Hello Fiberlovers!

Wow, isn’t it nice to have a Florida Winter in the mountains of North Carolina! This is the warmest Winter I’ve had in the 22 years that I’ve lived here, but I’m not complaining, although I do love a snowy day to curl up and just knit.

SALE FOR MARCH: we have put more yarns in the 30% off baskets for the month, but you must mention receiving our newsletter in order to take advantage of this sale.

Our shop is the place to find the new mesh yarns…we now have Marina, Flora, Flamenco, Poppy, and Bodega…come see the different ways we have used these interesting woven yarns.

Our new line of yarns-to-dye turned out to exceed our expectations. The dyes are gorgeous and bright. I just finished a scarf using the sock weight, double knitted, and trimmed in Flamenco for ruffling. What fun! We have a very wide variety of yarns that we dye, if you have not had an opportunity to see, feel, or use our hand-dyed darlings, come see what we are producing.

Other items that we make are our lovely silk scarves, many sizes and techniques, (check out the arashi shibori accordian-pleated scarves), and our fun and extremely comfortable t-shirts, dyed in the traditional Japanese shibori technique. Each one is an individual work of art.

The yarns I’m currently dyeing are:

Superfine Alpaca Lace weight
Mohair/wool/nylon boucle
Superfine organic merino wool
Silk/merino 50-50 blend
Superwash Merino, worsted, sport, and bulky Baby alpaca/silk blend – super soft Kid Mohair Cashmere blends Superwash merino chunky (NEW) and Local yarns from Madison County

…with more to come. We also offer any of our yarns that are awaiting dyeing, if you’d like some in natural white. Want to knit a special sweater with a special color? We will dye the yarn to the color that fits your needs…have something you’d like dyed, bring it in.

UPCOMING CLASSES:

KNITTING CLASSES

Are you a beginning knitter – or want to be? Already do basic knitting but want to learn some new stitches? Are you having problems deciphering the language of patterns? Want to learn sock knitting, or knit a simple jacket?
Call for an appointment and have one-on-one assistance at a time suited to your schedule. Fee is $15 per hour. 828 697-0630 Ask for Donna.

SILK DYEING: We will band and dye silk scarves (Shibori) on Friday, March 30 from 1 to 3.  Silks will lay for a few days and will be steam set the following week. Your finished scarves can be picked up the following Friday, April 6. The fee of $85 per person must be paid at the time of registration, and includes two long scarves, one square neck scarf, and all dyes, as well as steaming. More silk will be available to purchase as desired. Space is limited so early registration is a good idea.

YARN DYEING: Come have some fun dyeing your next project Monday, March 5 from 10 to 1. Yarns to be used must be purchased from Yarns To Dye For; we have a broad variety of reasonably priced yarns to choose from, already put up in skeins, ready to dye. The fee of $50 must be paid at the time of registration. Space is limited and time is short, so quick registration is a good idea.

If you are interested in learning any of the following:
Silk Painting
Silk Dyeing
Shibori Dyeing
Yarn Dyeing,
I will structure a class for a minimum of three (in some cases, a maximum of three), for one, two, or three-day classes. Let’s talk about what you’d like to learn. This is also a good opportunity to have some educational fun with family members visiting you.

FUN AND GAMES

Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 to 2. This is a social knit, with lots of laughter. Come in and meet some very talented knitters who enjoy each others company and seeing the work of our hands. Yarn purchases are discounted on the days you knit with us. We are a very “relaxed” shop.

You can find yarns that we carry, or can get for you, at the following websites. If we don’t have it on the shelf, we will gladly order for you.
We also subscribe to a Skeins List, which gives us an opportunity to find discontinued and out of date yarns as well. If it can be found, we’ll find it
- and for you who live out of town,
we will gladly send it to you.

Art Yarns www.artyarns.com
Classic Elite www.classiceliteyarns.com
Muench Yarns www.muenchyarns.com
Universal Yarns www.universalyarn.com
Mountain Colors www.mountaincolors.com
Southwest Trading Co. www.soysilk.com
Berroco www.berroco.com
Dale of Norway www.dale.no
Euro and KFI www.euroyarns.com
Plymouth Yarns www.plymouthyyarns.com
S.R.Kertzer www.kertzer.com
Tahki www.tahkistaceycharles.com
The Alpaca Yarn Co. www.alpacayarnco.com Dark Horse Yarns www.darkhorseyarns.com

Thank you for shopping with us. We appreciate your patronage and will do whatever we can, to make your knitting experience more interesting and fun.

