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Our 1 year Anniversary approaches!

We opened our doors on Friday, October 24th, 2014. Hard to believe we've been open almost a year! 

Announcing our 1-day-only Anniversary Sale, 

Saturday, October 24th.

Most yarns will be marked down. 

Up to 75% off

Ahhh... Summer Vacation and Quilts!

Lovely quilt from the show in Sisters, OR

Vacation was lovely. I hope all of you are able to take some time off to relax and recuperate.  We headed down to a cabin on the Metolius River in Camp Sherman OR. It was hot during the day, but cooled off nicely over night.

On Saturday we went into Sisters for the annual outdoor quilt show.  We saw so many wonderful, lovely, gorgeous quilts there!  What an inspiring visit. I have way more photos and need to get through them all sometime soon.  Meanwhile, this was one of my favorites. (Of course, Blue and Green are my favorite colors!)View blog

Happy Independence Day!

Happy 4th of July all! The shop is closed for vacation and I've been having a good time with some sewing for the family.

Of course, small business keeps running through my brain even though I'm officially off. What's at the top of mind? I'm looking at carrying a couple more lines of skein yarn and a couple more lines of cone yarns.

If you look closely you CAN see Red White and Blue!

Anyone who has been in the shop will realize that this means a little bit of re-arranging and perhaps some clearance. So, after vacation I'll be placing the fall yarn orders, working on setting up for a clearance sale at the beginning of August, and figuring out how to re-arrange our space to hold more yarn!

Reflections: Patterns for reflective yarn

I've had so many ideas for patterns to knit with reflective yarn... but somehow have not gotten around to developing many of them yet. I think one issue is motivation-- pretty much any pattern out there could work as is and you just add in the reflective yarn throughout or just with a stripe or two-- so why make any more?  As time goes on, however, I will get some of these done and into a booklet, So if you have any requests, now is the time to ask!

Regardless, for Christmas (and yes, Christmas was the promise and I knit into January to get them done), I knit reflective hats for all the guys in the family with Art by Eve's Betsy yarn, Retroglo 1/69" and the Team Zissou beanie pattern by Janice Kang.  Well received and they look great!  The one shown here is in the orange~ similar to the movie (The Life Aquatic)~ just as my son requested. The others were in blue and red. Then I made mine in leftovers from these three and a sock I'd done in purple...

With camera flash

Without camera flash

On the needles...

While the summer heat begins to sizzle, we are trying to keep cool with light-weight knitting. I've recently put out an organic cotton lace scarf for sale in our hand-made section of the shop. Its made from Bio Sesia 5, an organic cotton yarn we carry--in lavender.  Shown on our mannequin (who still needs a name, any ideas?)

I'm also working on knitting with Bambu 7 cone yarn on the knitting machine. Alternating a slipped stitch with stockinette and decorative dropped stitches. Hope to have some of these as loose tank tops in the shop in July after we come back from vacation. (the shop will be closed from July 1 through July 13th).

Lavender Hand Knit Organic Cotton Scarf

Bambu 7 Machine Knit Swatch

Felted Dryer Balls

We are now carrying Art by Eve's new felted dryer balls. These hand felted balls of natural 100% wool are hand crafted in Wilsonville Oregon.

Check them in our Square Marketplace

Hand Felted Dryer Balls, made in the USA