Today through August 31st when you buy a set of the fabulous Denise interchangeable needles you will get FREE shipping AND a FREE Denise crochet hook!! What's not to love on this one?? The Denise needles are an all in one handy set of of needles ranging in size from US 5-15 with a great range of cords. They are easy to use and very portable! The ad is running on Knitting Daily and like I said it will be all done on the 31st, so check it out, as it may just be the time to complete your needle collection, or start one! I sure do wish I had known about these needles when I first started knitting and of course it's not too late to make my needles portable...ok I am in!!!As always happy knitting and crocheting!Jeanneaddthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo =...

Wow you all had such amazing suggestions for our name Grab Bag Friday's that it was very hard to choose!! Thanks for submitting your ideas to us and I hope you had fun coming up with those great names!Barbara's name "Add Splash to Your Stash Friday" came in first and she will be getting her very own grab bag to add splash to her stash soon! CONGRATULATIONS Barbara and thanks again to all of you for your great ideas!!As always happy knitting and crocheting!Jeanneaddthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif';addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live, more...

We are having a special event on one of our regular open knit nights, October 28th!!! Julie Turjoman will be here in the shop to sign her new book, Brave New Knits which won't be released until sometime next month. I just had to get this out so you can mark your calenders and I will keep you posted!! Julie is so nice and down to earth and of course talented you are just going to love her!We got to see the rough draft and Sandy has already knit from the book and that pattern was fantastic!! I CAN'T wait!!!As always happy knitting and crocheting!Jeanneaddthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif';addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live,...

Today was our first 'Socks with Sandals' day at the shop! It was a lot of fun and we even had a very special visitor for the event, our own littlest bean Huck!He was the messenger for a cute heart shaped note from his teacher Emily (taped to his back) who I have had the pleasure to help to learn to knit! Thanks Emily!! As you can see I have put it up on my rear view mirror and there it shall stay to cheer me as I drive along! I just taught her to purl (2 weeks ago maybe even 3??) and this is her way of saying she loves it!He helped out by taking a phone order and was very determined to type in the information with as much force as he could muster!He was also involved in our sock shaped cookie icing event and had his very first cookie for which I am guilty of not asking Mom aka Jimmy if it...

addthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif';addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live, more';I am so excited about Skacel's "Egg-stra" Special Sock kit!!! ALL the proceeds (100%) for this kit ($25.00) are being donated to the fight against Ovarian Cancer and the yarn was dyed to perfectly match the Teal color used for Ovarian Cancer, it is beautiful!!!I am picking my kit up first thing in the morning and can't wait to get these knit up for the upcoming sock season. The pattern is perfect with it's cabled cuff all the way to the toe!More to come on this one...stay tuned same knitting channel!As always happy knitting and crocheting! Je...

Well it's finally happened, Amber has come over to the dark side and is really pursuing knitting! She's an amazing crocheter, but has resisted the knitting (I certainly understand this, as I resist the crocheting) however Ailene, Nicole and Amber just cast on their very own Iris the Gourmet Monsters!! They are all using different yarns and I helped them understand the magic loop (which is suggested to work up little Iris) and they all took off!! I barely showed them how it all works and those great young minds ran with it, phew I was dizzy!**Side note if you would like to learn the magic loop here is a small video we did about this technique...let me know if it is helpful?To the left are Amber and Nicole and on the right is our very own Ailene and if you get a chance to have either of these...

Amber is in love and who can blame her when it's this sweet little Lorna's Laces Iris? She got Sara (who is now working elsewhere and is missed) to knit it up for her out of the Shepherd Worsted in the color Catalpa!Sara wisely gave her the finished pieces and she had to stuff it and sew it together and this is to get her knitting her own stuff! Clearly she finally got to work and put her little Iris together. Way to go Amber we are all so proud!!As always happy knitting and crocheting! Jeanneaddthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif';addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live, more...

The Grab Bags are on the Wool Watcher as promised and WOW what a great response!! Have fun with this one and have a great weekend! Jeanneaddthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif';addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live, more...

addthis_pub = 'laurazander';addthis_brand = 'Jimmy Beans Wool'; addthis_logo = 'http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/images/headerlogoSmall.gif';addthis_options = 'favorites, digg, delicious, email, google, myspace, facebook, reddit, newsvine, live, more';We have a Wool Watcher ALERT for you all!! Tomorrow (Thursday) we will be featuring some of the new Trendsetter Vigna and you will want to take a peek for sure!!Then we have 'Funky Fiber Friday' coming up (if you have a better name please let us know) which will be featuring our new Muench grab bags which include yarns from GGH, Lana Grossa and Muench!! These great designer yarns are a 'Grab Bag' but I can tell you that they are lovely and deserve full yarn honors!! They range from small to large which means anywhere from 500-1000 yards of beautiful...

And the winners are....Peppermint Mocha and Blueberry Snowcone!!It was a close race and I can't tell how much your votes mean to us!! You are all amazing and it was a fun race. I can see that you are all fond of some of the older colors, as are we!The 'new' permanent colors will be available by August 15th!! I can tell you I will be getting both colors into my stash in different weights...my poor family, ha ha!We are currently offering our Limited Edition colors in Shepherd Sock, Shepherd Sport, Shepherd Worsted, Lion and Lamb, Helen's Lace, Honor and now Pearl! We are also offering the Greenline this month in both DK and Worsted weight. The Greenline is on sale at 50% off in this month's color Capital City! Wow!Phew that was exciting! As always happy knitting and crocheting! Jeanneaddthis_pub...