Needle-Felting Artist In Spotlight
Our featured artist for the 19th annual Phinneywood Art Walk is not only well-regarded for her work with fiber arts — she’s also a customer of ours! Moxie Lieberman’s primary medium is needle felting, but she also expresses ideas with embroidery, cross stitch, crochet, e-textiles and more. Her work has been shown in galleries in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and more. She’s taught thousands of people to needle felt in dozens of settings, including both the Frye and Bellevue Art Museums, The Exploratorium in SF, and the Maker Faire Bay Area. Moxie’s work will be featured in the store Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5. Her work will be joined by that of 150 other artists at multiple locations in the area. Friday night also features entertainment and refreshments at many area businesses. Full details are available...
Read MoreThe Big Sale
Don’t miss our anniversary sale, which starts Friday, April 25, and continues through the 27th. This is our biggest sale event of the year: All yarn in the store will be 20 percent off, and we’ll have a huge selection of clearance yarns at 40 percent off. We’ll have a few accessories marked down for clearance, too. Hours for the sale are Friday, 11 to 6; Saturday, 10 to 6; and Sunday, 12 to 5. Please note: Accessories and non-yarn items (except those specifically marked as clearance) are not on sale. Sale purchases do not count toward our rewards...
Read MoreRescheduled Knitalong Finale
If you’re participating in our Tea Leaves or Tiramisu knitalongs, we’ve updated plans for the finale party. The new date is Sunday, May 4, at 4 p.m. Bring your finished (or partly finished) projects and show them off. You’ll be entered to win one of our prizes, and get to share a look at how everyone else’s projects came out.
Read MoreNew Yarns for Spring
With the warmer weather on its way (really, it is, we swear!) it’s time to think of lighter projects. We have three new yarns that would be perfect. Zooey, from Juniper Moon, is a 60-percent cotton, 40-percent linen DK-weight blend made in Spain. It has a rustic, thick-and-thin texture and comes in a variety of natural shades. Kavo (above), from Portland-based Shibui, is 85 percent cotton and 15 percent silk. Its unusual texture comes from the fact that the fact that the silk is wrapped around the cotton core. It can be knit at DK weight or looser, for a lacy feel. And finally, Llama Lace Melange is a fingering-weight yarn that’s 100 percent baby llama. It’ll knit up into super-soft lace in lovely heathered...
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 MoreSpotlight: Zinnia
Our first exclusive sweater pattern, Zinnia by Andi Satterlund, will launch as a knitalong in June.
Read MoreSpotlight: Twig Earflap Hat
The Twig Earflap Hat pattern is available on Ravelry, and was knit with Madeline Tosh Vintage in the Twig colorway.
Read MoreBlue Moon Bonanza
We’ve transformed a corner of the store into our new Blue Moon Fiber Arts section. We’re now stocking Socks That Rock lightweight and heavyweight, Yaksi, Laci, Woobu, BFL Sport and BFL...
Read MoreOur Busy Spring
It’s hard to keep our breath nowadays. We’ve been busy with all our 10th anniversary celebrations (read about our big retreat further down in the blog) and now we’re heading into a couple of months of nonstop activity.Coming up soon is the Vogue Knitting Live conference, March 14-16 at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Stop by for classes, demos, fashion shows and lots more. Our booth will be full of fun stuff, including the debut of our custom Madelinetosh colorway, Greenwood.After that, we’ll be busy preparing for our annual sale, which runs April 25-27. As usual, all the yarn in the store will be 20% off, and we’ll have a huge selection of clearance yarn at 40% off.May kicks off with the Phinney-Greenwood Art Walk on 9 and 10. We’ll be hosting an artist’s work, as will dozens of other businesses in the area. There also will be live entertainment and wine tastings up and down the street.The busy season winds up May 15-18 with the four-day LYS (local yarn store) Tour. This year, 25 stores from Kent up to the Canadian border will be participating. There will be free patterns and prize drawings at each store, as well as bigger prizes each day of the tour. This event just gets bigger every year, drawing hundreds of local knitters as well as visitors from around the...
Read MoreBig Retreat Announcement!
We’re happy to announce that as part of our 10th anniversary celebration, The Fiber Gallery is hosting its first retreat! We’ll be heading to the Imperial Stock Ranch in Maupin, Ore., from October 24 to 27. The ranch is home to Imperial Yarn, one of our favorite yarn companies and also supplier of all the wool for Team USA’s winter Olympics sweaters. The ranch is a complete sheep-to-skein operation, one of only a few in the country. But wait, there’s more! The retreat will also feature A day of instruction by Bonne Marie Burns, designer of Chic Knits patterns Eco-friendly bus transportation to and from Seattle Accommodations and all meals at the Imperial River Company, a lodge on the banks of the scenic Deschutes River A stop in Portland at fair-traded accessory supplier Lantern Moon A wine and cheese reception the first evening Shopping opportunities A meeting with Imperial Yarn owners Dan and Jeanne Carver, who’ll show us their whole operation A sheepdog herding demonstration A boxed lunch for the journey home Snacks, games and surprises The retreat is limited to 22 participants. The cost is $900 for a shared room. Single rooms are available for an extra fee. We will arrange room shares for those coming solo. Give us a call today at 206-706-4197 for more information. A 50% deposit is required to...
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