This time of year is so busy, with so much rushing back and forth and all the things that (we think we) have to get done, it’s easy to forget how much good there is out there.  I have received so many emails and messages over the last couple of weeks from readers and customers sending me good wishes to get better soon, and they’ve absolutely warmed my heart.  Seriously, I appreciate it so much.

I went to see the doctor last week, a follow-up to ending up in the ER (did I tell you I ended up in the ER?) where they finally spotted that I had pneumonia and gave me the meds I’d been needing for a month (hooray!!!!).  Anyway, I had my follow up and the doctor is pleased with everything, told me I’m on the mend, and then said…  wait for it…  “Now you know, with pneumonia, for every day you were sick, you should expect it will take two days to recover.”  Friends, I’d been sick — really sick — at that point for a month!  How am I supposed to manage taking another two months to recover?!?  But you know what, I’ve tried pushing my body this week and it has adamantly pushed back so… perhaps I’ll have to let it take its time.

And in the meantime, I’ve been relying on my awesome SpaceCadet crew: Jade, Sara, and Jill.  They have absolutely carried everything for the past month and if you’ve received yarn from us this month, it’s really they who made it happen.  So I just want to take a moment to acknowledge how fantastic I think they are (just in case you — or they — didn’t realise).  With that kind of support in both the studio and from our customers, I’m feeling so grateful.

But it’s still that crazy season and there’s a lot going on — and lots to share with you!  So shall we get to it?  Pour a nice cup of tea (mine is never far away!) and curl up in a comfy spot, and let’s dive in…

Image ©Megan Auman, used with permission

‘Tis the season for scarves and shawls (hooray!) but ’tis also the season for fancy holiday outfits that often call for a bold statement necklace.  Can you wear the two together?  Yes, according to this article (though personally I’d add that, at least when the shawl or scarf is handmade, the necklace needs to be non-snagging!).  And this sister article gives three ways to style it.

Did you see this?  I used one of our Notions Boxes to tidy up my needles and notions and made a sweet little video as I went along.  It makes me happy .

Hanukkah began last night and I’ve seen a lot of awesome crocheted menorahs (like this one) but this round-up of DIY menorahs actually had me laughing out loud.  Hard to pick my favourite but I think it’s Number 2.

I know I mentioned it in previous newsletters, but don’t forget that the wonderful designer Hunter Hammersen is taking the idea  of an Advent calendar and applying it to her gorgeous designs!  Each day from Dec 1st to 24th, she’ll put one of her patterns on sale, throwing in giveaways for the accompanying yarn along the way.  Today it is the beautiful Permutation hat (and a chance to win a skein each of Capella and Cressida!). Check out Hunter’s Instagram feed to join the fun!

We’ve got you covered for easy holiday gifts…

The SpaceMonster Mega Yarn Club is Open for Subscriptions!

“This is such a fun club… and of course the Space Cadet colorways are so beautiful” — it’s comments like this one from our SpaceMonster Club members that make everything so much fun!  We spend a lot of time planning everything that goes into the club to ensure that being a part of the SpaceMonster Club is about gorgeous new colourways, awesome gifts, and the fun of sharing it all with a community of fellow club members.  And when we get comments like that?  It makes all the hard work worthwhile!

The SpaceMonster Club opens to new members only twice a year and only for two weeks.  It’s open now until Dec 23, and then it closes again for a whole six months so, if you’ve been thinking about joining, you’ll want to grab a spot now!  (And you know what’s the best part?  It makes an excellent (and easy!) holiday gift that lasts a whole year!)

Four Months of Mini-Skeins: a Gift Subscription

You know that our popular Mini-Skein Club is a super-fun way to collect a palette of colours but, because it’s an ongoing subscription, I know it’s a little tricky to give as a gift.  So just for the holidays, we’ve put together an awesome option for easy gift-giving… Now you have the chance to give a one-time gift subscription to your favourite knitter or crocheter — or try it yourself!

And y’know, I’ve never been one of those (amazing) folks who get all their holiday shopping done on Dec 1 —  I’m always scrambling a few days before the holidays to find the perfect gift.  And if you’re that kind of person too, I getcha!   So I’m making our Four-Month Gift Subscription available right up to Dec 23 to save your last-minute-shopping bacon!  Tell us who your gift recipient is and we’ll be sure to send them an email to let them know what you’ve got them.  Click here for all the details.

