On the busiest shopping day of the year, we scheduled the delivery of our new store furniture! We were busy from the opening yesterday and our delivery "window" was from 9 to 1. When would the furniture truck arrive. Of course, they came when the store was packed with shoppers!

20 minutes of chaos ensued while Lew, Karena, Jean, Pat, and others moved our existing table and chairs outside as the movers unloaded a new table and six chairs, a leather couch, and two matching oversized chairs.

As you can see, the table was set up for all of 30 seconds before our knitters sat down and resumed their projects.

The couch and chairs were occupied all day too! We had to wait for the a lull to snap these pictures:

Many of our customers were accompanied by family and friends who sat right down and settled into our new comfy salon.

Our own Pat finished a beautiful shawl made from several different types of ribbon yarns, including Prism Bon Bon, Diana, Biwa and Sunshine as well as Rowan Felted Tweed, Noro Hana Silk, and Lang Venezia. The pattern comes from the fabulous Knitting with Novelty Yarns by Laura Bryant and Barry Klein. Check out page 116: Shine On.

Here is a close up of the stitch work:

And just look at this fabulous shawl Linda made from Noro and a Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton pattern:

It was a busy day! How busy? Check out Lew at around 6 PM:

The salon is even more inviting with your gorgeous new furniture. Lew better not try that nap thing in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, though!

Both shawls (and their knitters) look fabulous.

I love the furniture - I can't wait to come test it out! Only a few more weeks until finals are done...then I will be there in full force!
PS If you see Marietta - let her know to check my blog for an up-close of my finishing techniques! :)

OH WOW! The furniture looks GREAT! It's soo making me wanna stop in and sit and knit! Congrats!