Tempting Tidbits - November 9, 2018
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A Note From Karen
I am thankful.
I am thankful for those who come into Knitting Temptations to experience first-hand the beautiful yarns that we carry, for those who come in need of knitting guidance, and for those who come in just to share their lives.
I am thankful for those who spend their time working at Knitting Temptations – teaching, winding yarns, taking photos, providing customer service, shipping special orders, stocking products, knitting samples, updating our social media, dressing the floor models, helping with special events, and for those who create a sense of order when it feels like things around the shop are like a crazy, twisted hank of yarn!
I am thankful for the opportunity to serve our knitting community.
With a grateful heart,
Karen
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Thanksgiving Week Hours
Monday: 10am-5:30pm
Tuesday: 10am-5:30pm
Wednesday: CLOSED
Thursday: CLOSED
Friday: 6am-4pm
Saturday: 10am-4pm
Sunday: CLOSED
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Three days of fun, savings and prizes!
Black Friday
Hours: 6am-4pm
Early Bird Specials 6-10am, Donuts and Coffee, Passport Stamps,
Escape the Madness
Open Knit, Prize Drawings, Project Buffet, Yarn Sale and more!
Small Business Saturday
Hours: 10am-4pm
Weekend Sale Items, Project Buffet, Customer Appreciation Gift
Cyber Monday
Free Shipping!
Look for more information in our next Tempting Tidbits.
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Passport to the Holidays
Knitting Temptations has a new path to assist our artists reach the holidays with opportunities to learn, socialize, share talents and be inspired. Our travelers will arrive at their destination with a trunk full of holiday gifts while earning souvenirs and prizes for themselves.
Your first stop: Arrive at the shop to register and pick up your suitcase. We packed your bag with a passport and 12 tickets to the 2018 holidays. You determine your own itinerary and the stations you visit along the way.
After passing through a station, bring a ticket to be punched and receive a passport sticker. If your station involves completing a project, be sure to show it to the shop's ticket master. With your okay, we'd love to photograph and share your work with other travelers on this journey.
For every 3 passport stickers earned, you will receive a "souvenir."
Once you earn 12 stickers, you will visit our Grand Central Station and select your own "grand prize."
The program will continue through January 31, 2019.
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Passport Stops
Stations Along Your Journey
- Take a Class at Knitting Temptations
- Attend a Knitting Temptations $5 Passport Technique Stop
- Purchase a $30 Knitting Temptations Gift Card to be used in 2019
- Black Friday! Possibility of two stickers!
- Bring a friend who wants to learn how to knit to 10,000 New Knitters Day on November 10
- Purchase $30 in Stocking Stuffers from Knitting Temptations. Items include: needles, notions, bags, yarn bowls, books. etc.
- Purchase Knitting Temptations’ yarn to complete any of the following:
- Stash-buster project
- Project that requires Learning a "New-to-You" technique
- Two or more color project
- Project using selected Chunky or Super Bulky yarn
- Project that combines two different weights of yarn
- Project using an in-house pattern
- Project that incorporates a Knitting Temptations Button and Knitting Temptations yarn
Note: Some exceptions apply including, but not limited to: sale yarn, unicorn tails
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Passport Technique Classes
Technique Stops to Enhance Your Journey
Travelers may participate in a Technique Stop. Call or visit the shop to register for these $5 sessions.
1.
Why, When & How to Block Your Work
-- Saturday, November
17 -- 9-11am
Uneven stitches, lumpy rows, the finished project is a bit too small. Learn how to block projects and resolve these issues and more.
2.
Make a Pompom
-- Saturday, December 1 -- 9-11am
Pompoms are the rage! Save money and learn to make them! Participants bring or purchase a pair of small, sharp scissors, tapestry needle and yarn for practicing. Pompom maker provided for the class.
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Mystery Knit Purl Hunter KAL!
Match Play poncho revealed! Doesn't Michelle look beautiful wearing her stunning poncho? If you would like to see the poncho, it is displayed at the shop.
If you need more Sueño to complete your poncho, please contact us. We have many skeins in odd dye lots.
Maybe you can find a match for your color!
