Friends and Family

Kathy and Mary are friends of Woolbearers since the beginning of time.....they escaped one evening to come see us last week. It was great having them in the store!

The socks on needles are Kelly's first try....she wouldn't just go for a basic sock pattern, this girl. Oh no, we have lots of cables. The heel is so crisp and beautiful. She is amazing.

The mitten with the pop top, and the Black Ice socks are Beth's, the gal who works in the store on Saturday. The mitten is so cool, I forgot where she got the pattern but will ask and post. The sock is a size 13.....her husband is such a doll that she will knit anything he asks for. I believe she is doing an Afghan for him now, the Great American, but in a colorway to compliment a piece of art they bought together.

MORE GREAT AMERICAN AFGHAN TALK

I have completed 9 squares and have 2 more on the needles. Sabra’s done one square and is diligently working on another one.

Square 4 by Celest Pinheiro

I must say, I have had more fun doing these squares than anything else in a long time. There is a notation in the book that 5 of the squares are more challenging and 5 others are easy. Well, I’m not sure how they got to this conclusion.

Square 7 by Susan Z. Douglas For example, Square 7 by Susan Douglas is supposed to be “challenging” -- I thought it was pretty easy. Just follow the chart, line by line and it wasn’t a problem. There are a few 1-5 and 1-3 increases – pretty much the same as making a bobble and you have to keep track of all the different cable stitches (some are p1k1, others are k1p1). I made an enlarged copy of the chart, marked off row by row as I went along and kept referring back to the printed word instructions if I had a question. Voila --- I had it done in no time.


On the other hand , Square 8 by Kathy Zimmerman is listed as one of the “easy” squares and I had to rip it a few times before I got the first row set up correctly. Once I got past row 4, I was on my way, but it did seem to pose more of a challenge than Square 7, at least for me. I think it had more to do with going back and forth between 2 charts – I shouldn’t admit this, but I did sometimes put chart A stitches where chart B stitches should go. Must be an ADHD thing.

Square 8 by Kathy Zimmerman
Square 17 looks like it had an unusual construction and it does, but once you get going on it, you will see how easy it is to do.

Square 17 by Karen Kendrick-Hands
Sabra is working on Square 1, since she loves knitting socks. In order to knit the little socks for the square the instructions say to do what Priscilla Gibson-Roberts calls a “straight-wrap cast-on”. It looks exactly like the “Middle Eastern” cast-on that I did when I knit the fingers for top-down gloves from a pattern by Therese Inverso. A new technique to a lot of folks, but it makes a great, almost seamless seam. I just love doing new things like that.

Square 9 by Lily Chin

Currently I am working on Square 9, by Lily Chin. I’m really happy with how it is coming out. While I have been talking about loving this project, there is one square that I’m not happy about.

It’s Square 6 by Maureen Egan Emlet. It’s a really fussy square and right now I’m not into fussy. One of the stitches is that “Knit Bullion” stitch I mentioned in an earlier post. Sadly, right now I am doing it with a crochet hook. No matter how I tried it with a knitting needle, I could not get my needle through 10 wraps at once ( I suppose I could try the Addi lace needles – I’ll let you know if that works). I saw the crochet hook bullion stitch demonstrated here -- I can’t quite get her technique so that all my stitches are even, so I have been pulling one stitch over at a time. It’s a pain and I just want to get the square done. I will persevere (probably after I’ve finished all the other squares).

Square 6 by Maureen Egan Emlet
I started thinking about fixing mistakes and ripping out as I was working on this aghan, because I have done my share of ripping. I remember all too well all the ripping and fixing of mistakes I did when I quilted. I did take a brief detour into quiltmaking back in the '80's. It seems that it is so much easier to fix mistakes in knitting. Lots of times, you don't need to rip -- you can just drop your stitch down a few rows and fix the mistake and bring it back up.

Quilting is another story.

When I would piece a quilt -- each piece was sewn together with a 1/4 inch seam; not much room for error. (Ah yes, blame it on the sewing machine). Many times I just had to do the whole thing over. I still have the partial top I did for my nephew when he was first born. After I got the star pieced (I'm not going to count all the pieces I cut out), it just wouldn't lay right, the center buckled, so I did the entire quilt over again. Cut out all new pieces. My sister was mad that I didn't have it done in time for his birth. She should only know. He did receive it when he was two years old (just turned 21), I didn't think that was too long a wait. Completely machine pieced and hand quilted. Sorry that I don't have a picture of the finished product. Wonder if they even know where it is.

