August Artist of the Month! Grasshopper Handmade

Please welcome our new Artist of the Month: Grasshopper Handmade.  You will find her beautiful variegated sock yarn here, tomorrow August 1st, enjoy!
Here is our interview with her:
1. What is your name, company name and which city and state are you from?
My name is Elizabeth–or Liz–Kennard and my company name is Grasshopper Handmade.  I currently [...]

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Be Sweet Bambino in action!

Donna had been wanting to knit the Pom Pom Awning pattern (Ravelry link) by Kat Coyle (pattern in the book “Greetings from Knit Cafe”) for her new dining room table for a while and when we received the new Be Sweet Bambino she knew exactly what yarn she was going to use to knit it.
This [...]

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Sunday July 27 update

Tonight at 9pm EST we will be updating the shop with the following items:
10 new sock patterns by iKnitiative. You can see all the sock patterns that will be available in a Flickr set, as well as detail pictures for some of the patterns. Most of the patterns are written toe-up for magic loop but they can be [...]

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Upcoming Raffle!

At the next update (Sunday July 27) we’ll be having a really cool raffle. In this raffle you’ll be able to win your own, already knitted up, sweater. We’ll have 3 sweaters up for raffle, 2 with Sublime yarns and 1 knit in Noro Kureyon Sock.
The first one up up for grabs is a Noro [...]

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Finished Sublime Soya Cotton dk sweater

Cross posted over at the yarn4socks KAL blog.
About a month ago, Donna finally finished her Cabled Cardigan that she was knitting for the “Knit a sweater in 30 days KAL”. She didn’t quite make the deadline, unlike Dorothy, but she did finish it and now wears it proudly.
Here’s a little information recap on the sweater. [...]

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Trip to TNNA part 3

Yes, I know the trip to TNNA’s been over for quite a few weeks now but I wanted to share one last thing with you before I closed the subject until next year.
I am sure that you were wondering if we did have time to knit while at TNNA. We did, kind of. We didn’t actually [...]

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Look at all that’s new!

Tomorrow, at the July 13 9pm update we’ll be updating, again, with tons of new stuff!
First and foremost, the arrival of the long awaited Silk Garden Sock by Noro! Yes, now you can find the fiber content of the beautiful Silk Garden plus added nylon for durability required in a sock yarn and the beautiful color [...]

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Coming soon!

Here’s a quick peak at what you’ll be able to find at our next update!

More details to come later…
Next update: July 13 at 9pm est

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Trip to TNNA, part 2

I hope it’s not too late to tell you more about our last two days at TNNA!
Since Donna and I were staying at a hotel across the street from the Convention Center we didn’t have far to go to go the show. The night before, we had studied the floor map with all the vendors [...]

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