This January 28 - 30, Cambria is once again hosting our annual Art & Wine Festival! Here at the shop we'll be hosting local fiber artist Jana Seely. Stop by and see her beautiful and unique needle felted and knotless netting creations!

We'll be there! If by some chance you are heading to Stitches in Santa Clara this February, be sure to stop by and see us at booth #1439 where we'll be offering some wonderful yarns from our friends at O-Wool and knitting and crochet tools from Laurel Hill!

We're excited to announce our new on-line store! Currently with a small subset of the wide array of items we offer in the shop, we hope our secure shopping site will be of help to you when looking for an item to complete or start a new project!

One of the things we do a lot of in the shop is yarn substitutions. In other words replacing a suggested yarn in a pattern for a different yarn. We all know to look for stitch gauge when doing substitutions, but as important is fiber content. One of the decisions a designer makes is choosing a yarn with a desired characteristic to support the style of piece they are creating. Generally speaking one chooses a protein based fiber such as wool, alpaca, or llama when the design is looking for a yarn with structure and what we refer to as 'memory.' If the designer is creating something with drape then they will often choose a plant based fiber such as cotton, hemp, or rayon. There are also the 'best of both worlds' yarns that are blends of both types of fiber, such as the O-Wool Balance or Amy Butler Belle Organic from Rowan, which are both 50/50 blends of organic cotton and wool. These are rough guidelines not hard and fast rules but it may help you the next time you are choosing a yarn for your next project. As always, if we can be of any help, please let us know!

We're so humbled by the encouragement and positive responses we've gotten. Your support is helping our little venture to grow. To that end, we're delighted to say that we're hiring again! If you're in the area, and would like to work in our little shop on Burton Dr, please send us an email at info@cambriayarn.com. Knitting or Crochet knowledge is useful, of course, but so is concern for our guests in the shop, a positive attitude, and a willingness to learn. We have a computer system that helps us out a lot in the shop, so some familiarity with computers is helpful. Thanks so much!