My husband is still waiting for his sweater which I started 16 years ago. He is just going to have to wait a little while longer.

Beautiful fabrics are what attracted me to weaving. Then, years later, when I saw the yarns that I could buy, cones of silk, wool, rayon, cotton, I was hooked. Then, when I realized I could buy MILL ENDS, I was obsessed! A yarn guy I know would call me from North Carolina; 'I got a nice bunch a woolen stuff 'herea fow yo' he would drawl. 'An, if ya take it all, I give you a rale good praaaice'. So the next week, UPS pulls up and unloads ten large, worn, cardboard boxes. 500 pounds. I tried to hide it in the garage. No luck. When Mr. got home, he commented 'What the hell is in the driveway?' He had to find a way to fit the boxes in the garage because I was too exhausted from opening them up and rolling around in the yarn. It was heavenly.

Joann wove this lovely hounds tooth of two shades of silk and rayon blend singles, sort of slubby, great luster and amazing drape. The yarn she used is among the last cones of that first haul. My goal was to use (sell, or give away, enough to make room for more!

So, the search is on!


The accumulation of raw wool is an obsession, too. The fleece right off a sheep, the smell of it, the fresh cut end so clean and shiny, it just thrills me. We have a lot of fleece. Probably close to 1000 pounds now. We keep buying it, because we love to wash it and dye it and card it. Very rarely, we sell a raw one, more because we forget to offer them for sale. Soon, our shipment of Gotland will arrive in the US. We are getting 130 or so pounds. It is so beautiful; shades of silver, lustrous, silky. We can hardly wait. We are keeping a few or more for ourselves! Then when they are gone, we will buy more, and so on and so on. I have four fleeces in my car, waiting for the opportunity to hide them somewhere. For a short time, whenever I asked my husband if it was all right with him if I bought another sheep, he'd ask why I wanted it and the answer was always because I wanted the fleece. His reply was to just buy the fleece, then. Since the last big fleece purchase however, he said maybe I should get the sheep after all....

Paris, London, Rome, Mt. Holly

A FAQ at Woolbearers is, how did we happen to choose Mt. Holly as the place to open a yarn shop? Neither of us live there, although I once did, about 12 years ago. I raised my children there, had a network of friends, liked the urban feel in a little, bucolic looking town. Don't be fooled though, it's not Mayberry, a fact locals and those in the southern part of the state know.

We are down the street from the county prison, have three bail bondsmen (and a woman) in our block alone, have a few homeless people. Because it's the county seat, Mt. Holly also houses all the services humanity could possibly need. We have a sign on our door guiding people to the offices of the Public Defender, Family Services, and Miss Nancy's Bail Bonds. It's an interesting, alive place to do business.

The top picture is of Karen and Stacey, who spent Sunday yarn shopping together. They made a big dent in the Happy Feet, among other yarns! Behind that basket is Stacy's next baby, due January 23rd! Congratulations!

Lovely Judy in her pink sweater of Nashua in the next picture. The ruffle is removable. Judy looks great in pink and knits lots of pink yarn into wonderful sweaters for herself. It took Judy, Elda, and me over an hour today to figure out the yarn requirements for the Alice Starmore sweater in last month's Vogue. Judy will have it done in no time.


Mt. Holly is 20 miles from Philadelphia, 70 from Manhattan, 35 from Wilmington. We have loyal customers from those cities and many cities within that circle. Today, a lovely young woman from Dunellen, a tiny town in the northwestern section of New Jersey, drove for almost two hours to come to the shop. Barbara, an avid sock knitter and supporter of her LYS, (us), comes from the northern Philly suburbs every week. Phyllis, a wonderful friend and customer since we opened, drives from Barneget a couple of times a week. That's Phyllis in the picture. She couldn't take her eyes off her knitting. Debbie, another shore dweller, will drive down at the drop of a hat, as she did today. She loves yarn and can sniff out a new arrival like a blood hound. Her husband is a riot, too. He will drive her to our shop, Stitches (even Stitches Midwest) to try to monitor her yarn purchases. Also in the picture is Marian, who is felted bag knitting machine, Donna, of giant brown bag fame, her Breast Cancer Three Day Walk Buddy, Brenda who, besides being one of the funniest gals I know, is also the quickest learning sock student, and our own Sabra sock knitting teacher extraordinaire.

Almost daily, we have visitors from out of state who have seen or heard about us. I think it is because we love our yarn and store and love to see our customers. They know that, and tell their knitting buddies, and so through word of mouth, we meet more fiber fanatics.

