The weather is turning colder, and it’s a great time to be thinking about warm slippers, hot cider, and snuggling by the fire under a cozy afghan. I’m busy with several felting projects at the moment, and fall is such a nice time to work on things like that. I’ve got 4 pairs of slippers in process (serially, not concurrently) – one pair in the Laced Slippers Pattern, and I’m working on the Town Slipper Kit set for my nephews for Christmas. (I think I’m safe from their prying eyes here, as they are off doing teenaged boy things, not reading my knitting blog!)

I’m also working on a lovely felted afghan for my brother from the Nordic Felted Knits book. It’s crocheted as a huge, loose, lacy piece, and then felted. I’m doing it in a dark brown, and I think it will …

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year because I love to see people wearing crafty and creative costumes! Since Halloween is on a Saturday this year, we decided to come to work on Friday wearing our costumes.

This is the marketing department. From left to right, Kyle is a cowboy, Melissa is a crazy craft lady, Diane is a pirate (she has paintbrushes and yarn in her treasure box), Marci is the lady from the Snuggie commercial, Angela is a tattooed lady, I am also a cowboy, and Alison is an explorer.
What are you going to be for Halloween? Did anyone knit or make your own costume? <

Now that our November catalog projects are online and catalogs are in the mail, I thought it would be fun to show you a few “behind the scenes” snapshots of our catalog shots. Often we have to put ourselves and our models in ridiculous looking situations to get that lovely and natural looking shot. To make things a little interesting, we’ve decided to make a game out of it. Can you guess what the product is we’re shooting? (Hint: It’s either a kit or a book project.)
Contest Directions: Email the item i.d. number or the KnitPicks.com URL of the product shown in each of the following four photos to contests@knitpicks.com by 11/17/09. We will randomly draw a winner from the correct entries who will win the Knit Picks kit of their choice. Kindly put “photo contest” in the subject line. Please do not post the answers in the comments! If …