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WOOL & WICKER 120-12051 Second Ave Richmond, BC V7E 3L6 604-275-1239 Toll free 1-877-966-5945 Woolandwicker.com dianedebray@shaw.ca Happy Holidays to all of you, our treasured customers, from Denis and I, and our teachers, Jean Wong, Pat Dyksterhuis, Maria Flather, Greta Holt, Edita Michalek, part timers, Lorraine Matsuo, Maria Flather, Y Emmons, Meaghan Cristjanson, ,and Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, for your continued support and encouragement. Boxing week/08 Sale!! (Dec.27-31st) • • • • • • • • Draw for your discount, up to 50% off all regular priced yarns and needles! 50% off all discontinued yarns including many of Needful Yarns Filtes King and Lana Gatto still left, and many magazines 50% off all yarns in 3 black plastic shelves at back of store 25% off all full priced books and mags Select sweater samples at clear out prices Free Knitter’s little helper hand cream (you’ll love this one) and 6 free magazines with $75 purchase or more, We welcome your personal cheques, cash, interac, Mastercard, or VISA Hours as usual News about your PassionKnitter’s club discount card! Starting Jan 2/09, all of your purchases will count on your card! Filled cards are added up and you receive 10% of what you have spent off your next project. Filled cards go into a once a year draw around Christmas time, and the drawn customer receives a $50 gift certificate to the store! Shop hours Tues. – Sat. 10-5:30PM Sun. & Mon. 12-5PM Open every day of the year except Christmas & Boxing days, & New Year’s Day Knitter’s Christmas Wish List Cut out and tape to fridge! □…….Addi Click Interchangeable needle set □ Knit finishing DVD by Jean □ Ball winder □ Umbrella swift □ Gift certificate for my fave yarn shop □ Lantern Moon basket □ Knitting Bag □ the Que circular Needle case □ Colinette AB Fab throw kit □ knitting book ________________________ Here,the latest grandchild, Sidney Jane, sister of Camryn is wearing a sleepsack that I designed and knit for her, done in Zitron’s Lifestyle, a lightweight dk extrafine merino, now available in solid colours, new selfpatterning colours promised for future. This superwash yarn has been raved about by our students which have used it, for its spring, softness and durability. See the 42 colours at skacelknitting.com. New books in stock, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Boutique Knits Color Style Knitting in Plain English Knitted Lace of Estonia Luxury Yarn One Skein Wonders, Nicky Epstein’s Knitting on Top of the world 365 Knitting Stitches a Year, Perpetual Calendar Country Weekend Knits Folk Socks, Folk Style Itty Bitty Nursery, Knitting for Baby, Knitting Lace Triangles, Knitting Noro We are very excited about Addi’s new interchangeable needle set, Addi Clicks, with 10 sizes of tips, (3.5, 4, If you wish to meet with other knitters in Richmond, come to our informal gathering the 2nd Friday of the month, 1-4PM here at Wool & Wicker & knit for your favourite charity or whatever you like. If you are looking for a meeting for your knitting group, let us know when you would like to meet, and if we don’t have a class planned for that time, come on over! 1 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10mm) and 3 sizes of a new extremely pliable blue cord (24, 32 and 40”) and a connector piece to store stitches or combine cords, a secure revolutionary locking mechanism, with no tools to change, just insert, twist and release. Ask for them at your local yarn shop. Class news! See last page sizes in our Addi lace needles, you can now Additional purchase all lengths in all sizes, including new needle sizes, up to 8mm!! Interweave Knits.08 Holiday Gifts? Blue Sky’s Bulky and Handdye worsted. ProjectLinus.org Thank you to all of the wonderful blanketeers who have donated and delivered blankets to us for Project Linus. We have also had several welcome volunteers who are happy to help ready the blankets for gifting when we get a number of them. Any of you knitters/crochetters/quilters/sewers who wish to donate yarn or fabric for those keen to work on blankies can bring them here, and of course, we welcome you folks who are so kind to use your knitting/crochet/quilting/sewing time for children in need. I spoke to Barbara at Variety Club this week, and she sent her thank you for helping all the children in need with the comfort of love in a handmade blanket. Note: Parent’s Magazine voted Project Linus as one of the 10 children’s charities deserving of your support. 