Ellen and her daughter looking for scarf and vest yarn. Ellen is another knitter who buys the yarn and next week, the project is finished!

Today, Myra's friend Robin and her friends came in. Robin had a sweater with her that she is knitting from yarn she purchased when she was in the Hebrides. The yarn is shetland, of course, but what sets it apart is that it is naturally dyed. It is to die for. I'm not kidding. She is knitting a fair isle sweater from it; what else? She also finished this great Noni bag.

About the same time I was lusting after this yarn, the UPS guy came in with our latest order of Jamieson yarn, my favorite. It was 12 more gorgeous colors of Spindrift for that Alice Starmore sweater. I think we need to add hand-dyed Woolbearers shetland yarn to our huge Jamieson collection.

Happy New Year.
2007 was an absolutely fantastic year for fiber folk. In case you haven’t already heard of Ravelry, run, don’t walk to your computer and join up (www.ravelry.com). While you are there, please add Woolbearer as one of your friends. We’d love to see all the projects everyone is working on.

Sunday, February 3rd is our annual SuperBowl Sunday Sale.

Last May, we moved to our new home at 90 High Street and now you can actually see all the yarn we have. Of course, since we have a much bigger space we had to get even more yarn. One of the newest additions is Karabella Yarns, with their Aurora 8, Aurora 4 and SuperCashmere Fine yarns. Come and touch – it’s so soft. We also have beautiful DK weight cashmere from South Africa.













We’ve expanded our Cascade 220 collection to almost 100 colors. We’ll be doing a KAL for the Great American Afghan using Cascade colors. See our website www.woolbearers.com for more info. We started carrying Cascade’s Lana Grande – 2 stitches to the inch of the soft yummy wool – knits up in no time. Kraemer is a new company for us. We have their Mauch Chunky and Sterling Silver sock yarn, some of which we are dyeing in mottled solids. Have you touched the Dream in Color Smooshy Sock Yarn? We also have their chunkier weight yarn called Fatty – beautiful colors. (see the Yarn Harlot for more pictures)

Have you seen the Modern Quilt Wrap from Folk Styles? Knit out of 9 colors of Rowan Kid Silk Haze -- it's like knitting a cloud.







Join the KAL online at Knit One, Crochet Too’s yahoo group, Knits, and knit the Painted Diamond bag made out of Paintbox, a beautiful self-striping wool yarn. We also have their new Babyboo yarn – it’s a bamboo/nylon combination and is a superwash yarn. Suzie is knitting a vest out of it and you can see a picture of it on the previous entry. Want to dye your own yarn? We have kits called Culinary Collection – includes a 450 yard skein of Douceur et Soie (silk and mohair) and enough dye to make a shawl or 2 scarves.

For all of you lace knitters we have something really special. Cherry Tree Hill was able to get some Orenburg Lace yarn and of course, we had to take some off their hands. One skein is enough to make a beautiful Orenburg Lace shawl or scarf.

LLamajama is a new addition. We have their 1855 wool handspun and naturally dyed merino (spun by a co-op of women in Ecuador), beautiful alpaca, and chunky weight natural colored wool. Great pattern support too!

Plymouth keeps coming out with new yarns. We recently brought in their Happy Feet sock yarn (who needs Koigu now) and Knitcol – a self striping superwash DK weight yarn. The Bristol Yarn Gallery from Plymouth has added some silk/cotton yarns to their collection – we should have it in the shop by March. We just got our new shawl pins from Plymouth too.

Artyarns has a new self-striping yarn – gorgeous colors – hope to have it in stock within a few weeks.

We dyed a lot of fleece that we get from a farm in Mt. Laurel and sent it out to be made into roving. Well, we just got the roving back -- it's gorgeous and spins like a dream.

And if that’s not enough fiber for you – Woolbearers is proud to announce that we will be the sole importers of Gotland fleece from England this year. We’ll keep you posted on the details.

We are really excited about our new class line up. We are starting a study of Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitting Workshop. The first project we’ll tackle is the Garter Stitch Baby Blanket. We are also beginning a “Getting Started” series. See demos of dyeing self-striping yarn, felting techniques, triangle loom weaving, etc. (see the website www.woolbearers.com for more details).

Have you seen the latest issue of Vogue Knitting? Woolbearers is mentioned in the CyberStitches column. We’ll have to thank our mailman, Greg for inspiring us to write that blog entry that was mentioned.

And yes, we will be doing another Yarn Tasting. Details to follow ...

