We sometimes had customers unsubscribe from our newsletter "because I don't live in the area".

Our newsletters are for all our customers, and we have more

Our "spooktacular" Sale is on!

customers in "Cyberspace" than in our immediate neighbourhood! The Sale, for example, can benefit all of you. Especially our new Bag Sale makes it easy for those of you in Florida, Ontario or California. Save more than 50% on bags of yarns which you find listed in our Sale List.

Also, if you order yarn and accessories by mail order between October 15 and 24, we enter a ballot for every $10 spent to our daily draw for a $100 voucher, which can be spent on any product in our stores, and of course it may be used for sale yarn again. See the names of our first winners here.

In general, we strive to give the same service and consulting to locals as well as to remote customers. Be it help to choose the right yarns or help with a project or patterns. And we proudly collect customer feedback, like this one: "...This is by FAR the best service I've ever met. Wish I'd know about you years before!  This reminds me a bit of the yarn store in Debby Macomber's books..."

 

I understand that our classes are more suitable for customers in our extended area. Although we hope to attract remote customers to upcoming workshops, as we had participants from Washington State in this Spring's Maggie Jackson workshop. Our area is a great destination for knitting travellers or travelling knitters! Plan to visit us in 2011!

 

Happy knitting and crocheting, and
thank you for your business!
  

"There is a theory that cotton grew in many different colours before the industrial revolution. However only white cotton had fibres long enough to be spun by machines. As a result, white cotton was grown commercially for the emerging industrial markets and the other colours of cotton either died out or were kept alive by hand spinners as part of a residual cottage industry.

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In the late 1960's Sally Fox began cross breeding brown cotton - considered a weed by "white cotton" growers - in an effort to develop a long fibred coloured cotton that could be spun commercially. This cross breeding exposed a recessive gene for green, which Sally stabilized, and in turn cross bred to produce a long fibered green cotton.

Initally, this naturally coloured cotton was grown conventionally - with chemical pesticides, fertilizers and defoliants. However, as demand grew, farms were contracted to grow naturally coloured cotton, organically.

 

Unfortunately, by the mid-1990s organic cotton initiatives by various US mills had not reached the "critical mass" needed to be commercially viable, so the growing and processing of organic cotton was sourced primarily to third world countries. Still we are indebted to the many US companies that began the journey to move a major component of the textile industry - cotton - to the stage of being chemically-free. In addition to Sally Fox's company - Naturally Coloured Cotton, brands such as Patagonia and Levi Strauss, to name a few, endured huge losses, in their efforts to bring the concept of chemically free fibre to the public's attention.

 

We are there now. Organic Cotton is a household word. In some cases we have added colour for those that need it; but for the purists, there is natuarally coloured brown and green cotton."