Join Us For the LYS Tour
Join us Wednesday though Sunday, May 18-22, for the 11th annual Puget Sound Local Yarn Store Tour. We’ll be one of 28 stores from the Canadian border down to Kent participating in the tour, which features drawings, commemorative buttons, and free patterns at each stop. Pick up a passport at a participating store and visit as few or as many as you choose. Visit at least nine stores and participate in a special grand prize drawing. It’s five days of fiber fun! Click here for more information.
Read MorePrizes and Surprises at LYS Tour
The 10th Annual Local Yarn Shop Tour kicks off Wednesday and runs through Sunday. We will be one of 26 stores from Bellingham to Port Townsend to Kent participating in the tour this year. Visit some or all of the stores and receive free, exclusive patterns, enter daily prize drawings, and receive a unique commemorative button at each location. The Fiber Gallery is also excited to announce that our pattern will feature a custom colorway designed for us from Hazel Knits. The Phinney Ridge color in worsted-weight Cadence yarn will only be available at our store! All the stores on the tour will have expanded hours, opening each day at 10 a.m. and closing at 8 p.m. each day but Sunday (when the tour ends at 6 p.m.) Stop by and pick up your free passport. We’ll also have commemorative shopping totes available for...
Read MoreFree Patterns For LYS Tour
We hope you’ll join us and 24 other area stores on this year’s LYS tour, now through Sunday. Every store will have free, exclusive patterns available, and here’s a sneak peak at ours. Above is the Campfire Cowl, knitted in superbulky Tosh ASAP yarn with a motif reminiscent of a campfire’s flame. For the crocheters in our midst, we have a pint-sized Washington State Ferry (below), made out of Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino. Stop by and pick up one or...
Read MoreWhat Do You Think?
We started a casual poll on our Facebook page for a new shop sample. We are going to knit our Simplest Cowl pattern and need to pick a yarn combination. We selected a lovely complex variegated shade of Manos Silk Blend and are trying to decide which shade of Kidsilk Haze to knit with it. Our readers so far are split with the bottom left choice leading slightly. What do you...
Read MoreThe Simplest Cowl
Rowan’s newest yarn, Kidsilk Haze Trio, takes three strands of their iconic Kidsilk Haze and spins them together into one of the loftiest, softest bulky yarns you will ever see. The colorways are subtly marled creating a play of light and dark in its fuzzy, silken loveliness. We wanted to create a pattern–perhaps pattern is too grandiose a word–to highlight this amazing yarn while keeping it simple. What’s simpler than a cowl, knit in the round from a single skein of yarn? The Simplest Cowl Yarn: 1 skein Kidsilk Haze Trio Needles: US 10.5 (or larger for a looser cowl) Sizes: Approximately 11”x30” Cast on 100 stitches. Join to work in the round, taking care not to twist. Knit until approximately 2 yards of yarn remain. Bind off and weave in ends. We weren’t kidding when we said...
Read MoreThank You, LYS Tour-ists!
Thank you, everyone who participated in the 2012 LYS Tour! It was great meeting so many of you from near and far. Congratulations to those who won our daily door prizes of bags, yarn and notions donated by our sponsor companies. Our featured tour patterns were very popular and are still available for free at the store. The Slouchy Hat: Simple, Striped or Spicy pattern has three variations. It was knit in The Fibre Company’s Acadia, a delicious, slubby mix of merino, baby alpaca and silk. There’s already a beautiful one in greens on Ravlery. The CCCCC scarf is a crocheted, convertible, chevron cowl in Rowan’s subtly variegated Colourspun...
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