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Luxury items
- Interchangeable needle set: Addi, HiyaHiya, or ChiaoGoo ($67.50 – $179)
- Spinning wheel ($640-$720)
- Yarn winder ($54.95 & $280) and swift ($42 – $92): purchase together and receive 10% off! (From now until December 31st)
- Soakboxes ($50): see our review below!
- Luxury spinning fiber ($11-$65): silk, yak, soy, llama, corn, hemp, and more!
- Bamboo straight needle set in collector box ($37.50)
Reference Books: Build a Library
- Knitter’s Book of Wool ($30)
- Knitter’s Book of Socks ($30)
- Knitter’s Book of Yarn ($30)
- Alice Starmore Fair Isle Knitting ($29.95)
- Alice Starmore Aran Knitting ($29.95)
- 200 Fair Isle Motifs: A Knitter’s Dictionary ($24.95)
- Barbara Walker stitch guides ($30)
- Any Elizabeth Zimmerman book ($16.95 – $32.00)
- Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook ($35)
- Principles of Knitting ($45)
- The Knitting Experience: The Knit Stitch ($19.95)
- The Knitting Experience: The Purl Stitch ($19.95)
- The Knitting Experience: Color ($24.95)
Build your reference library!
Yarn! You can never have too much . . .
- Madelinetosh: Tosh DK ($19.30), Tosh Vintage ($19.35), Tosh Lace ($24.70), and Tosh Sock ($26.80)
- Everybody loves alpaca: Eco Cloud ($14.50), Cloud ($14.50), Baby Alpaca Chunky ($14.50), Eco Duo ($15), Eco Alpaca ($16), Pure Alpaca ($16)
- Dream in Color: Calm ($18), Wisp ($20), Classy ($20), Smooshy ($24), Smooshy with Cashmere ($30)
- Mountain Colors Weaver’s Wool: Get a whole sweater out of one skein! ($76)
- Blue Sky Alpacas Metalico: a beautiful blend of 50% alpaca and 50% silk ($14.60)
- Good for Ewe: Sultry Steps ($16) and Mirrorball ($19.50)
- Zen Yarn Garden: Pure Silk ($21), Serenity 20 ($32), Serenity Silk Singles ($35)
- Island Yarns: Noki ($30) and Pagoda ($24)
- Cascade Casablanca: make a striped scarf, letting the yarn do all the work! ($17)
Top row, L-R: Zen Yarn Garden, Cascade Casablanca, Island Yarns, Alpaca!
Bottom row, L-R: Mountain Colors Weaver’s Wool, Good for Ewe, Dream in Color, Madelinetosh
Handy Accessories
- Project bags from Stitched by Sasha ($10 – $45)
- Baskets from Honeycomb ($20 – $76)
- Shawl pins ($4 – $46)
- Lantern Moon project bags ($23)
- MiPattern Savers from Slipped Stitch Studios ($35)
L-R: Stitched by Sasha bags, Honeycomb baskets, MiPattern Savers
Stocking Stuffers
- Handmaid lotions($9): choose from four scents
- Soak foot cream ($10): choose from four scents
- Tape measures ($6.90 – $11.50): because they disappear into a black hole
- Sweater stone ($7)
- Handi tool ($1.60): easily lost and probably hanging out with all your lost tape measures
- Temporary tattoos from Soak ($10)
- Soak sample packs ($1)
- Stitch markers ($1.90 – $9): also easily lost and hanging out with the tape measures and the Handi Tools
- Tiny Mochi kits ($12)
- Row counters ($2.10 – $10.50)
- Tapestry needles ($1.46 – $6.75): again, hanging out with the lost items above
- Handmade soap ($5)
