Tennessee Yarn store~ The Knaughty Knitter

The Last Tanatalyzing Tuesday Sale for the summer is Tuesday August 30th!

And yes I will stay open til 6pm.....

 Tuesday is BOGO pattern day – buy one regularly priced loose pattern and get one free.  The pattern sale box is still marked at only $1.00 each and I have added some to it. 

There’s a bin of booklets and actual books near the front door that is on sale too. 

Lopi is going to be 25% off until it all goes.  The distributor changed and sadly I no longer am going to carry it.  Get it while you can.  The same goes for all Jo Sharp yarns. 

And Tuesday some of the cotton yarns will be up to 45% off and a few other yarns around the store will be marked down as well. 

Finally, let’s see, how about Koigu 10% off, Encore 15% off, Cascade 128 20%.  Fiesta yarns 25% off.  Cascade Magnum 30%.

And the new knewsletter will be out this afternoon.  Look for it in your mailbox to see what's new and going on at the store.

 

Stuff & Things

There's new yarn.....Some Raggi still is left after Friday's group.....Raggi is a wonderfully soft self striping WORSTED weight sock yarn.  Need a pair of socks this week for a gift? - this is the stuff to use.

 
And there are these great new patterns.....from Dan Doh patterns - a woman who writes patterns mostly for Universal Yarns but I love what she does......I got some in and the books are on order too.

 

And I made a new cowl pattern from the Willa yarn that came in a couple of weeks ago.  The pattern is on sale now, but for the time being is free with yarn purchase.  Takes only one skein.....

 
Abby and I have started our Sagittaria shawls...anyone else care to join us?  it goes fast.....

 

Dyeing again

 This is a silk cap and some yarn made from BBfl and silk that I dyed yesterday.  This fiber is an absolute dream to spin and sadly there is not going to be more of it for quite a while.  It was a mistake run from Ashland Bay fibers and I only had 10 lbs of it.  Now I am wishing I had gotten more because it dyes and spins so beautifully.

Here is more of the fiber

 
And here are a couple of scarves I threw in the pot too.

 This darker one doesn't look like much in the picture, but it is absolutely beautiful in person - lots of patterning and variation in the colors.  Though it looks like I need to iron it again.....

Tantalyzing Tuesday is tomorrow....Books will be 30% off, a selection of them will be on the table for 40% off and many many many yarns have to leave the wool room - some yarns in there will be as much as 45% off and I am taking an extra 10% off the stuff on the clearance shelves for tomorrow only. And all those patterns in the sale boxes - tomorrow they are only $1.oo   Sounds crazy right? I have to have some room.  So come enhance your stash and your pattern options. 

Reminder

The store is closing early today...just a little before 2pm.

I have something special planned for the next two Tantalyzing Tuesdays.  Check your emails on Monday.

I'm a little overwhelmed

I have too many projects started and some that have been frustrating me (cause I am designing things), and too many other things going on too.  It feels kind of like when in group this morning every single person there was talking at the same time, I just started laughing.  So for the next couple of days that is sort what I am going to do - okay not laughing - but just knitting some simple, no brainer things that will help me finish something in the UFO pile. 

Yesterday I managed to block all but one of the blocks in my crocheted bedspread and can finish that last one in the morning.  Then when things are calmer I will sew them together and do the border and then it'll be pretty and done ...... of course I have a window in that room that needs a curtain and it would be great to have a matching one and I have enough of the same yarn.....see everything today seems to lead to something else that needs doing.   aaahhh!!!

Saturday I have a wedding to go to and so we will be closing an hour early, actually probably a few minutes before 2pm so I can get to Nashville by 3 and not be too late for things. 

Tantalyzing Tuesday

Tantalyzing Tuesday Specials

for August 16th are:

Plymouth Encore & Jellibeenz, Ella Rae Amity Print, Cascade Cherub - basically all the baby and kid friendly yarns in the front room are 25% off.  Any patterns that are meant specifically for one of these yarns are also 25% off.

Secret Scarf class is Monday the 15th at 5pm - Here's what you'll need: #10 crochet hook, #10 or 10.5 needles, an f, g, or h crochet hook.

New

There's this ruffley yarn....this is the newest version - from Crystal Palace - called Tutu...I thought it needed some accompaniment so there is Cascade Pastaza and some Plume FX from Berroco too

 
Okay not quite done - but it is a quick knit.  I got this far between 9pm and 11pm last night. CO in Pastaza 170 stitches.  Knit row in Pastaza, then knit a row with Plume and Pastaza, another with jut Pastaza, then only with TuTu....alternate these rows until you have four rows of Tutu then close out the same as you started - 1 row Pastaza, one Pastaza and Plume, one Pastaza and BO loosely.  There are some rows that the Tutu will end up on the wrong side unless you purl it - so purl those rows.

And then I think forgot to put pictures last week of HPKY that we have in now.  I have a variety of them - everything from Little Giant that makes a scrf or small shawl with lovely variations in the yarn to their very cool scarf in a scarf kits. A scarf in a scaft is a matching hand dyed silk scarf is and yarn in a kit with the pattern.  The scarf is threaded through the scarf you knit. This sounds a little wierd but is really quite pretty.  There's glitter in some of their yarns too.

 

 

The new Vogue Knitting is in with a few really wonderful things in it and some that are just nice - there is a shawl and a cowl that I have to knit - I am breaking no starting anything yet rule and starting one of them tonight.

And then there's this.  New through the same folks that handle Noro (oh wait there's new of that too - Taiyo) is Louisa Harding's silk/merino hand dyed blend - coming soon is the version of this with the beads in it too.  And then there's Willa from Juniper Moon Farm......It isn't much to look at in the yarn porn department but touch it and it'll have you moaning with pleasure.  It is Super Kid Mohair and Merino - not the fuzzy itchy mohair but the well spun without fuzzing it kind of mohair.  That purple and green and the blues behind is Tutu

 

 

The new knewsletter is out, check your email and ...

Tantalyzing Tuesday is about Alpaca!

All alpaca yarns are 30% off

Crochet wonders

If you are in Nashville anytime soon, stop at the State musem and look at the Small Expressions exhibit.  There are wonderous things in it and none of it is larger than 15" in any direction.  This exhibit is from the Handweaver's Guild of America and tours the country every year and we got it this year, probably thanks to the fact that the woman who was the judge for this year's show is at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Smithville.  Anyway there were some truly amazing little pieces of fiber art, among them some great little crocheted nests that I just loved.  We went last weekend - I just got some of the tiny crochet thread into the store and tiny hooks yesterday.  We'll see what I can come up with tomorrow on my day off.  There are new colors of #10 crochet thread, and some white and ecru #20 & #30.  This'd be good for tatting too I guess.

There are a few new colors of Marina in as of Thursday afternoon, and couple more due in the next two weeks.  (Marina is that ruffle yarn) I also have some other companies versions that will hit the shelves next week along with some new yarns in from Louisa Harding that are to die for.