Yarn Sale and the Harlot at Webs

Webs is celebrating their 33rd anniversary with a yarn sale. This sale is good until May 25th. Nuro Kureyon] new fall colors out and they are available now at Webs.

5th ANNUAL TENT SALE
Saturday & Sunday, May 19th and 20th
10:00am – 5:30pm
Please join us on Saturday and Sunday, May 19th and 20th, for our fifth annual Tent Sale! There will be special purchases and discounted yarns on sale at phenomenal prices! Spinning wheels, equipment, and fiber will be on sale for 20% off. Whether youâ€™re a weaver, knitter, crocheter, spinner, felter, or dyer – this is THE sales event you donâ€™t want to miss. If you only get to WEBS once this year, be sure to make it for this sale!

4th ANNUAL FLEECE MARKET

Saturday, May 19th
10:00am – 5:00pm
We will once again be hosting our annual Fleece Market on the first day of our Tent Sale. This is a fun event for the entire family. Many local sheep and alpaca growers will be on hand to offer a variety of fleeces, fiber, and yarn for sale from their own animals. A variety of breeds is always represented. Come browse, buy from the producers, talk spinning and even bring your wheel and spin! WEBS will have several spinning wheels on hand and ready to try!

But, even more exciting is the fact that the Harlot is coming to Webs.

THE YARN HARLOT IS COMING BACK TO WEBS!

Wednesday, May 30th at 6:00pm, at The Calvin in downtown Northampton (increased capacity)

We are so thrilled to have Stephanie Pearl-McPhee a.k.a. The Yarn Harlot
We will kick off the festivities at the Calvin. There will also be a cash bar. Stephanie will speak at 6:00pm and then open the floor to Q&A. Once the program is completed, we will all return to]WEBS for a book signing. For those of you not wanting to wait in-line, we will have a bunch of pre-signed books that you can purchase. The store will be open for shopping until the last knitter leaves.

First, this event is free, but we will be partnering with a local charity. More info to follow. Second, we will be taking donations for hats as well. Anyone interested in bringing a hat or sending one if you are unable to attend the event should feel free to do so! We’ll be sure to get them to local organizations who can distribute them.

MOST IMPORTANTLY – YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT!!
The Calvin holds a limited number of people, we can accomodate many more people back here at the store, but if we sell-out the event, we will not be able to take walk-ins at the Calvin.

Stay tuned for further updates, announcements and surprises!

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]

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