The weekend before Thanksgiving was the second and last day of our annual Spinner's and Weaver's guild show-and-sale! It always goes very well with little left over in the end. We started with around 65 rugs, and ended with 13 or 14. Our dishtowel table that began with the towels pushing and shoving each other just to get a peek out from the bottom of the pile, was to the point of spreading the towels as thin as possible just to make it look like we still had a few!

Here's a photo of our room after the first day - though we'd already sold many of our rugs and dishtowels and were starting to spread things out to fill empty spots.

I put out 15 towels and came home with only 2, one of those two was put out in the last 2 hours of the sale. The other was marked as a 'table runner' for the majority of the sale. There were so many people that saw it, and said "Oh that's pretty... but it's a table runner...", despite the fact that it's ALSO 100% cotton, the same color, and texture as the dishtowel and only 4" longer, for some reason just because it was declared a 'table runner' that's what it MUST be, and couldn't possibly be used for ANYTHING else.

All in all I sold 13 dishtowels and a Christmas ornament. And now have money for some Christmas presents! (and more yarn!!)

Above is almost everything I put out at the sale, there was one more dishcloth that I decided to put out after the photo was taken. My workmanship wasn't quite up to my preferred standards, but the ones like it went SO fast and were SO well liked I figured someone might like to have it more than they cared that one border didn't quite match the other (it was a little shorter than the other from being woven tighter).

It most like the navy and white dishtowel in this photo:

Except instead of white bands on the border it had red bands.
These were done for our guild's color and weave challenge this year.

I made enough money to buy some Christmas presents - which was good since I didn't have a lot of time to MAKE them this year! (dishtowels don't work for everybody ;-) ) Of course once you see all the the lovely items for sale there's not always much left of your earnings by time the sale's over... This year I resisted temptation, well... mostly...

Next year I intend to have some blankets and rugs woven. The blankets will be a 'big ticket' item which will hopefully bring in more money for the number of hours spent weaving.

On the knitting front, I knitted 4 little Christmas ornaments using the knitted and felted ornaments and garland for my pattern. I went down to a size 2 needle and knitted it on sport weight yarn (patons "brilliant"), I played with some beading on them and didn't really know what design I would knit onto them until I cast on, and didn't use any patterns for the designs. It was the seat-of-the-pants method that I'm all too well acquainted with.

I was pleased with how they came out. My dad has already hung the 3 I had left around the house - the first of our Christmas decorating.

I feel so festive now.