The most wonderful time of the year!

Happy Friday all! Out here it's grey-blue and gloomy and I love it so hard. Autumn is when I really feel in tune with the weather - I love summer, don't get me wrong, but if my soul has a season, it's autumn. The smell of decaying leaves, the colours all shifting, the beautiful cloudplay, the possibility of being outside all day and not coming in with second-degree sunburns...I'm here for ALL OF IT.
You don't need me to ramble on about how busy summer has been, because obviously we've done that all before, so consider it said. Now that we're into harvest (and believe you me, my canner has been getting SUCH a workout), things are starting to wind down around the yard, but they've never been at a higher pitch for MARKET PREP! Manitoba Fibre Festival 2018 is already NEXT WEEKEND and holy moly I am pumped up! I'm excited for a few reasons actually:

1. It's my first market, duh. That's a pretty big deal for me. This was a major business goal for me and I'm nervous and excited to see how things go.
2. I haven't been to MBFF in four years - since before we moved to England - and I've never seen it in its new glorious venue, so I can't wait to see how things have changed!
3. Vendors, vendors, vendors! There are going to be so many gorgeous things to look at...and maybe buy ;) Buttons, bags, shawl pins, YARN....ah. I love it.

As you might recall, I threw my (metaphorical) hat in the ring for a Make-Along for the Festival this year: my Snowy Path cowl was one of the eligible designs. Well what fun is a MAL if you just do your own design? My husband saw the Wheat City toque (that's a hat for you non-Canadians) and needed to have one, so off I went! We got great mileage out of our Devil's Punch Bowl toques from last year's pattern collection and you can never have too many toques. 

It might be a touch too warm for it now, but you better believe I still found a reason to wear my FO :D

I'm scrambling like a madwoman for the next week (and this week was already bonkers - have I mentioned I hate printers AND desktop computers lately?!) but come MBFF, you can find me cool, calm, and collected at my booth - with yarn, patterns (in a fancy new format!), project bags, and a few handmade wooden goodies. And afterwards we'll have a big ol' gush post about how everything went and all the things we loved, and Bernice and I will share our loot too!