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Happy Mother's Day! Wishing you a beautiful day with your family and friends.
If you'd like to celebrate part of your Mother's Day with us, we'll be open our regular hours from 12-4pm today, Sunday, May 8.
We've been busy planning several fun summer activities for you, including a Stitch N' Pitch group outing, a baseball-themed Knit Along, and an update to some of our classes. You'll also find many exciting new and anticipated products in the shop, as we get ready for a summer full of knitting and crochet!
You'll find lots of information in this newsletter, so grab a cup of coffee or tea, click the links below for all the details, and enjoy!
Fun Events and Product UpdatesStay Up to Date
Want to know what's happening in the shop in between our newsletters? We have been active on both Instagram and Facebook, posting photos and updates regularly. Join us there! We'll let you know when we receive shipments of new goodies, and what our community and staff are working on.
Shop Local Thank you for continuing to support A Yarn Less Raveled and all your local businesses! In shopping local, you are helping to sustain the greater Diablo area with jobs, tax dollars, and especially our community. Check out the flyers in the shop for more information about your impact in the local economy!
Cheers, Mindy and the AYLR Team |
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Join your friends on June 27, 2016 at 7:15pm!
What could be better than fiber crafts and baseball? Not much! Come join fellow yarn lovers as we cheer on our favorite home teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's.
A Yarn Less Raveled has purchased even more seats this year to create a super-sized section of knitters and crocheters.
With your ticket, you'll receive a special Stitch N' Pitch gift at the ball park. You'll also receive a special gift bag from A Yarn Less Raveled, and you might also win a raffle prize! More details will follow once you register. Tickets are $42 for each seat (we will be in the lower part of View Reserve 326, near third base). Seats are limited and your payment will reserve your seats (limit 4 tickets per person, please). Call or come into the shop to purchase your tickets. Transportation to and from the game is not included. We hope you'll join us for this exciting event! |
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Calling All Baseball Fans! Let's Knit the Season!
Spring has begun, and baseball season is here! Are you game to make new friends? On deck to learn new knitting skills? Share the baseball season with other fans? This Knit the Season Knit Along (aka Knit-A-Long or KAL) will hit it out of the ballpark!
With Yvonne as your KAL Team Manager, you'll knit your favorite team's 2016 season into a shawl, scarf, cowl or tube - it's up to you! Using your team's colors and your choice of yarn and needles, you'll customize your project to reflect your team's wins and losses at home and on the road. Watch the season and colors unfold as we start this shawl in these first few weeks of the season and finish at the end of the season. When we finish, you'll have made new friends, created a unique and beautiful accessory and learned new and cool skills along the way. These skills may open a whole new world of knitting possibilities for you. Yvonne will throw out the First Pitch on Thursday, May 19th at 6:00 pm. She'll be in the shop, available to answer your questions, explain the levels of knitting (from single to homerun), and will help you register to participate. She'll also schedule various times and days for you to meet as a group to work on your projects, to talk baseball, and enjoy the exciting season!
- Can't make it on Thursday, May 19th? No problem! Yvonne will be available to answer questions on several other dates (to be announced), so email or call the shop to let us know you want to participate, and we'll make sure you receive the First Pitch!
All eligible* participants will be entered in a drawing to win a $25 gift certificate to the shop, as well as other special prizes upon completion of your KAL project. We hope you'll be inspired to join the fun and persevere to complete your beautiful accessory!
It's free to participate. To qualify for any prizes, we respectfully request that you use yarn from A Yarn Less Raveled (and we have many team color possibilities). *For more KAL details, support available, and prize eligibility, please click here to see our Special Events page.
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Swoon Maine
Swoon Maine, by Carrie Bostick Hoge, is a beautiful collection of both photography and knitwear. An ode to her home state, Swoon delivers 14 patterns; 11 by Carrie, and 3 by guest designers.
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Journey
A collaboration of hand knits from designers Jane Richmond and Shannon Cook inspired by the journey of self-discovery, independence and the path back to yourself.
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Both books are available for purchase in the shop, and will be featured with the Trunk Shows.
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You'll find many exciting new and anticipated products in the shop, as we get ready for a summer full of knitting and crochet! So, what's new?
- Stunning new Churchmouse patterns and the most current Vogue magazines
- Long-awaited ChiaoGoo Mini-Interchangeable sets and accessories, perfect for sock knitting with all our fun self-striping and self-patterning sock yarns
- Refreshing new colors from Zen Yarn Garden, including One of a Kind (OOAK) skeins in variegated and splatter colors
- Elemental Affects Shetland Fingering in a rainbow of colors, perfect for fair isle color work
- Our Madelinetosh shipment, with many new colors, is expected to arrive any day and includes several of their new splatter painted color ways
- Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino is now part of our washable baby yarn collection
- For the first time, we are offering AYLR Logo T-shirts and Tote Bags, perfect for all your knitting and crocheting projects! We have a limited number of t-shirt sizes in both Women's and Men's (Unisex), so shop early for best selection.
Summer yarns are overflowing on the shelves, including many new cottons, linens, and blends:
- Rowan Summerlite DK
- Schachenmayr Baby Smiles and Tahiti
- Juniper Moon's Zooey new colors
- Shibui Rain (coming soon)
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Available for Pre-Order Now
Check out the cool new products, coming soon, and call or come into the shop to pre-order your copies now!
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 Franklin Habit's I Dream of Yarn: A Knit and Crochet Coloring Book
Grab your colored pencils, and be one of the first to get this witty and fantastic book when it arrives in mid-May. . | |
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 Making Magazine No. 1/Flora by Carrie Bostick-Hoge and Making Magazine subscriptions Focusing on the act of making, and its connections to the past, present, and future, Carrie's twice-a-year magazine will inspire and delight you. | |
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| Spring Refresh for Your Favorite Classes |
We are updating our classes! 
In the next couple of weeks, we'll reveal a new format for our beginning knit and crochet classes, with a more flexible schedule, a structure that allows you to learn at your own pace, with the support you need, and more regular opportunities for you to add to your technique "tool box."
Watch for more details in our next newsletter! Thanks for your patience as we make these programs more educational and helpful for you.
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Thank you for being a part of this very special community!
We look forward to sharing your fiber journeys and stories, as you practice the art of creating handmade items simply by using a skein of yarn, and two sticks or one hook.
Cheers,
Mindy and your friends at A Yarn Less Raveled
730 Camino Ramon, Suite 186
Danville, CA 94526
925-263-2661
info@ayarnlessraveled.com
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