Marianne Isager, dale of norway

I have the Marianne Isager line of yarns. There is an ad on page 52 in the latest Vogue knitting showing the cherry scarf knit with this yarn. (This is a really good issue by the way. I have the Debbie Bliss Cashmerino that was used to knit the hat on the cover).

I am the only store in the area who carries this line, so make sure you check it out when you are in.
I have the Cherry scarf and the little clara dress pattern available with the purchase of yarn.

Marianne's first book was knitting out of Africa. I have her newestbook, classic knits, in stock as well as the smaller pattern books.

Coming next week: Anniversary fun! Come in an enter to win a fold up blocking board (it is at least 4x6'), a bag of lana doro from cascade in a gorgeous shade of red, etc. (I am still figuring out waht all to do as prizes) There will be things (sales) going on the entire month of October.

One last thing, I also carry the Dale of Norway line of yarn and books. I even have the little patches you can sew on to make the sweater look official.

cat bordhi christmas stocking

I got a call from a customer today about a pattern to crochet a christmas stocking. This of course sent me to the internet and flipping through stuff. I found a really good book of the pattern and hopefully I can get it from my vendor on Monday.....but of course I did discover a really neat knitted pattern for a Christmas stocking with pockets on knitters review designed by Cat Bordhi.
SHe really is so creative and she has a new book out call Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters. My copies haven't arrived yet. If you want to see what other books she has written, checkout her website.
The Lorna laces Cat's Ahaa yarn should be back in stock next week. This is a great yarn to learn to knit with or to learn a new skill on. It is easy to see the stitches.

I still have the reprint of the 1948 Grace Ennis stocking pattern in stock.

zauberball

I just read a note from my vendor today. They wanted me to make sure my customers know that this yarn IS NOT A CENTER PULL BALL. Pulling from the inside will cause the yarn to stretch and tangle.
If you want a center pull, you will need to rewind the ball.
I hope this message saves someone trouble.

new additions

If you are participating in the shop hop, make sure you turn in your completed passport by Sun Sept 27. This is the last day of the shop hop and the grand prize winners will be chosen quickly.
I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed meeting all of you.
I currently have 5 trunk shows in the store.
Southwest trading company's terra
Southwest trading company's tofustie tees
Classic elite classic items in wool bamboo, water lily, alpaca sox and 150.
Patterns from Chris Blysma
and just in this wednesday a huge assortment of pieces done in the yarns from Mountain Colors.
(their colors are sooooo beautiful).

If you saw the little hat in limbo mexiko on the front table and thought it was cute, you will want to check out the newly in stock Big mexico yarn in worsted weight that just came in. Great yarn to do hats or kids clothing. It stripes on its own.

Also in Zauberball fingering yarn. The color changes in the yarn are really interesting and different. It has long colors that blend into each other.

Lifestyle has been reintroduced as Ambiente. This Superwash merino is fun to knit with.

From Crystal Palace: New colors of Panda silk, Panda silk DK, Panda Soy, lofty wool
Crystal Palace has a well indexed site to give you patterns that will work with all their yarns.

New pattern from Ann Norling: the multidirectional scarf

The new 8" circular addi turbo needles arrived. They are so cute!

Finger knitting with loops

if you want to see video in a separate window.

Denise interchangeable hooks

The following interchangeable crochet hooks are In stock here at Yarnia. They join the Denise Interchangeable knitting needles and replacement parts that we currently have in stock. The cords of the kits work with each other so the crochet kit not only gives you hooks,it gives you extra parts.

Denise Interchangeable Crochet Hooks are ideal for Afghan/Tunisian crochet, double-ended crochet, and a wide variety of knitting applications. Hooks interchange with Denise knitting needles to open a whole new world of possibilities for creating unique fabrics.

Kit includes:

• 12 individual hooks, sizes F5 (3.75mm) to 19 (15mm)
• 7 cord lengths: two each 3" and 5", plus one each 9", 12" and 16"
• Four end buttons & two extenders
• Detailed Tunisian Crochet instructions courtesy of Interweave Press

Can be used as standard crochet hooks, or make Afghan/Tunisian hooks from 8-37" by using different combinations of cords in the kit. As always, 30", 40", and 52" cords are available separately to expand the possibilities even further. Hooks are also available individually packaged - ideal for double-ended crocheters or knitters who want to add a few hooks to their knitting kit. A Starter Set of two of each individual hook size is available at 20% off the wholesale price (only $40!).

