What's New

Winky and Filbert have competition as shop mascots. Meet Hugo.

Here's a peek at the newest shawl and stick pins from Jul...they are rosewood, ebony, sterling silver, and the stick is also highlighted with natural turquoise - Beautiful!

We also have five different kits for fingerless gloves that include a skein of Kollage 1/2 N 1/2, a new yarn that is 50% milk and 50% wool. We brought in all the colors, so you have the choice of five patterns and 10 colors! These are presented in a nice gift bag, so this is a great grab-n-go project or gift.

Speaking of Kollage, we also have all the sizes of 24" circular SQUARE needles! These are ergonomically easy on the hands and arms, and give you a more consistent knitting stitch. Try a pair out in the shop, we think you'll like them!

Mountain Colors Trunk Show

It's here! We unpacked 29 garments received from Mountain Colors Yarns today, and are in the process of getting them put out for display. They will be here through the 30th of October. And don't forget to mark you calendar for Saturday, October 24. YARN PARTY!!! We will have Nancy Brown in the shop - she's works for Mountain Colors and is also a terrific designer in her own right. She will have all the Mountain Colors yarns, samples of all available colors and all the patterns for everyone to see and touch (no drooling, please). We will have samples of the yarn for you to work with, and there will be refreshments and drawings for door prizes. We hope to see you on the 24th, but if you can't make it on party day you won't want to miss seeing these projects in person any time between now and the end of the month.

Socrates Alpaca Sock Yarn - Yum!

Here's what all the colors look like (we couldn't fit them all in the big basket). Alpaca, merino, bamboo and nylon - 400 yards to the skein. I think I'm in lust.

It Really IS Knot Just Yarn

So, tonight Diane stopped by with her massage chair to offer us 15 minute chair massages. So our Thursday night group not only worked on their projects, got help with problems, had a nice visit and shared finished objects. Tonight, they also had this option:

I'm just sayin'....

This could be an ongoing thing if there is enough interest. Let us know if you'd like to stop by for fun, friendship, fiber and a massage. Diane (LMP) will stop in as requested between 5:30 and 7:45. We close at 8 on Thursdays. Just call the shop at 360-755-7086 or send an email to becky-at-knotjustyarn-dot-com. You know the drill about substituting the 'at' and 'dot', right?

Dream In Color during the LYS Tour

Destination: Yarn. It's begun! Today (Thursday, May 14, 2009) is the first day of the 23 shop LYS Tour and we know we're going to have a blast again this year!

During the LYS Tour, we are featuring Dream In Color yarns with a special trunk show. We have the Tulip Sweater in the famous baby version and a "can't wait to get it on the needles" adult version, Tulip's "Sister" sweater Sophisticate, the baby Rocketry sweater, the stylish Lacy Shrug, the In Reverse Scarf, a Silver Creek Classics easy-peasy baby gansey, a great Fiber Trends Railroad Rib sock, our own Ribbed Watchcap design, and of course our LYS Tour pattern (we'll tell you what it is on Monday, until then you'll just have to come in during the tour to pick up your free pattern!) All of the other trunk show patterns are available and in stock.

Did I mention that we have EVERY COLOR of Dream In Color Classy in stock? Here's a peek at Yarn Mountain...the rack is circular, so you can walk around it and get inspired by literally all of the beautiful colors!

The hours of the tour are this Thursday and Friday 10-8, and Saturday and Sunday 10-6. We hope you stop in and enter for a chance to win one of four terrific Grand Prizes (worth a whopping $1150 total!!) and the Knot Just Yarn daily prizes worth at least $50. You can enter once each day for the daily prizes by stopping at the shop and filling out an entry blank - to be eligible for the Grand Prizes you must get a LYS Tour Passport stamp at each of the 23 shops on the tour. We have entries and passports available at the shop -- along with the tour activities, as in prior years we have our tea and chocolate truffle 'tradition' to energize you for the remainder of the tour. And even though we're featuring Dream In Color yarn during the tour, as always we have plenty of other yarns to tempt you!

We hope to see you during this year's Destination:Yarn LYS Tour. 'Til then,

Becky

2009 ReTreat ReCap - Day One (Friday)

We arrived at the Baker Lake Lodge on Friday afternoon, and put out the goodie bags and Knitmas gifts (a.k.a. door prizes) in preparation of our ReTreat arrivals:

And then after everyone arrived and got settled in, Knitmas started in earnest. The only thing missing was a decorated tree, but we had a lovely hearth and a crackling fire, good friends (almost family!), good food and drink. Let the fun begin!

Hey...Bartender!!

There were several lively games going on thru the weekend at the pool table, but I don't think anyone lost any SERIOUS money. The great room at the lodge was large enough that we had areas by the bar, fireplace, tv (movies and knitting videos pretty much all weekend), sofas/rockers/easy chairs, plus the dining area where we had a skein winding station and Pat did knitting machine demos. Here's some spinning going on:

As you can tell, most of us changed into our pj's on Friday night. You'll see in the upcoming reports that we pretty much stayed in our pj's all weekend!

To be continued...