Fall/Winter Hours

Please note our Fall & Winter Hours

November 1 -- December 31, 2014
Monday - Friday 9:00-5:00*
Thursday 9:00-8:00 (Knit Night every Thursday year round--unless it's a major holiday)
*Saturdays in November we’ll be open until 6pm
  Thanksgiving Day       CLOSED*  (no knit night)  *THIS IS A CHANGE
  Christmas Eve             9:00-4:00
  Christmas Day            CLOSED    (no knit night)
  New Year's Eve           10:00-4:00
  New Year's Day           10:00-4:00 (no knit night)

     Old Fashioned Friday Nights:  Shop until 9 PM!
November 28, December 5, December 12, & December 19, 2014
JOIN US FOR FREE EVENING WORKSHOPS ON FRIDAYS, DECEMBER 5, 12, & 19

We keep the same hours as Kitchen Kettle Village - that means we are open every day except for Sundays and Christmas.

      2015
January 1 - February 28  M-F 10:00-4:00/Saturdays 9:00-5:00
March 1 - April 30               9:00-5:00
Thursday open til 8:00 (Knit Night every Thursday year round--unless it's a major holiday)

NEW! First Time Fair Isle Hat Kits

I love stranded knitting. I started knitting because I was in love with weaving charts and wanted to make fabric.  My earliest projects were swatches of fabric that revealed how poorly I understood knitting but how powerfully I loved color and patterning. 

I didn't know there were 'rules' or traditional techniques for Fair Isle or stranded knitting, so I 'unvented' as I went along.  I've learned a lot since those early days, and I still love color work.

Lamb's Pride Worsted is a beautiful wool mohair blend in a heavy single--and an incredible range of colors.  It is a great choice for an introduction to color work.  The yarn is just 'wooly' enough to make an excellent fabric surface that is perfectly suited to Fair Isle.

As a knitting teacher, I particularly like to teach Fair Isle technique.  I developed a simple repeating pattern for a cap or toque that allows you to learn and refine your strategies for color work.  The hat is worked in the round. 

We are very happy to offer kits featuring the First Time Fair Isle Cap Pattern for sale in our shop and online.  Each kit contains two skeins of Lambs Pride Worsted and a Free copy of the pattern.  We have nine color combinations available. 

Note: The hat is knit on US #8 16" circular needles and US #8 DPNs, and you will need stitch markers. 

New Stitch Patterns

I like to say that we knit for fun. I think this is mostly true, don't you?  Sometimes fun is a garter stitch triangle (the Baktus Scarf, anybody?) and sometimes fun is a new to you stitch pattern.  This week my new pattern is the Fabergé Stitch also variously called the Royal Quilting Stitch or the Scale Quilting stitch. 

I am making the Royal Quilting Hat  designed by Betty Balcomb.  Written for Cascade 220 Sport, I chose a rich walnut for the main color and a mossy green for the decorative stitchwork.

The pattern is simple, but requires a fundamental understanding of tension and stranding yarn--if you are a fair isle knitter, this pattern will interest you.  Not only do you carry the yarn on the wrong side of the work, you also carry the yarn on the outside.

We taught a terrific Free Workshop featuring this pattern, and I encourage you to give it a try.  We have an incredible selection of Cascade 220 Sport in the shop for fall knitting, and this is a great hat.