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Sammy the Slug and The Blue Streak — Mitts to Match
Hello Friends, A quick blog post here to show you a little project to got with the School Colors hats that emerged from my adventures with Brooklyn Tweed's new line Tones. You can see the hat projects both here on the blog, and in person at Avenue. Just in case...
Sunny Day Beenie
Using the Brooklyn Tween *free* hat pattern, “Turn a Square,” and your favorite colors from their new Tones line, your imagination can bloom like a rose (Hollyhock Undertone), or glow like a ripe persimmon (Persimmon Overtone). Stripe it, strand it, or use blocks of contrast colors. Any way you knit with Tones, you’ve got beauty at your fingertips.
With bright Overtones of both Stonewash and Goldfinch, I realized I had Bruin colors in my hands, and I wanted to knit a beanie for a UCLA student.
Gifts from Over and Under a Rainbow
Tones, the gorgeous new line from Brooklyn Tweed is at Avenue Yarns now! They are rainbow and not rainbow. They are colors that lean towards each other and the away. They are cheerful, playful. And they are moody and calm. BT Tones yarns are an invitation to play with color, color blocking, and creating shifting moods within the same piece.
Community Grows (yeah, let’s rhyme it) Like Knitted Rows
It has been a long year and a half. 2020 was hard on so many levels, because of Covid, and despite it. I know too many stories of hardship in 2020, in my own family, and in families across our communities. And so far, 2021 has seemed a lot like...
Knits for Kids (and you) in Avenue's Kid-Friendly Yarn Sale
Hello Avenuevians! Have you been taking advantage of the gorgeous yarns at great prices during out Winter Is Coming sale? This second week of July, the sale is on select Kid-Friendly yarns. Just so you know, I'm going to show you some of these amazing yarns--all ON SALE this week...
Winter is Coming--Yarn Sale!!
Watching the fog roll across the Bay, Mark Twain quipped that “the coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco.” Sure. We get it. It often always feels like winter in the East Bay. But the long-night, nog-sipping, friends-gathering, gift-giving Winter? That Winter is Coming. So,...
Tutorial: Single Row Stripes, Knit Flat
How is your Summer Knit Along project going? We are all loving the extra texture of the single row stripes in luscious, variegated yarns. Send us a WIP photos! Or post one on Instagram, tagging Avenue Yarns. Over the next few weeks, I’ll post...
These Years of Resilience
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a main story in our lives for more than a year now. We are all holding on, doing the best we can. Everyone has felt it to one extent or another. Some of us or our loved ones have gotten sick. Too many people have...
Super Summer Stripe Knit Along!
Let’s be honest: we all covet Rebekah’s aqua and grey, single-row stripe, Boxy sweater, pattern by Joji Locatelli. It’s gorgeous, and looks so great on her. (She used MadelineTosh Twist Light in Composition Book Grey, and Aqua from Lil Weasel in Paris). And I get lots of oos and aahs...
Color Crazy
Is there a more exciting phrase for Avenuevians than New Yarn? Well, time to head on over to Avenue Yarns for the luscious new yarns and restocks. Here’s a quick glimpse of what you can find, both in the shop and the online store. Yarn Hero Color Mix DK Avenue...
Many Hands
All our craft projects are the work of many hands. And a local yarn store (LYS) is so much more than simply a place to buy yarn —though none of us Yarniacs would say walking home with an armful of gorgeous squooshy stuff is the least of it. A yarn...
Interview with Kira Dulaney
Avenue Yarns is starting what we hope will be a favorite for our community: Artist interviews! We will interview designers, yarn manufacturers, and independent yarn dyers for a closer look at the process of creativity. You will be able to find the yarns and designs at Avenue. What's more, you can...
Crafting Resilience; Opening Doors
Hello Friends! Have you noticed the flowers springing up, the birds with nesting matter in their beaks, and shoppers returning, with safety, to the Avenue? We sure have. We are opening up more and more as local safety guidelines allow. Avenue Yarns' doors are open now more than any time...
From Wellington with love: For the Love of Stash
Musings about life in Wellington, New Zealand, from Karen King, the owner of Avenue Yarns. Knitting, sewing, dogs, crochet, travel, wool, sheep, weaving, yarn, friendship.
In case you couldn't make it ...
We had SO much fun meeting Sheila and Howard Greenwell who stopped by last Saturday to visit the Avenue Yarns community. We admired one another's Di Gilpin Lalland creations and oohed and aahed over the latest Di Gilpin design, Shoowa, which debuted at the Edinburgh Yarn Festival last month. Here are...
Sheep of the Week: Cormo
Since I've missed a week (or so!) I bring you the Cormo, an Australian breed of sheep developed in Tasmania by crossing Corriedale rams with superfine Saxon Merino ewes in the early 1960s. (The name Cormo is derived from the names of two of the parent breeds, Corriedale and Merino.) To know the Cormo,...
Sheep of the week: Romney
The very informative website of the American Romney Breeders Association, ARBA, has this to say about the breed: "The American Romney traces its beginnings to the marshy area of Kent in England. Its origin lies with the old, established dual purpose Romney Marsh breed,which was improved with Leicester blood in...
Sheep of the week: Rambouillet
This gorgeous boy is a Rambouillet ram. (ID 50624239 © Linda Washburn Roberts on Dreamstime.com) The Rambouillet breed is also known as the Rambouillet Merino or the French Merino. Today's Rambouillet sheep has a royal pedigree. The breed originated in Spain. The Spanish Merino flocks were renowned from the earliest times as producers of the world's finest...