The Ellensburg Downtown Association's Spring Girls Night out promises to be another evening of fun, with merchants staying open late, offering treats and event specials, and every $10 you spend enters you in a drawing to win one of two event-wide gift baskets.
At Yarn Folk, we'll have gorgeous gem-like truffles from Roslyn Candy Co., an in-store raffle for a learn-to-knit or learn-to-crochet kit, and through the weekend you can spin the virtual spinner for a 4th anniversary thank you discount on your purchase!
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Beginner's Fair Isle
May 10, 17, & 24, 5-7pm
$30 + materials
Janine Bajus is an inspiring Fair Isle knitter, and she designed this hat pattern to introduce knitters to traditional stranded knitting. We will learn the provisional crochet cast on (in order to begin the colorwork quickly), color dominance in stranded knitting, two-handed two-color knitting, and a tubular ribbed cast-off.
Prerequisites: you should know how to cast on, knit, and purl.
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Ravelry
May 12, 5-7pm
$10
Ravelry.com is a website hosting user-generated content for fiber people. Join us for this interactive demonstration, and gain a deeper understanding of how to use the site's features to inspire, enhance, and document your fiber adventures!
See www.yarnfolk.com/classes for more details, plus info on monthly large Project Circle and ongoing beginning knitting.
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Slippers for Survivors Event -- April 20th
Thursday April 20th, during regular open stitching time from 5-9pm, Yarn Folk will be hosting Slippers for Survivors, an opportunity for stitchers of all ages to support ASPEN Victims’ Services by donating slippers to the local shelter. Find the Slippers for Survivors pattern page on Ravelry, or use your personal favorite! Knitting help and light refreshments will be provided. All unused slipper donations accepted.
In Kittitas County, ASPEN (Abuse Support and Prevention Education Now) provides domestic violence advocacy and emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence. Support is available for victims' friends and family. Services are free and confidential. Aspen is a non-profit program of Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health.
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Project Bags
My friend Kelly not only screen prints these fun project bags, but she owns a yarn shop in Illinois. She was having a rough day at her shop (it happens), and my supply of bags was getting low, so in the spirit of friends helping friends, I ordered some new stock. Everybody wins!
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Coming Soon
Real soon: fingering weight yarn from Dizzy Blonde studios and new stock from Dream in Color.
Pretty soon: full gradient skeins from Apple Tree Knits, Soie luxury fingering from Phydeaux Designs (pictured here).
Also pretty soon: Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stealer (merino/cashmere/nylon fingering weight).
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Surprise FO
I briefly considered frogging my 2015 Crackerjack cowl and repurposing the yarn for this year. But then I realized I'd have too many short lengths of yarn (I hadn't carried all four colors up the inside), and not only that, I only had 28 games left to document, and at two rounds per game, that was only 56 rounds left. So I looked up the 2015 season results and finished it.
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Still Working
After the ripping and rewinding of yarn, I am now working with "fresh" yarn again on the P-Rex. At the end of the current section, I'll move into the single color section.
There was a similar--though far less calamitous incident with Tashirojima Haori for LIttles. It's also back on track.
And clue 3 for Romi's Mystery Knitalong 2017 was released on Friday. The Soie yarn from Phydeaux continues to be a favorite.A note about Rosemary Hill's patterns--if you struggle with mentally reversing chart symbols when reading the wrong side rows on a chart, Romi uses the same symbols to mean the same thing on both sides of the knitting. Full written instructions are also provided.
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For frequent updates, check in on Facebook, Instagram, and the Yarn Folk site. On Ravelry, my user name is YarnFolkAnn. I look forward to talking with you soon!
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