Today’s goodies from our lovely Javier, the UPS Guy? Reorders of the BLUE SKY ALPACA ORGANIC COTTON and ALPACA/SILK. We looked at the bins and found them nearly empty. So come and get these wonderful yarns. The cotton is great for children’s sweaters and blankets and the alpaca/silk is the ultimate shawl yarn. We have plenty of patterns, ideas, and opinions!

Our lovely friends at FAIRMOUNT FIBERS sent us reorders of MANOS DEL URUGUAY today. Come check out our 25 bins of this amazing yarn. From the day WoolWinders opened its doors it has been our best selling yarn. And we are fully stocked in anticipation (sshh) of our FELTING FRENZY which will define our SUNDAYS IN THE SALON beginning in January!

We are gearing up for our extremely popular FELTED BOWL program this weekend. We have had tremendous sign up and so we are having TWO sessions: SATURDAY and SUNDAY from 2-4 PM. Please, please, please call or email us (jacqui@woolwinders.com) if you have signed up and let us know WHICH session you will be attending. We have room for 12 at each program, and hate turning people away when we are out of chairs!

Materials will be one skein of MANOS yarn (or 220 held double) and size 11 dpns (or 2 circs). If you have your needles, please bring them. We don’t routinely stock the larger size of dpns!

We came in today to an enormous box from CASCADE YARNS and a small flat box from XRX. Within? Reorders of the popular 220 SUPERWASH, ICELAND, and the yummiest winter yarn EVER, BABY ALPACE CHUNKY. And the WINTERS KNITTER as well—filled with lovely designs including several for the men in your life!

The weekend after Thanksgiving is always one of our favorites. There is just a buzz of activity at the shop between customers who avoid mall shopping at all costs, classes, and kids who just want to check out the yarn! First up, we enjoyed FLO’S friends MAURA and AVI who brought kids along on Friday; daughter NATALYA has become quite the knitter, and Maura’s son JAKE was extremely proud of his mom’s first hat for him made from the wonderfully washable ROWAN VIGNETTE:

On Saturday, MARIETTA just had to plunk the snowman hat onto MAX, our favorite weekend employee/model:

And is there anything more exciting than watching new knitters? SABRA and CAROLINE finished ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS with their baby hats ready for display:

We still have lots going on at the shop. Don’t forget that this is the LAST week of the NORO sale: all books and yarn is 30% off. We have odds and ends left—if you want to make a quick hat, scarf, pair of mittens….check out the gorgeous colors of NIJI, SILK GARDEN, SILVER THAW, IRO and KOCHORON. And the books are wonderful; all NORO knits at standard worsted or chunky gauges, so the patterns can be used for a variety of yarns.

Finally, the WINTER CLASS SCHEDULE will be at the shop TODAY. We have sent it off to our lovely webmistress STACY, who promises ot have it up on the site by FRIDAY. Get a jump on the schedule by coming into the shop-our classes are small and fill quickly. Look for the WINTER SUNDAYS IN THE SALON schedule by the end of the week as well.

And really FINALLY--we are spending our days off this week working on the WINTER NEWSLETTER. Just a reminder—we only send this out by email (so we can spend our money on yarn for you!). Just go to the lower left corner of the home page to get on our mailing list—it is a three step process to ensure privacy and anti-spam, so follow all the prompts.

The SUNDAY IN THE SALON for the FELTED BOWL has proven to be immensely popular. So we are going to run it twice over that weekend: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 from 2-4 as well as SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2 from 2-4. If you have signed up or are on the waitlist, please call and let us know which day you prefer. Just give us a call at the shop: 240.632.9276. We would really appreciate the ability to accomodate everyone who wants to take this program!!!!

That’s right-it is the final week of NORO-EMBER. Take 30% off all remaining NORO YARN and PATTERN BOOKS. And if you love the look of NORO but haven’t the time to knit, come check out our reasonably priced NORO SAMPLES!!! We have HATS, SCARVES, BAGS,and SWEATERS!!!

Customers likeJennifer, who show such enthusiasm with each project. Doesn’t she look beautiful in the picture below? The sweater is the SONNET pattern from www.knitty.com and the yarn is ROWAN TAPESTRY. We are hoping that she wears it to her Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks for giving us such a smile, Jennifer! And thanks to LIANA who forwarded the picture on to us.

First off, our holiday hours. We are closing at 3:00 today and will reopen on Friday at 11 AM. We sincerely wish all of our wonderful customers a happy and healthy holiday.

And the SUNDAY IN THE SALON this weekend, CABLED HANDWARMERS, is filled. However, if you want to come, give us a call around noon on Sunday. We sometimes have cancellations. And on that note, if you have signed up and can’t come, please call us and let us know so we can accomodate others. We really appreciate it.

The handwarmers, shown below, are adorable. The skills we will be teaching will be working on dpns and cabling. You will need 100 yards of worsted weight yarn 9 (with not a smidge to spare) and size 6 DPNS. Thanks to our lovely friends at CRYSTAL PALACE, we have plenty in stock.

18 colors have at least (another 17 are on the way!!!) Anyone who has ever worked with KOIGU knows that the yarn is well worth the five month wait to spin, dye and ship it from Canada! Let the knitting begin. And we have some wonderful patterns to go with this yarn. Socks, Shawls, Sweaters, Hats, Kids’ Stuff—-everything is better with KOIGU!