Hopefully we'll be able to file this under: things you don't even notice!
We are switching email platforms to one that has smoother integration with our website and in-store point of sale system. Most of the changes are under the hood, and with any luck, you won't notice a thing. But that's what would happen in a perfect world, and I'm expecting a glitch or two.
Most importantly, we've done everything we could to make sure that if you previously unsubscribed from the list you stayed unsubscribed. We love being in touch with you, and it's genuinely heart-warming to hear from so many of you that open the Yarn Folk email every week. But if this slipped through the cracks, please accept my apologies. There is an unsubscribe link at the bottom, or you can email ann@yarnfolk.com directly, and we'll figure out what went sideways.
Lastly, if you do enjoy hearing from Yarn Folk, and have a fiber friend you think might enjoy connecting with us, we'd love if you'd send them to yarnfolk.com to subscribe!
Thanks for your patience with this shift, and don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything we need to fix!
A reminder--if you're feeling poorly, please join us again as soon as you're feeling better!
Saturday, April 13th. Cool stuff is in the works!
Thursday, April 25th, 5-9pm. Details coming soon!
Saturday, April 27th. Mark your calendar for this annual celebration of local, independent yarn shops!
Back again for our third year! Trackers will be available mid-April. All finishers get a coupon for a purchase in June or July, and will be entered in a end-of-challenge prize drawing.
Book signing and brioche class with Anita Osterhaug, author of Nordic Hands, and editor emerita of Handwoven magazine.
We just received a couple of boxes of mostly plant-forward yarns for warmer-weather projects, and are excited to share them with you. Wool Addicts Footprints is a cotton & wool blend sock yarn that you can certainly use for socks, but which also excels in adult and baby garments alike. It is somewhere between self-patterning and marled, and is equally well-suited to knitting or crochet. And it is easy care--with recommendation to machine wash gentle and lay flat to dry. We have five appealing colors, and each ball contains 437 yards of the 45% cotton, 42% wool, and 13% nylon blend.
It seems to be the year of the Emotional Support Chicken--now available in either knit or crochet versions! The pattern calls for worsted/aran weight yarn--between your stash and the shop, there are hundreds of options. Maybe more!
Bonus: this alternate way of doing M1L and M1R from Patty Lyons.
Last week was a WEEK. For a variety of intersecting reasons, stitching time was at a premium, and while the Flair Free and Mila Cardis are both slightly bigger than they were the week before, it's not by much, and the secret project is actually *smaller.* (I ripped it out and started again.)