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April 22
Shirley Paden will be at our shop on Thursday, April 22, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This wonderful designer will present from her top-selling book, Knitwear Design Workshop, sign copies and rub elbows.
In addition to being an author, Shirley is an internationally recognized hand knitwear designer. Her designs and articles have appeared in Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, Vogue knitting, Knitters, Family Circle and Knit it! magazines. She has also designed knitwear for several leading yarn companies. She has been featured on HGTV and Knitting Daily TV, as well as on the list of “Who’s Who in North American Knitting” in the British magazine The Knitter. She has taught and lectured on various aspects of hand knitting and crochet, both locally and nationally, over the past 18 years. Shirley is also the owner of Shirley Paden Custom Knits in New York, where she is the designer of an exclusive line of custom knit clothing.
This event is free, but please sign up ASAP (email us here or call us at 723-5478) so we know how much wine and nibbles to have on hand. We'll have copies of Shirley's book, which retails for $40, at the special event price of $32. No further discounts apply.
April 25
From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 25, Artyarns' Iris Schreier will be at the shop to teach her famous reversible double knitting workshop.
Pick your favorite image, or use the skulls as seen in the pictures above, and learn to make a double-sided knitted scarf that looks like stockinette with intarsia on each side. You'll make it using only knit and purl stitches on two different colors of Artyarns Cashmere 5 Ply or Artyarns Silk Pearl.
Materials:
- Size 7 knitting needles or size to achieve gauge (we use Colonial Needle's Rosewood needles for smooth, not slippery, knitting)
- 2 sks Cashmere 5 or Silk Pearl in Cream
- 2 sks Cashmere 5 or Silk Pearl in any Highlights color
Sign up and choose your yarn color by April 18. (Remember, Artyarns are hand-dyed!) Workshop in silk: $160. Workshop in cashmere: $225. No further discounts apply.
Join this workshop if you’re an intrepid, enthusiastic knitter who loves to try new things! But sign up as soon as you can (email us here or call us at 723-5478), because her classes sell out quickly. To keep it very hands-on, this one is limited in size to only eight students.
All Spring Long!
We've recently added several Knitter's Choice workshops, some with Laura Paul and some with Debbie Scheinkman. In these workshops, you work on your own project at your own pace. The instructor guides you in every way... helping to choose the project and the yarn, and teaching you the skills you'll need to complete it. These are the classes with room for you!
A series of six Knitter's Choice classes is only $90. Here's the schedule:
- Debbie Monday: 10:30-noon, 12:30-2 p.m., 5:15-6:45 p.m., 7-8:30 p.m.
- Debbie Tuesday: 10:30-noon, 12:30-2 p.m.
- Debbie Thursday: 1-2:30 p.m., 3-4:30 p.m., 5:15-6:45 p.m., 7-8:30 p.m.
- Debbie Friday: 10-11:30 a.m., noon-1:30 p.m.
- Laura Tuesday: 11-12:30 p.m.
- Laura Wednesday: 11-12:30 p.m.
- Laura Thursday: 6:30-8 p.m.
- Laura Friday: 1:30-3 p.m., 3-4:30 p.m.
Plus, the Joy of Sox takes place on the second Friday of every month, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The sock class is one session for $20.
With class sign-up, materials are discounted 10%. Private lessons can be scheduled at your convenience. Email or call us (723-5478) to reserve your spot today!
New at the Shop
Yarn arrivals this week: 35 colors of Cotton Classic, 25 colors of Zara.
Maybe you need a little something that goes beyond knitting, like a thank-you for a favor or a hostess gift. We've brought in little surprises like purse mirrors studded with Swarovski crystals for only $18, or very fun small purses and emery board sets from Anne Taintor (a sample is pictured at right). Be mischievous and cool — for under $20.
Remember, we're open seven days a week: Mondays and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Sundays noon to 5 p.m.
Shawl Raffle Benefits LLS
Knit in Lorna's Laces Helen's Lace yarn by our wonderful friend and customer, Sue Klein, this shawl is being raffled for the benefit of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Raffle tickets are $10 for one; three for $25. The drawing will be held in June. Stop by... check it out... take a chance... support the LLS!
Spring Savings with Yarnbucks
Bring your Yarnbucks card in for savings and fiber bliss: For every $25 you spend in the shop on regularly priced merchandise, we punch a hole in your Yarnbucks card. Turn in your filled card for $25 off your purchase of regularly priced merchandise. It's that easy!
A Knit Tee to Ty Dy for
So many of you ask what I'm knitting. I'd love to say the top I'm modeling in this photo came off my needles, but it didn't. I just happen to be the person it fits, so I get to wear it! Tina Reiser made the piece, which is called Tee for Too (and now she's working on one that will actually fit her!).
It's made of one of our very favorite new yarns called Ty Dy cotton from Knit One Crochet Too. We sold out the initial order in days, so a big order with 10 colors is on the way. You will want to grab this one, probably in more than one colorway... it's my go-to top, and I'm sure it's going to be yours, too.
And what did just come off my needles, you ask? Check out Sadie's delicious hat, below!
Happy Knitting,
Laurie
Sticks & Strings' Star of the Month: Sadie
Here's Sadie in her Happy Birthday Cupcake Hat, complete with a cherry on top. Stop by for the pattern and the yarn (three balls of Zara and some red for the pom-pom) and bake one tonight.
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