What’s New

We’ll begin Thursday night, September 11 at 6:00 PM – don’t worry about getting there right at 6. Come when you can!

What will we do? The cool Urchin hat. We will all work on the project at the same time.

You will need the pattern. Download it and bring it: http://ysolda.com/wordpress/patterns/ . You will need size 10 ½ needles.
Yarn: 110 yards of Bulky weight. Nikki is wonderful to show off the colorway! Other great choices are: Baby Alpaca Grande, Sulka, Senso, Tabali, Reality or Country. See a sample at the shop, which is made from Nikki.

No special skills are required, however you will be doing a provisional cast on and short rows. If you have not done these, don’t worry! You will have plenty of help, so this is a great opportunity to learn new techniques!

Sign up now! Call the shop at 662-349-8883, or send us an email at hank@hankofyarn.com.

Hello, everyone…  

New patterns in the shop from Chris Bylsma…go to

www.chrisbylsmadesigns.com and look at them. 

We’ve gotten the Anna Wrap,

Summer Hours, Interlude, and Take Two Jacket patterns. 

The September class schedule is now available…sign up today for beginning

crochet and knitting, knitting in the round, cables, knitting or crochet for Christmas, and dyeing.  The last dyeing class was so much fun and such beautifulcolors!  We have plenty of natural yarns to dye, and even the white sterling and fountain hill “sparklies” can be dyed! 

August is HERE!

Beat the heat - take a class!

It’s too hot to be outside, so get your exercise indoors - remember, you burn 102 calories for each hour you are knitting!

Crocheters-to-be: sign up for our August beginner’s class this Saturday, 8/2 from 1PM to 3PM.

We have some exciting new classes for all experience levels. You will find the popular Fixing Mistakes class back Saturday, 8/9 from 10AM to noon. We have several new “project classes”:

Crocheted Bags

Cell phone, I pod, Rosary beads, lunch money, teacher’s notes, keys - you will find many uses for these cute little bags! Tuesday, August 12 from 1 PM to 3 PM.

Lacy Sampler Scarf

Create a delicate lacy silk/cashmere scarf featuring several beautiful patterns. This class is an excellent opportunity to learn various lace patterns, and increase your confidence in working with fine yarns. The class is conducted in three 1-hour sessions: Wednesdays 8/6, 8/20 and 9/3 from 5PM to 6PM.

Experimenting with Yarn Purse Project

Create a fashionable purse using several yarns of different textures and weight. You will impress your friends! The class is conducted in two 1-hour sessions: Saturdays 8/9 from 3PM to 4PM and 8/16 from 1PM to 2PM.

Beginning Dyeing

Learn how to make your own handpainted yarn using acid dyes. Saturday, 8/9 from 1PM to 3PM.

Socks, Socks, Socks

We still have openings in our next sock class (three sessions, Mondays 8/4, 8/11 and 8/18 from 4PM to 6PM). Signups will be accepted until 4PM Saturday, so call now to reserve your spot.

Of course we have beginning and intermediate knitting throughout the month. See the website www.hankofyarn.com for all class details and fees.

BOOKS!!! Many new books now in the shop…

· Big Girl Knits and More Big Girl Knits

· Mason-Dixon Knitting—get the first book so you can be prepared for the new one coming this fall

· Romantic Knits

· More individual sock patterns

· Many, many more

Stitch N Pitch: let us know this week if you want to attend the Memphis Redbirds game Saturday, June 28 as a group. Family invited. Tickets are $8.50 each, buy a t-shirt for $13. Deadline, Friday, May 30.

Kid’s Fiber Camp: Join us for an exciting summer of fiber arts classes designed for children from ages 8 to 15. Students will make their own needles, dye their own yarn, learn to knit and crochet, and felt! Class size is limited, so call for your reservation. Classes begin June 18.

New class for fixing mistakes: We’ll talk about those “challenges” like accidently losing all our stitches off the needle! You’ll learn how to recognize and fix your mistakes without panicking. This class is designed for beginner and intermediate knitters; all you need to know is how to cast on, knit, purl and bind off.

New class for knitting in the round: This is a great class to help increase your skill level. You will learn how to knit in the round on both circular needles and double pointed needles by knitting a small hat. Then you will be ready to tackle those other fun projects like sweaters in the round or socks! Prerequisites are knowing how to cast on, knit, purl and bind off.

June’s classes will include socks, either on double pointed needles or two circulars, as well as beginning knititng, intermediate knitting and various crochet classes.