We look forward to helping you chose colors and textures for your next project.

Sincerely,
Donna and Magdi

Hello Fiberlovers!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Season and join us in welcoming in the New Year with high hopes for peace and love, or as John Lennon wrote “we hope it’s a good one, without any fear”.

Thank you for taking advantage of our December sale…it’s the biggest of the year for us, and we appreciate all who came and saved money while adding to their yarn stash. We plan to have something special each month, but it will only be offered to our newsletter customers, so be sure and tell us you receive our newsletter in order to cash in on the current sale.

SALE FOR JANUARY: 30% OFF ALL YARNS THAT ARE IN BASKETS!

For those of you who fell in love with the discontinued Universal Yarns – Marina, the ruffled scarves made with the open woven bands, we have ordered two types of yarns that are similar, and they are scheduled to be delivered the first week of January. I’m excited to see and knit these yarns, as are many of our customers.

We are excited to be receiving a new line of yarns-to-dye. We will have four new yarns to begin with – to test the dyeing process – and assuming they are as wonderful as we expect they will be, we will then expand the line. We have a very wide variety of yarns that we dye, if you have not had an opportunity to see, feel, or use our hand-dyed darlings, come see what we are producing.

Other items that we make are our lovely silk scarves, many sizes and techniques, (check out the arashi shibori accordian-pleated scarves), and our fun and extremely comfortable t-shirts, dyed in the traditional Japanese shibori technique. Each one is an individual work of art.

The yarns I’m currently dyeing are:

Superfine Alpaca Lace weight
Mohair/wool/nylon boucle
Superfine organic merino wool
Silk/merino 50-50 blend
Superwash Merino, worsted, sport, and bulky Baby alpaca/silk blend – super soft Kid Mohair Cashmere blends Superwash merino chunky (NEW) and Local yarns from Madison County

…with more to come. We also offer any of our yarns that are awaiting dyeing, if you’d like some in natural white. Want to knit a special sweater with a special color? We will dye the yarn to the color that fits your needs…have something you’d like dyed, bring it in.

UPCOMING CLASSES:

KNITTING CLASSES

Are you a beginning knitter – or want to be? Already do basic knitting but want to learn some new stitches? Are you having problems deciphering the language of patterns? Want to learn sock knitting, or knit a simple jacket?

Call for an appointment and have one-on-one assistance at a time suited to your schedule. Fee is $15 per hour. 828 697-0630 Ask for Donna.

If you are interested in learning any of the following:

Silk Painting
Silk Dyeing
Shibori Dyeing
Yarn Dyeing,

I will structure a class for a minimum of three (in some cases, a maximum of three), for one, two, or three-day classes. Let’s talk about what you’d like to learn. This is also a good opportunity to have some educational fun with family members visiting you.

FUN AND GAMES

Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 to 2. This is a social knit, with lots of laughter. Come in and meet some very talented knitters who enjoy each others company and seeing the work of our hands. Yarn purchases are discounted on the days you knit with us. We are a very “relaxed” shop.

You can find yarns that we carry, or can get for you, at the following websites. If we don’t have it on the shelf, we will gladly order for you.

We also subscribe to a Skeins List, which gives us an opportunity to find discontinued and out of date yarns as well. If it can be found, we’ll find it

- and for you who live out of town, we will gladly send it to you.

Art Yarns www.artyarns.com
Classic Elite www.classiceliteyarns.com
Muench Yarns www.muenchyarns.com
Universal Yarns www.universalyarn.com
Mountain Colors www.mountaincolors.com
Southwest Trading Co. www.soysilk.com
Berroco www.berroco.com
Dale of Norway www.dale.no
Euro and KFI www.euroyarns.com
Plymouth Yarns www.plymouthyyarns.com
S.R.Kertzer www.kertzer.com
Tahki www.tahkistaceycharles.com
The Alpaca Yarn Co. www.alpacayarnco.com
Dark Horse Yarns www.darkhorseyarns.com

Thank you for shopping with us. We appreciate your patronage and will do whatever we can, to make your knitting experience more interesting and fun.

