So, anyone else going to be thrilled when Election Day 2006 is over? *raises hands* We’re all pretty tired of hearing campaign ads in general. Luckily, we have new yarns to make us happy:

The yarn hasn’t been released to us yet, but we were lucky enough to get a 10g sample of this new machine-washable sock yarn from Colinette yarns! It’s called Jitterbug and is a fingering-weight yarn that will come in 289yd-skeins (100g). It’s 100% “easy care” merino - machine wash cold, and they recommend line dry - and it’s quite soft and cushy. I made up this random sock as a sample for the store - no pattern as it was entirely improvised and I’d be surprised if it actually fit a baby, but it’s about that size and serves its purpose to show of the yarn!

We already have some of Colinette’s DK weight easy care merino, Cadenza, in stock, for which there is also a pattern book. As always, both yarns are dyed up in Colinette’s own beautiful hand-painted colorways.

Oh, and that giant mitt? It’s been felted:

Cute Lantern Moon Bee tape measure used for scale again, of course. Now, I admit I was a little confused in the previous post - in fact this is meant to be a decorative mitten, like a stocking, for the holidays, but it would certainly work as an oven mitt as well and we ARE offering the felted oven mitt class!

We also just got some new skeins of Schaeffer Elaine - perfect for making this cute little jacket:

The pattern is free with purchase of yarn and will be offered in our online store shortly…like in an hour or so. Check out the new colors we just got:

Well, we’ve had a busy month here, adding our online store and now adding our blog! We’re still tweaking the look, but we didn’t want to wait any longer to start to let you know about all the new stuff we have at the store and all our upcoming events!

So to start with, one of our newest arrivals is a restocking of the great needle felting kits from Decadent Fibers including the famed pumpkins, snowmen and gingerbread men! We recently had a class on making the pumpkins, from which we’ll be posting a photo soon!

Also just in: Debbie Bliss’ Out of Town! If you were here when Debbie visited us last spring, you saw the amazing chocolatey brown Alpaca Silk DK circular sweater (and likely tried it on)…well, this is the book!

Our new online store is growing as we add more and more items to it, so please check back periodically for new items.

We will be primarily offering kits as well as great sale items from our clearance area - a place to find many discontinued gems (I found some Kaffe Fassett Kid Silk one day and recently some Noro Cashmel! Good stuff!).

These are but a few tidbits of the action happening at The Yarn Barn…and there is more to come…