Cafe. Yarn. Friends
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Newsletter |
July 2008 |
We will be closed Tuesday, July 1 for Canada Day!
Be sure to reserve your tickets with us for 2008 Stitch N' Pitch game by July 4th.
Send us an email or give us a call 416-463-1162
We are ordering a group of tickets and plan to gather up a Purple Purl group of stitcher's to enjoy Stitch N' Pitch 2008 at The Roger's Centre August 5th! The game starts at 7:07pm at the Roger's Centre (formerly and belovedly known as The Sky Dome) and the Toronto Blue Jays are facing off against the Oakland A's. Come on out for a fun group knit! Oh and did we mention ballpark snacks, beverages, and Loot Bags too?
Who is game to traipse over to the ball park with the Purple Purl Crew (or meet us there) so we can sit together en-masse? We will wrangle all the paperwork and the ticket price will be just $20 cash (all costs in). We will organize all the meet-up and ticket distribution details and send out an email with all the details! We will also post the details on our August newsletter. Let us know the best way to contact you!
We are taking Stitch Night on the Road again! Weeee!
Fun Fun Fun
WWKIP day seems to be catching on!
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According to the World Wide Knit in Public Day website, 785 KIP gatherings were reported to have convened on June 14th world wide! What an amazing response! And our little Purple Purl KIP Gathering made for a fun day indeed. Denise (aka Dr. Knit) was the very first die-hard KIP supporter on the scene! We were astonished to find a couple of ladies from Bermuda at our gathering! They were on a cruise that landed in Halifax, where they were pointed in our direction since they were to be in Ontario area on the Saturday! Their boat docked in Hamilton, they took a bus to Toronto to participate in our WWKIP day event! Now that is dedication! Thanks ladies...we had a terrific time too! We all managed to knit for a spell in the lovely lush green grass of Leslie-Grove Park. Lovely weather. Fantastic company! Raising funds for worthwhile charities!
It is so heartwarming to see all the little handknit and crochet awareness ribbons attached to people! Thanks to all of you who came out to knit, crochet, munch on cookies, laugh and enjoy the day with us! Thank you for supporting our charities of choice. And Thank you for making this community event strong and wonderful. We raised $350 on June 14th for our charities. the break down is:
I suspect we will do it again next year. So mark your calendars...the second Saturday of June, 2009 join us for another day of picnicky goodness and a stitching good time!
Let's not forget those who helped make this a go! We want to extend a great big thank you again to Diamond Yarn for their generous donations and support to help us run this fundraiser and yarn goodness event! And thanks to Melinda, Debbers, Kathy, Kate and Liza who came out to help make it a smooth day! You ladies are terrific!
Friends of the Purl
Relay for Life
A team from the Downtown Knit Collective participated in The Canadian Cancer Society Relay for Life which is an overnight non-competitive relay fundraising event. Teams of 10 people take turns walking or running around a track all night, basically dusk til dawn, to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. Instead of walking-- the DKC team pulled up their chairs and knit-- ALL NIGHT. The spinning wheels come out too and merrily churned pink rovings into yarn! What an exciting and fabulous event!
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They raised over $6000! And what's more, the "spectacle" of the lovely stitching and spinning attracted a large number of people fascinated by all that was going on. There was much explaining of spinning, knitting, the pink scarves, and the Back-to-Back contest. Several people were taught to knit and some who could already knit added a few rows to a community scarf. To the teams great relief it was a nice night with no rain and a bit warmer than last year!
A full run down will be posted on the Special Event page at the DKC website soon.
Yarn, Yarn, Yarn
New to our shelves| Footloose |
Misti Pima Cotton & Silk |
Adventures of Purl...
Purl certainly had an enjoyable time of hanging around Leslie-Grove Park for World Wide Knit In Public Day!
| Treats... | Doing good for charity... | Lots of friends around stitching away!!! |
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On the Classes Front
We are very pleased to be able to offer you Intermediate Spinning classes in July. Look for "More, Faster, Better"--a beyond basics Drop Spindle Spinning workshop on July 12th, and a "Re-Invent your Wheel (Spinning)" workshop July 19th! For those you looking to take the next steps in spinning. Spinners' Quarterly publisher and OHS Certified Spinner, Lorraine Smith, will be the instructor to take us on a journey towards our next steps of spinning and yarn creation! Check out our classes page for the details!
Another Beginner Crochet class has been scheduled as well. and we will be posting August classes in the next 2 weeks.
We hope everyone is having a great kickoff to your summer! Summer knitting is certainly in full swing at the shop and it is so wonderful to see everyone's progress at Stitch Night and as you pop by the shop. We will be keeping our regular hours over the summer.
We would like to send out a big thank you and congratulations to Liza, who has been that familiar face around The Purple Purl since February as she completed a co-op placement with us that will give her credit towards her high school diploma. We will miss you Liza! Good luck with your future endeavors and we look forward to seeing you in the shop as a resident of the comfy chairs!
But happily, we will will not be without cheerful youth! We would also like to officially welcome Kate, who will be a summer student at our Purl of a shop!
Don't forget we will be closed for the Canada Day, so Stitch Night will reconvene as usual next Tuesday (the 9th). Also if you are joining us for Stitch N Pitch we need our numbers finalized by Friday, July 4th! So check your calendars and get in touch with us to confirm! Stay cool!
Happy Canada Day!
Happy Stitching!
Jennifer & Miko
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