Sheltand Shawls Class at our Spring Knitting Retreat

These are a couple of pictures of one of Joan's Shetland Shawls she made. This is one of the classes she will be teaching at our Spring Knitting Retreat in Lincoln City, May 29-31st. We are so excited to have her teach us these beautiful lace knitting techniques. She will also teach Shawl Shaping - Triangles and Trapeziods.

As anyone who has ever taken a class from Joan you undoubtedly know that she is truly a great teacher and yet so personal and approachable. We were all truly impressed with her ability to show us all some really great techniques for fair isle knitting in such an easy to understand manner. And are so looking forward to another fantastic retreat!

JC. Briar is also teaching some helpful techniques for mittens and cable knitting basics for those knitters who aren't quite ready for lace yet.

I hope you will all be able to join us for this great event that we are sponsoring. I believe you will come away inspired and a better knitter, ready to tread new ground in your knitting journey.

Irene

We had an interesting visitor over the weekend. Irene from Norway. She was looking around when she noticed on the wall a few pattern books we carry 'Selbustrikk', 'Raumagarn' and 'Selbuvotter'. She could not believe her eyes, books from her country were sitting in a yarn shop in the US! She had to have a picture, she said " No one at home will believe me!".

I hope where ever she is today that she is having a lovely time here in the US. The picture didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked, but here she is.

Other good news this week is that our Blue Sky Alpaca is here. Dyed Cotton and Alpaca Sport. I will try to get pictures up tomorrow.

This yarn is even nicer than I imagined. The alpaca is the softest alpaca I have ever touched and the colors are just exquiste. The dyed cotton has tons of beautiful colors and is so soft as well, I love the twist of this yarn it is so nice, not your average cotton. I can't wait to show you all.

New Yarns in the shop this week

This week has been fun. We have just received our newest shipment from Cascade. We now have Cascade 220 Superwash and Greenland in the shop.

Cascade Superwash is exactly like regular 220 but it is washable and comes in balls not hanks. Acutally I think it is softer than regular 220. It is a worsted weight 18-20 sts. = 4", the cost is $10.00 per ball and yes it has 220 yards per ball just like regular Cascade You can see the picture to the left here. It is so lovely!

The other new yarn that has arrived is Cascades Greenland. Greenland is 100% Merino spun nicely for little pilling. The gauge is 16 sts. =4" or 4 sts per inch. A heavy worsted washable yarn that boasts 137 yards per 100g ball at a cost of $12.00 per ball, not bad for pure merino. You can see this yarn on the left. I will get these up on the web site hopefully this weekend or early next week.

Next week we are planning to receive in Blue Sky Alpacas, dyed cotton and Alpaca Sport. I am so excited to get this yarn in, we have never carried Blue Sky in the past, so this is a whole new brand for us. I just love their cotton yarn, it is really the best cotton on the market, that I have seen anyway.

Other news in the shop is that Tara/oregonknitter on Ravelry is down with phnemonia, please send her well wishes and prayers as she recovers.

Elizabeth/harpbardknits on Ravelry is now working part time at the shop. Be sure and welcome her.

One last thing is that we are having a contest at Nestucca Bay Yarns group on Ravelry, post your finished projects and once a month we will vote for our favorite FO. The winner will receive a prize compliments of Nestucca Bay.

Now off to join the knitting group!