Consider joining our SAFARI class from 6-8 PM. We have a rare opening. This is an extraordinary opportunity to grow as a knitter and really challenge yourself while making new friends and giving yourself some “me” time. What is SAFARI? Think “Book Club” for knitters. You pick a project that is too challenging to do alone and work with a gifted teacher for four weeks. Safari participants have done complicated shawls, first sweaters, even designed….all led by a Guild Certified Master Knitter. Interested? Call the shop (240.632.9276) for more information. The cost is $95 for four sessions in January, with a discount on class materials. And don’t be surprised if you “re-up” for ensuing months. Not only will you save 10% on future classes, but you will be in good company.

And speaking of discount, we had a TON of people in yesterday for the first day of our “SHOW ME THE DISCOUNT” promotion. Yes, the 100% coupon is still in the basket. But one person pulled a 50% coupon, and several picked 25% ones. We will be at the shop with our camera today to photograph the happy winners!

We have the maximum number of people signed up for Sunday. If you missed the chance, give us a call around noon on Sunday and we’ll let you know if anyone cancelled. And if you have signed up but can’t make it, please do call us to cancel. This is a popular program and we hate to shut anyone out!

In what has become a WoolWinders tradition, we begin 2009 with our SHOW ME THE DISCOUNT promotion. Join us during the entire month of January for big savings at WoolWinders: A Knitting Salon. Every purchase, every visit.*

How big? Some lucky customer will receive 100% off the total price of a purchase. That’s right. 100% off. That’s FREE.

Here’s how it works. Do your shopping, gather your purchases, and come to the cashstand to pay.

We’ll total up your purchase, and then let you draw from our fishbowl of discount tickets. Whatever the discount says, you get.

And one lucky person will draw the 100% off ticket! It could be you.

Whether you come in once or twenty times during the month*, you get to choose a ticket every time. So let’s ask the simple question:

“ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY?????”

Show Me the Discount

Now is the time to get yourself that CASHMERE, or ABFAB Kit that you have always wanted! Everything is included in the promotion, except for things already on sale, classes, finishing, special orders, and lessons.

We’ve created 801 discount coupons. Each one contains a discount ranging from 10% OFF to 100% OFF. The bowl will contain the following coupons:

* 100% OFF - ONE LUCKY WINNER
* 50% OFF - 32 LUCKY WINNERS
* 40% OFF - 32 LUCKY WINNERS
* 30% OFF - 64 LUCKY WINNERS
* 25% OFF - 96 LUCKY WINNERS
* 20% OFF - 128 LUCKY WINNERS
* 15% OFF - 166 LUCKY WINNERS
* 10% OFF - 282 LUCKY WINNERS

Our Price: 10-100% DISCOUNT

Show Me the Discount

Of course Lew the Lawyer is involved, so here is the fine print:

1. Select the items you want to purchase.
2. After making your selections, a staff member will offer you the bowl of discounts and you will pick one coupon, which will be applied to your purchase. A commitment to purchase the products selected must be made prior to selecting a coupon.
3. Special orders not included.
4. This discount may not be used in conjunction with any other discount or with our Click Card.
5. The promotion will run until the 801 coupons are used.
6. All sales are final.

• Limit one coupon per customer/per day *ALL SALES FINAL. NO RETURNS/EXCHANGES.
  Our Price: 10-100% off total purchase!

Even before the weekend begins, you can take part in our most popular promotion. Sign up to receive our emails and newsletters (lower left of this home page; follow the prompts) and you will find out about it before we announce it on the blog Friday. Did that get your curiosity going?

And this weekend we usher in 2009 with a new SATURDAY KAL and SUNDAY IN THE SALON. First off, make yourself a pair of cozy FELTED CLOGS each Saturday of the month. We can almost guarantee that you will finish them by the end of January! These are unbelievably fun to knit and felt, and you will also learn things like knitting in the round, picking up stitches, and short rowing. This is a project suitable for a beginning knitter (though some fearlessness would come in handy). You will need two skeins of Cascade 220 or 450 yards of feltable worsted weight wool like WOOLY STRIPES. If you want to do them out of Manos, you will need two skeins. And hopefully we will receive our SKACEL order before the weekend; if not, bring along your Circs in 24” size 11.

And on Sunday, make yourself a pair of fingerless gloves (aka Handwarmers). These have proven to be very popular and practical—great for morning walks or working on the computer in a chilly room. We will be using one skein of DK Weight yarn (our lovely model KNITASHA wears a pair from KOIGU KERSTI) and size 5 dpns. Again, a quick knit in which you will learn some significant skills like working on DPNs and making a buttonhole.

As always, both programs are free of charge and run from 2-4 PM. We do ask that you call and reserve a spot so we have a place at the table for you.

Remember that we are open tomorrow, December 31 from 11 am-3 pm and then closed New Year’s Day. We reopen Friday, December 2 at 11 am. And we wish you all a happy and healthy New Year.

Although it’s our day off, we checked with the fabulous MARIETTA today who let us know that CRYSTAL PALACE NEEDLES (ie. short straights and dpns) as well as NOTIONS FROM BRYSON had arrived. We still don’t understand what all of you are doing with so many needles, but so be it. We have a sneaking suspicion that our December order won’t last long, so hurry in. And stay tuned for tomorrow’s posting when we describe the upcoming weekend, the first in 2009. We have a lot of exciting things planned at WoolWinders!

No programs scheduled this weekend, but PLEASE come help us eat all the goodies that our lovely customers and vendors sent this holiday season. Really. We have many treats in the shop and in the spirit of sharing have put them on the big table for all of you. So just come and hang with your knitting or crocheting, check out our merchandise at the same time, and grab a treat!