You Go Girl!!

You can say you saw it here first. Our own little Amy has taken Overall Champion (and a first place) for her knitted lace shawl, at the Farm Fair! Amy only began knitting in November, and look at her today.

More congrats to Karen, Debbi and Linda for their awesome showing.

Kudos to all our champions!

Manic Manos Monday

Manos night was rather quiet this month but there were some lovely finshed projects to be shown off. Sara Rose helped out this evening, Laura worked up some Claudia's in a scarf for the non-sock knitters out there. Cindy finshed her afghan, now to be sewn by the finishing team! Amy started another one, to be finshed for Christmas.

Cindy was displaying her fabulous Entralac bag, done during the Friday night KAL in July. Look at the incredible felting job. Looks beautiful. Cindy was also one of the of raffle winners from Saturday's sale. Eloise was the other big winner, since she has now mastered socks on circulars we all know what she will be buying..... SOCK YARN!
Pat finshed this beautiful baby blanket, so soft and cuddly, pattern from Fiber Trends.

Look at this georgeous sunset, the view from the shop window. Sadly this was not the view Laura enjoyed!
Don't forget the Farm Fair is this weekend, enteries go in today and be sure to stop by during the weekend to see everyone's work! Good Luck to you all.

Thank You!

A big Thank You to all for making our Coolest Customers Day a success!

Steppin' Up

Step up your socks class was a great class. Karen covered some new and interesting techniques last night. She taught us the Magic Loop, which Maggie has re-named the Magic Loops since it is actually 2 loops not 1. We also learned working 1 sock on a 12 inch circular, 1 sock on 2 circulars. And tada... 2 socks on 2 circulars. Not all of us mastered this but you can see Joan is doing quite well and Laura, master knitter that she is, got it too. The rest of us, well let's just say we are still an apprentice. Next week we cover short row heel and some other cool tricks.

Make sure you come in and checkout Claudia's Handpaint sock yarn, some great new colorways are going fast.

Fall Fashion

As many of you know, Maggie and Laura have been meeting with our yarn reps, and choosing the new fall yarns and patterns.
Just look at the beautiful scarves and hats you can knit for this fall. You can clearly see that the style is versatile and perfect keeping you warm when you rake those leaves. Especially when the leaves haven't fallen yet, and this picture was probably taken in 90' weather. Remember, what was old is new again!

Book Club

Looks like we are going to start a book club. It will meet on Block of the Month Mondays (also becoming known as Manos-Mondays). Amy has chosen our first read.


The Memory Keeper's Daughter


There is no meeting in August, so you will have plenty of time to read and be ready to discuss on September 25th.

Lace - labor of love

Amy just finished in this shawl in Rowan Silk Haze (approx. 3 balls), pattern is Birch from Rowan Magazine
# 34 which has been stocked at the store. For those not ready to venture into lace work by themselves Karen teaches an excellent Knitting Lace class. Check out the website for the schedule.

New Patterns

Lots of new patterns from Sarah James. Wouldn't this look

great done in Cascade Sierra, Classic Elite Provence or Royal Bamboo?

Come in out of the heat for some cool knitting!

What a crowd today. It seemed like everyone took a break from their gardens to stop by. Eloise has started her socks on circulars and it is going great. Starting very soon is Karen's Step up your Sock class. If you are a sock knitter and want to learn something new like this sign up now if there's still room and let Karen teach some new tricks! Allsion has the most adorable baby sweater almost finshed and will be a store model in just days. Cute Minnow Knits pattern done in Cotton Classic. Robin got some yummy Kid Silk Haze for beautiful lace shawl. Lots of laughs over the struggle with bobbles but we've got it now. Many other laughs as well, we all were stand up comedians today. Make sure you stop by Thursday night for the Needle Exchange and maybe our Saturday crowd will perform again. Have a safe and happy Fourth