Spinners take note – the Schacht Ladybug spinning wheel is on its way.

Remember – 1st Friday of the month is our meetup group at 6 pm; 1st Sunday of the month is the South Jersey Spinners and Handweavers Guild spin-in at 1 pm. Or stop in anytime for knitting, spinning, a cup of coffee and friendship.

Suzie & Myra

Happy New Year! I celebrated by starting another project. I had a change of heart; my former rule was don't start anything else until something gets finished. Hogwash! It is so exciting to start a new project!

We are doing inventory and on Saturday, I was counting some leaflet patterns when I came across Tradewinds Patterns. The Falling Leaf Vest is designed by Lucy Neatby. I like any plant or animal motifs, and so this was right up my alley. It calls for a sport weight or DK weight yarn and immediately Babyboo by Knit One Crochet Too came to mind. It is a very beautiful, 45% Bamboo, 55% Nylon machine washable yarn that I think is intended for baby wear. When we got it, I thought that the high nylon content might make it perfect for socks.

I chose the hot pink because the shirts we wear at the store are pink and they might look nice together. The yarn in wonderful to work with. No splitting or twisting, very soft and drapey. I love it. Oh, something new, I am making this for myself, something I never do.

The pattern has a very easy method for enlarging it. I need it a little roomier than the largest size is so I don't have to walk around holding my stomach in all day. Don't think the back muscles would last long.

EZ's Garter Stitch Baby Blanket, so easy, even a masochist, oops, I mean, it was easy, once I figured out what to do with the center stitches.

You figure out how big you want your blanket to be. Then multiply the stitches per inch by the length, and halve that and that is the number of stitches you cast on. Pretty cool. You knit the first row, and when you get to the last stitch, turn before you knit it, and knit back. You keep knitting this way, doing short rows. When there are five stitches left, you stop so your corners will be nice. Then you knit one more stitch each time. My problem was when I got to

the center. Was I to keep knitting doing short rows, or quit and knit all the way to the end? I stopped doing short rows at five stitches, just like the other end. No. I ended up with a mountain in the middle of the blanket. So you keep doing short rows all the way to the end in what will be the center. She says it should lay so nice and flat that you don't even have to block. I wouldn't go that far, but once I get it kitchnered together, it should be fairly square.

Here's another problem. I am a fairly intelligent woman. I've read the Greek classics. I have a degree. I went to nursing school. Why can't I kitchner? Am I being punished for giving my daughter's dog away when she was eight? Not only do I mess it up every time I try it, I don't think I understand what I am doing. The gals knitting in the store today; Beth, Cate and Kelly, looked at me like I had two heads. Cate said, 'You're a weaver, just weave it together.' Maybe Myra will do it for me.

I knit it of Plymouth's Knitcol, a lovely and soft superwash wool. I used two and a quarter balls for a 22 inch receiving blanket. I didn't try to make the stripes symmetrical, it just turned out that way. I have enough left over to do a cute little newborn hat I saw in Knitting for Peace.

I think the baby blanket is important when planning on pursuing EZ's garter stitch patterns. The Baby Surprise Jacket has similar elements in part of it, when you are shaping the front. You don't know that is what you are doing the first time, that is for sure! I'm going to so a few more baby blankets in washcloth size so I can really understand that center.

The Garter Stitch Baby Blanket is in Knitting Workshop, the book we are using as a guide for the Zimmerman study we are going to do. Usually, I like patterns that say, ok, pick up your yarn in your right hand, knit five stitches, purl five, it's ok to take a sip of coffee now, etc. You get my point. The Sunrise Circle Jacket was my favorite project to date and I think because it had eight pages of instructions. Reading EZ's patterns are a stretch for me. At the end of the book, she says you will be a master knitter if you do all the projects in it. I am just interested in the garter stitch patterns.

I have the rib warmer on the needles and also started another baby surprise, so I am on my way.

It was a prolific knitting week! This is Kelly's Top Down Yoked sweater that appeared in Knits. She knit it of Cascade 128 Tweed, and loved working with it so much that she bought the Burnt Orange and is doing it for her daughter, Rachel, as well. I have to mention that she bought the yarn right before Christmas and knit while on vacation....jeesh, youth!

This is Marna's Wrap Me Up Shawl, knitted of Paint Box. She did a really nice job on it. The beading is beautiful! She was surprised how long it got when she blocked it, but I like it longer. If we get snowy weather, it would wonderful wrapped around the body.




















All our knitting buddies are finishing things left and right. This is Marna's Oregon Tote of Lopi. It is really lovely.