North Point by Simone Kereit

The first thing to love about this hat is the way the cables are all set to different heights…  do you see that?  It not only makes the finished object super-cool, but keeps your interest while you’re making it too.  And the second thing to love is that is it’s part of a collection called “Procrasti Nation: Quick projects for the last minute crafter“, which is just tailor made for anyone starting a gift this late in December (*raises hand).  And the third is that the designer, Simone, is an absolutely lovely person, which always makes a pattern more fun to knit, don’t you think?

Are Ewe Feeling Sheepish? by Melissa Kemmerer

One of THE trends of this season has been stranded colourwork yokes and, while so many of them are classically beautiful, I think my favourite might be this one with its adorable sheep repeated around the neckline.  Knit in nature-inspired neutrals or pop-art brights, it’s a witty alternative to traditional motifs that will keep you smiling from cast on to bind off.

A Lady is Known by Hunter Hammersen

For me, the holidays are usually a frenetic time: shopping and cooking and planning and socialising and, oh yes, working a lot.  This year, with the flu turning into pneumonia and wiping out my entire November and December-so-far, I’ve had to slow down, whether I wanted to or not*, and I find that’s changed my perspective on holiday shopping.  This year, I can’t run around the way I have in the past, I can’t buy/make/do everything under the sun.  When it comes to gifts, rather than a more-is-more attitude, I’m finding myself wanting to really think through what everyone on my list wants, and then carefully select or make** the one thing that will truly make them happy.

And can I tell you, it feels really refreshing.  Not just because it’s more calm and relaxed but also because it’s making me really think about my friends and family, to kind of spend time with them in my mind to think of the right gift, rather than just rushing out to buy all the shiny objects in the shops.  And to be honest, it’s also kind of changing my feelings toward what SpaceCadet offers as holiday gift options too.

Today is SpaceMonster Club opening day, when we open the SpaceMonster Mega Yarn Club to new members for a short time only.  And it’s a day that always has me super-excited, because I love seeing new members join our community and existing members show how much they’ve enjoyed it when they renew.  There’s always lot of excited language and exclamation points (and we’ll get to all that below) but this year I’m feeling a little different.

I am super-excited about the club opening — of course I am — but this time it’s because I’m thinking of it as a gift, and thinking of it with this new, slower approach to gift giving.  A SpaceMonsters gift membership isn’t the sort of gift that takes up a lot of space under the tree, it doesn’t sing and dance when you open it (though the recipient might), and quite frankly, it’s the kind of gift a lot of people just won’t even understand.  But for a knitter or crocheter, it’s the kind of carefully chosen gift that feels just right…  a perfect-fit gift that lasts well beyond the holidays, delivering yarn and colour and creativity and community all year long.

So even though my approach to the holidays has completely shifted this year, I am feeling so good about the SpaceMonsters Club opening today.  Because I know that every gift subscription that is given is making a knitter or crocheter so very happy — at the holidays and all the way through 2018.  And I can’t wait to meet (and create yarn for) every single one!

Because we know you love big smooshy yarns, doncha?

There is nothing in the whole world like a skein of lovely, smooshy, thick yarn to make you want to pick it up, squish it… dive right into it! Big, bulky yarns call out to you, beg you to pick them up and press them against your cheek. And when you cast on, they always work up so fast! Big yarns are gorgeous.

All images shown here are of past colourways and are for illustrative purposes only.
Yarns, colouways, and gifts for new subscriptions will be different (but still awesome!).

Ready to join us?

Very Important: if you are giving a subscription as a gift, please remember to include the recipient’s postal and email addresses in the notes when you check out. We gotta have that to send the recipient their parcels!

Here’s what you’re getting…

As a member of the SpaceMonsters Mega Club, you receive:

• a fantastic parcel delivered to their door every other month, containing a beautiful skein of SpaceCadet^® yarn in worsted or bulky weight, hand-dyed in an exclusive colourway* created to bring out the best in thicker yarns.
• The SpaceCadet’s Log exploring the inspiration for each colourway.
• A fantastic SpaceMonsters gift tucked into every third parcel. We’re known for the great gifts we include in our club parcels — and for this club, we’re seriously upping the fab. You’re going love it!

All images shown here are of past colourways and are for illustrative purposes only.
Yarns, colouways, and gifts for new subscriptions will be different (but still awesome!).

But bigger yarns mean bigger projects, right?

Don’t you worry — in this club, you can buy extra skeins! For a whole month after you receive your parcel, you’ll have an exclusive opportunity to order more skeins custom-dyed in the latest club colourway. You’ll receive an email with all the details about a week after your parcel goes out — and then all you have to do is pick your project!

All images shown here are of past colourways and are for illustrative purposes only.
Yarns, colouways, and gifts for new subscriptions will be different (but still awesome!).

