Knitting with Company

Save the date: The crawl starts next Friday, August 13 (yes, that’s correct, Friday, the 13th) and continues through Sunday, August 22. Welcome to the first Chicago Area Yarn Crawl. About 20 stores are participating in this exciting event. Come and pick up your passport on, or after August 13th.

Each participating store will have a gift basket worth at least $100 to raffle off. Stop in and get your passport (available at all stores) stamped and enter your name for a chance to win the store’s gift basket. Each store will also be offering a discount for purchases along with a free exclusive store pattern.

If you visit at 10 stores, you’ll get a chance to participate in the grand raffle prize – a gift basket with items worth over $500. There are additional raffle tickets for visiting one store in each 5 regions and also for visiting fifteen stores. So there are opportunities to get three raffle tickets for the grand prize.

Those of you who are local know that this week is The Granddaddy of Festivals - Swedish Days in Geneva. It is really a huge festival and celebrates the town’s Swedish Heritage in a big way. Because staycations are the order of the day right now, it is a lovely time to come and spend with your family and friends, enjoying great bargains, good food, crafts, carnivals and all kinds of other activities. Don’t miss it.

Mid-Summer Madness Savings: Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, and running until Sunday we will offer everything in our Chicken wire bins at yet another 50% off – that means you will be saving at least 75% on the regular price of these yarns.

Watch your email and check our website during this week for other announcements of Swedish Days Specials.

To start with – all Marie Osmond purses and accessories will be 30% off and all gifts and jewelry will be 20% off. We will also have a good selection of hand knitted models available for you to snap up at great prices. And as if that is not enough we have lots of great bargains on our sidewalk tables so come early and come often for the best selection.

If you can’t make it to the store the savings on Marie Osmond are also available online for the duration of Swedish Days, subject to availability.

We will be open later in the evenings this week. So come, enjoy a stroll around Geneva, sample the great food, listen to the music, and come shop with us.

Broomsticks are parked at the door.  The witch’s cauldron is bubbling over with $2 oddballs.

Lost broomsticks … or did the spider scare her off?

I know what color your scarf is going to be this holiday season!

Here it is, the one you have been waiting for has finally bared her fangs and polished her warts.

Come to the store on Saturday October 31st dressed as one of her foul smelling sisters and take part in our 9th Annual Witchy Sale. If you forget, or your clothes are still soaking in the cauldron don’t worry you can buy-in to the sale for a $10 donation which will be divided equally between Lazarus House in St Charles and Suicide Prevention Services in Batavia.

View our email newsletter for the Witchy Sale.

We hear people everyday come into the shop and ask, “what’s the chicken wire”? Well it’s our clearance section in the store. Named “chicken wire” just because the backs of the bins are covered with chicken wire – it stops the skeins flying the coop.

It’s a great place to find a bargain yarn that we are discontinuing.  And because it is so popular we’re extending on line with our Chicken Wire Auction (over to the right of this article) to give those who can’t make it to the store a chance to get a bargain. Every week we’ll have a clearance yarn available in our Chicken Wire Auction. This week we have some Araucania Atacama – you could get as much as 85% discount off retail! So check it out – you could complete all your holiday gift knitting with a single bag (about 2000 yards) of this super-soft alpaca.