My Sister Knits is one of the multitudes of yarn shops celebrating Local Yarn Store Day on Saturday, April 27th! This international day of celebration was created by The National Needlearts Association (TNNA) in 2018 to bring awareness to the advantages of having a local yarn store close

Let’s have some fun! If you’re anything like me, you often look at our skeins of Spincycle yarn and ooh and aah over the colors but you don’t really know what you’d do with it so you leave it on the shelf.

My Sister Knits has long been a fan of mudd leather knitting bags. We have a trunk show of these beauties arriving this week! mudd is a Danish company well known for its quality leather goods.

Wooldreamers has an intriguing yarn for spring knitting! Saona is a 50/50 wool-cotton blend, all from Spain. The wool is a blend of Merino and Manchega. The fun thing about Manchega is that it comes from Manchega sheep who are also the source of Manchego cheese! 

The Sophie Scarf, designed by PetiteKnit, took the knitting world by storm. They are all over the place! There are over 16,700 projects posted on Ravelry!

Just when we thought we had enough Sophies at My Sister Knits, we have one more that is almost a requirement for springtime or summer evenings!

A few weeks ago I wrote about giving your brain a break with a kit. Today, we’re going to focus on classes and making your brain work by learning something new!

We have a variety of classes in April to choose from:

A few weeks ago I wrote about giving your brain a break with a kit. Today, we’re going to focus on classes and making your brain work by learning something new!

We have a variety of classes in April to choose from:

Have you ever known you wanted to knit…something…but you didn’t want to go through the process of finding a pattern and then the yarn to go with it? You wanted someone to present you with a project ready to start, perhaps even handed to you on a silver tray, just to complete our picture here!

Most of you know that My Sister Knits has goodies in the shop that are not yarn! Most, if not all, of them make creating our projects easier or more fun. Let’s take a look at a few of these ways to improve your knitting/crocheting experiences.

The Street Dog Coalition is a non-profit organization that offers veterinary services to pets of people who are unhoused or at risk of being unhoused. This organization started in Fort Collins and now is in 60 cities around the nation.

My Sister Kits just received a shipment of Kelbourne Woolens DK weight Scout! Talk about a squishy yarn!

Scout is from the fleece of Highland sheep in the Peruvian highlands, a cross between Merino and Corriedale. The Corriedale adds strength and durability to the soft Merino.

My Sister Knits has new yarn and new books for you! We have all 12 colorways of Julie Asselin’s bulky weight Douillet. We also just unpacked a shipment of her Boucle yarn!

Today, My Sister Knits is giving you a feast for your eyes! Two fun hats have come to our attention!

Both of them use garter stitch; one uses one strand of fingering weight yarn, the other uses two strands of fingering weight yarn held together.

As I’m sitting here writing this, a cold wind is blowing and the idea of making (and wearing) a straightforward, cozy sweater is most appealing! Isabell Kraemer’s Kallias, published in September, is exactly what’s called for!

My Sister Knits has a new hat that we’ve fallen in love with! It’s a good job that we have an infinite number of hats that we are allowed to love! Each new sample that comes in seems to fit in that category!

Our new favorite is the Cozy Bliss Hat designed by Pam Sapienza. Published only a few weeks ago in December, this unique hat is destined to become a fun, popular knit!

My cautionary tale reminds all of us to take care of ourselves while knitting! Before Christmas, when I thought I was done with my holiday knitting, I saw a dear little Santa hat at My Sister Knits. I just had to make it for my two week old grandson! He absolutely had to have it and as soon as possible!

We’ve had a sample at My Sister Knits for a couple of weeks that’s captivated me. It caught my eye when I was in the shop and I finally took it down to look at it closer. The first thing that I noticed was how it felt; it was so lightweight for a sweater! I looked at the tag and it’s Joji Locatelli’s new pattern Stripy Unicorn.

The countdown to gift giving is here and My Sister Knits has oodles of choices for you! A quick look around the shop the other day provided a wealth of ideas! Here are a few of them ………

My Sister Kits has oodles of books; some are how-to resources, some have patterns, others have historical stories and breathtakingly beautiful photographs.

Do you have your calendars marked? In just under two weeks My Sister Knits hosts Hannah Ginn of Circus Tonic Handmade! I’d like to remind everyone that this is such a special event because Hannah lives in Adelaide, South Australia! She will be in the US for a visit that just happens to be close enough to visit us!