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.

Just in case you don’t know what Fliegende Untertasse means, it is German for Flying Saucer (or literally “flying under-cup”), and that is exactly what landed in the store on Tuesday. These super colorful disks of yarn are created so that you put a piece of yarn or string through the center, hang them on a doorknob or something similar, and then you can unroll TWO STRANDS AT A TIME of the same space dyed yarn, thus making identical socks! Fun, Fun, Fun … Christie started a pair at the store yesterday so come and see them and grab your Flying Saucer while we still have them … they are literally flying out.

Wool and Company’s Little England Colorway

Introducing our own colorway of Lorna’s Laces – Little England, and it is so beautiful. Soft yellow, pale rose and hyacinth blue, it looks like a summer morning in England.

It’s available in four different yarns:

• Angel – 50 yards of the most perfect blend angora and lambswool at $14.75, enough to make a pair of Saartje Booties (pictured above) for that special angel in your life.
• Heaven – A superfine mohair and nylon blend – with 975 yards you’re set to knit a beautiful lightweight shawl to ward off the fall chills. $70.
• Pearl – a new blend of Silk and Bamboo from Lorna’s Laces, knits at 5 stitches/inch on US 7. Make yourself some wonderful accessories. $43.
• Shepherd Sock -80% Superwash Wool and 20% Nylon – buy 2 to get 430 yards and make yourself the coolest socks in town. $11.95 each.

This exclusive Lorna’s Laces is available in-store only. Call us at 630.232.2305 if you would like some shipped to you.

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.