2,293,340 blankets donated worldwide so far. Baby hats for needy children overseas. Another group needing volunteers has come to our attention, through our latest part time helper, Meaghan. She is asking for donations of yarn, old needles, hat patterns, and volunteers to join her group. Reach her at magz.cristjanson@gmail.com. New yarns in stock, since last newsletter, and still for fall/winter knitting: Blue Sky Alpaca’s Bulky Alpaca/wool blend (yummy), Handdye worsted, Organic Cotton, with their great pattern support! Below is a great legwarmer quick to knit for a great Christmas gift. Or don’t you think the kids would love these very special slippers from or, come in and see and feel the earflap hat and baby hat we have done with 2 skeins of the bulky for both, and the 2 button hat we knit with the worsted hand dye. Filatura di Crosa has changed distributors in Canada, and we picked up some of their incredible yarns for your enjoyment, Hyrcus, (finest, softest cashmere) a dk 100% cashmere in 10 colours, Superior, a cashmere/silk blend with 300m, in 7 colours, both in 25g balls, and for babies, you will see Bambi, In 4 colours, a super soft long shag chenille wool blend, (patterns include a bathrobe) and Zarina Baby Print. For spring/summer tank top and shawl knitting see the multicoloured 160m fingering weight viscose/nylon, Pixel, lovely! See the colours at diamondyarn.com From Skacelknitting.com, along with the best knitting needles in the world, we have some wonderful yarns still for fall/winter knits, including Nimbus, a multicoloured organic very soft merino perfect for neck warmers, and Kid Seta, in several colours, great for lace scarves, shawls, and for spring summer, several colours of Schulana’s Fashion Silk, a chunky weight marshmallow of a blend with some very lovely pattern support, Cotton Silk, a worsted weight organic nature dyed blend softly striated monochromatic colours, and Filolino, a linen blend ribbon in lovely multicolours, all, a joy to knit with and wear. Last, but sure to be a best seller, Trekking Hand Art is a handpainted sock yarn in a skein, now with 12 gorgeous colourways. From the Earth Collection, we brought in the Baby Camel, along with a great leaflet for a neck warmer, and their earthworks pattern book, with some lovely designs. From KarabellaYarns.com we have more of the wonderful Italian extra-fine merino Aurora 8 for your aran weight patterns. We are forever committed to the wonderful Manos del Uruguay, so you will see more and more of this wonderful yarn in our store. We have the new colours of the newest Manos silk blend, along with the new pattern books for this lovely yarn. One of our samples which continues to be popular is the polar bear baby jacket below, calling for Phildar Peluche, or you can use Pingopeluche. 2 Murano scarf from Interweave Knits winter 08, made in our Trekking Colours 108 and 112 From Berroco.com We still have good stock of Bonsai, the most beautiful bamboo ribbon which has been very popular, along with Nature Lin. Special yarns, at excellent prices, great pattern support. From Fleeceartist/Handmaiden, we have new colours of Mo, Kits for Jane, Elmira, Thrummed Moebius, Ana Bandana, Celtic Vest, Sea Baby, Wavy Scarf, Felted Beret, Quick knit hat, Sabine, and new 2/6 merino, and angel hair. Coming for Spring/summer/09 Watch for the following coming in Jan/Feb/09. From Diamondyarn.com New line to us is Aslan Trends, we were so impressed with the lovely shawl/capelet our rep Stephanie wore for their visit, we had to order the angora wool blend Invernal, and their first 2 books. I am so happy to have ordered the MirasolPeru.com line from Peru, a fair trade initiative to benefit the children of the region’s shepherds who live far below the poverty line and whose illiteracy rate is 95%. These yarns have been daily sellers, and we have their new children’s book, and a new summer book by Jane Ellison coming with new colours of their organic cotton, Samp’a. We also have good stock of Chirapa and Hacho. more Baby Bamboo, Snuggly dk and tons of new leaflets coming. There will be 3 new Louisa Harding books to help support her wonderful yarns with designs which are truly inspirational, so romantic in style and colours to die