We have adequate Sueño inventory for you to join the fun and start knitting the poncho now.
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Building with Lace
Beginning Wednesday, February 6!
Students and fans of Michelle Hunter's "Building" series: Knitting Temptations is thrilled to offer a skill-building series, based on Michelle's book,
Building with Lace
. The series, to begin
February 6
at Knitting Temptations, is a unique chance to take the series with the designer and expert instructor, Michelle Hunter!
This ten-class series focuses on lace techniques that will delight the novice and experienced lace knitter alike. The project is a gorgeous sampler shawl worked in Rylie by HiKoo. This luxuriously soft yarn is the perfect choice to showcase the high impact stitches. The shawl is knit in one continuous piece (no seaming!) and measures approximately 22" x 72". As with Michelle's previous series, each month of the course will focus on skills and stitches to build your lace knitting skills. The techniques include advanced decreases and increases, Japanese stitches, beading, expert edges, original stitch patterns, classic lace techniques, and so much more!
We have two class sessions available: afternoon 1-3pm AND evening 6-8pm. Seats are limited to 24 per session and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. REGISTRATION BEGINS NOVEMBER 1!
If you are considering it, please act quickly!
We need your registration and yarn order AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Dates for the series:
February 6
March 6
April 3
May 1
June 5
July 3
August 7
September 4
October 2
November 6
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Creating Friends
Tuesdays - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Fridays - 10am-Noon
Knitting Temptations offers two opportunities for friends to gather and create together. We welcome all fiber artists, including knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers, felters and others of all skill levels. Bring your project and join your creative friends for support and advice.
A member of the staff will be available to answer questions and offer limited guidance. Problems requiring more assistance may be scheduled for a later time.
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Laine Magazine
Issues 1,2,5 and 6 are here! Reserve your copy!
Laine is a high-quality Nordic knit & Nordic lifestyle magazine. The folks at Laine cherish natural fibers, slow living, local craftsmanship and a beautiful, uncomplicated and peaceful lifestyle. Their intention is to inspire us to gather and share, to be part of a community of like-minded knitters, makers and thinkers from near and far. Knitting is more than just knit, knit, purl. It is a feeling.
Laine includes patterns from the leading knitwear designers; insightful, long-format stories from the world of wool; interviews, exciting travel articles, seasonal recipes and strong, visual storytelling.
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Classes
You may register for classes in person or by calling the shop at (614) 734-0618 during regular business hours. We ask that you make payment in full when registering.
It is our policy that unless we specify otherwise, students in our classes MUST purchase their yarn and other class supplies at Knitting Temptations.
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BEGINNING KNITTING 101
Class fee: $30 - yarn provided, needles extra
One 2-hour class
Instructors: Meghan Kizer, Elaine Sparks, Karen Wilkins, Linda Marion
Skill level: Beginner Knit
As the name implies, Knitting 101 is for the complete beginner! In this single class, students learn the knitting basics: how to cast on, knit, purl, and bind off. Yarn is provided to learn and practice in class. Students need to bring or purchase US #8 needles. By the end of class, you will have knit a small swatch to take home and our staff will be on hand to help you select yarn and needles to make a beginner-appropriate project.
Supplies needed: US #8 knitting needles
Meghan's Sessions:
Saturday, December 15, 10:30am-12:30pm
Elaine's Sessions:
Thursday, November 29, 2-4pm
Thursday, December 6, 2-4pm
Thursday, December 13, 2-4pm
Thursday, December 20, 2-4pm
Karen's Sessions:
Tuesday, November 13, 6-8pm
Tuesday, November 27, 6-8pm
Linda's Sessions:
Saturday, December 1, 1-3pm
Saturday, December 15, 1-3pm
Saturday, December 29, 1-3pm
BEGINNING CROCHET 101
Class fee: $30 - yarn provided; hook extra
One 2-hour class
Instructors: Meghan Kizer and Elaine Sparks
Skill level: Beginner Crochet
Learn chain stitches, half double and double crochet, and triple crochet.
Note: Crochet is an incredibly useful skill for knitters - consider bringing the power of the crochet hook to your knitting projects!
