosalyn over at Yarnlust.


She had these cute mahjong tile stitch markers for sale and i asked her if she’d like to help dress up or bags.





Please go check out her shop when you need a quick gift for a knitter!

Next I was emailed by Knitty-K8, if i wanted to put some of her markers on our bags. I’m so glad i said yes cause her markers are beautiful and pretty. You almost want to wear them rather than use them to mark stitch repeats! Thanks so much Knitty-K8 for the markers, they will make our bags look purdy!







Last A stitch marker regular, Kimberly of Dragon Lady Designs. Where does a girl go to buy 12 flying pigs and 4 brown whales? Why to Kimberly that’s who!



Ok so now the stuffs and things. I was gonna show you my pretty hedgegrow sock..but i ripped it out. Instead i have another sock cast on to do plain old stockinnette on the lagic loop. I will get pictures of that...int he meantime how about some silly pictures of the dogs??

What you don’t think my hounds can be silly?

Well i came home with Zander today to find Lucy Dog laying in the sun singing some Miriah Carey songs like the girlie diva she is.



Look at her work it to hit those high dolphin squeals!



Miriah? I wasn’t singin’ no miriah!



In our house you always get some houndbutt.



Samuel laying in the grass



Zander getting some kisses from sam



Lucy dog jealous of the kisses



lucy dog whining to be fed at 2:15..dinner time is 5pm



Quiet time with zander



Right. Yeah. Ok. We hung outside these past two days cause it’s been 70 degrees. After having to wear my wool coat and winter hat last weekend it felt good. So come by the update tomorrow, check out these etsy vendors, and have a good weekend.

please go to karen’s blog entry and read about the awesome prizes you can win donated by members of my ravelry group.

look at how photogenic this dog is, even on medication!

Since Karen has posted this yesterday in 24 hrs we all raised $1,000! The goal was already met, but his medical costs we’re really 2k. So just think, we can really help this rescue out. Go to her link follow the directions and get yourself some good ju-ju.

in the meantime this girl who’s up for adoption named Bunny, i want to go over there and steal her away. She is the most adoable looking thing EVER.

First if you haven’t heard of Jelby run over to Cary’s shop now and pick up some great felted and embroidered stitch markers for yourself, for friends, or for someone having a rough week.

Here’s some examples of sets i have bought from Cary recently.

Yes that is a holder with a Martini on it to hold little olive stitch markers! I tld you she was clever!

and when i saw her hearts in Feb for Valentines day i wanted to regress back to 5th grade and draw hearts all over my notebook and wear lisa frank shirts with unicorns on them.

and if hearts or martini’s aren’t your sort of thing she embroiders SHEEP! What knitter doesn’t like sheep!?



You really should run over to her shop and pick up yourself a set..she’s got 2 sets of sheep hanging out in there now and you don’t have to wait!

She’s also rather kind and made me a special freebie marker with my order and it’s super duper special to me. It’s an OBAMA ‘08 marker. I can’t tell you how awesome Cary is at really making you smile when you order from her!

I have a really special friend. Her name is Joy and I’ve known her for a really long time. SHe is the only friend I knit for holidays and her birthday. SHe takes great pride in wearing and enjoying the things i’ve knit up for her. We recently FINALLY after loads of sickness, and her campainging for Obama. She gave me a lot of handmade items this year and i wanted to share just two that i thought you might enjoy. They are unique.

This postage stamp bracelet from Fox Glove Accessories

She has them by color and Joy got me one in my favorite color orange! This is just so light and unique and fun. I really thought this was a super cool idea.

She also got me a yarn ball silkscreened on glass pendant. from Kiku.

So if you need some gifts, or apick me up for yourself or a friend who could use one, check these sellers out and spread some handmade joy out there!