Sony and Misty with Knitting Lagniappe will be here in the shop with their fantastic pottery (yarn bowls!) and giving FREE CLASSES! June 8 and 9, 2012. Not available? Lucky for you they have agreed to leave the pottery to us until June 16th. Get a jump on your Christmas shopping – they have pottery for muggles too.
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Reminder – Closed Mother’s Day
Just one last reminder that we will be closed tomorrow, May 13th in honor of Mother’s Day.
Regular hours resume next week.
Wednesday 12-5pm
Thursday 1-9pm (drop in knitting class 7-9pm)
Friday and Saturday 12-5pm
Sunday 12-4pm
Don’t Despair, Repair! Class June 2012
Don’t Despair, Repair! What do you do when you find a dropped stitch, a hole or if the whole darned project just goes wrong? Alissa will help you sort through the options and maybe just save what you thought was totally hopeless.
June 16 and 23 (2 day class) 1-3pm $30 covers both days. Homework is required. Supply list and homework sheet given at time of sign-up.
Call the shop to reserve your spot (214)412-2889
Closed Mother’s Day and NEW HOURS!
A quick note to let you know that Knitting Fairy Yarn Studio will be closed on Sunday, May 13th for Mother’s Day.
NEW SHOP HOURS!
We are pleased to announce that Knitting Fairy Yarn Studio is expanding it’s hours to include Wednesdays! Yes, we are adding another day to our shop week. All other hours remain as before.
Wednesdays 12-5pm
Thursdays 1-9pm (Drop in Help class 7-9pm $10)
Friday 12-5pm
Saturday 12-5pm
Sunday 12-4pm
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Dallas Handknitter’s Guild Tuesday May 1st
I will be presenting at the Dallas Handknitter’s Guild this Tuesday evening. The topic will be various ways to bind off and tips and techniques to improve your bind-off skills.
Do plan to come, the Dallas Handknitter’s Guild is a fabulous group and we LOVE to meet new friends.
The meeting starts at 7pm.
Hockaday School, Clements Hall
11600 Welch Road Dallas, TX 75229.
Please enter and use the Forest Lane parking lot.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Alissa
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Introduction to Fair Isle Knitting Class
Jean Knapp will be teaching an introduction to Fair Isle knitting this month. You will be making our Felted Fair Isle Purse. The class will be Saturday April 14th and 28th from 1-3pm. The cost of the class is $40 plus materials. You can purchase a kit for this project for $35 extra or you can put your own custom colors together from our selection of Naturespun Worsted.
You can sign up for the class by emailing me at alissa@knittingfairy.com or calling the shop at (214)412-2889. Payment is due at the time of registration for the class. Materials or kits can be purchased on or before the day of class.
And we are back!
Wasn’t DfwFiberFest a blast? It was great to see everyone and make so many new friends. We are already making plans for next year!
Getting back to the shop has been quite a chore but Meagan, Betty Kay and I have finally gotten it all set back up, ready and waiting for you to come shop. We did move things around (never miss a chance for a good spring cleaning!) so be sure to check around when you come in.
We have replaced our winter display of wooly-goodness with some light, summery cottons. All 10 brand new colors of Riveting Sport from Kollage Yarns have just arrived and there is a display of Classic Elite‘s Seedling. Meagan wore a Seedling sweater during FiberFest and loved it so much that she has been busy making plans for all the other sweaters she wants to knit as well. I just finished a sweater in Ty-Dy cotton from Knit One, Crochet Too. I made the Tee for Two sweater and I just love how it has come out. A little washing and blocking and you will be able to see me wearing it around the shop.
Just before FiberFest I finished a lacy sweater in Cascade’s Ultra Pima DK. 
The colors on this yarn are just amazing and it was very comfortable to wear. I am trying to decide what I am going to cast on for next… Meagan thinks I should knit her a sweater in Ultra Pima. I haven’t come up with any great plans yet so I am just plugging along on my Beekeeper’s Quilt. 
My sister tells me that my nephew needs a new sweater for the coming winter and he has gotten so big that he cannot fit under his baby blanket anymore (hint hint). I see lots of little boy knitting coming soon.
Gone Knittin’!
KnittingFairy has gone to Fiber Fest!
Since we are transporting much of our yarny goodness to the show floor, the shop itself will be closed Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (March 29th through April 1st).
You can come see us at the show – its not too late to get a pass for the vendor hall! We’ll have an elite collection of our inventory plus a few surprises and new stuff, too! Come see us there!
The shop will re-open for its regular hours on Thursday, April 5 at 1pm.
Thanks and hope to see you at Fiber Fest! http://www.dfwfiberfest.com/
KnittingFairy Closing Early March 17
KnittingFairy will be closing at 3pm on Saturday, March 17, 2012 so we can attend the funeral of our friend and regular, Betsy Stell.
We will be open for normal hours on Sunday, March 18: noon to 4pm with Stitchin at the Studio from 1-4pm.
Retreat!
I want to tell you all about the fabulous weekend Betty Kay and I enjoyed at the Fancy Fibers Farm Winter Fun Retreat! Mary Berry is a superb organizer and the whole event went off without a hitch. We arrived at Camp Copass in Denton (a gorgeous facility!) on Thursday afternoon and set up a mini version of the Knitting Fairy Yarn Studio in the gathering room. Classes started right away and I heard TONS of nice comments on all kinds of different things people were learning. I saw spinning, crochet, knitting, needle tatting, felting, Australian Locker hooking and more. I only took one class, yoga. I really enjoyed it! I taught a felted Fair Isle Tote (Why do I always want to make that Fairy Isle?), Introduction to lace knitting and Entrelac. I had nice classes full of nice people and I think we all enjoyed our time together very much. The best part for me of any of these events is making new friends and catching up with old ones I rarely see. Can you believe I ran into friends I used to spin with in Lancaster, Tx over 20 years ago?! Fiber is a small world.
Mary will be opening up the sign-up list soon for the 2013 retreat (Feb 14, 15, 16 1nd 17, 2013) , so be sure to watch her blog for details if you don’t want to miss out. I am already planning to be there and co-sponsoring the event again and I look forward to seeing you there!