Tennessee Adventures...

We (HobbyHubby, the little people & my Mother-in-law) took a little trip Knoxville at the beginning of August to visit my brother-in-law.

We had a wee bit of time to visit a yarn shop.

Loved it!

We visited downtown Knoxville to see the SunSphere, which is located at the site of the 1982 World's Fair.

Went to the Knoxville Zoo and had such fun! Aren't those little people the cutest animals?

Went to the Dinosaur Walk in Pigeon Forge. Annestelle was in heaven, naming each and every dinosaur replica!

This is the view from Clingman's Dome, the Great Smokey Mountains National Park's highest point east of the Mississippi. Would you believe we saw John Glenn and his wife hiking back down from the Dome? Yes, the astronaut. HobbyHubby took Glenn's picture with a woman (using her camera), but hated to bother Glenn any further so didn't ask the woman to return the favor. Very exciting nonetheless!

Happy Hobbies!

Road Trip: Quilt Love on the Way Home

The Woolen Willow

This was a fabulous stop on our journey home.

This shop was in the process of building/expanding

and so I didn't take any pictures.
This shop was fantastic.

Imagine a quilt shop with the usual quilting fabric...

Add in a great selection of wool...

Wool on the bolt, wool kits, plaid wool...

wool love!

Then add in a great

selection of yarns and patterns.

We loved this shop and were

planning on stopping on the next trip to WV.

I purchased a little wool kit (check out the birthday kit on this page).

I bought a piece of green plaid wool to make a purse.

I found some lovely guitar fabric and some bugs

playing instruments for my little peeps.

I also found a Christmas jelly roll for the Christmas

quilt I will make at some point.

With the buggy fabric I made Little Miss
a backpack for her violin binder and lesson books.

I re-purposed some wool from a skirt for the bottom, and used some corduroy form a pair of pants for the panel with the embroidered name and for the straps.

The girlie loves it!

She tried it out today when we went to her violin lesson!

Happy Hobbies!

Road Trip: Shopping Day, Knitting Shop

The aunties surprised me with a stop

at the Knit 'n Hook Yarn Shop.

This is a nice little yarn store in Huntington,

with the sweetest owner!

I didn't purchase any yarn, but did buy these two patterns.

I've since set to work on a purse from the Ann Norling pattern
using some Noro that had I in my yarn basket.
I'm enjoying the cables.

Happy Hobbies!