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February 2010 |
Happy February!
The shop has been bustling and the projects are varied and wonderful. We are looking forward to what is coming up this year and the schedule is filling up with some exciting developments. It has been a bit of a party most days as we all lounge around the circle keeping great company and keeping toasty hiding from the weather that has finally begun to take on a definate winterish feel. Afghans and sweaters and socks galore are making appearances and the colours and textures are so inspiring! This year is definately shaping up to be a productive one ...with the help of some fabulous and inspiring cheerleaders!
Sweater + Moose =
A very entertaining and cozy Moose Sweater! A Special Purple Purl Design by Kate Atherley
Moose, Eh?
Knit up in the fabulous Homestead yarn by Earth Collection! Natural colours only and a great hand to this 100% wool in a heavy worsted weight.
This is a special Canadiana type design from "always up for a challenge"Kate Atherley! Miko was dreaming of a cowichan inspired cardigan to snuggle up in this Olympic season and mentioned her novel idea to Kate... and as one never to be stumped, Kate came back with this generously sized and cozy Moose Sweater in the immensely pleasurable to knit Earth Collection Homestead. Of course Miko is mixing it up a bit and the intarsia moose on her sweater is Purple (subbing in Louet Riverstone for her bit purple moose action)...as you can see she clearly loves it!
The pattern is available exclusively at our Purl of a shop now!
Are you in?
Enjoy a 20% discount on
Earth Collection Homestead
until Tuesday, February 16th.
With a regular price of just $7.00 a skein this makes a very affordable and cozy sweater.
Plus get the Moose Eh? pattern free with a purchase of 5 or more skeins of the
Earth Collection Homestead or Louet Riverstone yarn!
Miko's Challenge Kickoff ...
Miko has decided on |
Jennifer has decided on |
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40 patterns! (yikes!!!) |
only 21 patterns (but lots of lace) (only?!?!?) |
For those of you on Ravelry just click on the images of the books above to can see all the patterns to be stitched up.
Part of the fun of this challenge so far has been the selection of the book. We definitely wanted it to be a personal challenge and so we are going to work up A LOT OF PROJECTS in just 365 days, but also our selections will ensure we explore and get more practice on a large number of techniques and skills. And the yarn choices.... you would think it would be easy to choose with an entire yarn shop at your disposal... it, quite simply, is not.
There has a been a suggestion to tag all your items in Ravelry with miko-challenge so we can all peek at how things are progressing NOTE the spelling so we are all on the same page/tag! Good idea Rebecca!
We are both trucking along on our first project selections:
For those of you wondering "what the purl" we are talking about, click here for all the details
Yarn , Yarn , Yarn ...
Riverstone, from Louet...
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NEW! 100% Wool And at such a great price! $7.50 |
Noro - Sekku ...
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NEW!
Beautiful Stripey Noro, oh, how we love you and now in lace weight too! (swoon). 420m of Cotton/Wool/Silk/Nylon goodness. Just $10 |
Dye-Version...
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NEW!
Be sure to check out th 700m of 65% Silk / 35%Linen blend in a lace/fingering weight! Our other qualities from the Dye-Version ladies are restocked as well! The lovely slinky Bamboo sport is looking irresistable. |
In the Neighbourhood...
We want to send a shout out to Nathalie-Roze & Co. for the fantastic fundraiser for Haiti they spearheaded in the community just a few weeks ago! Over $16,000 was raised for the Canadian Red Cross' Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.
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Actually, they are still at it... you can help out by shopping at Nathalie-Roze & Co ... they've got some swish silent auction loot left and quite a few new wearables donated by local designers and shops - 3 full racks and a several shelves & baskets crammed with lovelies remain. ALL money raised from these items goes to the Red Cross' Haiti Earthquake Fund.
They are also selling their own printed Haiti tees, totes and buttons ($2 - $20) as well as a cool silkscreened design by Peach Berserk (featuring Haitian proverbs) thru to February 14th...again, 100% of sales benefits the Red Cross/Haiti.
You will find Nathalie-Roze & Co just down the street from us at
1015 Queen St. East (@ Pape) in case you have a chance to pop by to make that number higher!
There are a lot of knitting events happening all at once! There are the olympic related challenges, teams and knit-alongs we are seeing all over blogland and Ravelry. There is Miko's Knit your way through a book challenge which kicked off just a few days ago (February 1st) and there are a few Moose sweaters that are being knit up ...which smacks of a Knit-A-Long. Whew, it is shaping up to be a productive year already!
Happy Stitching!
Jennifer & Miko
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