Free Stuff!

At the shop and at home I am signed up for a number of e-newsletters and blogs from all sorts of places.  Some I mostly just delete, others I read from top to bottom.  The ones I really like are the ones that lead me to Free Stuff - like this link to a beautiful new scarf pattern from Classic Elite made from the soft and lovely Fresco:  http://www.classiceliteyarns.com/pdf/FrescoSnowdropScarf.pdf .  Among our shelves you will find Fresco along with other Classic Elite yarns.  As with all our suppliers you can link into their website directly from WoolyMinded.com.  Many of them have e-letters you can sign up for as well as free patterns available for their yarns.  So go and check them out - they are a great resource just waiting to be found.

New Year, New Blog

This is it, the great unveiling of the Wooly Minded blog. You must be gentle with us - mastering technology is not our greatest skill. Afterall, we're knitters not techno-geeks. There will certainly be many hiccups on the way, but let's face it, we knew nothing about running a yarn store 2 years ago, and look at us now!

So what do we hope to do here? We hope to keep you all up to date with whatever is going on in the store: new yarns, new patterns, classes, groups. We hope that you will want to join in and share with us what you are working on, your successes, your failures. Especially the failures 'cos that makes us all feel better! We will certainly be more than willing to display our most spectacular disasters. (I wish I had kept the whole family of mittens that felted themselves to each other one Christmas - it was not a pretty sight. But I think the recipients got much more fun out of the nose warmers that I whipped up instead.)http://www.knitty.com/issuewinter02/PATTnosewarmer.html

We are always open to your suggestions. If our open groups of Wilma's Woolies who meet up on Thursday evenings and Tuesday afternoons are anything to go by, there are plenty of ideas just waiting to be implemented. And we want to try them all!!

So please bookmark us and come back often to see what we are up to here at Wooly Minded.