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Day before Thanksgiving Nov 23:
10-3
Thanksgiving Day, November 24: CLOSED
Extended hours
Friday November 25: OPEN 8:00am-5:00pm
Open Knitting Group meets:
Every Wednesday:
1-3PM
After Hours Knitting:
1st Thursday of every month:
6-9 PM |
Novelty Yarn Update
| | | A New Arrival & an Eagerly-anticipated Favorite
Fans of TRIANA will be happy to hear that we've reordered 5 colors, plus 5 colors in the new version that contains some holiday glitter.
The less-happy news is that this yarn has been so popular, the vendor cannot give us any idea when to expect our shipment. As soon as it arrives, we will post on our webiste news page, so watch for the announcement. In the meantime, check out Link, from Berroco.
It's a thick knitted cord that you re-knit into a super-chunky scarf, using the pattern provided inside the yarn label.  | "Link" yarn
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At a gauge of about 3/4 stitch per inch, it's so fast, you can probably get more than one finished during the course of a movie or football game!
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Greetings!
Winter will be closing in on us soon, bringing the winter holidays and their reminder that "home is where the heart is". Giving and receiving through home-cooking and home-made gifts helps keep everyone warm. No one knows that better than knitters and crocheters!
Now you can knit with yarn that's made close-to-home, too. In fact, our newest yarn comes from sheep raised just down-the-road-a-bit, on the family-owned O'Day Farm, near Mukwonago. O'Day wool is a classic aran-type Y4/worsted weight, perfect for sweaters, hats, and mittens. It's grown, dyed, and spun entirely in the USA.
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Other home-based yarns on our shelves include:
- Angel's Kiss, an alpaca-merino blend made from US-grown and spun fibers, dyed in Wisconsin.
- Brown Sheep yarns from Nebraska.
- Harrisville Designs yarns, spun in New Hampshire from imported wool.
 | | Hats, hats, hats |
We're getting ready for winter by knitting hats, inspired by the new books Hip Knit Hats and Weekend Hats. (Among others...) In either one of these, you'll find patterns just right for everyone on your knit-gift-list.
Is your schedule CRAZY in December? So is ours--in a good way. Our Class Schedule, that is. We want to help you keep your sanity along with you knitting goals, so rather than our usual lengthy offering of classes at set times, we're keeping our schedule light and open in December, to leave room for custom classes that fit YOUR schedule.
Call 262-646-9392 to discuss creating a class for yourself and one or more friends at a time that works for you.
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Well-Travelled Bears
| | A Rest Stop
Some of us get in our best knitting time while sitting in the passenger seat. But few of us have logged as many stitching miles as Juanita, who travels from New Berlin to L.A. and back again every week, team-driving a semi-truck with her husband. OK everybody, get out your calculators: that's 35 trips so far this year, at 2200 miles, one way. The round trip takes about 72 hours, so even though she's at the wheel part of the time and catching up on sleep part of the time, there's plenty of time left over for knitting and crocheting. What about when she's back home? "That's yarn re-stock time," Juanita says. Between trips this week, Juanita stopped into the shop with these crocheted bears she made for the Mother Bear Project.  | Four Crocheted Bears
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Who knows how many miles they will have logged by the time they reach their final destination in the arms of a child? We'll send them on their way soon. Thanks, Juanita!
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| Cast On or Cast Off | | Either way, you can help
This winter season, consider casting on a toy, hat, or pair of mittens to warm someone in need, locally or globally. Bring your finished items into knitch, and we'll distribute them.
Then, as you sort through your collection of yarn in anticipation of holiday gift-knitting, consider casting-off what you no longer think you'll use. Bring your unwanted full or partial skeins into the shop and place them in our donation basket.
We'll see that they get into the hands of local charity knitters like Jane Seeling who brought in these sweaters made by herself and fellow members of Dot's Tuesday Knitters.
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They used the basic T-sweater pattern developed by Guideposts magazine. As you can see, they went beyond the basics, adding creative embellishments that make each sweater unique.
We'll be sending these sweaters to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
A BIG THANKS to all who have donated yarn and finished items this year. You can be sure you've helped make a positive difference in someone's life. |
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