Free Help Dates

Tomorrow, March 28th from 1:00 to 3:00, Theresa will be in Diva to offer free help and advice on your knitting projects. Yes, she can even help you get started knitting. I will be in the bead shop but can also help you with crochet questions. Come see us for help and inspiration. With more bright and sunny days on their way, knitting outside is on my agenda. I hope it is on yours too.

Additional HELP Dates


April 11th 1:00 to 3:00

April 25th - 1:00 to 3:00

As always, private instruction is available at $30 an hour! XO, Lois

Annual SPRING YARN SALE! The sale begins March 14th at 11:00 and ends a Sunday, March 17th at 5:30 pm. All yarn is 25% off the regular price. Get your spring knitting on now!  Wools, cottons, acrylics, silks, cashmere, alpaca and more. We need room for all the new yarn arriving at the end of March and through the summer.

A Nearly Spring Weekend

Winter is perhaps losing its grip on town this weekend and although it is below freezing tonight; tomorrow is supposed to be a balmy 43 degrees! How wonderful! There has been the barest of hints of spring arriving: birds gathering and singing, primroses are popping up, the air smells sweet, adventurous and Lucas runs through the yard like a mad dog, remembering where he last saw rabbits in the summer of 2018.

Tonight finds me cold, writing this blog, my knitting on the table beside me. The house is quiet save for the fireplace video on the television. I saved the Yule Log that comes once a year at Christmas time on the satellite. Certainly is a lot easier to maintain a fire this way!

This is my knitting project, a simple scarf of Bouton d’Or, Made In France ( mais oui ) of 60% alpaca and 40% wool. It looks like what we used to call a rag wool but oh, it is such a sweet, fine yarn and my friend, Howard is going to love it.

This yarn s available in three colorways in Diva at $15.20 a skein and I can mail it to you. ( 360-385-4844, daily 11-5, closed Tuesdays or www.divayarn940@ gmail.com. )

Now my other little “ addiction ” - knitting bags. I swear, each of my projects needs its own bag for carrying about and this one was made by Virginia King in Port Townsend, two years ago. I purchased it because I love the vintage look bark cloth and carefully stashed it away until a week ago. The bag reminds me that spring truly is coming and the bright yellow interior makes me smile.

Now the evening is ending and tomorrow begins with sunshine. So sweet dreams!

A Winter’s Day

I think I am posting here to my old DIVA blog but no matter; I will update it anyhow. I am more into my knitting, crafting and running my shops than I am into techie computer things. Someday, maybe by the time I am truly grown up, I will have mastered all or most, of this computer stuff.

I have recently returned from my gem buying trip in Tucson and while there, traveling with two knitting projects, I found a sunny spot, poolside, under palm trees,  and stretched out in a lounge chair to knit. I only needed a cabana man to bring me fresh squeezed fruit juice drinks and a chocolate, to make my afternoon perfect. Next time!

Under the Tucson sky with palm trees.

Now, I am home to a season of white, deep winter. Stuck. So what is a girl to do? Knit. Craft. Read. Bake. Netflix. That is what I am doing this evening and probably tomorrow too. The shop has been closed 4 of the last 7 days. Sigh..... I need a new yarn fix. See you all soon in my dreams under your own palm tree....

Knitting & Netflix

Friday, the 13th

Here we are again having rolled around to another Friday, the 13th. Are you superstitious? I try to think the opposite of what is expected of me so I like to think of the 13th as a lucky day. I am up exceptionally early today and although I slept for only a few hours last night; the morning's sunrise and clear air is inspiring. What it will inspire today, I am not certain but it feels good to be up so early. I have even already defrosted the fridge at the shop!

So this 13th, I am going to leave you with a little yarn humor. Have a great weekend and knit or crochet outside this summer!

Happy 4th!

Learning to knit. Intently, learning to knit. The bird that is. I have been knitting since high school when Aunt Elva and Aunt Katty taught me.  I am taking my knitting onto the front porch in a bit and relaxing in the warmth of this July 4th, while I rock my afternoon away. All winter long, I wait for the moments I am off from the shops and can knit outdoors. There is something that brings me such peace and relaxation when I can escape and just knit. I would head to the beach but crowds, and I am sure there are a bunch, are not my thing on a holiday.

On the shop side, and I will get pictures eventually, we have new Cascade yarns in stock in colors just made for summer & fall. New Fixation yarn is in stock now too and I remain obsessed with knitting with it. I like the elastic running through it and am making gifts for the holidays already! My under the bed finished knitting projects box is getting full again! I need to make more friends to give it all away to. The good news is someone on my friends list is going to become a grandma again and that means... baby knitting!!! Fixation is perfect for that!

Just a sampling of an awesome new color!

Our shop hours are now extended and we are open every day from 11:00 to 5:30. You will most likely find us there earlier and later. Feel free to call if you need us to hang out and wait for you. We know the ferry and traffic can hold you up and we do not want you to suffer yarn emergencies. Buy yarn from us and we will never leave you wanting for help, advice or yarn! 

P.S. We are open today, the 4th until 5:30. Stop on in!! Happy 4th!!!

Around May

It is a gorgeously sunny and warm afternoon with the temperature hovering around 70. As soon as I finish this new post, I am heading out to my blue porch rocker and knitting away on my next baby washcloth. I have been obsessed with the Cascade Fixation yarn that is all cotton and a wee bit of elastic. First I made a baby hat for a shop sample, then I had leftover yarn so - baby wash cloths!

Left over yarn.

From this sweet baby hat.....

Is being made into baby wash cloths. So soft! 

The best part of this short knitting adventure? Out of the blue, the yarn rep stopped in yesterday and low and behold, he had new colors of Fixation in his little carrying case and I ordered them all! They should be arriving early next week!

I am thinking now that we have a new downtown pedestrian plaza in Port Townsend; we can have knit nights out there and be beachside! Stay tuned for beach side, with an iced beverage, good company and yarn for a knitting the evening away until the street lights turn on!