Archive for the ‘Yarns’ Category

Manos Rittenhouse Discontinued 30% Off

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Manos del Uruguay yarn Rittenhouse Merino 5 ply has been discontinued.  So, we are moving it off the shelves to make room for other great yarns we’ll be getting this fall.   Come while you can and get 30% off this great yarn.  When it’s gone, it’s gone!
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Can’t get to the shop…call us and we’ll ship it to you!  651-342-1386
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241 yards/100 grams
Gauge 18-20sts=4″
Needle 7-8
Cost $16 for solids and $17 for multi before discount.
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Rittenhouse Merino 5 Ply

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Manos Rittenhouse 5 Ply Multi

 

A few new yarns

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

The UPS man was good to us today!
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He brought us 6 big boxes from Manos del Uruguay.  Soft, yummy merino single ply Maxima.  Colors you’ve got to see to believe.

Manos Maxima

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Manos Maxima

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Manos Maxima

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Manos Maxima

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Manos Maxima

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Yeah it's beautiful

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We also got our first shipment of Juniper Moon Farms today.  LOVE this Findley Dappled.  It is a merino/silk blend.  You know it’s soft when you can’t really even feel anything when you are holding it.  WOW.  Might have to change my plans and knit April’s Featherweight Cardi out of this?  Hummm.

Findley Dappled

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Findley Dappled

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Juniper Moon Farms

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More good stuff coming in every day.  I’ll keep you posted:)
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Mini Me Detail

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Just a few images of the detail that went into these mini me’s.   AMAZING.
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There is so much more detail than I can show in these images.  We have knitting bags and handbags that look JUST like the bags these customers carry filled with tiny needles and yarn and books and goodies.  We have earrings and bracelets and painted toenails!  You need to see these in person!  I will get around to taking more pictures though…so keep checking back.
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Winkin

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Drinking wine and eating a chocolate

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Woven Poncho

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Yoga pants and bag

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Ruffled Shirt

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handspun hair

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Hat detail

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Yep that's a shell bra

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bag of goodies

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cowboy boots WITH SPURS

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birds and eggs

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Fungi Feet???

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Sexy Socks

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

If you haven’t yet checked out Shelly’s Yarns and Fiber Shoppe in Taylors Falls, MN what are you waiting for?
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Taylors Falls is just 30 miles North of Stillwater along Hwy 95.  A beautiful drive from Stillwater on a lovely day!
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Shelly dyes her own yarn too.  We are lucky enough to be carrying  her spectacular sock yarn “Sexy Socks”.
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Sexy Socks

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It is 50% Superwash Merino, 50% Tencel fiber and is 380 yards of squishy joy.  Make yourself a pair of sexy socks soon.
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Squishy Joy

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She came, she saw, she left stuff!

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Our friend Sharon from Three Irish Girls was in the shop on Saturday afternoon for a lovely, lively workshop.  She talked about lots of stuff, mostly how the heck to make the beautiful yarn we buy work for the projects we want!  Fun was had by all!
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If you couldn’t make it, never fear…we have tons of yarn left.  Sharon left it all for us!
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We also have a bunch of copies of all of her patterns in the house.
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3IG

3IG beauties

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There are sweater quantities of a few of these lovelies…perfect for a 12 in 12 maybe?
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DKA KAL

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

It’s time for another Darn Knit Anyway (DKA)  Knit Along (KAL) :)
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We are meeting all summer to knit up the Lizard Ridge Blanket from Knitty.com
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We suggest Plymouth Boku or Crystal Palace Mochi Plus yarns.  Both will work beautifully for this project. The image above is my first square using Plymouth Boku.
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There really aren’t rules for this KAL.  It is a free event, provided you purchase yarn at our shop!  You can come to any or all of the dates, if you can’t make all of them, no worries, just come when you can.  You don’t have to register early for each date, just come!  If you want to bring a friend along that isn’t knitting the KAL, that is ok too.
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Here are the dates…They are all on Friday nights from 6-8 (the first night is from 5-7…if you can’t get there until 6…no worries we can still get you going!)
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June 25th, July 9th, July 30th, August 13, August 20
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So, you have to download the pattern yourselves from Knitty.com.   Here is a link to make it easy.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall06/PATTlizardridge.html

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Lizard Ridge

If you can’t make our KAL nights, do the blanket yourself and send us your images!  We’ll share ours too!

