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TRUNK SHOW 

The Fibre Company's

featuring

Arranmore Light

 "Pop Collection"

Thursday, Nov 2 - Nov 12

MORE NEW YARNS

Rowan Cashmere Tweed

Wilke Scarf & Hat in Rowan Cashmere Tweed

I promised to tell you about all the new cashmere blends we have gotten in.  First,we have Rowan's Cashmere Tweed. It is a DK weight 80% merino 20% cashmere in 8 different tweedy colors.  I'm thinking scarves, hats, cowls -- soft as can be. 

Plymouth gave us Cuzco Cashmere -- sportweight 40% alpaca, 
40% silk 20% cashmere -- it doesn't get much better than that. 

The Fibre Co.'s Arranmore Light has 328 yards to its sport/dk weight skein. 

It has  80% merino, 10% silk, 10% cashmere and is a pleasure to knit with.

I'm almost finished with my Bibbe sweater which is pictured above for the

trunk show.

I couldn't resist Debbie Bliss's newest luxury yarn called Iris. 

It's a worsted weight 90% merino 10% cashmere blend -- 

there's also a great  little pattern book  to go with the yarn.

Juniper Moon's newest entry is called Fourteen. This aran weight yarn boasts 

147 yards of

 a chained construction that is a 90% merino 10% cashmere blend.

Other new yarns that have come in: Sequoia

from Baah Yarns is a super bulky soft as can be hand painted yarn.

From The Alpaca Company we have Symmetry, sport weight squishy

 merino/alpaca blend in tonal hand painted colors.

Shibui has a new yarn called Birch.  You would think there is cashmere in it,

 but it's 100% extra fine merino in a finger/sport weight skein of 262

 yards and is  very well priced.

Backyard Fibers is a new hand dyed company with rich  saturated colors. 

I brought in their chunky and sportweight --- a new pattern book is going to be 

released with some of our favorite designers using their yarns --

 Xandy Peters, Lars Rains and  Kathleen Dames are among them.

Skacel sent me Gesa & Floe, a new baby yarn from Zitron which is 100% 

Merino Ultrafine Wool -- very soft next to baby's skin and machine washable.

From Appalachian Baby we bought two new designs -- Pick a Knit Blanket and 

Baby  Bear Cardigan.

 Here's an article debunking the "I am allergic to wool" myth.  

CLASSES - for  more info click here

We have a great line up for classes. 

On Saturday, Oct 14 at 1 pm,   Jennifer Dassau, author of Knitting Short Rows, is 

teaching a class on Short Row Techniques.

Lars Rains is back.  He'll be teaching "Introduction to Stranded Textural 

Colorwork" on Nov. 18.

Other classes:

Building with Lace--learn new lace knitting skills as you build a shawl.

Cocoknits Sweater Workshop -- using Julie Weisenberger's videos 

we'll be exploring her method of sweater knitting.

Two-color Brioche cowl/scarf -- Brioche is all the rage -- l

learn the brioche basics

Beginning Knitting/Project Time

MY FIRST CUSTOMFIT SWEATER WORKSHOP

Beginning Spinning

Beginning Rigid Heddle Loom Weaving

Brooks Bouquet Woven Lace Scarf or Shawl

Beginning Crochet

Crochet: The Next Steps

Sock Knitting on DPN's

Toe Up - 2 Socks at a Time on One Circular Needle

Meet up

Our next Friday Night Meet-up is on October 6 starting @ 6 pm. 

 Click here  for more info  Hope to see you there.