We provide the yarn. Students need to bring/purchase a crochet hook size US G (4mm) or US H (5mm).
Meghan's Sessions:
Thursday, December 20, 6-8pm
Elaine's Sessions
Thursday, November 15, 2-4pm
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KNITTING 102
Class fee: $80 - yarn provided; other supplies extra
Three 2-hour classes
Instructor: Meghan Kizer
Skill level: Easy Knit
This class is designed to expand on the knitting fundamentals learned in Beginning Knitting 101. Successful participants need to be able to execute on their own the knitting fundamentals:
- gauge
- knit and purl stitches
- long-tail and/or knitted cast on
- standard bind-off
To expand on these fundamentals, you will learn new concepts including gauging techniques, new stitch types, stitch patterns, choosing yarn and needles for projects, basic shaping stitches, and finally, a brief introduction to circular knitting.
Between class sessions, you will work on homework swatches and small items to reinforce concepts learned in class.
Yarn is provided. Students need to bring/purchase 24″ circular needles in sizes US 6 (4mm) and US 8 (5mm).
There is no pre-work for this class, but there is homework between classes, so please plan accordingly.
Tuesdays, November 20, December 4, and December 18, 6-8pm
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FIXING MISTAKES
Class fee: $30 - yarn provided; other supplies extra
One 2-hour class
Instructor: Meghan Kizer
Skill level: Easy Knit
Join Meghan in this class to learn more about the most common mistakes knitters make, how to fix and better yet, PREVENT them!
Students make swatches and purposely create mistakes to learn how they happen and how to fix them. Also, discussed is using lifelines, how to "tink" (unknitting stitches), and ripping back rows.
Yarn is provided for this class
. Supplies needed:
- Size US 8 (5mm) needles
- 4" Handi Tool (or D-F crochet hook)
- Tapestry needle
Thursday, November 15, 6-8pm
Saturday, December 8, 10:30am-12:30pm
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BEGINNING SOCK
Class fee: $75 - supplies extra
Pattern: $6.00 + tax
Three 2-hour classes
Instructor: Meghan Kizer
Skill level: Easy Knit
Learn to make a classic top down sock in the round using the Magic Loop method.
Build the foundation needed to progress your sock-knitting skills to work on more complex sock designs!
Students must be comfortable knitting and purling. Learn numerous sock techniques including: magic loop, classic heel, left and right leaning decreases, and kitchener stitch. Each of these skills is applicable to many other knitting projects.
Supplies needed:
- Yarn: approximately 400 yards of fingering-weight. Note on selecting yarn: Sock stitches are small and show up best in LIGHT colors.
- Needles: 32" circular US 1 (2.25mm)
- Tapestry needle
Please purchase your supplies prior to coming to the first class. There is no pre-work for this class, but there is homework between classes, so please plan accordingly.
Wednesdays, November 14, November 28, December 12 - 6-8pm
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ENTRELAC SCARF
$30 - pattern included; supplies extra
One 2-hour class
Instructor: Meghan Kizer
Skill level: Easy Knit
The Entrelac technique is used to create a textured diamond pattern. The resulting fabric looks like woven knitted strips, but is actually knitted in one piece. The technique looks more difficult than it is to knit.
This class is suited for knitters comfortable with casting on, knit and purl stitches. Students will learn various decreases and a time-saving technique of knitting BACKWARDS that makes the Entrelac technique a snap!
Supplies needed:
- Yarn: Approximately 440 yards of long-repeat, variegated worsted-weight
- Needles: 24" circular or straights US 7 or US 8
- Tapestry needle
Shop sample is knit with 4 skeins of Noro Silk Garden.
Please purchase your supplies prior to class day. There is no pre-work for this class.
Tuesday, November 27, 6-8pm
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Autumn Holiday Punch
Ingredients:
6 cups apple cider
1 bottle sparkling red grape juice
2 cups orange juice
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice, or more to taste
1 orange
1 cinnamon stick
Directions:
Stir apple cider, sparkling red grape juice (or red wine), orange juice and lemon juice together. Add cinnamon stick. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Add orange slices for garnish.
Be prepared for your guests to say they can't get enough!
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