A Talented Young Designer

Best friend, designer, and teacher extraordinaire, Merike Saarniit, has been teaching her 10 year old neighbor to knit. Elizabeth took to knitting quite quickly and decided she wants to design just like her mentor. 

She came up with this idea:

Merike thought that the idea was good enough to enter the "Think Outside the Sox Contest", so she asked us to dye some yarns for the sock. Elizabeth won her age category! Scroll down the page and you will see.

We are so happy to be able to provide yarn for such talented designers. Someday we hope that Elizabeth will design a project just for us. :)

I have a feeling that will not be too far off, as these were Elizabeth's 2nd pair of socks OTN's. When she finished these she went home and made a pair of matching socks for her doll, with no help at all from Merike!

Congratualtions to Elizabeth and all the other contest winners.

New Child's Sweater Pattern!!

I just posted a new child's sweater pattern on the website!

The Marshmallow Sweater is a great sweater for children ages 4-12yrs. Its got just enough cabling to be interesting to knit, without becoming overwhelming for either the knitter or the wearer. Raglan shaping is easy to knit and fun to wear. And because its knit in worsted weight Back to Basics it works up fast and is cuddly and warm!

Cute new Turtle Bath Set Kits!

Turn bath time into play time with this cute entrelac turtle bath set in our yummy Pima Petite cotton! Pattern and Kits now available.

March's Yarn Spotlight

The Yarn Spotlight for March is on Sushi Socks! Read more here.

Come Play With Us!

The "Knitting Game" was introduced to the knitting world several years ago. This is a game where you have a random assortment of labeled yarns, you roll a die, or dice, and knit a couple of rows with the yarn labeled with the corresponding number you have rolled. At the end of a game you have a self fringed scarf.



The Todos Scarf pattern has been rewritten so that the Knitting Game can be played with the 6 different types of yarn in the kit. Not only is the Todos Scarf a fun scarf to knit, suitable for nearly any skill lever, but its also a wonderful way to "try out" several Unique Sheep yarns that you might not have used before.

So that we can all play together, we are going to us Plurk (and online social networking website) to not only Knit-A-Long but also Plurk-A-Long at the same time!

Find out more HERE!

Laura meets Franklin Habit and Betsy Greer

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to go to a book talk/signing by Franklin Habit at LYS Yarns Etc in Chapel Hill. I had a very nice time and got to meet, chat with and take photos with not only Franklin but also Betsy Greer, the author of Knitting for Good, which I've been reading and discussing on this blog. Betsy is so down to earth and I feel like we probably have a lot in common. She lives in town (and actually works at the LYS!) so I hope that I'll have a chance to talk to her again.

Franklin was very funny, of course, but also surprisingly nice and easy to talk to. I thought he would be more arrogant/stand-off-ish for some reason but instead he was very easy going and modest.

My friend Kim was there, too, and got a great photo of Franklin showing off his incredible lace stole, which she posted on her blog.

Isn't it Spring Yet?

I don't know about you, but I am ready for the cold weather and brown, lifeless landscape to give way to warm sunshine and new life. Spring is my favorite time of year, even though I always have allergies to the pollen, because of the beauty of the blooming flowers, budding trees and opportunity to sit out on my porch and knit and take it all in. And if there is still a nip in the air I can always wrap up in a lacy shawl!

Spring isn't here yet, though the first bulbs are starting to poke through the earth, but as knitters we can start preparing early by using fun spring colors! One of our colorways from last spring- Cherry Blossom- is always popular and looks great knit up. You can see one of our customer's new Cherry Blossom socks on her blog.

We have also posted several new springy colorways on the website recently. I just have to keep telling myself, spring will be here soon!