Happy Local Yarn Store Day 2026!
Want to join in the fun but can't make it to the shop today? Here are some links to the special items and pattern offers we are featuring today! Note that the free pattern offers have expiration dates, none earlier than Sunday. We are automating an email to deliver your codes to you, but please reach out if you don't find it in your inbox, and we'll fix things up after we close on Saturday. Scroll down for links to each of our featured items.
🧶 Our first thirty customers will get a favor bag which includes the 2026 LYS Day enamel pin. We're also inviting everyone who stops in to enter to win a $50 gift card, and your purchases get you additional entries.
New-to-us this year is indie dyer Factory Girl Design. Crystal has put together a gorgeous kit with yarn and two possible shawl patterns, plus additional fun treats. I've been working on the Golden Hour Shawl, and it is a great knit! The Solstice Shawl was just released and echoes some of the same motifs in a different shape.
🧶 Find a DK weight skein for the Treasured Skein Scarfette here.
Double the Stitches returns, this time with a project perfectly sized for a single, special skein of DK weight yarn, the Treasured Skein Scarfette.
🧶 Casapinka's LYS Day Pattern this year is Colossal Fluff Up. Her patterns consistently feature stitch satisfying stitch patterns that change and flow through the project. You'll need two skeins of fingering weight yarn.
🧶 Berroco is offering a code for any pattern from their extensive design library, along with a door prize of a full bag of new yarn Cashmello which will be drop shipped to the winner.
🧶 Knot Bad Britt's Autumn Waves Wrap can be made with either two or three skeins fo fingering weight yarn. Based on single and double crochets, it's do-able for crocheters at any level.
🧶 We have two shawl kits that come with yarn and pattern in "LYS-Haul" themed Della Q Oh Snap bags. The Dream in Color kit uses two skeins of Cosette, a 70% Merino wool, 20% cashmere, 10% nylon DK in limited edition color Shopkeeper's Choice, and includes a code for a free copy of the Fanfare Shawl. The Madelinetosh kits use two skeins of Tosh Merino Light in Medieval and Meet Me at the LYS, and includes a code for Wildflower Waves.
🧶 We've also got Della Q LYS Day Oh Snap sets sold separately--find them here.
🧶 SEK Handmade is watching out for our crocheters with a free offer for the Ellington Bandana. You'll need 100g of two colors of worsted weight yarn, and about 75 yards of a third color.
🧶 Blue Sky Fibers is offering your choice of pattern from their collection, and Malabrigo has chosen six patterns to offer with their compliments.
🧶 The Patina Scarf Kits from Urth Yarns are unbelievably soft--they include a skein each of their super soft 16 micron fingering weight yarn with a coordinating skein of mohair.
🧶 Not pictured, this is the final weekend for our trunk show from Embery Fibers, and we have (most of) a new-to-us yarn line! Find Gepard Garn here (there are two more bases coming as soon as they clear customs in Oakland)!
🧶 See all the LYS Day 2026 Featured Items here.