Knitting with Company

Announcing our Fourth Annual Cruisette.   A two and a half hour mini cruisette up the Fox River on a Paddle Wheel River Boat! Leaving from Pottawatomi Park in St Charles at 4:00pm on Sunday, September 12th, we will serve wine, drinks and desserts, and you can enjoy the lovely scenery and company of your fellow knitters and crocheters.

All levels of knitter and crocheter (and non-knitter / crocheter) are welcome.   You’ll be able to walk to the jetty from our new store! Sign Up Today!

We are thrilled to be hosting Amy Swensen (Indigirl) who is coming to do a workshop for her fabulous Cloudchaser Vest – a Ravelry favorite. The workshop will run for 3 hours on the morning of Saturday, September 18th and for 3 hours on the afternoon of Sunday, September 19th with all that knitting time in between. The cost for the workshop is $55 which includes the amazing pattern. Space is very, very limited, so please get your name on the list ASAP. We will be giving the information on homework and yarn selections etc. after we have moved.

Help to make women aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer while also helping to subsidize research into finding an early detection test for the disease.

To help make that happen, in conjunction with Skacel, we are very proud to introduce the “Egg-stra” Special Sock Kit. This sock pattern was designed by Rosemary “Chappy” Chapman, this time in honor of Susanne Skacel, a three-year survivor of ovarian cancer. The Teal color of Trekking in this kit is the official color designated to ovarian cancer, and has been specially dyed just for this cause. Every design aspect of this sock, from the cuff to the toe, is a reminder to us that ovarian cancer can be beaten if we, as women, unite.

All the proceeds from the sale of these kits will be donated to the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research (marsharivkin.org).

We have heard from Citizen Sam that the armed forces will not take any kind of knitted hats, helmet liners or scarves in the future.

Please do not send us any more liners – we will not accept any more as we cannot send them on, so please, please, please do not send them.

After August 15th we will let you know how many liners (close to 1000) you have donated and we will be letting you know about other charities that we are supporting that you can knit for. For example, Prayer Shawls and Baby Blankets always seem to be in demand, so you can always have things to make. But stay tuned to emails and ‘like us’ on facebook.

By the way, did you know that we have plenty of charity yarn available in the store? Come in and ask for it – you can take whatever you need, and there’s no charge. We simply ask that you fill in a form to tell us about the charity knitting that you’re doing and when the project is complete you can send us some pictures so that the generous folks who donated the yarn know what good it did. Also if you have yarn for us to pass on, just drop it off here (whole skeins only, please – and must have the original yarn band).

Would you like to participate in a Knitting-in-Public event at a Kane County Cougars game? Many of the professional baseball teams, including the Chicago White Sox, offer a Stitch and Pitch game each year, and now we can start one locally at a Cougars’ game right here in Kane County.

The game is Saturday, August 14th at 6 p.m. against the Peoria Chiefs, the CUBS farm team. This is a fireworks night at the ballpark. The Cougars play in Geneva at 34W002 Cherry Lane.

If we have 20 or more people attending (includes family members and non-knitting friends, too!), we can get a discount on the tickets. The Saturday night group discounted tickets will cost $12 each. We can sit and knit and enjoy the game. There may be goodies and door prizes to make the evening even more fun, and Wool and Company will have some great coupons and giveaways too.

Please email Gretl gkramer@foxvalley.net if you and your family and friends would like to go, and tell her how many tickets you want to purchase. Gretl will make arrangements to collect the money, and she’ll purchase the group tickets.

Thanks, and batter up!

Good Afternoon Wool and Company Customers:

I am dropping you a quick note to let you know that we received your donation of 86 Helmetliners, 39 Neck Gators and 38 Stocking Caps on July 16, 2010. This brings your year to date total to 419 Helmetliners, 13 Scarves, 153 Neck Gators, 25 Cards, 1 Cardigan and 52 Stocking Caps.

We appreciate your generosity because without volunteers like you this wouldn’t be possible.

Thank you for supporting our troops.

Kandy Scribner
Administrative Coordinator
Citizen SAM

www.citizensam.org

Citizen Support for America’s Military is a 501 (c)3 charitable organization.

Want to learn more about how you are supporting our troops?

Moxie

We are starting the “Moxie” on April, 8, 2010.  We are very excited to get this cute cardi underway.  Many of us have just finished an Eyelet Cardigan that was in a very fine gauge.  Our fingers are itching to knit something that may go quicker.  The Moxi is topdown, seamless,  3/4 sleeves,  in a worsted weight yarn with a one button closure.  Many of us are using the Berroco Blackstone Tweed yarn.  The pattern was written for this yarn, but some people are venturing away from this yarn.  It is always exciting to watch the sweaters unfold.

Gold Medal for Jen

Jen (ravelry: djenn) came by on Thursday to buy some Cascade 220 in navy. It wasn’t until she was checking out that I noticed the hat …. duuhhh!

So this had to be one of the quickest re-makes of that fabulous hat that is being worn by the US Olympic Team.

You are Golden!

Thank you for your support of our appeal to Help Heal Haiti. We have closed our current fund raising and we just wanted to let you know that as a result of your generosity we were able to raise $13,066!

We have forwarded all this money to our partner Knitting Fever who will write a matching check to double the total to $26,132.

One month after the devastating earthquake, the emergency medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders continues to work diligently to respond to the needs of the Haitian people, and your contributions will help to fund that effort.

Dido Shawl and Scarf Pattern

If you missed our opportunity to donate to Doctors Without Borders and leverage the matching funds, you can still contribute and get some fabulous knitting patterns in exchange by visiting P/hop – a charity knitting project that raises funds for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders. Incredibly generous designers donate their time and knitting patterns to p/hop, including the stunning Dido Shawl and Dido Scarf pattern pictured that has been generously designed and donated to p/hop by Åsa Tricosa.