May 2025 Event: Star Blanket CAL with Betty McKnit & Juniper Moon Farms

Crikey! LYS Day April 27th Here Again!

LYS Day crept up on me this year! We have three bang-up awesome specials for this year's weekend celebration of all thing LYS (Local Yarn Store): Double the Stitches, Berroco and KFI. Read on for details, then let's go shopping this weekend! 

Double the Stitches  Pattern & Designer's Zoom KAL 

Again this year lovely designer, Jessica Ays of Double The Stitches (and Head LYS Cheerleader) dreamed up this little beauty:Trust Fall Shawl by Jessica always does fantastic pattern to support all us little ole yarn shops. This year it's a peach! She (like us) loves Jody Long Yarns and this one uses just 2 balls of Alba. (Yes, Jessica is to blame that I've cast on yet another new project.....)

*Buy this project yarn, get free pattern and you can enter KFI Lykke Lotto too!* 

A pefect wrap for year-round, but especially for Spring flip flopping weather. I have absolutely NO business casting on anything for the next decade..... But....yep,,,,,this baby going on the needles tonight! I love working with Alba so its a no-brainer. 

Come into shop to grab some Alba and get your LYS Day Promo Code for the free pattern (via Ravelry). Pattern available to download starting Apr 26th.

• The pattern codes will only be redeemable for a limited time only: Friday 4/26 8:00 AM ET until they expire on Sunday 4/28 at 11:59 PM ET.

Our Thursday Shop Group needs a new KAL too. This is perfect! Hoping to entice my compatriots in casting-on to whipped this one up next! Join me on Thursdays 12-2pm at our Drop-In Group. I'll be working on this shawl (along with many other projects). 

Jessica doing a Live Zoom KAL open to everyone! 

Jessica will meet on May 4th 7pm EDT on Zoom. Grab your yarn and needles. She'll show you the ropes, walk you through the stitches used and answer questions. Perfect if you feel stuck or just want to have company as you knit. Note: Cast-On Party will be recorded so you can watch later. Pre-register here (scroll down to bottom for sign ups). 

Berroco Seeing Double Cowls 

Once again like last year it's a Berroco 2-fer-Cowl patterns! This year they are busting out the color! Byte (Crochet) and Pixel (Knit) versions. These cowls are exclusively available through our stores and will not  be available to download on Ravelry or Berroco.com. Patterns Byte and Pixel free with each yarn purchase in our shop this weekend. 

We don't stock Vintage (worsted) but do have Ultra Wool, Remix and the new Bozzolo-all perfect subs. Washable Wool, Recycled and Super Soft Cottony Goodness!  

Bozzolo would be particularly awesome: amazingly soft to touch, lovely colors and gorgeous multi colorways. Using a solid with a multi could be so interesting! (Someone needs to try this...because I SERIOUSLY CAN'T CAST ON ANOTHER PROJECT...... lol!)

Knitting Fever Brands Lykke Lotto!

Always wanted a gorgeous set of Lykke Knitting or Crochet Sets? They're running drawing- 1 name for every 20 entries. Here's what you do: Make a purchase with us this weekend, email your receipt to socialmedia@knittingfever.com. It's that easy! (Be sure to have us email your receipt!)

We stock these participating KFI brands: Lykke, Noro, Juniper Moon Farm, Jody Long, Queensland, Laines du Nord, Araucania and OnLine. Head on in this weekend, splurge a bit and enter into Lykke Lotto. 

Happy LYS Day/Weekend!

Kits By Mail: Shop Local

New way to support your local LYS and get kits delivered to your doorstep! 

Knitting Fever's Shop Local Program

There's another new way to mainline....um..... I mean obtain kits easily from home. Our vendor, Knitting Fever (think Noro, Juniper Moon, Queensland, Jody Long and countless other lines) created a portal to order up loads of ready-made kits and you choose your favorite shop to get credit. 

We've talked about Berroco's ongoing Drop Ship Kit Program before (here and here). Difference between Berroco and KFI is KFI you order directly from them-we get credit; Berroco directs you to the shop to place an order. Either way works and it is a huge boon for us. Both are massive collaborative retail evolutions and boy are we excited! 

This year KFI launched ready-made kits but alas....as a very small shop with a massive daily to do list....I can't alway pass it along quickly to our customers. One newsletter takes at least 2-4 days to create. Now with this new kit portal....it's easy peasy! Our last Mystery Box used a KFI Noro Kit and it was awesome. Fastest kit we've every pulled together!  Now we have a whole dang website you all can access 24/7

Heart Scarf

By my count about 38 kits at moment! What's even better: many crochet kits. You can search by yarn line, new to old kits, or use the search icon to type what you're looking for, like "crochet" or "knit". Here's example of two current KFI kits available: Vanessa Scarf (knit) and Hyacinth (crochet)

Vanessa

Hyacinth

 

If this past year+ taught us anything it's you have to be nimble and super careful with the bottom line. As retailers it's so humbling and gratifiying to see our vendors doing the same to support us! Believe me, many other big yarn companies switched up their business models, bypassing their LYS shops, to sell direct to consumers instead. 

Megan and I are ever so grateful for KFI and Berroco, who quickly switched up things in order to support us, their retailer partners instead. Countless other shops are here today (like us) because of such forward thinking, collaborative support. Can't thank the owners, staff and our reps enough. 

(insert big hug here!) 

Head on over to the KFI Shop Local and Berroco Dropship pages and check them out. Happy surfing!