Mary’s Corner
PopUp Shops
Yarn shops are getting very creative with new and limited merchandise in store. I am loving this idea. Indie dyers working together with the local yarn shops. The Indie dyer gets to be involved in the local yarn shops without having to fulfill huge orders and local yarn shops get to have the indie dyers on site without having to purchase a...
2018 Year End Report
Hello EVERYBODY, It's that time of year again where I produce my year end report. As you know, America's Knitting went live in August of 2007. It took me a year to get my bearings start reports, and keep numbers. After that first year I started a mailer that went out to all the yarn shops every September. This mailer gives me a chance to ask...
Wee Santa Hats
I belong to a knitting group that meets every Wednesday night. Ann Poor, one of our knitters, asked all her knitting friends to help knit Santa hats for the babies at OHSU Doernbecher Childrens Hospital where her daughter Molly works in the NICU. Ann got quite a few hats knit up by various donors, but then, knitters are the most generous people I...
A Response To Vogue Knitting
I received the latest issue of Vogue Knitting magazine last week, as I am a subscriber. As I opened it up to take a gander, I came upon the Editors Letter entitled Does Size Really Matter.... so of course I had to read it HAHAHA! Trisha Malcolm states that Classic Elite Yarns is closing down it's operation, and 'the knitting world is in a state...
It’s Been A While
I've actually had a pretty busy year, but haven't posted in a while! My latest event that I have attended is an annual event held in my area. It's actually one county over from mine in Allyn, Washington. It's the Knit In The Park annual event held at the Waterfront Park every summer. It's a wonderful event in a great setting! Vendors come and...
Knit City 2017
Where can you go, where you run into The Grocery Girls around every corner, see The Yarn Harlot going out for a run, or see Stephen West crossing the street? Where could you go to have breakfast with Andrea Rangel? Where would you have the opportunity to talk with Shannon Cook or Jane Richmond, or take a class from Felicia Lo, or have the...
Hurricane Harvey – Labor Day Weekend – Back To School
There's so much going on! As I watch the aftermath of Harvey, and see hospitals evacuating because they don't have any potable water, and wells breaking down, and families being held up in make shift shelters in convention centers. My head swirls with the good fortune at every turn; the grocery chain HEB sending convoys of trucks with food to...
2017 Seattle Mariner Stitch ‘n Pitch
Every year, I attend the Stitch 'n Pitch event with the Seattle Mariners. I love to go, and always feel like it's the perfect summer evening. It's always on a Thursday night, so of course I have to work the next day. It totally cramps my style, as I have to leave early to go and catch a ferry home. Every year, it's a little different, in...
World Wide Knit In Public Day
World Wide Knit In Public Day is a notion that is already, mostly a common practice for knitters, I believe. Never the less, it's fun to have a day during the calendar year that knitters can plan to spend, doing what they love. For me, I guess, the most astonishing aspect of this special day, is that it's a world wide concept. That is...
Yarn Crawl Season
Where I live (which is in the Pacific NW) there are 3 major yarn crawls; one down in Portland called the Rose City Yarn Crawl, the LYS Tour on the Seattle side of the Puget Sound, and the PNW Yarn Crawl in the south sound (which happens twice a year). The Rose City Yarn Crawl happens in early March every year, the LYS Tour is mid May and the PNW...
Brioche Knitting 101
HUGE in the knitting world now...Brioche! Not to be confused with the bread! Brioche knitting is not new, but it certainly has had a great resurgence. I believe in large part, it's popularity could be due to designs by Stephen West, and his way with color. Now, yarn shops are jumping in with classes to support this popularity. I have even...
Happy New Year 2017
Happy New Year to everyone! New years is a time of reflection and new beginnings. We moved into a new house back in August. We actually down sized into a smaller home. With small square footage comes less storage. This is where one realizes that there is a problem with lots of yarn, and lots and lots of projects, and project bags. Projects...