• a 6 month subscription (3 parcels) is only $99
• a 12 month subscription (6 parcels) is just $194
• Plus, you can choose a double subscription for two skeins in each parcel, or a triple for three, giving you the option to cast on your project as soon as you open the box!

Ready? Let’s do this!

Very Important: if you are giving a subscription as a gift, please remember to include the recipient’s postal and email addresses in the notes when you check out. We gotta have that to send the recipient their parcels!

Six month subscriptions include 3 parcels; twelve month subscriptions include 6 parcels. Parcels will be sent out in early February, April, June, August, October, and December. Shipping within the United States is included in the price; extra charges apply for shipping outside the US. Normal subscription openings/renewals will be available in June and December of each year. All club members are automatically subscribed to the club mailing list to receive email notification of club updates, special offers for extra skeins, and similar stuff. We never, ever sell or share your email with anyone. Because of the nature of the club set-up, we can accept returns or exchanges of club shipments for faulty yarns only. By joining the club, you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. All images shown here are of past colourways and are for illustrative purposes only. Yarns, colouways, and gifts for new subscriptions will be different (but still awesome!). Any other questions? We’re here to help! missioncontrol@spacecadetyarn.com

*and here I have to give a HUGE shout-out and a lot of gratitude to the SpaceCadet Crew for really carrying everything while I’ve been so sick.  You’ve got your yarn because Jade, Sara, and Jill made it happen, not because of me, and I am really really grateful to them.

**I’d love to show you but my mum and sister both read this and it would totally spoil the surprise.  After the holidays, I promise!

This week has been all about little changes.  As much as I wanted these meds to kick in and fix everything Right Now, that’s not how pneumonia works.  The vicious cough is clearing up at last and, every day, I can push myself to do a little more than I did yesterday.  But then I hit the limits of what I can do, and it hits back hard.  The other day I carried a bag of yarn about a hundred yards and then had to sit down quickly because I was suddenly thisclose to passing out.  As much as I want to make my body do what I want it to do, it keeps reminding me that that’s not how pneumonia works. Ok, ok, I’m listening.

But the other changes?  They’re magical!  It’s time for those the wonderful little shifts from the daily grind to holiday twinkle.  And while I haven’t had the energy to drag everything out and do all the decorating at once, every day there’s a little more sparkle in the house: a wreath of holly on the door, a centerpiece of oranges on the table, and a lot more candles.  I like my holiday decor simple and as homemade as possible so, naturally, I’ve been thinking of ways to hand-craft a little holiday spirit for the home — and you’ll spot that influence in this week’s pattern picks too.

But for now, I’m ready to grab a cup of tea and share this week’s fiber news with you.  Are you ready?  Here we go!…

I know I mentioned it last week, but don’t forget that the wonderful designer Hunter Hammersen is taking the idea  of an Advent calendar and applying it to her gorgeous designs!  Each day from Dec 1st to 24th, she’ll put one of her patterns on sale, throwing in giveaways for the accompanying yarn along the way.  Look for her Changeful socks this Thursday (and a chance to win a skein of SpaceCadet Oriana!)

I absolutely swooned when I spotted these awesome knitted dishes from Ikea!  Have you seen them?  They’re part of their Vinter collection (so maybe only available for the holidays?) and each piece has a different textile pattern: knit stitches, cables, linen stitch, chevrons…  I want them all!

This (not safe for work!) zippered pouch made me laugh out loud. There’s someone in your knit group who would love it.

A couple of weeks ago, the SpaceCadet team and I were discussing the best way to strip herb leaves from their stalks.   Jill has a particularly abundant herb garden and is so generous to the rest of us (did you see this?) but sometimes fresh herbs are just really argumentative (I’m looking at you, Thyme).  So I nearly fell off my chair when I saw this amazing knitting tool trick for stripping fresh herbs super quickly and easily.  Seriously game-changing!

Speaking of cooking, this video showing how to knit an apple pie has got me totally inspired (…and kind of hungry!)

Put These Dates on Your Calendar…

The SpaceMonster Mega Yarn Club Opens This Friday

The other day, I was scrolling through Instagram and spotted a comment on one of my posts from a member of the SpaceMonster Club.  I’d been knitting a mitt out a club colourway and she’d simply said, “I love this club!”  And you know what?  Reading that absolutely made my day, because that is exactly what I want our club members to feel!  Being a part of the SpaceMonster Club is about gorgeous new colourways, awesome gifts, and the fun of sharing it all with a community of fellow club members.

The SpaceMonster Club opens to new members only twice a year, and we open the doors at noon on Friday Dec 8 and I always give first dibs to folks on the waiting list, so click here for all the details and get on that list!

