I know – it seems like Spring Fling was ages ago! (April 21-25). And here we are, just getting to the recap and contest. Life has been a little a lot crazy for the past few months. But we loved having so many of you here for the Fling and we sure appreciate all of the lovely notes and emails you have sent since you arrived back home! Here’s a little recap, with a contest (and a reminder) at the end:
Although the Fling starts on Thursday, quite a few Flingers arrive a day earlier. We had Franklin Habit do his B is for Purl talk about historic knitting patterns on Wednesday night for anyone (Flingers or locals) who wanted to attend. I left wondering why anyone in their right mind would want to tackle knitting an antique knitting pattern. (Seriously. ????)
Both Wednesday and Thursday during the day we had fun hosting some of the Flingers for shopping and knitting on the red couches. (And I had fun doing color consults for several people!)
Thursday evening we had a lovely lovely dessert reception with delicious choices and no photos. sigh. And Franklin did his Five Women, Five Shawls talk, about shawls he had designed in honor of five women in his life. Interesting talk and beautiful shawls.
Friday brought the beginning of classes and shopping trips to Loopy. We had Franklin, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Joanna Johnson and Marilyn King as our Fling teachers this year, and had great feedback from all of the classes. They did an amazing job.
I like to go on the Loopy trips (even though I am always sorely tempted to sign up for the great classes that are going on at the hotel.) It’s SO fun to have everyone wandering the aisles, helping each other with color choices, and then hanging out and knitting on the red couches until the shuttle bus returns.
Friday night is dinner on your own and then knitting in the knitting lounge – always fun! And at the end of that evening, that’s where my part of the story ends. I woke up during the night with such a pain in my lower back that I thought I must have kidney stones. (I have never had them, but I have heard they “are more painful than anything else” and that’s what this felt like. I could barely get out of bed.) A quick trip to the ER on Saturday morning showed no kidney stones, but my sciatic nerve causing the pain and numbness down one leg. (Never had that before either. Never ever ever want it again.) Since I couldn’t sit up or walk, I was sidelined for the rest of the weekend. And I was SO SAD!!!! But the fun went on just fine without me. 🙂 More classes and Loopy shopping trips on Saturday during the day.
Loopy Elf Michael went above and beyond the call of duty by heading to the hotel to take the group photo on Saturday late afternoon. It looks like almost everyone made it to the photo shoot. It’s always hard to get everyone looking up at the same time, though.
Fortunately, Web Guy and Knitting Daughter did a grand job (from what you all tell me) with the doorprizes and wrapup on Saturday night, with a little help from Claudia for prize distribution to the different winners. (That means running the prizes to the different tables. She’s quick!) We had such lovely donations from many wonderful companies, and it was fun to give all of that away.
A huge shout-out and thank you to Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Dream in Color, Cascade, Malabrigo, Soak, Lorna’s Laces, Shalimar, HiyaHiya, George Sichterman Woodwork, Atenti, Appalachian Baby, Kelbourne Woolens and Blue Sky Alpacas for their generous donations! And to my friends Sheryl (who takes off work to help at the Fling) and Janice (who flies in from Iowa to help at the Fling) for being on-location at the hotel, making sure everyone was happy and everything ran smoothly each day! And to my friends Claudia and Maria for popping over from Germany to help and hang out with us all weekend as well. So wonderful to have them all here!
And that brings us to the contest. I have one Goody Bag that I saved for a blog drawing. It even includes the special Loopy coffee mug that we gave out to all in attendance on Saturday night. Who would like it? Leave a comment below and we’ll do the drawing next week and will ship the whole thing off to some lucky person!
Our next Fling is scheduled for October 5-8, 2017. (All of the September weekends are already booked there for 2017. FPS.) We will have more wonderful teachers, fun classes, happy shopping trips, and another great goody bag for you, and we hope you all can attend!
One last thing – Camp Store Week One ends tomorrow (Wednesday, May 18th) so if you’d like a discount on Project One Yarn or Fabric, get those final orders in. And if you signed up for Camp Club, be sure to check out with your first month’s kit, which is in your shopping cart.
Sheri anxiousforthenextFlingtoarrivesinceImissedoutonhalfofthisone!
Brings back treasured memories of earlier Flings. Wonderful times. The goodie bag looks amazing with its treasures. ❤️
The the Fling looked like a lot of fun. I enjoyed Franklin’s talk on Wednesday night.
