2 Months until Christmas

That is right - only 2 months to do all your knitting and crocheting for gift giving!

This is a super pattern book - 

Christmas Calender 

- everyday is a new design -  made in a really unique format.

It looks like a calender and there are 24 fun projects using various weights of yarn.

You will find - hats, scarves, shawls, fingerless gloves,a  hot water bottle cover, Christmas ornaments and decorations, baby booties and more.

Looking for another quick and easy project?

Chalet by Classic Elite
This warm and cozy cowl was knit using Chalet. The yarn is a very soft alpaca and bamboo blend.
The 4 colours that it comes in are naturally undyed.
Thanks to Edwina for knitting this cowl for us - you only need 2 balls!

Lots of n"ewe" always arriving - so be sure to check the shop out regularly!

Woodstock and Mist

 We had a great time at the Woodstock Fleece Festival on the weekend. 

Thanks for dropping by. 

 lot of new people discovered our booth and hopefully they will become special customers

 - just like "ewe".

 We were chilly as a very large door was open to let other vendors in as we where setting up our booth.

Part of our 20' x 10'booth

A n"ewe" yarn for your knitting pleasure!

Mist by Twilleys of Stamford is a lovely superfine alpaca/wool/acrylic dk blend.
The colours are very "earthy" and there is super pattern support.
In their pattern book you will find hats, cowls, scarves and sweaters.

I finished this cowl last night and it only took two balls of Mist.

Cooler weather is coming!!

n"ewe", n"ewe" n"ewe"!!

 How are your fall and gift giving projects coming along? 

Hope you have started - if not you need to run in right away!

It is such a busy time of year trying to decide what to make for who. 

Everyday there seems to be n"ewe" items arriving at the shop. 

Below you will find samples of some of them.

Angora Merino
Regia has done it again with this lovely soft fingering weight yarn - Angora Merino 
and the pattern support is super. 
In this pattern book you will find sock, shawls, baby outfits, hats, scarves and more. 

 The top book has lots of hats made in super chunky yarns.

This translates - fast projects to knit and crochet.

Sounds good doesn't it!
The other book calls for chunky weight yarn.
You will find sweaters, hat, scarves, etc for kids and adults.

Knit Kards by Nancy's Knit Knacks
These handy plastic cards are your answers to so many questions.
You can get them individually or as a set.
Clip them to your project bag and you have info at your fingertips.
Info such as how to do various kinds of increases and decreases, yarn label guide,
perfect gauge swatch, etc. 

Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever - one of our favourite Canadian knitwear designers has done it again with their newest book 
Need a Plus Cardigan?
Their patterns are always extremely well written.
This book covers sizes 44" to 61" and you can use any weight of yarn.

Remember the shop is closing early today 
- Friday Oct 12th at 3:00 
and closed all day tomorrow - Saturday Oct 13th 
as we have a booth at the Woodstock Fleece Festival.

Sweaterkits and books

Happy October!

It is really knitting and crocheting season now!

Sweaterkits has done it again with a wonderful n"ewe" kit.

It is an easy knit one piece vest called a Ruana. 

The kit includes their wonderful hand dyed Alpaca/Merino and their Silk Whisper.

Sweaterkits is an Ontario company with lots to offer.

We also have their Silk Whisper Wrapper (cowl/scarf), 

their Light as Air Shawl

and their Silk Jewel yarn and patterns.

Another great book by Berroco - as you can see lots of great patterns for babies and toddlers.

Woodstock Fleece Festival

We will be closing at 3:00 on Friday October 12 and closed all day Saturday October 13

We will be having a booth at the festival.

Namaste

Happy Fall to all of "Ewe"!

You know it is Fall when the store is very full - almost overflowing - 

with n"ewe" yarns, patterns, books, gadgets and more.

I know that many of "ewe" have been waiting for my Namaste order to arrive - it is here!

 These are the wonderful circular knitting needle cases in super fashion colours. 

They will help you get your circular needles under control - what a great idea!

The smaller case is called a Skinny Mini - it is great to store you knitting gadgets in.

Oh Snaps
Oh Snaps (also by Namaste) are fun see-through bags to hold all your knitting/crocheting projects.
They come in two sets - one set has 3 bags - the purple ones
and the other set has 2 bags -the pink ones.
They also come in grey and red.
How many times have you stored your project in a plastic grocery bag or what ever and you can not find you project because you cannot see it.
Or your needles poke through the plastic bag and you lose them.
These bags are your solution - and they look so nice also!
I will likely be placing another Namaste order in October - so let me know what you need!

Our new order of Hedgehog Fiber is on its way!

We will be closing at 3:00 on Friday October 12 
and closed all day Saturday Oct 13.
We are having a booth 
Woodstock Fleece Festival.

Fall has arrived in the shop

Fall does not official arrive until Saturday but Fall has arrived in the shop!

This display shows all the n"ewe" yarns that arrived so far this Fall

- thick  - thin - fashion - self patterning - unspun - 

a rainbow of colours - all textures imaginable

Wraps and shawls continue to be the major fashion statement for this season and the next.

The one orange toned shoulder wrap is called Silky Shoulders by Sweaterkits.

I knit it using one skein of Silk Jewel.

The mauve triangular shawl is called Skein of Geese. 

Linda knit it using one skein Hedgehog Fibre Sock.

The large green/blue wrap is called Colour Affection.

 I knit it using 2 skeins of The Dye Guy Socky-Talky 

and one skein of Plymouth Sakkie.

Qolla
Misti Alpaca has done it again with this beautiful hand dyed yarn called Qolla. It is a knitting worsted yarn.
The colours are very unique.
 I can think of so many projects that I would love to use this yarn for
- hats, scarves, cowls, sweaters mitts .....

Thanks to all of"ewe"

On Saturday we had a very busy day as a vendor at the Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters Fair.

Thanks to all of "ewe" 

who stopped by to say Hi and who supported us.

Actually it started being busy many weeks ago - deciding what to take, making samples, ordering supplies, deciding how to display items, packing everything up for the show, loading the van, unloading the van at the show, setting up the display, standing all day, packing up again and loading the van, unloading at the shop, putting everything in order at the shop!

Wow, I am tired just mentioning all the above but we had a great day!

This is our 20' by 10' booth which was very full with lots of wonderful finds. 

I guess you could call it a mini Georgetown Yarn shop!

The yarn featured on the green display behind us is the 

Hedgehog yarn 

I mentioned in last weeks post.

We pretty well sold out of all of it at  the show but do not worry -

 I did another large order earlier this week for the same - Fingering, Blue Faced DK and Yak 

plus some lace weight - Cashmere Lace, Blue Face Lace and Kidsilk lace.

The down side it will likely be almost a month before it arrives from Cork Ireland. That is actually pretty good as it is all hand dyed especially for us and then has to swim across the ocean.

Most hand dyed take up to 2 or 3 months to get you what you order - way too long!

I will let you know when it is here!

A special thanks to Linda for all her hard work this past weekend. 

Yes - we were both still smiling at the end of the day - but we had very tired feet!

Now busy at the shop getting it back in order and unpacking more boxes of n"ewe" yarn and books.

Just a teaser - more fingering yarns, chunky yarns, lots of patterns +++

I will post pictures next week of these n"ewe" items.