Beginning June 1, we will require the class fee to be paid at least 24 hours before the class.

Please call for class details and watch the web site for schedule updates.

Be at Hank of Yarn Tuesday, May 6 to meet Debbie Macomber!

The best-selling author and devoted knitter will be here from 3:00 – 4:00. Beat the crowd - stop in now to purchase items from her new collection of knitting organizers and accessories – the colors are lovely! We have all 6 of her “Knit Along With Debbie” pattern books as well. Refreshments provided by Brown Baguette, books available at the shop from BooksAMillion.

CLASSES: Our Finishing Class will be held in 2 sessions Sunday, April 27 and Sunday, May 4 from 2:00 – 4:00. You’ll be delighted with the professional techniques you will acquire! You will have pre-class work to complete small sweater pieces. Call the shop for details and registration.

The next sock class begins with the first session this Sunday, April 20 from 2:00 – 4:00, with the second session Sunday, April 27 from 2:00 – 4:00. We have added an additional sock class, which consists of 3 sessions: Tuesdays from 5:00 – 7:00 on April 22, 29, and May 6. Consider taking the longer version if you don’t have much knitting experience or can’t come on Sunday. Let us know if you want to learn socks.

We have new Luscious colors – just right for spring! Check out our OnLine Supersocke! (Not online, but in the shop!) It is a beautiful yarn in amazing colors!

We now have handcrafted wooden products from John D. Schneider: knitting needles, crochet hooks, shawl pins and brooches, bead spinners, weaver’s needles…come by and check them out!.

Hank of Yarn entered the First Annual Chili Cookoff

sponsored by The Southaven Chamber of Commerce

And we were awarded the People’s Choice Prize!

The Finishing class will be April 27 and May 4 from 2-4 PM instead of April 6 and 13. Sorry!

A feature article was written and printed today in the DeSoto Appeal about Hank of Yarn! Go to www.commercialappeal.com, click on local, then DeSoto and read the article. We are now famous!

New Yarns: LaLa’s Knits, the hand-dyed sock yarns from Laura Linneman, are lovely…stop by and see her gorgeous colorways!

Organic Cotton and Baby Cashmere Merino Silk from SUBLIME are here…the colors are beautiful and just right for SPRING…you will love the patterns, too.

BOOKS: new books from Cat Bordhi, and Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s new book, “Things I Learned From Knitting…Whether I Wanted To Or Not” is here, and they are going fast!

CLASSES: Check the class schedule:

The APRIL class schedule is on the website. Come and learn Double Knitting April 5, it is easier than it looks, and fun!

Our Beginning Crochet class is April 3rd, Thursday from 1PM to 3PM. You can choose from several projects.

Join us Sunday, April 6th from 2 PM to 4 PM for a Finishing Class. Make a teddy bear sweater to put together, and learn techniques to finish your projects professionally…you’ll be glad you did.

Thanks, Hank, Kathy and Charlotte

There’s a new book in the shop called

Knitalong

which has a statement in Chapter One that I like: “There’s something timeless about sitting around with your fellow knitters and your works in progress. The warmth of a…cup of tea, the clicking of needles and the satisfaction of quiet talk–or no talk at all–has a completeness to it. Nothing more need be added.”
Come knit with us anytime, but especially on Thursday evenings we are open till 9 PM just for this kind of sharing.

We have also partnered with several companies to be a “SOX HOT SPOT.” We have a large supply of sock yarns, patterns and needles to make all the socks you want or need to make.

We are growing…having a hard time to find space for everything, and have too many new items to list! Stop by and check our new stuff!

Check our new class schedule and come learn and grow with us.

Hank

Got milk? We have Creamy, the milk yarn from Kollage! We also have Kollage’s bamboo, corn and soybean yarns, which join the other natural fibers we have such as hemp, linen and cotton. Stop in to see our Organic Cotton, and Baby Cashmere Merino Silk from Sublime, as well as Debbie Bliss’s Prima. Lorna’s Laces are here in lace, sock and DK weight in lovely colourways. Check out our 100% cotton Aracucania, hand dyed in Chile.

We have new needles, accessories and books – and Namaste is here! The color palette is beautiful and the bags are going fast!

We have a new shipment of Handpainted Knitting Yarns, including a quick and easy “candy scarf” kit, luscious sock yarns in merino/tencel and merino/nylon and a gorgeous jacket kit to knit. We now carry Boye Balene II straight needles by request, and knit clips to aid in seaming sweaters, etc.

Remember to check our class schedules which probably include something you’ve been wanting to learn.