Here are the photos we promised. And trust us, they don’t do the yarn or the books justice. So you will just have to come in and check them out!!!!

Because of course we STILL have not loaded the pictures of the new fabulous NASHUA yarn. But the photos are in our camera, we promise, and they will be on the site tonight.

In the meantime, let us distract you with two much-awaited additions: VOGUE MAGAZINE 25th EDITION and ROWAN 42. Let the knitting begin!

So a little more anticipation before showing off the GRAND OPERA and new NASHUA books. We promise to have it on the site by tomorrow night.

We completely forgot we ordered this yarn from ROWAN but boy are we happy we did! Check out the NASHUA GRAND OPERA, a gorgeous wool with a thread of metallic running through it! What is truly amazing about the yarn is its hand; most metallics are scratchy. Not this. Soft and buttery AND glitzy! What more could you want from a yarn perfect for those holiday shawls and tops???? We can’t wait to get started. It is a light worsted/dk weight, so get those size 6 needles ready and we will help you pick the perfect pattern. This yarn is so new that we can’t find a picture of it on the web, so we will bring our camera in tomorrow and post some shots then.

Also in, two new pattern books from NASHUA; IN THE MOUNTAINS and LOG CABIN. Can’t find pics of those either, so we will post them tomorrow!

Beautiful new items at the shop today. To complement the exquisite BEADED SILK we received last week from ARTYARNS, Iris sent along all the same colors in the REGAL SILK. Think about edging in the beads and working in the silk. Gorgeous. We are thinking that this will be our vacation project….

Also in, a new book from INTERWEAVE: KNIT KIMONO. Interesting designs based upon knitting simple squares:

Also in the shop, the sought-after WHITE BABY CASHMERINO, mauve BABY CASH and two new colors of NORO NIJI.

And finally, new pattern books for children and adults using the perennial favorite MANOS.

Our sessions with NORA BELLOWS, the genius behind NONI FELTED BAGS, was such a success that everyone wanted more patterns. They greeted us upon our arrival today. Some come and get ‘em!!!!

A new yarn from the fabulous CHERYL SCHAEFER is always cause for celebration. Come check out her SPORTWEIGHT COTTON in those amazing MEMORABLE WOMEN colorways! A hefty 470 yards per skein means you only need two for a medium shell; three for a sweater. And at $31.99/skein, not bad for a hand-dyed, hand-knit garment, huh? Think of this as a cotton KOIGU, for those of you who don’t like wool. We can just imagine the adorable baby stuff made from this. Ooh. One skein for a sweater that can be machine washed AND dried.

Also in, lots of that wonderful sock/fingering weight yarn from COLINETTE—JITTERBUG. Also more CADENZA as well as the lovely rose-tinted ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS AFGHAN KIT of the month for July.

And for those who have expressed interest in the mohair/silk jacket we’ve been knitting (it is a lot of fun with a very unusual construction!), the pattern book, NOSTALGIA, is back in. And we have plenty of yarn!

We never expect to walk in on Saturday and encounter boxes of new stock, but we did today. Two enormous boxes from ROWAN!!!!! After we paused a bit to figure out where we were going to put (and store) this stuff, we began to ooh and aah. After all, Rowan is one of our favorite commercially produced yarn lines. So come check out WOOL COTTON, CREATIVE FOCUS CHUNKY and MOHAIR (from their NASHUA line), FELTED TWEED, KIDSILK HAZE and KIDSILK NIGHT. We have worked with all of these yarns and just love them.

Also in, new books: CLASSIC KNITS FOR REAL WOMEN, which has some of the most fashionable plus size designs we have ever seen, and the TAPESTRY COLLECTION, which makes use of our favorite new yarn:

The ARTYARNS and CASCADE orders are checked in and shelved. And all we can say is OMG!!!!

We fell in love with Artyarns two years ago, finding their yarns spectacular, the designs ingenious, and the team of IRIS/ELIOT SCHRIER a pleasure. We believe that they have outdone themselves this year with their BEADED SILK and BEADED SILK RHAPSODY MOHAIR

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This is real luxury yarn. While we love the look of beaded knitting, we don’t, quite frankly, love the process of stringing all the friggin’ beads. Leave it to Artyarns to come up with a solution. Come check out the patterns which use these yarns—we are in love with the one below:

And not to give short shrift to our pals at CASCADE, we welcomed in their HAND DYED LANA D’ORO and 220. This is a great entry into the hand-dyed market, as CASCADE is known for high quality at a reasonable price!

We stopped by the shop to take care of some biz and was greeted by 8 GINORMOUS BOXES. OK, some of them had our shopping bags in them, but still……

So here is the report. We have received fabulous new colors of our favorite DK WEIGHT COTTON from PATRICIA ROBERTS. We can’t say enough about this yarn. Her colors are clear and the spin on the cotton meets with even KARINA’S tough standards. We plan on keeping this year round for those customers who don’t want to knit in wool.
The yarn is checked in and shelved.

Also in, adorable CROCHET ACCESSORY BAGS from LANTERN MOON. Even if you don’t crochet, pick one of these up to keep your make-up brushes neat! Don’t laugh, one customer already did.

Great new book: KNTTING SOCKS by ANN BUDD. Ann is a master at pattern writing and instruction. We glanced through and believe it is the first book we’ve seen that would allow anyone to learn socks on their own!

Still to go (to be done tomorrow): ARTYARNS fall order, and some back ordered goodies from CASCADE. We will continue our report tomorrow.

And don’t forget about our SUNDAY IN THE SALON which resumes this week. Come learn how to make FELTED CLOGS!!! We will be giving instruction over the next TWO Sundays, and this program is always one of our most popular. As always, the program is free, but we ask that you sign up. And much of the yarn for these clogs needs to be wound, so come in ahead of time!