for. We still have some of her Sari ribbon, Impression, Daylily, along with their exceptional pattern support. Speakng of pattern support, I came across some great patterns from this fellow, and brought some in: hyphenboydesigns.com. Kimono Ribbon Pure, Thalia, Cinnabar, and the most yummy silk ever, Mulberry, in very delicious colours. From Debbie Bliss, we will have more Baby Cashmerino and Pure Silk. Diamond has a lovely multi-coloured cotton linen blend called Marina, which I thought would be lovely for dishcloths. Diamond Is now distributing South West Trading Co.’s yarns in Canada, and we have Bamboo coming for the fabulous Mariposa Shawl, below and the jade infused (yes, Jade) Therapi, for the Therapi wrap, sample in the store. Modular Shell Felted Backpack Sideways Sock yarn baby sweater, Ella Rae, we are loving the Ella Rae Classic, lovely for your worsted weight sweaters so have reordered and have more colours, including the classic heather and classic print. From Noro, you will still see some cotton blends, Matsuri and a textured cotton Taiyo, along with new colours of the very popular Silk Garden Sock and Kureyon Sock yarn. Sirdar.co.uk. The sublime line is especially luxurious, with very special pattern support. A new baby cotton kapok dk too soft to turn away, and organic cotton dk is coming in new colours. New yarns are Crofter dk, which is denim tweed dk in self patterning fair isle colourways, and Juicy dk, which is like Baby Bamboo, only with cotton, not wool. We have You all must know that we at woolandwicker are addicted to Rowan Yarns and designs and have been since they first came on the Canadian market, good grief! How many years ago? 22 years! For this coming season we will have more Rowan Denim, Summer Tweed, and we are bringing back Handknit dk cotton, and 3 new colours of the organic Purelife dk cotton, and from Nashua, we will have 3 colours of a lovely new summer yarn, 3 and ocean Waves Shawl. Our best seller right now and flying out the door snce it came in is the Jojoland Swirl Pattern Shawl made of Melody yarn, seen below. Lovely, isn’t it? Come on down! Curious about Jean’s classes? Check out some on-going blogs on line to see how her American students are doing, go to google.ca and type in nihon vogue knitting classes with Jean Wong. Classes Woolandwicker.com 604-275-1239 120-12051 Second Ave., Richmond, BC Please note: We offer the very best available teachers and we encourage you to purchase your yarns here before class in order to keep your fees low, and class size small. All yarns, needles and accessories for students 10% off while class in session. Call now to register for 2009, or for more information. Class size limited to 8 students. Don’t see the class you want to take listed? Let us know and we will try to make it happen! Beginner and Beyond knitting Just learned to knit or have you only knit scarves? This class is for you. $85 6 weeks. Min. 5 students,. Get your name in now for the next class. Mon. aft. 12:30-2.30. Starting Jan. 12, or Fri. nights starting Jan 16 7-9PM, with one of our beginner teachers, Edita Michalek, who is taking Nihon Vogue with Jean Wong, and wants to teach knitting in her retirement years coming, and Michelle Prefontaine, who has retired from a long career in nursing, and wants to share her love and knowledge of knitting with everyone! Michelle’s available anytime for teaching beginner knitting, so we should have some weekday classes set up for her soon. Our class organizer, Maria Flather, also taking Nihon Vogue, has been enjoying teaching Beginner’s to knit, Jan. 24th,Sat. 1:30-:3:30PM Basic knitting skills required for the following classes with Pat Dyksterhuis . Intermediate Knitting: $85–6 wks. Jan.10/09 start. Sat. morn. 10:30-12:30. Min. 5/class. We have a brilliant teacher who wants to teach you all she knows about knitting, and she knows a lot! This is Pat Dyksterhuis, a graduate of Jean Wong’s Level 4 classes. These are project based classes, you choose the project and get help from the teacher as you knit. You will learn so much in this class, because you learn from what the others in class are doing as well. Register now for the next class. Introduction to Lace Workshop Nihon Vogue Certificate Knitting Course. These classes are the only ones of their kind offered in North America. Get your name on the list right away, only 8 spaces available. These