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2009 marks the
10th Anniversary
of the Needle & Arts Centre.
You will see us make special announcements all year long
here. Today it is:
We
will have a featured
Yarn of the Month, with 20% discount
every month. See the
May announcement to the
right!
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Classes (Thur 2-4)
May 21:
Intro to Lace Knitting (Lois)
June 18:
Intarsia Knitting (Pam)
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Dear customers and
friends!
Seth Godin gave me the kick for the
following question: Are we marketing to
strangers or friends? A "friend" isn't
necessarily someone we went to Summer camp with,
it's someone who gives us the benefit of the
doubt. Someone who will listen, at least once, to
our pitch.
This newsletter goes to our in-store and online
customers as well as to those knitters who asked
us for support, patterns or products. Right from
the beginning I conceived our
web site to give visitors the warm
store feel, support and information they can
expect in our real stores, our Needle &
Arts Centre and Pier Street Gallery. Our
yarn blog complements this.
And yes, we had a lot of wonderful and rewarding
contacts over the past years and made a lot of
"friends" and customers locally and online. Our
most powerful win is, though, when you
tell your friends about us. This is worth
1000 times more than us talking about ourself.
Please, forward this
newsletter to a friend (at the
bottom of this email).
This newsletter is not so much about new yarns,
although we
 still
got some more Summer yarns in - see the list of
new yarns in the left column or check our
What's New page. It is more around
patterns, freebies and the Yarn of the
Month special. I still stick to the
headline "Having knitting and crochet fun in tough
times", although it's sure looking a bit brighter
already..
Happy Spring, Happy Mothers Day, and please
let us know what we can do better!
Thank you for your support.
Don't miss out on the opportunities in
May to SAVE money while having fun knitting and
crocheting!
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Yarn of the Month - 20% OFF
May: MANDARIN
PETIT
100% Egyptian Cotton, 50g = 180m, needle
size 3mm, knitting tension 27 sts
Made in high quality Egyptian cotton, Mandarin
Petit from SandnesGarn in Norway is a soft
Sport Weight yarn which is easy to knit,
perfect for babies, kids and womens
garments such as
Summer sweaters.
Mandarin Petit is a wonderful crochet yarn as well
and you find a great pattern support
in store, too.
Check out this knitted top with crochet
shoulders in Mandarin (this sample
garment is in the store). It takes 4 to 5 balls
and the pattern is in Sandnes Mandarin
book 0404 (Can$ 12.95 with 37 patterns!).
Visit our
book page.
Machine wash on delicate cycle in warm water using
mild soap (neutral detergent). Or carefully dry
clean with perchloretylene. No bleach, lay flat to
dry.
Mandarin Petit retails for only
$6.25/50 g ball. To view the
colour shadecard click
here.
The
20% discount applies to
purchases in our store or online orders from now till
latest May 31. Several discounts
cannot be added, the higher discount applies.
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Free Pattern of the Month
First off, Alison discovered this
new site with lots of great free (UK)
patterns, many for Rowan and Debbie Bliss yarns. At
any time, ask us for substitute yarns
by phone or email!
Check out more links to free
patterns!
Now, here is the free
pattern of the month of May:
 Plastic
grocery bags seem to become a thing of the past, but
we still need a way to carry our things in a fun and
functional manner. Meet Alison's
Farmer's Market bag,
which is easy to make and just the right size.
Gauge is not critical for this bag. The open nature
of the stitch is meant to have a lacy look, yet be
firm
enough to hold the contents of the bag in place. The
finished bag is about 13 inches wide and long.
Download the FREE
pattern as a PDF file
here. And order the yarn (or a
substitute yarn)
from us!
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More Patterns
 First,
you find (and will find) more and more projects
which we do in our store in our
yarn blog. Such as this Capelet/shrug
which Pam knitted. See how beautiful it looks on our
Anna..
From these projects you can really tell that these
garments are not home made but hand made.
Each knitted project is a piece of artwork.
Many more free patterns or sources for free patterns
are being added to our
pattern page.
Second,
we got the Scoop Neck Cardigan from
the Nashua
 "Daylily"
pattern book as a sample garment, and, boy, it's
prettier than a photo can tell. Check out the
Daylily yarn and this pattern
book and others in our
book page!
Lots of projects to choose from and many yarns for
any taste and wallet. This is where our free
consulting comes in: ask us at any time,
one-on-one, in person, on the phone ( toll
free 1-888-588-7834) or by
email. This is what differentiates us
from the big W and Z!
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Last but not least
Once again: The Johnstone Strait
Pullover
Many of you downloaded Pam's free
pattern of the month of April.
If you haven't done so, you may click
here.
Pam knitted this cheeky little pullover for
kids sizes 3-10 once
 again
in our wonderful new
Life Aran yarn from
Stylecraft, see photo.
This is a new yarn on our list of very
affordable yarns with Can$ 6.95 for
the 100g ball. Pam used 2.5 balls for this
pullover (this is under $20!).
Part of
Stylecraft's Life series, Aran combines the
beauty of wool with the easy care of acrylic
in soft and sumptuous yarn. It retains the
classic blend of 75% acrylic and 25% wool and
comes in big value 100g balls. The
shade range embraces classic Aran
and 'natural' marl effects,
which are so popular with Aran knitters.
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Best wishes from all of us at the
PS: Happy Mothers Day! Enjoy
reading our newsletter and we look forward to your
order or visit!
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