I left off with photos of the booth.  Here are some more.

On this left grid wall, you can see an assortment of our new Fuzzy Purls.  70 yards of hand spun yarn with synthetic fur tufts.  Check out our FaceBook advertising page for all the colors.  Farther right on this grid wall you can see our Giant Purls, 70 yards of hand spun yarn with felted balls on them.  They are available in Natural or any of 15 dyed colorways.  Straight up the edge of the grid wall you can see a shrug in the colorway "grasshopper".

Below is another view of this same grid wall.

This has a better view of the shrug (Robin even needle felted some mohair onto it).  On the right edge of the grid wall, you can see our Needle Felted Silk Scarf Kit sample (in blue), a sample of our new "Child's Needle Felted Silk Scarf Kit (pink) and our Chiffon Silk Needle Felting Kit (navy blue).

Below, during one of our rare slow moments, you can see the various colors of Hand Spun Bouquet that we had on display.

Of special interest is the white purse in the upper left portion of the photo.  Above the black boa and beside the black scarf.  We weren't going to use this pattern when it was first submitted.  The photo didn't do the purse justice.  When we saw it, we fell in love with it.  It will be available for purchase in shops carrying Pagewood Farm Hand Spun Bouquet.  But, you don't have to buy a pattern to knit with Hand Spun Bouquet.  We have 4 free patterns that we give to retailers ordering Hand Spun Bouquet.  They have our permission to copy them and give them to their customers who purchase Hand Spun Bouquet.

Here is more of our Hand Spun Bouquet.

Coming next blog:  Some visitors to our booth.

This is my first year going to TNNA in Columbus.  I have been going to the west coast shows.  Normally I stay home and mind the "farm".  But this year we have Cis Mezin (formerly of 3 Kittens in Minn.) and we felt comfortable with Robin and I both there.

One thing that we had to deal with were the "Pink Dogs."  They usually stay  home with me.  We found a lady that boarded dogs at her home and it looked like a good fit.  Unfortunately, nobody told Jolene that she wasn't going.

To ensure that we would have someone there to put up the booth (in case of travel issues) we decided to go separately.  I left Wednesday.  Robin left Thursday.  That gave me a Thursday alone in Columbus.  I put it to good use by playing in the first annual TNNA golf tournament.  I came in second.  The other guy came in first.  I think we need to work on attendance!  We had a great time playing at Bent Tree.

Friday came and it was time to put up the booth.  Robin and I  had some help from our two "roadies."

You may know them as Cia Bullemer (left), our Southern California sales rep and Grace Akhrem (right) one of our designers (and participant in the Sock Summit Road Trip).  They worked really hard to get this booth together.  We also had some fantastic help from Debra, the owner of Yarning for You in San Marcos, California. 

The booth was a gorgeous array of colors.

Robin took this photo which shows the grid wall with the Hand Spun Bouquet.  It was a big seller and the LYS owners loved it.  Look for it soon in your city.  You can see some samples of the pattern support we have.  To the left of the Pagewood sign is a sample of the FREE scarf pattern and to the left of that is a sample of the FREE boa (Crochet) pattern.  Left of that are some patterns for our hand dyed yarn and nestled on the floor is our hand spun roving (check it out spinners).

This section was a new product debut for this show.  We call it Flora.  We took our Thick N Thin yarn (the base yarn for the Hand Spun Bouquet)  and needle felted mohair flowers onto it(similar concept to the hand spun bouquet).  They were very popular.

For those of you that want to create their own Flora, we have kits which contain all the materials.  Just add creativity and a Clover needle felting tool and mat.

Here's the back of the package showing the contents.

I've got more  (much more) to share with you this week.

Robin is back from South America and I can only say "whew!"  It was great for her meeting the team responsible for creating and producing our Hand Spun Bouquet and other U-Knitted Nations products.  She told me some great stories about her meetings and I'm looking forward to meeting them in person next trip.  Let me rephrase that: I'm going with her when we go next year ;-)

We are in the process of sorting out the samples that she brought back.  All I can do is repeat "whew!"  There are some fantastic yarns that could be joining our U-Knitted Nations line.  We have a lot of work to do to see if they will work out.  I am just itching to blab about them.  But, you will have to wait until we have test produced, test marketed, etc. before you can see them.  Whichever we do introduce, will be great!!

I do have something that I can tantalize you with.  We have a facebook page under Pagewood Farm.  We also have a public facebook page where you don't have to register with facebook to go on it.  I have posted some new Hand Spun Bouquet colorways (we are up to 20!!!).  I also posted the new Fuzzy Purls colors.  How about Leopard?

The link is:

I've been on a little spy mission for our blog readers.  We have all these new products and new ideas coming out.  And I'm supposed to wait until TNNA (early June) to plug them on my blog???  No way!!!

This first photo answers the requests we have had for a less expensive version of our Needle Felted Silk Scarf Kit for children.  Our research has shown that girls of all ages love to needle felt.  While they should be supervised, we have found the ones that we had try it were very mature about it.  But, for some, the price of our kits was kind of high for a child's craft.  I found this sample of our new Children's Needle Felted Silk Scarf Kit on the felting machine.  The scarf is smaller 8" x 54" (perfect for children).  It takes less mohair so it will be around 30% less than the full size scarf kits.  Mix that with the smaller needle felting mat we now carry and you've got a pretty nifty child's craft.  Make sure to supervise.

Next, you've seen my earlier photos of our new Fuzzy Purls yarn.  But, you've never seen a sample of what it looks like.  Fuzzy Purls are hand spun wool yarn (similar to out giant purls).  Instead of having  felted giant purls attached to the yarn, Fuzzy Purls have a balls or tufts of synthetic fur.  Synthetic fur; that's good!  Here's a scarf that Robin has been working on.

For those crafters who like the Hand Spun Bouquet (Thick N Thin yarn with felted flowers attached) we have a new kit.  With our Needle Felted Flower Kit you can create your own Flora Flower Yarn.  Or, you can attach your own flower creations to any piece in your wardrobe.  And it's a real bargain.

Comes with a lot of product!

Finally, we have a new scarf kit.  Robin took a Chiffon Scarf and added our Chiffon Silk Ribbon to make this love piece.  It sells for the same price as our other Silk Scarf Kit.