Well it's finally happened, Amber has come over to the dark side and is really pursuing knitting! She's an amazing crocheter, but has resisted the knitting (I certainly understand this, as I resist the crocheting) however Ailene, Nicole and Amber just cast on their very own Iris the Gourmet Monsters!! They are all using different yarns and I helped them understand the magic loop (which is suggested to work up little Iris) and they all took off!! I barely showed them how it all works and those great young minds ran with it, phew I was dizzy!

**Side note if you would like to learn the magic loop here is a small video we did about this technique...let me know if it is helpful?


To the left are Amber and Nicole and on the right is our very own Ailene and if you get a chance to have either of these 2 little beans help you I know you will enjoy it, they are both awesome!!

If you want to join in on this impromptu KAL (knit a long) feel free and I guess I have to jump on the band wagon with this adorable little monster.

I have always said that Iris is a gourmet because only the best children are eaten, but one of my customers said she thinks it's because only the best yarn is eaten and I love that!!!

As always have a GREAT day and happy knitting and crocheting! Jeanne

Amber is in love and who can blame her when it's this sweet little Lorna's Laces Iris? She got Sara (who is now working elsewhere and is missed) to knit it up for her out of the Shepherd Worsted in the color Catalpa!

Sara wisely gave her the finished pieces and she had to stuff it and sew it together and this is to get her knitting her own stuff! Clearly she finally got to work and put her little Iris together. Way to go Amber we are all so proud!!



As always happy knitting and crocheting! Jeanne

We survived and should get buttons, or T-shirts made saying exactly that! Phew we are a tired bunch of Little Beans for sure! Thanks to all of you who stopped by and said hi and of course the volunteers who worked with us, WOW, we wouldn't have gotten through it all without you!! Thanks so much!

We got down to Santa Clara mid afternoon on Wednesday and here we are unloading stuff out of my truck. As you can see the silliness has already begun! We worked on putting our booth together until 6:00 when we had to get out and go do some knitting, or hot tubing, or just put our feet up it was Little Beans choice on that one.

Sandy and I retired to our lovely room in the Hilton right across from the show (good call Laura) and knit the night away. Amber went hot tubing and then Laura, Victoria and Amber met up with Della of Della Q accessories and visited for a bit. Ok nighty night!


Here is our booth in the process of coming together and I think we all felt like it might not happen, but in true Jimmy Beans Wool style we pulled it off with time to spare!

The show always opens on Thursday night for a preview and we had this booth put together and up and running by show time at 5:00!!


Here is Sandy the cube builder! Watch out for that mallet, ha ha!! Go Sandy go!!!







Toni, one of our favorite (pic on the right) customers and budding inventor of the Yarn Pull Eze, which is now available for preorder on our site and was at the booth demonstrating this great little gadget for passersby!

She was at the end of the booth that featured the Trendsetter Cha Cha yarn and free pattern from 2 Askew Designs and she did a fantastic job of helping out! Thanks Toni you are the best!

A quick side note on the Cha Cha we did an instructional video on how to work with this fun ribbon yarn and you may want to take a quick peek before you cast on!

We had some fantastic discontinued Crystal Palace yarns with us and they just flew out of the booth! CPY Aran Marl is a 102 yards of knitting/crocheting pleasure. Also there was the CPY Sequoia yarn, Aran Print, and the CPY Kaya yarn too! All of these great yarns were a huge hit and we did bring back just a bit of each one, so you may want to take a look and get on board before we sell out.



Iris the Gourmet Monster made her debut at the show and I can't wait to knit her up!! She is so cute and was a huge hit with our customers! I love the Revelation yarn by Lorna's Laces yarn and I think I will knit my Iris up in Zombie BBQ, what do you think?

Here is Amber well, just being Amber with her sassy little attitude! Gotta love her for sure and she was so awesome to work with at the show too!

Victoria was a dynamo and lifted, toted, and sold with a vengeance! Victoria you are my idol and so cute too! I didn't get a good picture of her at the show because she was moving so fast, but here she is to the left with her usual great smile and fantastic can do attitude!

We were all amazing if I do say so myself, but of course I am a bit biased when it comes to us little beans, ha ha! We met so many of our out of town customers and hugged, laughed and just enjoyed getting together!

One morning Sandy and I came to the elevator and found this little 'Yarn Bomb' on the phone there! Knitting strikes when you least expect it to!

Then there was my personal favorite, Colleen, who rides a Harley with a side car and is 82! Of course she is a knitter too and since I ride my bad girl Harley we hit it off with a laugh and a hug!


Well I am sure I could go on and on about all the knitting celebrities we met, the beautiful things we saw and just the general fun we had, but I better get back to work and catch up here in the shop. I must say that the little beans we left behind to hold things together did a FANTASTIC job and the shop was in great shape when we came back! THANKS!!

As always happy knitting and crocheting! Jeanne