Around The GTA!

I get great inspriation looking through all the finished objects in the GTA and The Naked Sheep group on Ravelry. We have great talent in GTA and here are a few that I totally love and wish I had all the time in the world to knit:

The Knitting Basket has a great number of free patterns for you to knit and crochet and I especially love the owl coffee cozy:

In the Naked Sheep group, Dunskins (ravelry link) just finished a few pairs of fingerless mitts. Check out her Finished Objects page in Ravelry.

Chumily (ravelry link) finished two great hats designed by Ysolda.

Gretel, knit with 2.5 skeins of Mirasol Miski:

Ripley, knit with 1.1 skeins of Baby Alpaca Sport, one of the softest yarns we have!

Balaclava

At one of our knit nights, Patricia, one of our Sheep knitters finished her charity Balaclava made with Mission Falls. When she was finished, she wondered if it would fit a child and I said "let me know try it on - I have a small head and we will see!" It fits:

She clicked the freaking camera at the same time I decided to cross my eyes. NICE.

Fiddlehead Mitten Game

Believe it or not, it is very hard to pick 5 colours to knit your mittens and then you have to choose a 6th colour for the lining! We have come up with a game to help you.

Stand beside our Lantern Moon Tower, close your eyes and pick 5 balls of yarn. Surprisingly - 9 out of 10 times, all the colours look awesome together.

Fiddlehead Mitten KAL - The Beginning....

Our Fiddlehead Mitten KAL started out great! We took pictures of everyone's casting on:

Gives me shivers - they all look great! We look forward to seeing your progress and FOs!!

Berroco - How we Love Thee!

Look what Berroco came up with - some FREE mini knit patterns:

Oh My Goodness - super sweet! Can you imagine a clothes line with these hanging from it?

GO HERE TO GET THE PATTERNS

Fiddlehead Mitten KAL

Just a reminder our Fiddlehead Mitten KAL starts Wednesday November 25th, 7pm.

Are your fingers just itching to get started?

Sale Area!

At the Sheep we have marked down some pretty fantastic yarn and we can't wait for it to live at your house! At the back of the store we have put yarn on sale because we have small amounts of colours, or the yarn might be discontinued. Sales prices are marked down 10% to 50%!

Come on in and check the back wall out, there might be something waiting just for you!

We also have a great selection of books at 50% off!

Magnetic Boards are at The Shop!

Just in time for our Fiddlehead Mitten KAL start!!! I ordered these awesome magnetic boards to help you keep track of all your colourwork/cable/lace charts. I've had one for years and find it to be invaluable when reading charts.

Basically you put your paper chart on the board and use the magnets to hold the paper to the board. Will make it easier for your eye to go to the line you are reading and your knitting will be faster because you are not spending time figuring out which line you are on!

We also have a flexible one and a stand to hold up the solid board!

Fleece Artist Roving and Casbah!

Take a look at these BEAUTIFUL Fleece Artist rovings! Over 50 new braids just came in in their Merino and Blue Faced Leicester. Sigh....the colours are so pretty....


And then we come to Casbah, I don't need to say a thing. One of our absolute favourite sock yarns of all time! Pop in soon to check out the 20 new colours that just arrived!

Fiddlehead KAL update!

Hey folks!

A fresh supply of Tanis' lovely Fiddlehead mitten kits just arrived at the Sheep, in perfect time for our Knitalong that starts next Wednesday. The first batch didn't last long, so drop by soon if you want to score a kit for yourself.



Of course, you can knit Fiddleheads with a huge selection of yarns; another favourite of ours in the Diamond Luxury Alpaca Peru. This stuff is soft, warm and fluffy, What more could you want in a mitt!? We are expecting 25 new colours of Alpaca Peru to arrive at the Sheep any day now, so you will have pleantly of choice for your pair of Fiddleheat mittens.



Here is a lovely example in just 2 colours of Alpaca peru, knit by Becky...



and take a look at the pair that I just cast on in the same yarn...



With so many options, the toughest thing about this project is picking out yarn!