As previously mentioned, we’ll be off to Columbus later this week to attend TNNA’s NeedleArts Market where most of North America’s yarn shop owners and buyers purchase much of their product for the upcoming fall/winter season.  To us, that means rearranging schedules, packing up models that we’ve had on display from various vendors, getting Busby […]

Between the rep meeting that’s going on today (as I write, actually—they’re up front working on getting lunch ordered, so I thought I’d slip in a quick post) and the newsletter going out tonight, my day is deeply swamped.  But I’m playing with YARN.  That helps a lot.
I won’t go into great detail at the […]

Yes, I really do still knit on occasion.  Lately, I’ve knit mostly swatches and socks, but when you work over three-hundred days* a year, it’s kind of a chore to get bigger projects off the ground.  I do have other things to show you, but I specifically wanted to show off my adult men’s US […]

Today, we received our first shipment of Koigu in quite some time.  ThreadBear was known for its stock of Koigu at one time, but we’d reduced stock to almost nothing after relocating to Lansing from Columbus, Indiana several years ago.  We really, really missed it, though.
Of course, if there’s Koigu in the room, there’s also […]