A Felted Experiment

Felting is one of my favorite things to do with yarn. This piece is knit on size 15 needles with Noro Kureyon yarn, a wool and silk blend. Normally, I only felt with 100% wool but you know how you get a notion.... Anyhow, I think the piece was an interesting idea in creating yarn fabric. I often just knit rectangles and then felt them, add them to my stash and on some winter's day in the not too distant future; I will cut, weave, embellish, sew and make a transformation happen - from a flat piece of knitted fabric to something that can be transformed with soap and hot water. These pieces of felted yarn are to my knitting what paints are for the painter. An element of design!




After felting, the piece has shrunk and bit, making a slightly more dense fabric but very, very soft and draping. I think this would be a lovely way to make a soft fabric for use in a baby's garment.

More Buttons & I am NOT done yet!

I can not help myself! Buttons are offered to me and I become the girl that just can not say no! I know no no! These are Czech glass with hand painted dragonflies. How cool are they? Coming soon - a picture of a gallon ziplock bag filled with buttons found by a friend in Paris!

One More Time - Ediz Hook

I have to do this to you one more time - add another picture of new buttons. These just arrived from the Czech Republic and are hand painted glass. They would make an awesome focal on a bag or jacket lapel or a single button closure on a sweater. We also have the parts in the bead shop that convert them to brooches or necklace pendants. Wow - I really like these dragonflies! They are our state bug after all!

New Buttons

One fabulous closure for a shawl and....







many new buttons! We also have drawers filled with all kinds of buttons! Think outside the sweater, you can add a button anywhere on a garment! Just for fun sew a button on a jacket lapel. It is a true falsehood that a button has to button. Sometimes, it is just for embellishment! Show your flair!

More New Yarns & a Familiar Face

This is Cathy in the yarn shop. She is a terrific DIVA to have around and is beyond an excellent knitter! We are lucky to have her. Have a question? She can answer it! Have a problem - oops - knitting problem, she can handle it. She is in the shop on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On Wednesdays, she has her bead hat on and is in the bead shop. YOu should come and say hello if you are in our area.





Fiesta yarns come in such a marvelous array of colors and softness. They make me want to lay my cheek against them and take a summer's afternoon nap!

What to Knit?

Cascade 220

Did you know that we carry a full range of Cascade 220 yarn? We love al the colors available, its ability to felt and a local yarn company! We think of it as a standard in our shop, an old friend that we can reach for and that never disappoints. Affordability you say? Without a doubt we say! Come on in!