Happy Knitting!

Crazy New Fun Yarn

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

If you are looking for an easy summer knit we just might have 2 options for you.  We just received a shipment of yarns from Feza.  Alp Premier and Dazzle and the crazy cool balls of fun called Alp Oriental.  Check em out!

Alp Premier and Dazzle
210 yards of nylon, acrylic, cotton, metallic and wool!

Alp Premier Skein

3 different Alp Premier colorways!

Perfect for a holiday scarf!

Green One Skein Scarf

So, this green one skein scarf…all we did was cast on 150 stitches on a 32″ or longer circular, size 13 needle and knit each row until you run out of yarn.  The yarn does all the heavy lifting!

Alp Oriental
165 yards of acrylic, polyamid, mohair, wool and metallic yarns.  Get this…the tassels come PRE-MADE!!  Great right?

Blue Colorway

Green Colorway

Cool tassels

Red Colorway knit up

This red colored shawl pattern is available at our shop.  FREE, come on in and make one yourself!

Three Irish Girls Goodness

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Are you sitting down?  Really, I am not kidding here.  This is serious business.  You MUST be sitting down.

So, I got this box in the mail just about 6 minutes ago.  Yep, it is what you think it is…

Three Irish Girls

Just got these AMAZING mini rainbow skeins in from Three Irish Girls.   Wait until you see!!!  Each bundle of goodness is 9 mini skeins of Sharon’s newest spring colors.  Wow!!

Ta – da!!

Wexford Merino Silk – 60% silk, 40% merino wool, 9 oz/540 yards total in the bundle.  Each color is 1 oz!  I have 4 bundles.  $48ea

3IG Wexford Silk Rainbow Bundle

Springvale Super Merino, 100% merino wool, 7.9oz/517 yards.  Each color is 1 oz!  I have 4 bundles.  $43ea

Springvale Super Merino Rainbow Bundle

Adorn Sock, 80% merino, 20% nylon, 7.9oz/967 yards.  .88 oz per skein! I have 4 bundles.  $44ea

3IG Adorn Sock Rainbow Bundle

Going once, going twice….

Call us 651-342-1386 or email me aimee@darnknitanyway.com to buy  yours today!

New Additions to the Shop

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

We now have an answer to all of you who have asked for a yarn to make an inexpensive, washable, kids sweater or blanket.  Plymouth Encore is the perfect option for those of you who are ok using acrylic yarns.  This yarn is 75% acrylic and 25% wool.  So, it is just enough wool to hold its shape, but has acrylic which brings the cost down. 

Now feel free to make that 6 year old a sweater and let her get messy!  It’ll cost you less than $25!

Plymouth Encore on the shelves

 

Encore Filled up our lounge!

We also are carrying Plymouth Baby DK and Jelli Beenz for your baby knitting enjoyment!

Baby DK and Jelli Beenz

Easy Baby Colors

Jelli Beenz Anyone

We added Plymouth Fanasy Naturale, a cotton yarn to our stock as well.  The colors we have are all multicolors and would be perfect for a market bag or washcloths!

Plymouth Fantasy Naturale

Need one more option for a market bag? How about Cascade Cotton Rich?

Cascade Cotton Rich

Three Irish Girls

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

We were so excited last week to get our shipment of Three Irish Girls (3IG) Yarn.  We are giddy about it.  You can’t BELIEVE these yarns.

Three Irish Girls

Colors Nora and Donegan

Estuary, Liam and Ian

Ahhhhhhhh

too many colors to mention

We sold out of a lot of these colorways at Yarn Over, but we have another order going in soon!  Her blog is a hoot.  At least I giggle when I read it, but I am an Irish Girl too!