A wide range of knitting applications includes easily picking up stitches for button bands, necklines, or modulars, expeditious cast-ons and bind-offs, and quickly picking up stitches after "frogging." Add crochet to your knitting or knitting to your crochet with the flick of a wrist. Expand your fibercrafting horizons!

cookie a

Check out the latest pattern from cookie a on Knitty.com
I have the Cookie A Deep Dark Secret sock yarn from Lorna's Laces in stock (I got some others shephard sock yarn while I was at it).

The latest shawl patterns from knitspot should be here by tomorrow

Dover printed the Alice Starmore Fair Isle book and it is now in stock. It came with some other new books and next year's "yarn Harlot" calendar.

errata happens

It has been awhile since I talked about pattern errata, but since a lot of you are pulling out your work or starting your new fall projects, please remember to check the publisher, or designer's websites and see if the pattern has any errata. Sometimes it is real errors. Sometimes it is a clarification. If a designer or publisher gets the same question over and over, then obviously the pattern has some ambiguity to clear up.

Here are some links to errata, you may find useful. Of course if it isn't listed below, you should still do your own search to see if there is one out there.
Alpaca Yarn Company patterns
Alterknits book also one skein book
Cast on magazine
Chicknits
Classic Elite Magazine
Debbie Bliss patterns
A fine Fleece book
Folk shawls book
Gathering of Lace book
Heartstrings patterns
Heirloom Knitting book
Interweave Knits
Interweave Crochet
Interweave Books
Knit n style Magazine
Knitted Jackets book
Knitspot (and isn't it lovely that she dates them. Remember you may have purchased pattern yesterday, but I may have stocked it 6 months ago. Just check anyway).
Knitters magazine
Knitting at Noon
Knitting Tradtions
Lisa Knits Patterns
Martingale published books
Mountain Colors
Cat Borhdi corrections
Northern Lace patterns
Noro, Ella Rae,Aurancania,debbiebliss
Rowan
Sally Melville Books
Schoolhouse Press
Stitch and bitch books
Viking Knits book by Lavold
Vogue Magazine
XRX books (they also do knitters magazine)
Yarn girl's guide book
Yarn Forward Magazine

shop hop, new things, etc

Welcome to the shop hop people and to everyone getting back into the fall knitting/crochet season. Shop hop people remember to bring a folder or envelope to put all your free pattens in. It keeps them nice and organized. Also remember 3 things: get your passport stamped, get your free pattern, enter the store raffle. It gets hectic so don't let us forget to give you what your came for. It is still possible to purchase a shop hop passport. The event runs from Sept 11-27.
You can shop at any of the stores during their regular hours as well as the shop hop hours so there is still plenty of time if you want to participate. I have one of the 3 grand prizes sitting on a chair. It has a huge pretty bow on it. I also have my store basket on display.

Sept/Oct is a lovely time to check out festivals around Canton (of course, please allow time to stop by Yarnia along your way)
Yankee Peddler Festival Clay's Park in Canal Fulton OH
September 12-13, 19-20, 26-27, 2009 10:30am-6:00
(Notice how the dates coincide with the shop hop?? This is just a coincidence, but it sure is nice.)

Algongquin Mill Fall Festival ( They have a guild) Oct 9,10,11 4 Miles south of Carrollton OH on St Rt 332 admission is $8 hours are 9-5

The Malabar Spinning & Weaving Guild (Ohio) asked me to invite people to
their gathering. The annual celebration of “Spinners Week” and the
All-Ohio Spin-In will take place in Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas on
Saturday, October 3rd. Refreshments will be provided by the Malabar
Spinning & Weaving Guild (Ohio) Spinners
meet at the big barn across from the “big house,” a famous landmark
where movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married.

