As part of our celebration of Local Yarn Store Day, we are bringing back Fino by Manos del Uruguay! This yarn was featured at our Manos pop-up shop in March, and we are excited to add a full range of colors in this beautiful fingering weight yarn to our regular line up. The softness and […]
Just Landed!
Your Guide to Old Town Happenings This Weekend!
There’s lots to do this weekend in Old Town Alexandria this weekend! Join us for an ice cream social in our park to celebrate Local Yarn Store Day and our appreciation for all of you, our amazing community. We will have freebies in the shop all day from some of our favorite vendors and will […]
Old Town Cocktail Week: May 3-11
Old Town Alexandria is hosting its first Old Town Cocktail Week, an event designed to encourage visitors to “Drink Up Old Town.” Like Restaurant Week, this event will highlight craft cocktails at featured restaurants and retailers, and over 20 other activities including cocktail tastings and seminars. If you are in Old Town for the Hazel […]
Making No.7/ DESERT is here!
We’re excited to welcome the next installment of Making–No. 7, Desert! The color palette, fabrics, and fibres used are inspired by desert landscape and lifestyle. The magazine is $26. From the Making team: There’s no place quite like the desert. Every element is unique to this landscape–the air, the sun, the flora and fauna…This issue, […]
New Bag featuring Franklin Habit’s illustration!
We have a fresh new spring color of the custom Baggu Duck Bag, featuring Franklin Habit’s fun sheep in space art. This canvas tote is large enough to hold a blanket or sweater project (or a laptop). It has two handles and a 40″ adjustable strap, allowing it to be carried on the shoulder, in […]
Brand new in space: KnittinBro
Just landed in space, KnittinBro Yarns! We’re excited to work with Doug, the dyer and creator of KnittingBro Yarns, who is inspired by color and fiber and by his love of knitting. He dyes up kettles of bold, saturated colors in his home studio in Pennsylvania. From Doug: I started to experiment with yarn dyeing […]
The Lemonade Shop Simple Sock and Sparkle Sock are back!
I’m so delighted to have the Lemonade Shop back in stock! This fun and bright yarn is lovingly dyed in Colorado. This delivery includes two of her wonderful fingering weight yarn bases – Simple Sock and Sparkle Sock. Simple Sock Yarn Details: Fingering weight 400 yards (366 meters) 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon 28 stitches […]
Tools Tuesday: Smoothest Needles You Have To Have
If you’ve been in the shop in the past few weeks you’d know that all the yarnistas have caught sock knitting fever! We are all utterly addicted to the simple pleasure of beautiful hand dyed sock yarn and mindless patterns. One of our favorite tools for sock knitting are our ChiaoGoo interchangeable needle sets. The […]
Loopy Mango, Big Cotton Yarn and So Much More!
We’re psyched to welcome Loopy Mango to our shop! Loopy Mango features big, cozy yarns ideal for making chunky garments and home accessories. Their easy, accessible patterns and DIY kits encourge the most novice stitcher into creating their first (and fast) project! From the founders: Loopy Mango is the brainchild of Oejong and Anna, two […]
Tools Tuesday: the yarn bowl you didn’t know you needed
This week we are featuring another incredible invention from Lazadas in Israel. Their Project Caddy is a yarn bowl that sits just as well as a ceramic or wood yarn bowl but has portability of a soft project bag. Closed, your yarn and notions are protected from the elements and secured leaving a loop to […]