Zoom Workshop -- Learn Darning Techniques with Erin of Wren Bird Arts

February 11, 2025

This year's Valentine's Surprises all packed up and ready for shipping (✅) or pick up!

It's a tradition we're excited to continue, but we are also making a general purpose option available year-round! If you need a project, and are in the mood for a surprise, you can order A (Mystery) Spot of Cheer. Just as with our Valentine's Surprises, you'll get a questionnaire to let us know about your preferences, which we will use to guide our picks for you!

…mark your calendars

Social Stitching

Every Saturday, 2-4p

Bring your current project, and spend some time with others who really vibe on yarn! As we enter cold and flu season, please consider wearing a mask if you're feeling a little "off," or join us just as soon as you're feeling better!

Darning Workshop with Erin Eggenburg of Wren Bird Arts (ZOOM)

Wednesday, March 26, 4-7pm

See below for details.

…new in the shop

We're excited to welcome Erin Eggenburg of Wren Bird Arts for a Zoom workshop to teach you some strategies for mending your knitwear. Erin is a maker, mender, and instructor who resides in Portland, OR. She is the owner of wrenbirdarts, creating mending and embroidery patterns. In 2021, Erin released her first book, The Mending Directory. Erin teaches a variety of visible mending and embroidery classes regularly. Learn more about Erin’s visible mending projects and purchase patterns at wrenbirdarts.com.

Fix your tattered socks, sweaters, and knit textiles with a simple woven type of mending known as darning! In this 3-hour workshop, we will talk about different thread options and what you need to darn. Participants will learn 3 different techniques for darning with step-by-step instructions. Bring your knits needing darning, and leave with a plan and the know-how to darn it!

This live Zoom workshop is interactive, and space is limited. You can enroll here.

…to inspire

As you may know by now, I'm a strong supporter of paid patterns--designing crochet and knitwear is actual work, and I think that people doing it deserve to be paid for their efforts.

Designer Audrey Borrego developed a beautiful catalog of knitting patterns, and when she recently decided to shift direction and stop pursuing knitwear design professionally, she made all of her professionally developed patterns free. She has clarified on Instagram that taking that route was her preference in order to keep them available. Have a look--her skill set and design interests cover a broad range of techniques.

...currently stitching

Progress on the body of Bermy 18 happened during the last football knitting of the season. (All but the bind-off of the second sleeve was completed on the bus on Friday.) In another few inches, I will start a deep split hem in the same garter rib I used for the neck and the sleeve hems.

On deck are a couple of baby/child samples in yarns that will be arriving soon. (Spring/summer yarns will begin arriving in March.)