May Classes and Knit-Alongs!

May classes are now available for registration on our website!

Learn to knit cables, use provisional cast-on and make socks from the toe-up!

We're bursting with free Knit-Alongs next month!

Sign up for any of them to get 15% off any yarn used in your project:

Oriental Lily Dress - A simple, cute cotton dress for babies and girls up to age 10. Free pattern!

Shetland Shopper Tote Bag - Just in time for the Farmer's Market! Continue the good work we've started during the Bagless Campaign and make this cotton shopping tote in the round, practicing your lace skills and using an applied I-cord. Free Pattern!

Traveling Woman Shawl - Use some of that gorgeous sock yarn you've been drooling over to make a quick wrap for chilly nights. Summer in Idaho doesn't guarantee warm evenings, you know... :) $6 pattern on Ravelry

Looking ahead to June, place your order by May 22nd for any color of yarn from Lanaknits Hemp for Knitting to make the Wakame Lace Tunic!

April is Earth Month!

To celebrate, we are participating with The Moscow Food Co-op, Buy Local Moscow, The University of Idaho Sustainability Center and others to promote a city-wide "Bagless Campaign"!

We ordered 100% cotton shopping bags and had them printed locally (upstairs at The Shirt Shack, actually) with our logo, and are selling them AT COST (that's right! No profit to us!) during the month of April. You can even purchase Yarn Underground Bags right here on our website!!

Every time you use one of our bags- or any bag- at our store, the co-op, The Storm Cellar consignment shop or Paradise Creek Bicycles, you receive a free raffle ticket for one of many awesome prizes. How easy is that??!

We also have new yarn on the way from Lanaknits Designs - 100% hemp, fingering weight, a hemp/cashmere blend in DK, and another DK in hemp/cotton/modal. Come see our boot at Moscow Hempfest on Saturday April 16th for the grand debut!

Local Knitters get a “Bootie Call” from The Yarn Underground

Oh, it isn't what you think... The booties in question are of the fuzzy footwear variety, popular in nurseries and playgroups. A local knitting shop is hosting a baby bootie knitting competition to benefit Motherwise Midwifery, Fruitful Vine Midwifery and the families they serve.

The co-owners of The Yarn Underground, LLC, both former clients of Motherwise Midwifery, are looking for a way to add some warmth to tiny toes this winter. Participants in the knit-off will compete to fill gift bags with hand-knit slippers to be distributed to babies born at home on the Palouse.

The competition will run from February 13th to the 27th and will culminate with prizes for each of the three following categories: “Most Awesome Booties”, “Fullest Bag of Booties”, and “Most Booties Knit with Yarn from The Yarn Underground”.

For more information, contact Marisa Gibler or Shelley Stone at The Yarn Underground, LLC. The shop is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11:00am - 7:00pm and Sunday noon - 5:00pm and is located downstairs from Deadbeat Records at 114 ½ East 3rd Street, Moscow.
Phone: (208) 882-7700
Website: www.yarnunderground.com

Nancy Draznin of Motherwise Midwifery (208) 310-3252
Noel Leithart of Fruitful Vine Midwifery (509) 338-2611

Palouse Prairie Charter School

The fifth and sixth graders at Palouse Prairie Charter School in Moscow are changing the world! The whole class has been finger knitting and crocheting scarves to raise money to send to Haiti. On Tuesday, I went to their class and taught them to knit (with semi-sharpened pencils) so they can progress in their skills. Next week, I'll pick up all their completed swatches and sew them into one striped scarf. What an awesome group of kids!

WOW! SNOW!

That is some cold stuff out there. Hope everyone has a nice, wooly project to keep your lap warm!

Holiday Sale next Sunday

Next Sunday, December 19 from 12:00pm - 5:00pm!

Get 10% off any red, white or green yarn all day long, enjoy some Christmas cookies and get a free sample of Cascade Eco Alpaca with a pattern for tiny little "sock" ornaments!

I'm making some gingersnaps, and maybe try out that cookie press I bought a few years ago. :) See you there!

WE'RE TOTALLY OPEN!!

Also, we've topped 200 fans on Facebook. Life is good. The grand opening was a smashing success, despite the crappy weather. Lots of people, lots of sales, and lots of yarn-ball cupcakes (thanks to Brandi, Ashley and Patti).

We couldn't have asked for a better turn-out.

Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving! I'm still eating left-overs, and that's fine by me, because I need all the time I can get for knitting store samples. The current project is a pair of fingerless mitts in Tibetan Wool/Silk by Himalaya Yarns. It's an aran weight yarn (although Ravelry lists it as bulky??!) and is working up well on size 9's. I like the feel of it in my hands- the wool does not feel scratchy and the silky bits slip right through my fingers. It comes in eleven different colors, all earthy and understated (although there are a couple- magenta and black come to mind- that pop a bit more than the others) and the silk is the same you know from Recycled Silk fame. The whole thing creates a lovely tweedy look with some shiny interesting bits. The pattern I'm using is a free one from Ravelry, although I totally mixed it around for a different look. Here's the Rhinebeck or Bust Wristers Ravelry page.

They should be all knit up and finished by the time we re-open on Wednesday (we're closed Mondays and Tuesdays). We'll see you then for open knitting from 4:30-6:30!