Hi all! As you can tell, I've been having trouble keeping up with blog-posting these last few months!! :{ In an effort to balance my fiber business with my day-time career, until further notice I will be posting all new photos with descriptive updates on my Flickr site, www.flickr.com/photos/mollymillerbyappt. Check in with me on Flickr periodically for news about my fantastic fibery adventures! Thanks for your support!!
*fiber hugs*
molly

*phew*

Art on the Avenue was a blast! It was sunny and 72 degrees; wonderful weather for a street fair. Mount Vernon Avenue was packed with families and kiddies and diggity dogs. The BBQ pitsmelled amaaazing (although fortunately it was far enough away from my booth that my lurvely knitted pieces didn't smell like meat...hello, welcome to my booth, would you like to buy a barbequed scarf??), and there was live music and also this very strange make-your-own scarecrow booth. Hmmm. And also an old man who walked into my booth, took my picture and then walked away. Hmmm again.

So - *phew* - I got through the Frequent Flyer Party and Art on the Avenue in JUST ONE WEEK! No small feat for a working woman who strives desperately to find spare time for her right-brained hobby. Time to start knitting again!

Here are some pix, courtesy of my hubby, of my booth yesterday.

Art on the Avenue!

For those of you who live in DC, stop by my booth at Art on the Avenue on Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray (Alexandria, VA) on Saturday, October 4 between 10:00 and 6:00! I'll have lots of fun knitted pieces and handspun yarns for sale, including some that are not listed in my Etsy store. The Art on the Avenue street fair features over 300 craft vendors and draws a crowd of over 40,000 people each year!! You'll find lots of beautiful handmade wares and will be entertained by local music - as well as children's activities and a pie baking contest! Check out www.artontheavenue.org for more information.

AND - for those who read this posting and bring with them the following code to Art on the Avenue, you'll get 10% off your molly miller by appointment purchase!!

code: DelRay2008

Hope to see you there!!!

getting settled in

We're getting settled in to our new house, and my Etsy store is slowly getting back up to speed! Keep an eye out for new pieces from my lovely fall line of scarves and neckwraps as they make their debut over the course of this month!!

http://mollymillerbyappt.etsy.com

MOVING!!

I am moving the week of 8/18, so I'm checking out of my blog and Etsy store until Labor Day while I pack and then unpack in my brand spankin' new fiber studio! :) Check back in September for an exciting new line of scarves and neckwarmers for the fall!!!

Corespinning

I am totally addicted to corespinning. It took me a couple of weeks to figure out whether it was more comfortable for me to spin over the core or under the core, but once I settled on spinning over the core it started going like a breeze! I love how lofty and cloud-like the yarn turns out. Here are a couple of my experiments from last weekend (courtesy of some lurrrvely Loop Spontaneous Spinning Batts!!):

Insubordiknit workshop

I had the distinct honor of learning some serious fiber skillz from the amazing Jacey of Insubordiknit last weekend! We covered a TON of techniques over two full days in Baltimore - twists/loops, knots/stacks, coils, supercoils, racing stripes, autowrap, tornado, strung/trapped/integrated/wrapped foreign objects, cocoons, halos, corespinning, and tiny circles. WOW!! My favorites were cocoons, halos, and tiny circles. I took the workshop with Abby of Folktale (http://folktale.etsy.com) - it was so fun to see the lovely yarns this talented fiber artist made! Check out her blog on the workshop at http://folktalefibers.blogspot.com/.

Below are a few pix from the workshop - one of Jacey demonstrating a spinning technique, and two of some yarns I made. For more pix visit my Flickr site (www.flickr.com/mollymillerbyappt.com).