Tall Tale Books little hero

So, some of you might remember that last august, there was a knit in at Tall Tale books.
I had so much fun, and I tagged the door for them.
Well, they had a bit of trouble a little while back.
And being a locally owned and operated business, they called on the community for help. Thankfully, the community answered resoundingly and helped save the wonderful local children's book store.
Anyway, I really like the place. It has a wonderful charm, and they were the first place that hosted a knit-in that I actually participated in.
It's also where my roommate first crocheted.
I decided, because they were such a wonderful part of my early crochet career, to crochet an amigurumi of their mascot!

She's a cute little doll.
Drew, one of the owners, looked really happy that I thought of them.

All in all, it has been a great experience.
I hope to have many more with the wonderful people at Tall Tale books.

Tall Tales Books Knit In

While I was perusing my Google Reader one afternoon early August, I came upon an entry from Yarnbombing.com talking about a knit in event happening right here in my town! (http://yarnbombing.com/fancy-fences)

Of course, I was super excited and counting down the days.
The day of, I packed over half of my yarn into my knapsack (along with a couple tags, just in case), and all my hooks XD
Then biked down to Tall Tales Books on Fort st, Victoria BC

It was a wonderful little sit in event, with cookies, and those bite size brownies (which I totally love) and Tea. I had the blueberry tea, which was fabulous XD
I brought a friend of mine along too, because I thought it would be fun. I taught them how to crochet and helped them along with it. We listened to the women talk about things in their lives and it made me realize I really aught to join some sort of knitting group.

I was working on a tag for my bike while we were all sitting there (which I will put in the next post) and one of the ladies asked me what I was doing. I told her it was a tag for my bike. She then asked, what a tag was, so I explained Yarnbombing.
One of the other ladies asked me how I got involved with Yarnbombing and I explained about the Yarnbombing book. She then proceeded to tell me that she knew Leanne, one of the authors of the Yarnbombing book! I was so thrilled, and then to make me even more thrilled, she asked me if I would tag the front of her store.

I think I nearly died on the spot.

The really entertaining part was the yarnbombing site said in it's entry that there might be yarnbombing at the event. I just didn't know it would be mine.

Thanks again to those lovely ladies at Tall Tales Books, and to the awesome creators of the Yarnbombing book that got me into the spectacular hobby <3