Winter News

Hello Knitsters!
Happy New Year! It's that time again to start dreaming of June...and going to Squam Art Workshops (SAW)! Last year I went and taught, with Denny, Natalie, and little Elwood in tow. This year Elwood will stay home, and Stephanie will come with us...after the amazing experience we had last year, I am really looking forward to June!

You have to visit the SAW website and browse through the courses offered. Some really inspiring knit designers will be there this year to teach: Jared Flood, Beth Brown-Reinsel, Gudrun Johnston, and Laura Nelkin. Our very own Denny will be there too, teaching spindle spinning, and oh yeah, I'll be teaching a Baby Sweater Class, How to Knit, and hosting a full day Knit Salon, where we just hang out and knit...we did it last year and it was positively magical. Knitting around a roaring fireplace in the middle of the day? That is my idea of perfection!

New shop arrivals are detailed below....

Keep Knitting,
Megan
 

P.S. I just have to mention how impressed I am with the knitting community as a whole for their donations for Haiti Relief. Stephanie threw up the "Knit Signal" and her readers responded by donating to MSF, overreaching the goal of 1 million dollars, set in 2004. Amazing!

Many knit designers who sell their patterns through Ravelry have generously offered a percentage of pattern sales to be donated to Haiti. These patterns can be browsed through here.

Don't delay though...because donations will only be collected until the end of January. Of special note: Our very own Laura of CosmicPluto Knits will donate 50% of all online pattern sales until the end of the month. Now would be the time to stock your Ravelry Library!

New and Inspiring

In this issue...
* All-Canadian Yarn from Gala Wool
* Sweater from Spud and Chloe
* Rollflex Tape Measures
* The Fibre Company Road to China Light
 
* Classes Schedule

All-Canadian Yarn from Gala Wool
Gala Wool is a British Columbia-based yarn company that produces all-natural, Canadian yarn for knitting and weaving. They buy their yarn from MacAuslan's woolen mill in Prince Edward Island, which has been processing wool since 1870! The yarn is dyed all naturally using plant based dyes.

Each 113g / 4oz skein of worsted weight contains 220 yards of lanolin rich traditional yarn for hardwearing, beautiful projects. $20.

Sweater from Spud and Chloe
From the super cute yarn line Spud and Chloe is the aptly named Sweater. Made up of 55% wool and 45% organic cotton, this soft and squishy yarn comes in bright, clear colours and is superwash too!

Sweater is worsted weight and comes in big 100g skeins of 160 yards / 146m each. We have all 15 colours in stock now! $14.

Rollflex Tape Measures
Lots of sturdy, classic retractable tape measures from Germany! Very smooth rolling action, metric and imperial measurements - and nine super fun colours to boot! Keep one in every knitting bag so you'll always have a tape measure on hand. $7.

The Fibre Company Road to China Light
So soft, it must be felt to be believed! This sport weight yarn from the Fibre Company is 65% baby alpaca, 10% cashmere, 10% camel and 15% silk and feels just as soft as 100% cashmere. The dyeing process used by the Fibre Company always results in colours that look lit from within.

A generous 159 yards per 50g skein and available in 19 luminous shades! $16.