Today we award JANICE KOCHAN and JEANNE TUFANO with the Trooper Awards for making it  successfully through our 4-hour LITTLE BO SHEEP CLASS during which we covered, Fair Isle two-color stranding, basic intarsia, and intarsia-in-the-round while learning to knit this adorable gift bag! I am thinking of having tee-shirts printed for them that read, “I survived intarsia-in-the-round and lived to tell about it!” Wonderful job,...

From our recent Monday Night Knitalong Class, BETH HIRSCH models her new and very pretty LEFTIE SCARF! Both Beth and the scarf, which was knitted with MALABRIGO SOCK yarn and DANCING LEAF FARM SOCK HOP yarn, look fresh and lovely and ready for summer vacation! Nice job, Beth! Get your own LEFTIE pattern on Ravelry, check out our fingering weight yarns and knit your own fun and fresh summer accessory at Woolwinders, your neighborhood yarn...

“I never win anything!” That WAS what SHELLY GOLDIN used to say until now! Here she is smiling away this morning at her safari knitting group class, the lucky winner of a brand new ADDI CLICK INTERCHANGEABLE LACE NEEDLE KIT! Shelly participated in the Metro Yarn Crawl this past April and entered her card to win Woolwinders’s raffle prize, and she won big! Congratulations,...

Hurry! There’s only ONE SPOT LEFT in our FIXING KNITTING MISTAKES CLASS on JUNE 1ST from 12- 2 PM with our newest instructor, JENNIFER CROWLEY-RAYMOND! Finally get your questions answered once and for all about pesky things like picking up stitches, lifelines, ripping out cables, and discovering where in the $%$#@ that dropped yarnover went to! Can’t make it on June 1st? No worries! Jennifer will be teaching the class a second time on Saturday, AUGUST...

A BIG thank you to customer, DANA GEDDES for stopping in to show us what she knitted with her STRING THEORY CAPER SOCK YARN! Using the colorway, Oban, Dana knitted ROAM, a great cowl/infinity scarf pattern from the 2012 issue of Knitscene Accessories Magazine.  You can also find this pattern on Ravelry and get started on your accessory knitting today from your friends at Woolwinders, your neighborhood yarn shop! Thanks again,...

If there was a prize for most finished projects in a month, it would go LAURA EISENMAN! Just take a look at all the lovely projects she finished up in her safari knitting class last month: socks, hats, and a beautiful bag! Great job, Laura! Keep up the good work! And now a PRIZE for the rest of you! Join us on our WOOLWINDERS RAVELRY GROUP PAGE at http://www.ravelry.com/groups/woolwinders-yarn-shop and follow our NEW “KNITTING SHAME” CONTEST THREAD and...

What perfect timing! The new Spring 2013 issue of INTERWEAVE KNITS MAGAZINE arrived today filled with loads of wonderful summer patterns for you to knit in time to wear on that summer vacation or to that special summer event! Pressed for time? No worries, choose one of the many lovely lace patterns in this issue to work on over the summer and have it ready to wear next spring. That’s one of the best things about yarn and knitting/crocheting–it...