kyarns: Norah Gaughan to visit next month!

We're so excited to announce that Norah Gaughan will be at our shop on Saturday, September 22 from 1-3pm. She's the author of Knitting Nature, and is the design director at Berroco. Mark your calendars and come in and meet her! If you haven't seen her newest book (from Berroco) The Norah Gaughan Collection: Volume 1, come in and check it out. We've only had it in stock for about a month and I think we've reordered it 4-5 times. It's got some really great designs in it. Our sales rep Andra, who visited with all our customers last November, will also be here.

India and Suzie stopped in yesterday to go over their plans for sock classes this fall. Boy have they been working hard on this! They both love knitting socks, and not just basic socks, but socks with lace, with fair isle, with slipstitch, and not just socks with your basic heels and toes, but short row ones and different cast ons for top down, and different bind offs for bottom up. So they've had some phone calls and some test knitting, and some email exchanges and some test knitting, and some breakfast meetings and some test knitting. And they've come up with some great sock classes for this fall. Of course they'll offer the basics - learn to knit socks on double pointeds, and on 2 circulars. And then they're going to tag team and offer a toe-up workshop, where they teach a short row toe and heel, and also some fun bind offs. And then there will be a lace sock class, a fair isle sock class, and a mosaic sock class - which can be worked top down or toe up. They brought samples for me to see, and I'm really excited to get these classes scheduled!

We are working on scheduling fall classes, and they should be finalized by the end of the month. As they are ready, they will be added to the classes page on the website so keep checking back since they will not all be added on the same day.

In other shop news, Kalen is back from a great vacation in Florida and Barb heads on vacation next week to her camp. We were so busy in July. When I say busy, what I really mean is BUSY BUSY BUSY! It's been so great to see so many of our out-of-state internet customers. Some of these folks visit Vermont each year and always make it a point to come in and see us. Others just made it to Vermont for the first time this summer, and they, too, were sure to save an hour or two to come in to our shop. It's always nice to put a face with a name, and we've all been thrilled to meet you in person.

We have unloaded so many new things recently. Felter's Dream from J.Knits came in last week and it's gorgeous. We can't wait to whip up a little felted bag in this yarn.

We got new sock yarn from Regia - 12 gorgeous colors in the Kaffe Fassett Design Line. Many of you know Kaffe Fassett - he is an internationally creative textile and knitwear designer. This sock yarn is just gorgeous - 6 great striping colorways, and 6 great variegated colorways. Have your pick!

Just in - a new sample for us - the Cocoon Lace Shawl done in two skeins of Jade Sapphire Cashmere. GORGEOUS!! I blocked it on Monday morning and it looks amazing.