AUGUST 10TH, 
2015
 

 
NEWS FROM  THE HIVE


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Even though it would take the hottest of summer days for most of you to relinquish your knitting needles, there are still a select few people who consider knitting a winter-only activity. (Gasp!) We think you'll make an exception with this week's pattern. Knit in the brand new Quince & Co. Willet, this sweater is for the tiny person on your Christmas list. (Or now. You can knit it--and give it--now.) Willet is a brilliant new collaboration between Quince & Co. and California cotton growers--it's a 100% USA grown, spun and dyed cotton....and it's ecologically responsible, to boot. Soft, drapey and eco-friendly, Willet is the perfect choice for baby sweaters. We've knit ours in the classic Breton stripe combo of navy blue and white for the quintessential boating sweater, just in miniature. Because it's never too early to build a wardrobe of classics.

And, because this is your project, you can choose from any of the nautical-themed colors below as your contrast color for a fresh variation on a theme.


Each kit  will make one sweater (approximately 12 month size) and includes an easy-to-read pattern and three skeins of Quince & Co. Willet--two in Sail (ecru) and one in your choice of a contrasting stripe (our sample is pictured in Starboard). You'll easily have enough leftover to knit a matching hat!
Order the Breton Bebe Kit  HERE.  
Interested in just the PDF pattern?  Find it  HERE.



  
 
We know that Life--is about taking time to enjoy the everyday, as well as all the other obligations we have, day in, day out. It's not hard at all to get caught up in the shuffling and the planning and the just plain busyness of it all... and to gloss over the daily joys, forgetting about why it is that we do what we do and just like that, the moment is gone. While we we were planning for the next season.

 

One of the greatest gifts we have as knitters is to spend a little time every day with our tools, our minds, our hands, some quiet and make. Making a tiny sweater for the first grandchild that's growing inside your daughter's belly. Making a pair of mittens to keep your best friend's hands warm out on the cross-country ski trail. Making a sweater for the guy who finally gave you that ring.

 

It doesn't have to be big. Or complicated. Or expensive. (We've found that a simple garter stitch dish cloth and a handmade soap tied with a ribbon makes a wonderful wedding/housewarming/thank-you-for-being-my-postmaster gift, time after time after

time.) 

 

What a gift should be, however, is heart felt. Which is why we're starting now with our celebrated 12 Knits of Christmas (in its eighth year, if you can believe it!) We've written 12 patterns for the hands, home and heart that, if you start now, will give you plenty of time to create meaningful gifts while rejoicing in the everyday.

 

Without question, our 12 Knits of Christmas is the best it's ever been. 

The focus is on gifts that you'll be ecstatic to give, whether it's because they're knit with yarn you've never seen before (they are), they all require less than two weeks to complete (they do) or because they're fresh takes on classic knitted gifts (they will be).   

 

There's more. (Of course.)  We'll be giving away six outrageous prizes to six very lucky knitters.

1.) For each ambitious customer who purchases ALL 12 kits, you'll be entered into a drawing to win a $250 gift certificate to Wool & Honey, either in-house or online.

2.) For each kit ordered, you'll be entered into a separate drawing for
three (3) $25 gift certificates, two (2) $50 gift certificates and one (1) $100 gift certificate to Wool & Honey, either in-house or online.  (Ordering 3 of the same kit?  That counts as 3 entries!)

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Wool & Honey is a bricks-and-mortar yarn shop located in Cedar, MI,
just 15 minutes west of Traverse City,
smack dab in the middle of The Most Beautiful Place in America
We love cherries, wine, beautiful beaches and you guessed it--yarn. 
Can't stop in to see us?  We ship worldwide every day.