Jane's vest is knit of my favorite yarn, Jamieson Shetland. She came in one day and bought the yarn and came back three days later with the vest done and a few more things started. She is amazing!

I got to see customers from all over the area and further today. Lou from Ontario came in with her delightful niece. Lou always wears something she knit and today it was a gorgeous shrug of Nolita, a Lily Chin yarn. I wish I would have taken a picture of her. Lou always looks beautiful. It was great seeing her again.

Pat from Wall Township made one of her twice yearly jaunts today. She comes in, we give her a basket, and she loads up. She always brings us gifts, too, of beautiful jewelry she makes herself.

Jean and Jill from the Bethlehem area also came in today for a nice long visit. We belong to the North Country Spinners guild in Blairstown, NJ and took the self stripping yarn dyeing class together in October. We also took the dye workshop at Prochemical in Westport, MA together last July. It was one of the most grueling classes I have ever taken. Having my friends suffering along with me made it so much more fun!!!

Judy came in for a quick visit, and then Joann and Elda came to sit a spell. It was old friends day. Judy is knitting the Wrap Me Up shawl, Joann is working on several crochet project and weaving like a maniac, and Elda is finishing up the cardigan from hell and dreaming about the Kidsilk Haze mitered square shawl that everyone is making now.

Phyllis is finishing up her Wrap Me Up and it is gorgeous. I'll get a picture of it before she gives it to her daughter. Susie came in to get more Paint Box for her Wrap. She used a combination of yarns, including a mohair boucle that Woolbearers dyes. It's beautiful and unusual. Lisa got Cascade 128 to strand with Nolita for a great hat and muff she is knitting from an old pattern. It's going to look great. Linda got my favorite Claudia colorway, Copper Pennies.

Suzanne came home from college for the holiday and is working for us again. She is the master skeiner! Amazing!

So although I'm not getting much knitting done, I'm seeing my friends every day. That is what is so nice about having a knitting shop!

Spinners Take Note! Several weeks ago, Myra went on a dyeing spree and this roving is the result of it. It's wonderfully soft. We both spun a little today and it spins like a dream. Just in time for Rock Day, January 5th.



This is Amy's Mitered Shawl as of two weeks ago; I'm sure she has completed more and hopefully, she'll bring it in to the store this weekend. Myra is going great guns on her's and it is gorgeous, too. The Kidsilk Haze is just so soft and light. I'm tempted, but will try to resist.

The Great American Afghan KAL Knitting afghans never had much appeal to me. They just seemed so big and there was all this endless knitting. I once made an afghan; it was knitted in strips, but I was so bored with it that my grandmother put it together for me. I made it a loooong time ago -- about 35 years and from the feel of it, it is probably not made of anything I would use today. In fact, I look at it and I can't believe that it's something I actually knit.

I've made a few baby blankets -- but they were small. Sew together 49 blocks? Piece of cake (yeah, right!)

Which leads me to the question, why do the Great American Afghan (here on after referred to as GAA)? Well, I'd seen the original and wasn't overly impressed. But the new book came out in colors that I really like and all of the sudden it looked very appealing. I started thumbing through the book and found that all the blocks were designed by some of the best known knitting designers we know -- Nancy Bush, Meg Swansen, Sally Melville, Melissa Leapman, Lily Chin to name a few. I looked very closely at all the designs and discovered how each block was unique and had so many different techniques. I was hooked. I started with Block 15 ( I never go in order) because it really intrigued me. I thought it was going to be so difficult, but it turned out to be one of the easy ones.

Block 15 - designed by Marge Hayes, Aberdeen South Dakota

I couldn't wait to tackle Kathy Zimmerman's Block 8. I often lusted after her cabled sweater designs in the many magazines I've seen her designs in, but I never have time to complete a complicated cable pattern, so this should satisfy my needs. And it did! Now, the GAA book lists it as one of the 5 easiest squares. I'd say that's stretching things a bit, but after the first few rows, it did knit quickly.

Block 8 by Kathy Zimmer, Ligonier PA

Kelly was in the shop this week, furiously knitting the vest she promised her Mom for Christmas. As I was looking at her finished back and right front I thought the design looked familiar. Well, I had joined the GAA group on Ravelry and someone mentioned that the square Sally Melville designed had been turned into a vest by Sally and was published in an issue of Knitters Magazine. I don't know why that stuck in my head, but when I saw Kelly's vest, Block 21 jumped out at me. Sure enough it was the same. So, Kelly has promised that she will knit Block 21 for us. I can hardly wait and if I know Kelly it will be done in no time.