We look forward to helping you chose colors and textures for your next project.

Sincerely,
Donna and Magdi

Hello Fiberlovers!

At last…some cool air! How marvelous. I’ve even seen some Fall colors along the roadways, and soon to be in our yarns. We just received some more yarn to dye. We are now dyeing “Late Summer colors”… still bright and colorful, but with some slightly deeper tones.

I know this letter says ‘Sept’ but we will be having a TWO DAY SALE Aug 30 and 31…ALL YARN – except our hand-dyed yarns, will be on sale for 30% OFF. Come help us empty some shelves for new yarns coming in, and get a REALLY GOOD DEAL for your knitting needs. This is just a TWO-DAY SALE!

Have you seen the scarves made with the open woven bands that are knitted on the edge? We just received Universal Yarns Marina. You can check this yarn out on their website, linked below … it’s a Rossetti yarn. They also have a video to show how it is knitted….really cool!

We have just finished dyeing another batch of our shibori shirts, the beautiful t-shirts that are discharged blacks with lots of color added. We have ALL SIZES, including a 2XL and 3XL. Everyone seems to love these shirts and men seem to like them as much as women do.

Tip: soon to come, hand painted short silk kimono…I’m excited!

The yarns I’m currently dyeing are:

Superfine Alpaca Lace weight
Mohair/wool/nylon boucle
Superfine organic merino wool
Silk/merino 50-50 blend
Super wash Merino
Baby alpaca/silk blend
Kid Mohair
Cashmere blends
and Local yarns from Madison County

…with more to come. We also offer any of our yarns that are awaiting dyeing, if you’d like some in natural white. Want to knit a special sweater with a special color? We will dye the yarn to the color that fits your needs…have something you’d like dyed, bring it in.

UPCOMING CLASSES:

KNITTING CLASSES

Are you a beginning knitter – or want to be? Already do basic knitting but want to learn some new stitches? Are you having problems deciphering the language of patterns? Want to learn sock knitting, or knit a simple jacket?

Call for an appointment and have one-on-one assistance at a time suited to your schedule. Fee is $15 per hour. 828 697-0630 Ask for Donna.

If you are interested in learning any of the following:

Silk Painting
Silk Dyeing
Shibori Dyeing
Yarn Dyeing,

I will structure a class for a minimum of three (in some cases, a maximum of three), for one, two, or three-day classes. Let’s talk about what you’d like to learn. This is also a good opportunity to have some educational fun with family members visiting you this Summer.

FUN AND GAMES

Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 to 2. This is a social knit, with lots of laughter. Come in and meet some very talented knitters who enjoy each others company and seeing the work of our hands. Yarn purchases are discounted on the days you knit with us. We are a very “relaxed” shop.

You can find yarns that we carry, or can get for you, at the following websites. If we don’t have it on the shelf, we will gladly order for you.

We also subscribe to a Skeins List, which gives us an opportunity to find discontinued and out of date yarns as well. If it can be found, we’ll find it – and for you who live out of town, we will gladly send it to you.

Art Yarns www.artyarns.com
Classic Elite www.classiceliteyarns.com
Muench Yarns www.muenchyarns.com
Universal Yarns www.universalyarn.com
Mountain Colors www.mountaincolors.com
Southwest Trading Co. www.soysilk.com
Berroco www.berroco.com
Dale of Norway www.dale.no
Euro and KFI www.euroyarns.com
Plymouth Yarns www.plymouthyyarns.com
S.R.Kertzer www.kertzer.com
Tahki www.tahkistaceycharles.com
The Alpaca Yarn Co. www.alpacayarnco.com
Dark Horse Yarns www.darkhorseyarns.com

Thank you for shopping with us. We appreciate your patronage and will do whatever we can to make your knitting experience more interesting and fun.

We look forward to helping you chose colors and textures for your next project.

Sincerely,
Donna and Magdi