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End of Year sale: Happy New Year!

Thursday starts the end of year sale at Knitting Today. We don’t make a habit of sales, except Superbowl Sunday, but I am anxious to start the year fresh with new yarn and project choices so there we go. If you are in the area, drop in and see what we have. The hours are [...]

Stash (n): a secret store of something

We all have a stash. I have a stash. Lea-Ann has a stash. Our stash just happens to be yarn! We bring that yarn into the house, put it away, buy more yarn we like, choose to use it for a purpose other than originally intended, decide to put the project aside and start something [...]

Woolly Holiday Hunt Day 7 – Baby It’s Cold Outside!

Our inspiration, Baby It’s Cold Outside — so cold, your fingers turn a shade of blue, but what better to warm that cold baby in than a blanket made of yarn Ull fall in love with. Look at this flickr photo for inspiration!!

Use the bolded clues above [...]

Woolly Holiday Hunt Day 6 – He licked all the candy canes, ’til he turned them all green.

 

The “Grinch Who Stole Christmas” returns every year for an encore presentation. While looking at the pictured yarn, I was reminded of the lines:

When the Grinch discovered There was no way, To Keep Christmas from coming On Christmas day, He devised a new plan…

Though not quite as mean. He [...]

Woolly Holiday Hunt Day 2 – he is a jolly ????

Clue:

Frosty the snowman was a jolly ???? soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose And two eyes made out of coal.

Here’s the scoop: the picture above is copied into one of the products on the page related to the ???? word missing from the clue. [...]

Woolly Holiday Hunt Day 1 – enjoy your cookies with some ?

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Clue: Pulling our treats out of the oven to cool! Waiting for our ???? to brew (to make it easier, Lea-Ann is editing this post to say “Steep”, sorry Tara)! You are looking for the page that has the pictures from this blog post on it and that page has to do [...]

Join Our Woolly Holiday Hunt!

Once a day, starting December 12th and ending December 18th, we’ll post a photo along with a clue, on the blog at: http://www.knittingtoday.com/knews of a felted holiday project from the Marie Mayhew Trunk Show.

The projects include snowmen, santa, gingerbread men, ornaments, a nest, candy corn, and a penguin. The photo and the clue [...]

One Skein Easy Project 7

This project is the king of easy projects. It’s a brand-new yarn that we can’t keep in the store. We’re almost sold out again of Moda by Tahki Stacy Charles, INC. So far, we only have available two colors of purple. We should be receiving more colors this coming week or two, but they can’t [...]

Easy One Skein Knit: Project 4

Another great gift for winter is hats! Teens and adults love slouchy hats. You can always find some great patterns online. One of our favorites is the Knit Celebrity Beanies for the family book (we keep selling out!).

If you want to learn how to do cables, the Quick Cable Slouchy Hat is the perfect [...]

One of a Kind Kits

Hey everyone! I love these mosaic patterns called the Key to Warmth Cowl, All Keyed Up Hat, and You Hold the Key Mitts. It looks like Fair Isle, but it’s not! You work one color at a time! I was looking through the bins of Noro Kureyon and Shepherd’s Wool. I decided to make limited [...]