N"ewe" colours

I love my garden!

Of course I have to have PINK flowers in it!

A few posts ago we showed you this cuddly blanket 

that Linda knitted using Baby Bunting.

You can see the 5 new colours that we now have. 

Baby Bunting is thick, cuddly and a quick knit!

I can picture so many colour combinations that this blanket could be made in!

Hope you are having a great summer.

Remember our Retreat - April 4, 5 and 6th, 2014

Mark you calenders now.

Murrina

You all know that I love to knit and I also love to garden.

My front garden - the Phlox are so beautiful!

Murrina 

is a rather strange name for a yarn but it is the name of our latest addition to the shop.

I know it is hot outside but we know winter is coming -

 so this is a great time of year to start your gift projects and be already when the winds blow.

I think the best way to describe Murrina is

- merino blend, chunky, very pretty, many colours in each ball, slightly thick and thin, slight sheen.

It will make wonderful scarves, cowls or whatever!.

We have a free easy pattern to make a diagonal long scarf which you can wrap around your neck 2 times.

Just a reminder - plans are gradually coming together for our 

Knitting, Crocheting, Fibre Retreat on April 4, 5 and 6th, 2014.

Hope you  have this weekend set aside for this exciting event.

More details shortly.

Cute knitting projects

Hope you had a great Canada Day weekend with your family, friends and fibre! I did!

My knitting and my gardening
 make me smile and keep me busy in a very nice way!

How did you like our teaser about our retreat in last weeks blog. 

We hope "ewe" are interested in attending and that "ewe" have marked it on your calendar.

Keep posted for more details!

Our customers are so great. 

A long time special customer of ours - Ann H.

 has kindly lent us some of her beautiful knitting to display at the shop.

Ann made this cute v-neck pullover using Sirdar Snuggly Crofter. 

Believe it or not - all the colours are in each ball of yarn - you "just" knit and end up with great patterning.

Any little girl would love to wear this dear little cardigan. 

Ann knit it using Sirdar Snuggly Baby Speckles.

This yarn is very soft cotton blend in "speckled" colours.

Ann loves using Sirdar Snuggly Crofter and our sheep loves wearing it.

This outfit is so adorable - the ear flap hat, cute cardigan with lace knitting

and hiding under the sweater our sheep is wearing matching knitted booties.

These yarns are popular for babies, toddlers and adult projects. 

A customer came in the other day wearing a lovely pullover she knit in the same colour 

as the v-neck pullover in the first picture. 

Sorry, forgot to take a picture of it.

"N"ewe|" colours in Sirdar  Snuggly Crofter should be arriving soon.

Ann, special thanks for lending us your beautiful knitting!

Exciting n"ewe"s and What is n"ewe"?

Exciting N"ewe"s!

Mark you calendars now!

April 4, 5 & 6th, 2014!

We are hostessing a knitting/crocheting/fibre Retreat! 

and "ewe" are invited!.

You can expect a super fun weekend along with learning, time to relax and yummy food.

I am so excited and hope "ewe" are also.

Watch our blog for more information as it becomes available

Remember 

mark your calendar now and start saving your pennies 

- oh, guess "ewe" cannot save your pennies any more but "ewe" know what I mean!

According to the calender and the weather outside - summer has arrived!! 

We often refer to the lazy days of summer so,

 I feel that is an invitation to find time to sit and knit / crochet / spin  - play with fibre.

Speaking of fibre - another  n"ewe" one arrived recently.

Titus is a new yarn by an English company called Baa Ram Ewe.

This yarn is made from the lovely wool of the Yorkshire sheep from Yorkshire, England.

This is a fingering weight yarn in 8 colours 

- yorkstone, coal, chevin, bantam, parkin, aire, eccup and white rose

 You will have to come in to see what colours they really are! 

There are individual patterns (or you can use any fingering pattern)

There is also a lovely book with patterns for Titus plus other yarns from them that we are expecting at a later date.

WWKIPD

We had a great time at WWKIPD!
It was our most successful "WWKIPD " ever!

Thanks for all of "ewe" who attended

 - customers and friends from Acton, Georgetown, Milton, Orangeville, Toronto and other places.

The Yarn Gods provided super weather - almost too hot - but better than rain.

These are some of the things we did during our fun day

knitted

 crocheted

spun

chatted

shared what we were creating

played a guessing game

won prizes for "just" attending

got free yarn and a pattern for "just" attending

ate lots! - thanks for those who kindly brought treats

supported Let's Blanket Halton with yarn donations

supported the Georgetown Bread Basket with food donations

laughed

made n"ewe" friends

met the Mayor - he saw us outside and stopped for a chat and shared a knitting story with us!

Wow, what a fun and busy day. 

This is a teaser - some n"ewe" fall yarns just arrived - Murrina and Titus
+ some n"ewe" books.
 Pictures next week but if you are really anxious - drop by to see them now.

Good Reading and Creating!

For those of us who love to play with fibre

there is almost nothing more exciting than having n"ewe" books to check out.

Here are a few n"ewe" ones that should be make for interesting reading and creating.

This book is a nostalgic collection of over 20 designs inspired by space and technology. 

And they say knitting is not for the young at heart! Think again!

This is the best book ever for cat and kitten lovers. 

They are little kittens and big cats - all very loveable.

There is even a pattern for a mouse!

No matter how long you have knitted - there are always n"ewe" things to learn 

and questions to be answered.

This is the book for you -it is small enough to put in your knitting bag

and as the front cover says - it has all the answers!

I have looked through it and it does look pretty interesting!

Happy Creating!

Fantastic Bamtastic

Hope you are finding time to knit and crochet along with your gardening time.

I also love to garden (along with my love for knitting) and do find gardening a nice change from knitting - but every evening my knitting needles are also very busy.

Just think,with knitting/crocheting 

you do not get dirty, your back does not get sore from bending over, you do not get bug bites 

and hopefully you do not work up a sweat!

It is so much fun opening boxes when you know that there are n"ewe" yarns inside.

This yarn is called Bamtasitc and it is fantastic!

It is a Plymouth yarn and we are the only store in Canada with it.

Bamtastic is a lovely bamboo blend.

 It comes in 100 g balls with 225 m per ball.

The colours are much prettier when you really see them and you can even touch them!

On a 4.00 mm needle this yarn works as a dk and on a 4.50 mm needle it works as a kw.
I have already sold some!
One customer is making a baby sweater and another customer is making herself a sweater.

Don't forget that next Wed - June 12th from 11 - 3 is WWKIPD.

Hope to see "ewe".

Be sure to bring your project, yarn donations and food bank donations and a friend!

Also remember we are closed Mondays 
for June, July and August.