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5/26
Short Sleeved Summer Cardigan in Noro's Furisode
5/19
Felted Origami Purse
5/13
Elizabeth Zimmerman's Baby Surprise Jacket
5/6
Patagonia Baby Blanket
4/29
Grace Silk & Wool Lace Vest
Silky Wool Shawl
4/22
Rhythm Child's Pullover
4!5
Sublime Cash Silk Aran
4/7
Haze Cotton-Corn Summer Top
Knit to Be Square Hats....
Baby Boo Leaf Cardigan
3/18-19
Fingerless gloves in Silky Wool
Learn
to spin on a drop spindle! Stop by Wednesday April 1st at 6:30 (no kidding!)
and learn to spin on a drop spindle. Instruction free but you'll need
to bring or buy a spindle and
get some fiber (recommended for this class is the mo
roving or northern lights).
3/10
Cotton Kisses kits-pattern, yarn,
buttons all for $13.99!
3/4
Felt buttons...join award winning felter
Lisa Klakulak for this fabulous workshop!
Felt vessels with lids....38 great colors of merino top in stock plus
2 day workshop coming up with Lisa Klakulak!
2/25
Malabrigo
Silk Lace Hat
Hacho Baby Cardigan with Lace trim
2/18
Ribbed
Hat in Sublime Cashmere Silk Aran
- our weather has been temperate lately but there's still plenty of
cold coming this winter and lots of hat weather ahead!
2/7
Cotton kisses - easy & inexpensive
kit for a baby sweater.
needle felted peacock by my niece - we now have 3
color fiber paks
1/27
This little hat is knit in Knit-Col 100%
wool & machine washable!
1/14
Crochet Scarf using silk & kid lace mohair...the pattern is back
in stock today for all those of you waiting for it!
12/16
Mitered Hat from Knit to be Square book,
done in NFAC Fingering
Oh My! Baby Jacket
VERY SIMPLE and QUICK beginners shawl in Aysen
Alpaca/Silk. Pattern free with yarn purchase.
12/10
little felt booties for Parker...check out the class
coming this winter
11/25
Sulka wristlets
Honeycomb Neckwarmer in Silk Garden
Limari Neckwarmer
11/18
Felted Wristwarmers - check out the upcoming
classes this winter!
11/9
Crochet
belt using Noro's Daria (available at the store). Just 2 skeins crochet's
up quickly into this terrific belt.
I've shown these felted Kochuron
mitts before, but this is a new color that Martha just knit up and
they look great! And for only 1 skein and an evening of knitting, you
can't go wrong making a dozen of them for XMAS gifts this year!
11/5
These adorable booties are knit from a Vivian Hoxbro pattern which is
available both thru her latest book, Knit to be Square, as well as is
featured in the latest Interweave Knits, Holiday Issue (both available
at the store). The pattern includes directions for adult sizes as well.
Fun to knit and a great way to use of odds and ends of fingering yarn,
but if you haven't got that, both the Harrisville
Fingering and the NFAC
fingering are perfect.
This swing smocked tunic with 3/4 sleeves is knit in Noro's new Yuzen
yarn...take a closeup look at the smocking details of this fun pattern.
10/29
Needle Felted Dragon Rug...
Eco-Alpaca scarf...light, warm &
oh so soft!
10/23

