Lakeside Yarn Crawl

          Hi Everyone,

 

     The Purple Sock will be part of the Lakeside Yarn Crawl again this year!! I know a lot of you took part in it last year and had a terrific time.

     This year, the Crawl will start on June 13th, on "World Wide Knit in Public Day", and will run until Sept 7th. So, pick up your passport at any of the shops and join in the fun!

     This year there will be 10 shops for you to enjoy....visit them all and have your name entered in the draw for a Grand prize gift basket packed with all kinds of wonderful things!! Also enter your name at each shop you visit for their in-store draw prize as well.

 

     Each shop has designed a beautiful 8 x 8 inch afghan square, which you will receive a free copy of at each stop, just knit them all up and you will have a great memento of this years Yarn Crawl. If you do one of each design you will have  small lap afghan, or knit more of each for a larger blanket.  

 

   So gather some friends, hop in the car and plan a day ( or two or three!!) checking out all the different shops....each one is unique with many different things to offer!!

 

You can check out the Blog for more information about the shops

http://lakesideyarncrawl.blogspot.ca/ 

Up Coming Knit along

Hi Everyone

We have just decided today to do a knit along for a little summer top called Maderia here is the link to it.  http://www.berroco.com/patterns/maderia

And here is the link to the page with the yarn colours. http://www.berroco.com/yarns/berroco-linus

I do have a sample knit up here at the store if you want to see it in person.

So pick your colour and let me know by Wed. June 10th  as I will be sending in a order for the colours everyone wants.

I am hoping if I get my order soon enough we could start on Wednesday June 24th.  This will be in the afternoons from 1 til 3 pm.

Like always  this is a knit along and there is no charge but I do expect you to buy the yarn from me. 

On Canada Day again this year we will be celebrating World Wide Knit in Public day, (I know we are a bit late, it is really June 13th  ) but it works for me as the street is closed for Canada Day and last year we had lots of interest in what we were doing.  Some of you might remember that last year we knit bunting before the event and had it hung up.  Pictures of last years event can be seen here on my blog:  http://thepurplesock.blogspot.ca/2014/07/canada-day-celebration.html. I still have the bunting and will rehang it again this year but have been thinking we could do something else as well – Yarn bombing!

I have ideas for 2 objects: I have an old spinning wheel that I thought we could “yarn bomb” and also we could bomb a tree on the main street.  I need help getting the knitting and crocheting done: for the wheel I will bring it in to the store, if you want to knit a piece pick a part of the wheel and then make something to cover the area you have chosen. For the tree you can knit or crochet strips to be sewn together later, email me for dimensions.  I am certainly open to suggestions of objects to yarn bomb, so lets hear what you think!!  

See you soon and happy knitting...
Lynn

Coldwater Yard Sale

         Hi Everyone,

  Just in case you didn’t know....Coldwater holds its' ANNUAL YARD SALE DAY which is this coming Saturday, June 6th, starting at 7 AM! Boy, they get up early in Coldwater!!  I will have lots of Clearance items out that day too, but not til 10AM , as I want to go yard sale-ing first myself!!

And I also want to let you know that the “Watermelon” sock yarn by Biscotte and Cie is back in stock! I know many of you were disappointed that I ran out so quickly last time, so I ordered lots more..now you can all make those great Watermelon Socks for the summer!! Plus some other great new colours arrived as well!

 

See you soon....

Happy Knitting,

          Lynn