Online shopping

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let you all know about two very successful ventures I've made into online yarn shopping ;-) In the event you ever want to get your hands on a foreign language knitting book - most especially Japanese or German - I can highly recommend Needle Arts Bookshop. This is a Canadian company so you don't have to worry about duties. I got my stuff from them very quickly, beautifully packaged, with some nice freebies as well. The company also distributes some yarn/pattern kits which are quite nice as well.

My other big success was buying a Hanne Falkenberg kit online from a British yarn shop - Cucumber Patch. Falkenberg is a Danish designer who only sells her patterns as complete kits with the yarn and unfortunately for me I saw one of her designs in a British knitting magazine and couldn't rest till I got it ;-). I ordered my kit last Monday and Canada Post just dropped it on my porch this morning. The only caution I'd make is to avoid Cucumber Patch's eBay Canada store and order from their own website instead. The shop assistant I emailed told me that their prices are higher on the eBay site as eBay charges a lot to retailers.... I saved $30 by ordering direct.

Cheers, Shawnna

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Cheryl Niamath's blog

Some of you may know Cheryl as partner of Paul L., but she is also an incredibly talented crafts woman, and author of Fetching Knits.

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World Wide Knit in Public Day

"World Wide Knit in Public Day was started in 2005 by Danielle Landes. It began as a way for knitters to come together and enjoy each other’s company. Knitting is such a solitary act that it’s easy to knit alone somewhere and sink into your work without thinking about all the other knitters out there. Neighbors could spend all their lives never knowing that the other knits. This a specific day to get out of your house and go to a local event (with your knitting in tow) just for you and people like you. Who knows you might even bump into your neighbor! Consider this a spark, to ignite a fire; getting all of the closeted knitters out into fresh air."

Knitwits, shall we participate Wed June 16th?