are certificate classes with Nihon Vogue Knitting School of Japan affiliation. Nihon Vogue has had a school operating in Japan for 52 years, and has trained 50,000 plus knitting instructors! This is like a University Knitting course. The 1st year is one year in duration, with a once a week class for 5 weeks, then 2 weeks off, repeating for the year. The tuition is $1050, payable first day of class, (deposit of 25% needed to hold your place) plus $150 for textbooks needed. These are a set of 4 texts, good for the first 2 years of the course. (Second year tuition will be same price, using texts you already have). This 1 year knitting course is appropriate for all skill levels, from beginner to master knitters. Even master knitters have learned much from Jean. Your first seven projects will be 1. pull-over vest with no shaping, your choice of boat, V neck or round neck: 2. top down sweater (or fair-isle yoke top down if you have already done this workshop with her); 4 set in sleeve sweaters: 3. pullover round neck, 4. pullover V-neck, 5. Cardigan round neck, 6. cardigan V-neck 7. Crochet vest. 8. design your own. You will knit a lacy scarf with yarn of your choice, learning provisional cast on and knit the edge as you go. Pat Dyksterhuis 3 sessions, $50, Dec. 6-20/08 Attendance will be taken, and your projects marked. Certificates not issued if you miss more than 6 classes. Sampler Knitting Workshop 3rd year is $1050, 32 weeks, 2 hours per class, text price to be determined. You can take 5 weeks, 1 week break, or go right through. 4 garments required. Can combine knit and crochet. You will learn 51 designs. 4th year $1450. 40 weeks, 2 hours per class. Can break every 5 weeks if wish. Very little homework required. 3 garments will be made, 1 knit, 1 crochet, 1 afghan crochet. You will knit and crochet many swatches in class. $175.00-10wks. Jan. 10/09, Sat aft. 1-3PM. Learn to knit aran, intarsia, Entrelac, fairisle and other knitting patterns you would like to learn, in sampler sizes with Pat Dyksterhuis. Squares can be joined into an afghan when you’re done. Register now for the next class. 4 Professional Finishing Classes Jean Wong teaches the following classes, Nihon Vogue trained with 9 years teaching experience in a Taiwanese knitting school. For perfect results, we suggest this challenging series; we have had all levels of knitters, from intermediate skills to masters, all learning many expert techniques. All students begin with level 1. We offer day and evening classes. These are an abbreviated version of the Nihon Vogue certificate class, no certificate offered, for those who don’t wish to commit to a year of knitting school. There are 8 levels offered. Professional finishing, level 1 $220 for 10 wks. start You will knit a round neck pullover vest, from scratch (no pattern to follow) shaped armholes. Learn the exacting Japanese knitting techniques, and learn how to knit to fit, without following someone else's pattern Professional finishing, level 2 $220 for 10 wks. Start Jan. 12/09/ Mon. eves., 7-9PM. Graduates of level 1, knit a short or long sleeve round neck pullover. Learning perfect armhole shaping for set-in sleeves, perfect setin sleeve shaping,, invisible cast off, pattern draftng. Get your name on the list for the next class. Professional finishing, level 3 $220 for 10 wks. Choose from 2 classes, Jan 14 start, 10:15AM, or Jan 15 start, 10”15AM. Graduates of level 1 & 2 learn more about Japanese knitting techniques, matching patterns at side and shoulder seams, armhole shaping and math involved, shaping collars, you will be making a lace or aran v-neck pullover. Professional finishing, level 4 $220, for 10 wks. Get your name on the list for the next class. Graduates of level 3 knit a raglan v-neck pullover, matching patterns perfectly, using stitch patterns, and using one colour yarn. Handmaiden sleeveless shaped shrug workshop, an Introductory workshop with Jean Wong, 5 weeks, $100.00, max 10 students. Want to take a shorter class with Jean and see how you like her teaching? She will offer 1 more of her Handpaint Shrug classes in March/09. Get your name in soon as there are people waiting, Crochet Classes with Greta Holt: Tues. nights, 7-9PM. Learn to crochet with this exciting and dynamic expert crochetter and crochet teacher. $85.00/ 6 weeks. Get your name on the list and we will set a date early 09!