Oh wait, that’s 13 boxes!!! We received TILLI TOMAS today as we were unpacking MANOS and KARABELLA.

So first things first. The MANOS order is here. From the first day we opened, this has been our BEST SELLING YARN. And there’s a reason. The wool is fantastic (as is the WOOL/SILK BLEND they came out with two years ago), the designs exquisite (and easy to knit) and MANOS was one of the first FAIR TRADE yarns. Need we say more? Six boxes awaited us, and we even have 30 skeins of the elusive color 113 that we couldn’t get all last year!

Next us, we received four ginormous boxes from KARABELLA yarns. OK, we went a little nuts with them at the TNNA show, but we can’t resist the yarns and we love dealing with ARTHUR and STAN. So in addition to the AURORA 8 and CHAMELEON we carried last year, we added SOFT TWEED (which is the softest yet strongest tweed you will ever encounter), BOISE (a luxury blend of pure cashmere and merino), SUPER YAK (ooh la la…. a combo of yak and merino), and a DK MERINO SILK yarn that needs to be seriously nuzzled.

We have a few programs planned for the KARABELLA yarns. The coat we are making in the AUGUST KAL just cries out for AURORA 8:

And check out this lace wrap from BOISE:

And then from TILLI TOMAS, exquisite silk and ribbon yarn. We have amazing plans for these yarns! You can check out the amazing KATHRYN bag on KATE GROVES’ website—it’s made from just ONE SKEIN of NILE RIBBON. And we also bought PLIE and BEADED PLIE to do things like this:

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Some of the stuff is just too gorgeous to describe! So come on in and let us know what you think!