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April 16, 2013

Man Made: front page!

A couple of weeks ago, Mike happened to be in town at the same time a Hutt News reporter wanted to chat about our Man Made sessions.

Would you believe it, this week who is on the front page of our local paper, but Mike? Our knitting teacher extraordinaire.


 Despite all my skepticism, we now have some brave souls signed up. There is plenty of room for more!

At the same time, I feel remiss in that I haven't yet blogged about Handmade. It's coming up super fast and word is from the organisers that classes are selling like CRAZY. And I mean CRAZY in all caps. I've had more than a few people approach me lately asking for beginner lessons, and, man or woman, there are in fact beginner knitting lessons being held at Handmade

Belinda of Blendy Knits fame is going to be in the Knit Lounge (hosted by us, joyfully once again!) teaching regular beginner sessions for the cheap and cheerful bargain price of $10. Scoot down to the bottom of this page to see details.

I will be doing a much more comprehensive post on our picks for Handmade weekend very very soon. However this completely random and fractured post is brought to you by a fried brain thanks to dyeing a crazy (there's that word again) amount of Knitsch Sock in preparation for the Creative Fibre Festival next weekend. Holland Road Yarn Co will be there as part of the trade market, but there is plenty to see as well as lots of shopping to be done :)

Better take the fried brain off for a glass of wine and some crochet. We have a crazy (I said it again!) amount of stock arriving this week so there will be lots of excited noises coming from this direction as big boxes of yarn are unpacked and distributed amongst shelves. And I promise the next post from me will hold some more sense. 

xx

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January 24, 2013

New Arrivals: Malabrigo

It is always a good day when Malabrigo arrives! Hip hip hooray! This time round we indulged in the brand new Silkpaca Lace - a sumptuous blend of alpaca and silk. We're packed to the gunnels with brand new colours in Rios worsted weight, and piles more Sock yarn. 

There's also a shipment of classic single ply Lace on the way, which should land in a couple of weeks. 

It's mighty hard to resist these beauties, as usual...

 

Maabrigo Silkpaca Lace in Pink Frost, Polar Morn, Hollyhock and Abril

Malabrigo Silkpaca Lace in Polar Morn and Sunset



Malabrigo Sock in Terracotta (top), Archangel, Abril and Dewberry


Malabrigo Rios in Bobby Blue, Ivy and Lavanda

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November 21, 2012

New Fyberspates colours - Oh my!

 A picture says a thousand words...or draws a thousand gasps of delight? 

I'm going to leave these ones to speak for themselves - new Fyberspates colours have just been launched and we lept super fast to get them on the shelves as soon as we possibly could. They are seriously worth lusting after.


Fyberspates Lace (l-r) Primrose (new!), Gold, Treacle Toffee



Fyberspates Lace (l-r) Eau de Nil (new!), Slate, Wine Gum



Fyberspates Sport (l-r) Magenta (new!), Flying Saucer, Jen's Green (new!), Charcoal (new!)


Seeing as we're heading into the season of doing nice things for other people, Fyberspates is the perfect gift yarn. The lace skeins have a whopping 1000m and the sport 365m - so you just need one to make something really special. And Fyberspates is pretty gosh darn irresistible. I'd like one of each, thanks very much!


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