Students Night Out--Tonight! Kim Dyes Yarn Trunk Show extended through this evening.
I'm still catching up from being away, but I'm glad to be back for Students Night Out in Downtown Ellensburg this evening. The event is from 5-9pm; we'll be open until eight, with a bonus social stitching evening from 6-8pm. Our special for the event is a Buy One, Get One 50% off promo on embroidery kits. The promo will be available online also--but only during the hours of the event (5-9pm PDT)--use code WILDCATS at checkout.
…mark your calendars
Social Stitching
Every Saturday, 2-4p
Bring your current project, and spend some time with others who really vibe on yarn! Bonus evening Social Stitching 6-8p on Tuesday, October 22 (in conjunction with Students Night Out)
October 22
Students Night Out. Happy Homecoming Week, Wildcats! Yarn Folk will be open until 8pm, and embroidery kits will be buy one, get one 50% off 5-8pm. Can't make it in? Use code WILDCATS between 5-9pm and the discount will apply to online sales for shipping or pick up.
…new in the shop
When we were planning which bases to feature at the Kim Dyes Yarn Trunk Show, I asked Kim to please dye another batch of our 11th Anniversary color, Ellensburg Blue. While the remainder of the trunk show will be sent back to Virginia on Wednesday, Ellensburg Blue is staying here! So if you missed it the first time, or just would like some more, you can find it here. Additionally, I've made the Elevenses cabled hat free on Ravelry until November 19th with the code KDYTRUNK--it uses one hank of Stroopwafel DK (the base that Ellensburg Blue is dyed on) or approximately 231 yards of a DK weight yarn.
…to inspire
One of the things that made our trunk show with Kim so inspiring was the beautiful samples she sent with the yarn.
This is Bloom Your Heart Out, by Inese Sang, a fingering weight shawl using two skeins of a main color, and one each of two contrasting colors.
The Orchard Village Shawl is an elongated triangle with tassels in two colors--one skein each.
The Botanika Shawl is a design by Elena Fedotova using three skeins of fingering, and it's crocheted.
Floral Notes is a triangular shawl by Samantha Guerin, and in a wool/silk blend, it has a comforting density. I was referring to it as a wearable weighted blanket...
Ruukkutarha is a pullover with a lively botanical motif.
The Luminos Tee contrasts two colors of fingering with chevrons.
I assembled all of these links onto a single PDF, if you would like to save them for future reference! You can find that here.
...currently stitching
It's rarely the case that I knit on all of the (excessive) number of projects I take on a trip, but on my trip to Nebraska, I worked on the Mastiha cardigan*, the Musselburgh hat you saw last week, and I started a gift sock (improvised basic sock with a modified bamboo ribbing). That was 75% of the projects I took--not bad!
*Possible deduction of points, as I discovered that I'd skipped rows of the chart when knitting the right front of Mastiha. Fortunately, it's not much knitting to rip out and fix...
