Chicory & Clover KAL

Everybody in the Chicory & Clover knit-a-long group finished and the results were beautiful! We put the names in a hat and drew Carol's name. Here she is with her wonderful gift basket from Classic Elite Yarns and other sponsoring companies. I spied a gorgeous skein of Alpaca Sox in the basket which would make a very pretty Alpaca Sox Shawlette.

Here's a cute shot of Liz, Lois, Jennifer and Carol wearing their Chicory & Clover scarves and cowls during Knit Night. Each one turned out lovely.

Thanks to everyone that participated that are not pictured above: Nancy, Liz R and Donna, and to Classic Elite Yarns!
Stay tuned for our next KAL.

-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff

Sock Summit & 12th Year Anniversary Sale!

Above: Our yarn displayed underneath the Hawthorne Bridge (a big thanks to my Brother and Sister-In-Law for making this) with our socks walking across it!

Come by and see us at Sock Summit today through Sunday! We are located in booth 319 ( look for the big Yarn Garden sheep). Entry is $5.00 or $12.00 for the whole weekend.

We have limited sock and lace yarn exclusively hand dyed for us by Sara Hartman, a wonderful artist and part of the Yarn Garden family.
Each color was inspired and named after six of our favorite Portland bridges and each color comes with a free sock pattern that the Yarn Garden staff had fun designing and knitting!
These yarns will only be available at Sock Summit.


Yarn Garden Sock yarn hanging, I'm in love with every color! YG Sock is 75% superwash merino wool/ 25% nylon. We all loved working with it.


Our very own Yarn Garden lace, called Reflections which comes in the same colors as the sock but with a "reflected" look.
It's 100% alpaca, soft and luxurious!

Here are our socks:


Steel Bridge designed by Mary, is knitted cuff down with purl stitches creating X's around the cuff.


I knit Hawthorne using Arwen's awesome toe up formula and added a sweet, vintage inspired folded picot hem.


Fremont, by Arwen is knit toe up with ribbed stitches and connecting cables on the cuff.


Burnside, by Emily is knit toe up and has a cable running all the way to the cuff.


Broadway, by Jo is a sweet and simple toe up rolled cuff ankle sock. We weighed out the yarn after knitting the pair and found that we can get two pairs from one skein!


Morrison, by Michelle is knit cuff down with watery cables running down the sock to the toe.

12th Year Anniversary Sale!



July 29th - September 4th

Kick-off your fall knitting season by joining us for our extraordinary 12th year anniversary sale! Novelty yarns galore will be back by popular demand, at 75% off!

Many, many more yarns will be added to our sale each day.

Hours:
Mon - Fri 11-6 • Sat 10-5 • Sun 12-5
Join us for Knit Nite every Tuesday from 6:00- 8:00

-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff

More Brown Sheep, Please...

Our shelves are stocked to the ceiling with Lamb's Pride Worsted, Bulky, Lanaloft Bulky and Sport!

There are some beautiful new colors and lots of old favorites.

-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff

Summer Project #2

Garter Stripes is a simple little triangle shawlette knit with Kirameki in garter stitch, letting the self striping colors really show. The yarn is a lace weight 60% rayon, 25% nylon, 10% wool, 5% cashmere with a range of beautiful colors. I love easy to memorize projects like this that you can pack up and take to the park.



Knit on a size US 2, using one ball of Kirameki. The finished shawlette size is 58" wide and 23" long after blocking. The pattern is available free with yarn purchase.



Kirameki by Noro has been very popular. With 495 yards/50 grams, a one skein project is easy to achieve.


The colors:



Each ball has such a unique change of colors.



Shown in color 156




-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff

Sale!

New yarns will start arriving before we know it, so we put some yarns on sale to make room!

Emily in her latest sweater, Breezy Cardigan holding Mountain Colors, Weavers Wool Quarters which is 30% off. This yarn makes the best boot socks.

Brown Sheep, Legacy Lace is 30% off!

Rowan, Ribbon Twist is 30% off. A super bulky wool/acrylic with a ribbon twist. This yarn is discontinued, so make sure you get enough!

Here you can see the variegated ribbon twisted with the wool.

Punta Yarns, Mericash Thousand Colors is 40% off! A luxurious blend of merino and cashmere. This is one of my favorite yarns.

Sirdar, Crofter DK is 30% off. A machine washable, wool/acrylic/cotton blend that makes a fair isle effect.

Here are some patterns from the Crofter booklets 349 and 365 that I just love:

Open front short sleeved cardigan. A sweet summer knit.

Boot socks using 2 balls of Crofter DK.

These wrist warmers are so cute! Such a great easy pattern that really shows the fair isle effect.

There is also a kids wrist warmer pattern. How cute!

-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff

Summer Project #1

Summer is finally here! It's time to grab your knitting or crochet and take it outside.
Lightweight portable projects are perfect for warm weather so we thought we'd start to hopefully inspire by sharing a fun project idea each week.


Shawlette's have been so popular and such a great way to knit with sock yarn at a looser gauge making a soft, lightweight fabric.
Emily designed this very cute Alpaca Sox Shawlette using just one ball of Alpaca Sox by Classic Elite Yarns in color dried herbs. Knit from the top down with a random mix of garter and stockinette rows, finished with a picot edge. The pattern is available free with yarn purchase.



I really like the way the picot edge adds a little "girlie" flare.



Here you can see the fun she had with alternating garter to stockinette.

The yarn, Alpaca Sox in color dried herbs. A fingering weight yarn at 8 sts/in and a soft mix of 60% alpaca, 20% merino wool, 20% nylon with 450 yards in a skein.

-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff

Pub Night 6/17/11

Last week's Pub Knitting was so much fun, my mother and I are always looking forward to it. I love seeing what everyone is working on and just the sight of that many knitters and crocheters taking over the bar is amazing! Thanks to everyone that came and thanks Barley Mill for being so wonderful to us every month!
The next Pub Knitting Night will be Friday, July 15th at the Barley Mill. (Always the 3rd Friday of the month)
Give us a call, 503-239-7950 or email sales@yarngarden.net to sign up for the next date!

Here are some pics from last week:


Raffling off some goodies!


Deb's work-in-progress using Fez yarn by Debbie Bliss. So soft!


Knitting and a couple of reading lights.


Raffle time!


Jared, our wonderful waiter. We love him!


Michelle looking wonderful in her knitted Firefly top!

-Annie, Yarn Garden Staff