A trip to my candy store

I am sure for all the knitters out there the candy shop is the yarn shop, am I right? when I enter I am like a kid and I just don't know what to get because I want to get it all!

So, I have to make a plan about what I will knit, then pick the yarn for it. if I don't do this, I will leave with a full bag and an empty wallet!

I mean, look at all these beauties! 

And the reasonable part of me has to ask: "What are you plan to do with it?"

I know! I will offer grab bags, in just one color: let's say, 3 different blue bonnets, like I had before and they were pretty appreciated in the shop. 

Now, the question: what color? 

I know that most of the photographers prefer organic, neutral colors, but I am sure there are my kind of people out there with the bold and happy colors, so TODAY I go for the bright 'n sunny yellow: 

 Really did not needed this yarn, but, hey, I only got 3!

(and a new pair of needles)

♥

You are loved!

Ioana

Hand knit baby hats

Having my girly colors I started one morning making some beanies, adorned with a little knit bow - well, the bow came out bigger than the initial thought. 
get the white
get the pink 
deffinetly get the beige

while I was knitting I was thinking of colors for the little boys
...or should I make matching pants?
           .....or should I try some baby cardigans?

well, the best inspiration comes while working, isn't it!

so many ideas! so little time!

Our knitting mamas

I live in a country where life is not quite easy for most people, for those who work and for those who are retired it is even harder. My nana, my mother, my friend's mother, a very nice grandma I have met along the way; they all struggle, like most people to make sure the little money they have would last a whole month.

 With all this in mind, I asked my nana if she would like to knit baby blankets for my shop, and her reaction surprised me, because I didn't have the chance to tell her that it would be a payed job, while she watched TV, or on rainy days when she does not work in the garden (this is what she loves most: her flowers). 

She was so happy to do something, to "feel usefull" as she said.

The money she would make were a bonus ♥

♥

All our mothers know how to knit, in my country, well, the great majority, at least.

I think that I will make my Zucchini Island Shop a collective shop:
 me and the knitting mamas ♥

Giving them a chance, showing to the world their beautiful work, dreaming that the baby blankets they make, would keep warm a sweet little baby.

♥

Hugs and love, 

ioana a.k.a. kara