Happy Local Yarn Store Day! Come by the shop tomorrow, Saturday, April 27, for 25% off featured yarns and 50% off select books – you can read all about those sales on our recent blog post.
Koigu sent us something special for LYS Day: 3 new Koigu Collector’s Club Colors!
Koigu KPPPM:
Each of these limited edition colorways was inspired by Maie Landra’s original paintings and dyeing method. Maie is one of the co-founders of Koigu and designed the original Koigu colours back in the 80s and 90s.
Brave New World, painting by Maie Landra
Brave New World, limited edition Koigu colorway for LYS Day 2024
Analog, painting by Maie Landra
Analog, limited edition Koigu colorway for LYS Day 2024
Connection, painting by Maie Landra
Connection, limited edition Koigu colorway for LYS Day 2024
Pair Brave New World, Analog, or Connection with a fuzzy lace weight yarn and you have the makings of a soft and lovely “Sophie Scarf” or “Oslo Hat – mohair edition,” – here are a few color ideas!
Come by the shop tomorrow, April 27, to celebrate LYS Day and shop our sale! Koigu KPPPM and Isager Silk Mohair will both be 25% off, along with six other featured yarns, one in each gauge section.
Thanks for supporting our shop on LYS Day and every day, we love being your local yarn store!
A reminder: all discounted yarns are final sale, no returns or exchanges. Discount applies only to in-stock items, no special orders. Thanks for understanding!
Here are two more finished projects whose lives began as yarn from the Hillsborough Yarn Shop. Kathy brought in her completed Wingspan made with a single skein of Schoppel-Wolle Crazy Zauberball, a self-striping fingering-weight yarn. Like Anne’s Wingspan made in Kauni, the color changes in the Zauberball highlight the unusual construction of this shawlette. Carrie … [more]
If you’ve been to the shop in the past couple of weeks, you’ve likely seen me with a little ball of lace-weight purple yarn and a pair of bamboo needles. I’m working on a sample for the shop, a simple garter stitch shawl in the style of the Alpaca 1 shawl, which has become a … [more]
This past week, we got some great news from the News of Orange County. Once again, we’ve won “Best Yarn Shop” in the News of Orange County’s Reader’s Choice Awards. Thanks so much to all who voted, and to everyone who supports the shop!
Two more Fall magazines arrived this week: Creative Knitting and Knit Simple. Each one boasts a collection of cowls, and the one that caught my eye was in Creative Knitting, made from Cascade Rustic in a rich red. Rustic, if you’ll recall, is specially discounted this month. A cowl is a great project for this … [more]
The Fall issue of KnitScene is here, with more fodder for our cold-weather daydreams. This issue offers sweaters, shawls, and accessories, one of which stood out to me in particular. These cabled fingerless mitts are made out of Zitron Kimono, a sport-weight blend of merino wool and silk that we happen to stock at the … [more]
Last week, I had a couple of opportunities to pull out my camera and document incredible finished knits. I can’t tell you how exciting it is for Anne and I to see our knitters’ and crocheters’ completed projects; there’s something very special about seeing that promise-filled yarn grown up into a finished garment. On Thursday, … [more]
UPDATE: Cascade Rustic and Lana Bambu are totally sold out as of September 2012! Rustic and Lana Bambu are two yarns with much in common. They’re both made by the yarn company Cascade, they’re both aran weight, single ply yarns, and they both are 79% wool and 21% plant fiber. In Rustic, that plant … [more]
Summer is a particularly good time for knitting socks. While I seem to have a pair going at any given moment, no matter the season, it’s during these long, hot days that I appreciate the small size and portability of socks the most. With that in mind, have a look at this new book of … [more]
I mentioned a few posts ago that the Stole, with a capital “S,” might be a good way to take advantage of our Annual Inventory Sale. Nine skeins of Isager Alpaca 2 have a way of adding up, and the month-long 15% discount on everything in the shop will help take the edge off. The … [more]
After nearly a week of 90 and 100 degree days here in North Carolina, the Early Fall 2012 issue of Vogue Knitting Magazine seems a bit premature. Lovely to look at, though, and with strong air-conditioning, we can knit not only for early fall, but also for mid-winter. (The shop is nice and chilly these … [more]