Shibui...
means "elegant with a touch of bitterness" in Japanese, and ShibuiKnits takes inspiration from that sentiment.
ShibuiKnits fuses modern ideas and classic designs, creating elegant and functional product lines. Shibui stands out by providing natural fiber yarns, inventive patterns and sleek, practical accessories.

We are happy to have a beautiful display of Shibui's beautiful sock yarn in the shop now! 13 colors, including several new ones--just in time for Spring knitting. Shibui Sock is the perfect sock yarn. This ultra-soft superwash merino is gentle enough for baby clothing but hardy enough to stand up to a hiking boot. Intense semi-solid colors create visual interest even in the plainest of stitches. This is the yarn I used when I won a blue ribbon at the West Lampeter Community Fair last Fall!

Available now at LYS, my favorite magazine of the year (so far!). Knitting Traditions from Interweave Press. Stop in for your copy today, this is a special issue.

Indulge your passion for knitting with Knitting Traditions! This 148-page special publication from PieceWork magazine presents more than 40 projects—socks, shawls and scarves, items for baby, a variety of hand coverings, hats, squares and edgings, and finger puppets—each with a story that provides historical context. Here are just a few examples: Peruvians used a technique—knitting’s precursor—called cross looping or needleknitting to fashion exquisite, tiny figures, using cactus thorns as needles, between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200. Fourteenth-century Italian artists painted pictures of the Madonna knitting. A glove with a romantic history knitted in Sweden during the sixteenth-century is preserved in a museum. Swedish knitters have been using the two-end technique since at least the seventeenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century, Russian shawls from Orenburg achieved international status. Prolific Victorian knitters fashioned all sorts of knitted items in the nineteenth century. German designers were producing hundreds of patterns for “art knitting” in the early decades of the twentieth century. And a veritable “Who’s Who” of late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century knitting designers share their passion within these pages!

*image & text courtesy Interweave Press

Spring Classes at LYS

spring knitting classes

at LYS

Classes are posted for a full slate of knitting classes at LYS! Join us whether you are a beginner just picking up sticks & string or an experienced knitter looking for a challenging & fun project class. Sign-ups are under way, take a look at our schedule & see if we can make some time to knit together!

We currently offer two class sessions on each Saturday and Tuesday. Private knitting & crochet lessons are also available. Call the shop (717) 768-8007 to make arrangements! Here is a direct link to all of the classes currently available at LYS: http://lancasteryarnshop.bigcartel.com/category/classes

Our teachers Spring, 2010:

Tina Colvin is a marvelous knitter. She came to South Central PA from California where she was a well known knitting teacher. Her featured finished objects posted on Ravelry are impressive: http://www.ravelry.com/people/TinaLC

Katie Rogers is a Lancaster County native with an Art & teaching degree from Millersville University. She is a knitter, crocheter, spinner & designer. Find her on Ravelry, & check out her FO's! http://www.ravelry.com/people/Kitner

If the website http://www.ravelry.com is NEW to you, join now! I often say that Ravelry is the best thing to happen to knitting since yarn, & I believe it!

Lancaster Yarn Shop has been open for just about a year at Kitchen Kettle Village in Intercourse, PA. We are so excited about our beautiful location, our creative & enthusiastic customers & the opportunity to be involved in such a fun line of work. Thank you for being part of the success of LYS!

All the best to you as we wait out the last of this snowy Winter!

--Wendy

Snowed In

LYS is closed again today & there is no knit night tonight! All festivities including birthday cake NEXT week, February 18th. See you then!

Wendy

What if it snows again?

Because it is supposed to snow again this afternoon & tonight, please be advised that LYS will close as soon as it starts to snow today. If it snows tomorrow, we'll LIKELY be closed.

If you are heading our way tomorrow (February 10), PLEASE call the shop first! (717) 768-8007. IF no one answers the phone, we're closed!

I'll tweet about it and post on facebook in the morning.

Follow us on twitter: @lancyarnshop.

Our facebook page is Lancaster Yarn Shop.

Hope you're somewhere snug with something lovely to knit!

We plan to be back in the shop on Thursday & that evening is knit night. If you have cabin fever, consider coming out between 5 & 8 o'clock for knitting, chocolate birthday cake & good coffee! Everyone is welcome!

Get your Ravelympics projects ready, the Olympics start on Friday! Come in for ideas, knitting advice & some great new spring yarns--we have a sweet trunk show from K1,Ctoo right now.

Happy snowy days,

Wendy