Jo Sharp d.k. Classic ziggy rib
vest.
10/14
kathmandu
silk road aran
diagonal rib sweater...
a few new felting classes scheduled for the
winter...
10/8
Norwegian Hat
Norwegian Mitten
10/1
Kid's butterfly cardigan in Lopi-lite
Miski llama sweater...lacy faux cable
details make this an elegant and dressy sweater...looks great without
the second color trim as well!
9/23
Swing Coat in Magic by Bergere
de France
Findley's Jacket...new pattern by O-Wool...lovely
stitch combinations!
Vivian Hoxbro's new book "Knit to be Square" has some fun
and unusual patterns all based on mitered squares. This open scarf is
one of the patterns and some adorable slippers (check back next week
for a photo) that I'm working on are fun to knit. There are several
interesting felted bags as well as some intriguing hats.
9/16
Entrelac Hat in Kochuron
Sideways Gloves in Silk Garden
Sock Yarn
Wrist warmers in Expression...Betsy
knit this up in a jif the other day. This is such a quick knit project,
I think it took her longer to pick out buttons than to knit it up!
The new Debbie Bliss magazine is in stock and has lots of project ideas
featuring the Bliss yarns, many
of which we stock.
9/10
Okay, so I didn't get anything
knit this week so I have no "show & tell" for you (lots
of 7/8 finished projects still on needles so I should have more next
week)!
But here are some ideas for
you to think about...
Knitting for a man? A couple
of new yarns and pattern books just for
men have arrived for you to peruse.
Here's another
free pattern that I'm knitting up in Silk
Garden Sock Yarn...one ball is enough. This old handwritten pattern
has been around forever in my sister Joany's stash of "oldies-but-goodies"
and I don't know where it originally came from but it's a fun way to
practice short row shaping and in the Silk Garden Sock Yarn is making
a fun pair of gloves.
Did you see the new issue
of Felt Magazine? The rugs my sisters, nieces and I did for our annual
family felting project are featured in this issue and I'm offering a
class on the basic felting technique (but on a much smaller scale) this
December. So check out the magazine (available in the store) and the
class (felted table runner) for a new holiday
project idea.
9/3
Rialto Cables
Habu Paper Moire &Silk
Boucle Jacket
Big Softee Hat
Ribbed Cardigan in Eco-dk
Cable yoked sweater in Sublime's Organic
Merino
1 skein
Teseo Hat (sorry, this yarn is not online yet, but available in the
store)
Ella Rae Bamboo-Silk Kids Cables
n'Lace Hooded Jacket
Debbie Bliss Rialto Cardi
Silk Garden Cardi
Kureyon Sock Undulating Drop Stitch
Scarf
Swirl Shawl Kits
Rhythm Entrelac Shawl kits
Wristlets in Claudia Handpaint
Mirasol Miski Hat...ok so its not exactly
"hat" weather, but this is a nice portable and quick project
for the spring and it's not too early to start knocking off holiday
gift projects!
Sublime Angora/Merino Little
Girl's Shrug
Louisa Harding Lace Wrap
Eight Shaft Double Weave pocketbook with internal pocket-check back
for PDF download of instructions.
Iro
Bag in seed stitch
"Coastlines" cotton top with cables (blow picture up to view)
& seed st by D. Bliss
Old World Shawl
Window
box of felted flowers
4/16
Hempathy cotton-hemp blend
summer top...flattering, simple Lavold pattern
Patagonia cotton baby cardigan
Bebe Cot-Soy pullover
4/7
Confetti in 1824 cotton
Baby Cable Raglan
Cashmere Baby Cable Hat
Booties and Baby Helmet in Cot-Soy
Washcloths-various patterns. These are knit out of 1824
Cotton (maize) and Hemp6 (dk blue),
but the bamboo yarns would also
be great...especially since bamboo has a natural antibacterial/antifungal
element to it. The Bathtime Blossoms pattern (shown in dark blue hemp)
has 3 different patterns on it, each including directions for a circular
washcloth and a soap cachet. The 1824 cotton and Honeycomb stitch patterns
are easy to knit and make great kitchen cloths. Did you know that the
most bacteria laden aspect of most kitchens is the sponge?
Eco-wool throw...my sister just knit this throw in 4 natural colors
of the Eco-wool. It is a simple garter
stitch, mitered square pattern that knit up quickly and it feels great!
It could be done with just 4 skeins ($60).

Sublime & D. Bliss designs for summer tops
  
Sublime & Ella Rae designs for kids & babies
Extrafine merino baby cardigan.
This sweet ruffled cardigan is shown in stripes in the pattern book,
but looks just as sweet in a solid color. The pattern is in Sublime
#2 for babies and the yarn is Sublime's extrafine merino.
Both
of these lace cardigans can be knit in merino-kid
which has just arrived in new colors for the spring. These sweaters
make the perfect spring transitional sweater. Lightweight but warm...you
don't feel any bulk, but the soft kid merino blends, with or without
silk, are warm and cozy and perfect to take the chill off your shoulders.
I find myself wearing these almost daily in the store now that the temperatures
are approaching the usual damp and chilly springtime levels!
2/19 This week...
Encore Slipper Sock...pattern free with
yarn purchase
Oh
My Chemo Cap
Elsebeth Lavold Pullover in Hempathy
or Frappe (shown in Frappe)
Last week....
Hacho Shawl
Magallenes Shawl
Vintage
Baby Set
Socks
knit with Noro's new Kureyon Sock Yarn!!
The Weeks Before That...
Socks knits with Sara Superwash.
Headband (free download from knitty.com) knit in Noro's Cashmere
Island
Sublime
Extrafine merino seed stitch yoke cardigan
Ella Rae Black Rose
Debblie
Bliss Luxury Tweed Jacket
Castello
Cardigan. Also available as a kit!
Fitted V-neck pullover in Louisa Harding's Impresssions
Ranco Sock by Araucania
Sublime Mohair Child's Ballerina
Crossover
Kochuron felted mittens
Pomaire 3/4 sleeve, lace bottom cardigan
Sublime Kid Mohair Shawl
Pineapple Stitch Crochet Hat in
Lavold's Chunky Al
Pinwheel Pillow in Silk Garden-a
simple & fun project for the summer....makes a greathousewarming
present too.
if
you're intrigued by the entrelac you've seen in the store but aren't
quite ready to bite off this 3D sock
or the vest, we have a basic entrelac
sock pattern and a basic entrelac
felted bag pattern in the store to start with.

This jabot is knit from Suri Alpaca in
a lovely soft pink shade. Light and airy, buy warm
Cotton Patine basketweave
top by Elsebeth Lavold
Felt
Baby booties in Fjord and Galway Paint
Hotaru
Summer Top

Hemp Lace Top
Hemp
Skirt
Royal
Bamboo Summer Top
Debbie Bliss Cotton
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