The Knitter’s Pocket Guide from Debbie Macomber is the perfect item to carry around with you for quick references for yarn weights, needle inventory, grafting, slipping stitches, pattern abbreviations, needle conversions and much more!
The Rowan Yarn Company has extended their Purelife organic yarn collection to include organic wool. The greatest part about the Purelife Organic Wool is that it is gathered from sheep who live in an environment free of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The wool is cleaned, processed and dyed with natural, sustainable plant dyes that produce zero toxic waste water. As if that wasn’t good enough, there’s a sweater-weather friendly pattern book full of 12 hip designs that have been made specifically for this line of yarn.
Another addition to our Rowan collection is “Cocoon,” which is a lovely blend of 80% merino and 20% kid mohair. It’s a great chunky weight yearn that knits up beautifully on a size 11 needle.
Kim Hargreaves has come out with her latest book for Fall/Winter called Thrown Together. Her patterns are cute and vintage chic. Knit out of some of Rowan’s most luscious yarns, they are versatile enough to be dressed up or down.
Allison Isaac and Sarah Lucas’s book Holiday Knits is a wonderful gift for a variety of knitters with varying amounts of time to knit! This book is the “go to” item for the upcoming season of gift giving. It has patterns that cover all the bases: snowmen, felted ornaments, dog blanket, table runner, mittens for the whole family, and so much more.
The book is also in kit form, which includes one small skein of yarn, a pair of plastic needles, a basic “guide to knitting terms” booklet, and many pocket-sized patterns from the book.
Laura Irwin’s book, Boutique Knits, encourages knitters to think outside of the knitting box of traditional patterns and ways to knit. She offers alternatives to embellishing your handmade knits in clever and creative ways. The collection is full of modern and stylish patterns that are sure to inspire the beginning and intermediate knitters.
The greatly anticipated book, Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines, is now in the shop! It’s hard not to be inspired to try any and all of the projects that fill these glossy pages. The patterns are a little eccentric–like the pattern for a Swiffer mop that can double as a dog sweater–but the book is really filled with just as many delightful sweater patterns as their first book. One of the added bonuses to this book is the chapter on children’s clothing that range from an adorable Jane Austen-esque dress to a sweet little pilot cap for babies. Of course, this book is just as witty as their last and is filled with more new techniques, words of wisdom, clever quips, and anecdotes. Be sure to come and check it out!
The beautiful sterling silver stitch marker pendants by Annie Adams are here. These pendants are a unique way to always have a sitch marker handy when you’re knitting in public or just away from your regular notions. The pendants are designed in the “Twigs” and “Blossom” motif. Single markers are available to add to the pendant, or to use individually without the pendant. These will make wonderful gifts for the holidays. Be sure to let your ’significant other’ where to find them!
The new Regia Design Line Collection has an exclusive Special Edition of Regia 4-Ply Color designed by internationally famous Kaffe Fassett creating individual color inspirations and effects-exclusively for Regia. Stop by the store and check out the colors that will inspire you to start knitting your socks for the autumn months ahead!
Rowan has come out with a luxurious new yarn called “Milk Cotton DK,” so called because the yarn is 70% cotton and 30% milk protein. There’s also an adorable baby pattern book to go along with collection that has patterns that go from 0-3 months up to 4 years old.
The premiere issue of the Debbie Bliss Knitting Magazine has come and gone. We ordered over 2 dozen and we have sold out entirely. This ‘premiere’ issue had one re-printing and we can no longer get more copies. We will be receiving the second issue in February and will keep you posted on its arrival.
The skeins of yarn that come from Pagewood Farm are home grown and hand dyed in the United States. Robin Page is one of the creatives behind Pagewood Farm and has studied under master spinners and dyers to make her yarn the best that it can be. Their goal is to be on the cutting edge of spinning and hand dyed yarn with their luxuriant lace weight and sock weight yarn– we are sure that they will have no problem meeting their goal.
Fiesta yarns is based out of the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico that produces individually dyed yarn that is breathtaking in color and texture. We are currently carrying Insignia La Boheme, La Luz, La Boheme, and La Luz Multi. La Luz and La Luz Multi are luscious spun silks and La Boheme and Insignia La Boheme are a blend of two beautiful strands of rayon, brushed kid mohair, and wool.
As if there weren’t enough options for simple and small project bags already, Blue Sky Alpacas has given us a pretty “cheep” cotton muslin project bag that boasts bright silkscreened bird designs. They are 12″ square, with a drawstring closure, which makes them the ideal bag for carrying around the small projects we all have.