Part of Kelly's Mom's vest -- just like Block 21 by Sally Melville

Here's one more block - Block 23 by Meg Swansen. I thought this was an unual looking block. It was fun and easy to do -- here Meg combines intarsia and i-cord. I don't know who else could have come up with that combo.

Block 23 by Meg Swansen, Pittsville, WI (still wet from blocking)

I'll post more pictures next week. Right now I've finished 5 blocks and have 2 more on the needles. I'll talk more about some of the pitfalls I've found (anyone ever do a Knit bullion Stitch?) and hope that you can all join me in the KAL. You can sign up by calling or coming into the store and we will put a signup on the on-line store as well. If you don't live in the area, please join us on-line with your progress and comments -- join the Ravelry GAA group as well.

New Claudia Handpainted Yarns Color !!!! Our shipment of Claudia handpainted yarns arrived today. They are so beautiful. And they compliment the colors we have in stock. Claudia fingering weight yarn is perfect for socks. It is also machine washable on the delicate cycle.

Last week, I started a baby blanket from Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Workshop, finished it last night, and realized today I had to rip. It's ok though. The yarn is beautiful, a self stripping yarn by Plymouth called Knitcol, washable wool, and it was fun to knit with. So I'll just knit it over. I'm learning that EZ's patterns are to be taken at face value. Just do what she says, don't read between the lines, and you'll be ok.

Naomi Cannon wove this beautiful rug for her grandson. She came to me last year with the yarn, a selection of beautifully spun wool in white and shades of grey. We chose three colors of blue, a light, medium and dark. I over dyed one of the grey yarns. Then Naomi got busy weaving and this is the result. I was proud to have dyed the yarn for her.

The pictures show how different it looks on a black background and a white background.

Size Matters....especially with knitters. Nothing is more frustrating than knitting something that doesn't fit the wearer. As a fairly new knitter of about four years, I learned quickly that the measuring tape is my best friend. I know right away if something is going to work.

One of the reasons I love to knit scarves, shawls, purses, stuff for the house, is that is doesn't really matter if I get gauge or not. (It's doesn't matter to ME, I should say.) However, all of this goes down the drain if what I am knitting has to be felted.

Felting is pretty subjective, isn't it? Does my machine felt as well as yours'? I like hard felt, Myra likes a drapier felt. But how do you know exactly how much bigger to make your project? Careful, frequent checking inside the washing machine seems like the best way to proceed. I once made a laptop bag that was about twice as big as I needed it to be, but when it felted, it grew width wise and shrunk in half top to bottom. So we cut it half and made two purses out of it.

Donna's fun bag looks like it might be a great place to take a nap with the addition of some tent poles. She good naturedly let us tease her about it's size. We are hoping it shrinks at least a third.

Hi All,

We have tons of new yarns in this week!

Most excitingly, Orenburg Lace from Cherry Tree Hill. This rare
lace wieght yarn is handspun in Russia. It is a luxury blend of kid
mohair and silk, spun by hand into 50 gram hanks of 600 + yards and
handpainted at Cherry Tree Hill. "We can guarantee that no where
else will you find yarn as exotic and rare as this", says Cherry
Tree Hill staff. Each hank is enough to knit a shawl. Come in and
see the beautiful colorways!

You can never have enough sock yarn! We have several new yarns from
Plymouth; Knit Col, a self-stripping, 100% Merino superwash, and
Happy Feet, superwash Merino and nylon. At 192 yards for $6.00,
this is the best value in a beautifully painted yarn I have ever
seen.

From Cascade, we have Nickki, a fabulous thick and thin, handpainted
yarn with a luster and drape that is to die for. Also from Cascade,
Lana Grande, a Peruvian Highland wool. At 87 yards for $6.95, it is
a great price for a very chunky (2 stitches – 1" on size 17
needles), soft yarn.

From Knit One, Crochet Too, we have Baby Boo, a bamboo nylon blend.
Also, everyone has been asking for dye kits, so we got Culinary
Colors, eco friendly, kitchen safe dyes for yarns and fibers.

From Dream in Color, the 200 series colors arrived. The eight new colors are vibrant and exciting.

We have more wonderful things on order, and some things that came in
last week that may have slipped my mind, so the best thing to do is
to come in and see for yourself!

Don't forget, Friday night is the book signing with Mary Beth
Temple, author of The Secret Language of Knitters. See you at 6pm!