I have several patterns from SWTC (southwest Trading co) that are free with the purchase of tofusties, Terra, Xie, Karaoke, bamboo or Sapphira yarns.
There is a trunk show showing the sweaters in the Terra and Tofusties yarns. I will be getting more of the sock yarn this week.

I also currently have a trunk show showing off the patterns of Chris Blysma
She uses classic elite and cascade in the items.

There is a trunk show still to come from Classic Elite. I have a sampler scarf hanging up to show off 12 yarns of their line. They have great patterns for their yarns in the web newsletter. The new pattern books for fall have been very very popular. I currently have all of them in stock.

You can see the vendors I carry by looking on the links page of my website yarniashop.com

Newest items in: Bryson 80 count sock markers,
Mountain meadows yarn (beautiful yarn from Wyoming). This was a new yarn introduced in June at the convention.
Opal sock yarn's latest collection, Rainforest 5 is in. (I can hardly wait until the Schafpate collection comes in. )
Sapphira from SWTC (washable merino at a 3.5 stitch gauge)

I have these nice loops from Harrisville designs. If you look at an earlier post I have a youtube of how to finger knit with these. Fun, clean thing to do with kids.

upcoming fiber events

Ultra by simply shetland arrived today to join the spindrift and dk yarns.

The Carroll County Algonquin mill fall festival is coming up Oct 9,10,11.
They have a spinner and weavers group there.

The first meeting of the Canton Spinners and Weavers guild was tonight (9.9.09)
The meetings are usually the first wed of the month at the Canton art museum. Dues are only $20 a year.

Malabar Spinning & Weaving Guild (Ohio) asked me to invite people to
their gathering so here it is.....The annual celebration of “Spinners Week” and the
All-Ohio Spin-In will take place in Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas on
Saturday, October 3rd. Refreshments will be provided by the Malabar
Spinning & Weaving Guild (Ohio) . Spinners
meet at the big barn across from the “big house,” a famous landmark
where movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married.

opal rainforest 5 arrives

The new Opal rainforest 5 sock yarn arrived today.
I have opal sock yarn in both fingering and 6 ply (dk weight).
I have yarns from the following collections (select colors of the collection not the full collection mind you.)
Zirkus (circus)
Wintermachen
rendezvous
Harry potter (all colors except hedwig)
rainforest 2(I have the tiger) ,3, and 5
Mississippi
Uni-color (solids)
Hunderwasser
Fuererland (fireland)
Fantasie
Blues

Also the new 80 ct sock markers from Bryson arrived today.

Sept 09 is here

New magazines in: Interweave knits fall issue, Living crafts magazine (cute gnome hats), Debbie Bliss and the brand new special issue of Interweave Weekend. FYI- Subscribers do not get "weekend" so it may sellout faster than the regular issues.

Coming soon: X marks the spot! Or better yet, the new Bryson sock & lace ring markers!
Keep your place on lace and make sure those socks rock with these rubber ring markers.
80 rings per package
Package has 2 different size markers that fit needles from size 0 to 5

Classes: Lots of them are starting the week of Sept 7. Check the list. I will have all new start dates on the crochet classes. classes will start the week of Sept 21.

New classic elite pattern books are in. the Made in Brooklyn pattern book is in its second printing already.
The new line from Veronik avery, St Denis is also in. I have the Nordique yarn in stock, but I already sold out of the magazine and the new ones are on their way.
I also got some new colors of old favorite yarns.

The most recent web letter from classic elite uses silky alpaca. check out
http://www.classiceliteyarns.com/newsletter.php

You should see the cute baby moccasin that Lynn made up (Jackson school colors of course for her). The pattern is from bekka knits
You can of course buy from shopatron, but if you pick it up here, you save on shipping.
Yarnia is a shopatron supplier.

It is time for the Yarn Discovery Tour Shop Hop.
You can purchase your passport here for $5.
For $5 you get a bag with goodies and the passport.
You get entered into a prize basket drawing at each shop you go to and spend $10. If you go to the 10 participating stores, you get entered into the grand prize basket drawing.
Yarnia will be open extra days/hours during the shop hop including Sunday Sept 11-27.
I will also be getting in some trunk shows during the time period.