Thank you for a chance to win a goody bag from the event.
Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! I’m so sorry to hear you were in a lot of pain! I have never had sciatica but I did have severe lower back pain for a year that magically appeared and disappeared. The doctors are still completely confused.
Hope you feel better soon! Try to knit when you can – it really helps keep your mind off the pain!
Love your store so I’m sure I’d love your Fling as well.
Looks like everyone had a great time! One of these days I’ll work up the nerve to sign up for a fling.
Fling looks like so much fun!! Time to start saving for 2017!
The fling looks like such fun!
I would love to visit Loopy.
Thank you so much for making Franklin Habit open to locals! It was such a fun night! I also loved the class I took. Thank you so much! It was fabulous!
How thoughtful of you to think of your blog followers. Thanks!
One day I will get there for Fling!
Thanks for thinking of we bloggy folk who were there in spirit.
The fling really looks like fun. The yarns are eye candy and so yummy.
Winning this would be almost as good as attending. Almost. Here’s hoping I’ll win the goody bag AND get to attend next year!!
Sheri–I had sciatic nerve pain down a leg for the first time this year so I am right there with you in never ever having it again. Hope you are feeling better.
I’m so sad I never got to attend a fling when you were only three hours from me! But that’s okay, CO is prettier. 🙂
One of these days I will make it to a fling. I really have no excuses!
Looks like a fun time.
What a great surprise this would be to receive! Looks like a good time was had by all.
I always wanted to go to your “fling”. Maybe after I retire!
Love the hippo bag!!!!
It was fantastic !!!!!! Job well done Sheri and all the elves who made things run so smoothly. Can’t wait for the next one !!!!
Spring Fling or Fall for that matter are on my Bucket List.
One day I will make it to this lovely and what looks like a great event!!
That was mean of your sciatica to act up during Fling!! (Or anytime, for that matter.)
I’m hoping to make the next Fling!!!
Looks like a great time – I’ll put it on my bucket list for after I retire :).
Spring Fling looks like so much fun! I hope to make it down to CO one of these days to check out the store in person 🙂
What a wonderful look at Fling. Antique shawls and shopping and food and friends. How fun.
Glad the weekend went well. You must be so grateful for your support staff.
Looks like lots of fun for all. Hope to make it for 2017.
Oh my goodness! Such a fun event and special treats. I would love to visit in person one day.
Hi everyone – it looks like you all had a very good time at the Fling! I hope you are feeling better very soon Sheri, I know how much pain you were in – no fun. Will have to start saving up to hopefully the next Fling – love Loopy !!
This event is officially on my bucket list!
Oh, I wish I could have been there! Maybe next year…
Winning the goody bag would be a wonderful consolation prize though!
So pretty!
This looks like so much fun, maybe I can see if I can make the trek from the East Coast to get to Spring Fling!
I will have to put the Fling on my calendar. Are you part of YarnFest in Loveland as well?
LOVE love love the colors!
So sorry to have missed the Fling!
Sorry I missed it this year! Looks like it was fun!
The Fling looks like so much fun!
The Fling sounds like such a wonderful time! I’m looking forward to casting on for Camp Loopy!
The Fling looks like so much fun! Can’t wait to start working on my Camp Loopy project.
What a great goody bag!!!
Attending a Spring Flling is on the top of my bucket list! It always looks like such wonderful fun.
The Fling sounds like so much fun! Hopefully someday I’ll be able to make one.
Love the Fling recap. Looks like so much fun! Maybe someday….but if I win the goody bag, it might be the next-best thing 🙂
Ohhhh sighhhhh! Someday I would love to attend a Fling in person! Meanwhile thanks for the recap so I can live vicariously through the blog! It looks like it was a wonderful event!
What a great looking goodie bag. Clearly, from those photos, it looks like everyone had a fantastic time.
One of my bucket list goals is to visit the Fling! Maybe I’ll set my sights on 2017. It looks like a great time!
2017 Fling is over my birthday! I might have to go.
I would love to attend Fling one day and have put that and another wonderful trip out to Colorado on my bucket list! Winning the special Goody Bag would really made it a very special day for me! Love seeing all those beautiful goodies and I could certainly use that project bag and coffee mug!
Throwing my hat in! Hope to make it to a fling one day. I am lucky enough to have visited the store in person, and it’s great!
Reading about this year’s Fling brought back happy memories of my attending last year’s Fling! Sounds like it was a great time.