(And you know what’s the best part?  It makes an excellent (and easy!) holiday gift that lasts a whole year!)

Our Cyber Monday Special: Saving Your Last-Minute Bacon!

You know that our popular Mini-Skein Club is a super-fun way to collect a palette of colours but, because it’s an ongoing subscription, I know it’s a little tricky to give as a gift.  So just for the holidays, we’ve put together an awesome option for easy gift-giving… Now you have the chance to give a one-time gift subscription to your favourite knitter or crocheter — or try it yourself!

And y’know, I’ve never been one of those (amazing) folks who get all their holiday shopping done on Dec 1 —  I’m always scrambling a few days before the holidays to find the perfect gift.  And if you’re that kind of person too, I getcha!   So I’m making our Four-Month Gift Subscription available right up to Dec 23 to save your last-minute-shopping bacon!  Tell us who your gift recipient is and we’ll be sure to send them an email to let them know what you’ve got them.  Click here for all the details.

Ok, I think it’s time I got to work.  I won’t be lifting lots of things and tiring myself out today, but we do have a bunch of orders to go out and I’d better get the paperwork started.  The best bit about sending packages?   Checking out the colour combos each customer came up with, and then writing a little note just to say hi!  Today, I’ve got a ton of those to do, so I know it’s going to be a good day.   I hope yours is just as good and, until next time, I wish you all the best.

Before I say a word about anything else, I want to thank you for making the Black Friday Do-Over so amazing!   Who would’ve thought that doing Black Friday a week late could be so much fun?  But after the disappointment of missing the original Black Friday weekend altogether, I can’t tell you how exciting it was to see how much you guys liked our Holiday Mini-Skein Collections.  I truly wasn’t expecting them to disappear the way they did but they were gone in a heartbeat!   I suspect there will be some very happy knitters and crocheters opening their holiday gifts this year.

But what if you have gifts still to buy and didn’t get one of those lovely sets?  You know that our popular Mini-Skein Club is a super-fun way to collect a palette of colours but, because it’s an ongoing subscription, I know it’s a little tricky to give as a gift.  So just for the holidays, we’ve put together an awesome option for easy gift-giving…

Four Month Gift Subscription to the SpaceCadet’s Mini-Skein Club

A subscription to our Mini-Skein Club is the perfect gift when you want to delight the knitter or crocheter on your list, month after month after month…!  Our Mini-Skein Club is crazy-popular and a ton of fun  …and now you have the chance to give a one-time gift subscription to your favourite knitter or crocheter — or try it yourself!

Working with mini-skeins is like drawing with yarn, and each little bundle of colour becomes a new and exciting addition to your palette! Our Gift Subscription allows you or your gift recipient to join in with our regular club members from January to April 2018.  You pay only once, and we send out four parcels to get the new year off to a yarny-great start!

Choose your Mix

Our Multicolour Mix gives you wild pops of colour to use in any project and  in our Ombre & Gradient Mix each month’s colours flow right into the next month, to create a gorgeous Never Ending™ Gradient that combine for a gorgeous colour flow!

And here’s the really cool thing: If you’ve ever wanted to try the different SpaceCadet yarns, the Mini-Skein Club is a GREAT way to do it! Because the skeins are a mix of all the SpaceCadet’s beautiful fingering yarns (the Multicolour Mix contains a variety each month, and the Ombré & Gradient Mix changes yarn from month to month). So some are Celeste and Oriana, there’s a touch of cashmere with Aurora, stunning sheen on Maia, and the subtle sparkle of Lucina.

Are You a Last-Minute Shopper?

I am! I’ve never been one of those (amazing) folks who get all their holiday shopping done on Dec 1 —  I’m always scrambling a few days before the holidays to find the perfect gift.  And if you’re that kind of person too, I getcha!   So I’m making our Four-Month Gift Subscription available right up to Dec 23 to save your last-minute-shopping bacon!  Tell us who your gift recipient is and we’ll be sure to send them an email to let them know what you’ve got them.  Click here for all the details.

Our Black Friday and Cyber Monday Do-Over has been awesome — and I am so grateful to you for making happen!  I hope in return I’ve given you some awesome gift options — and maybe made the holidays a little bit easier.  Happy SpaceCadet Cyber Monday!

If you read this week’s newsletter, you’ll know that I was so sick that Black Friday weekend was a disaster for us.  So what do you do when you just totally miss the biggest small business weekend of the year?  You do a Black Friday Weekend Do-Over!

So while the rest of the country went a little crazy last weekend, this is the SpaceCadet Black Friday weekend.  And what I love is that it gives us all a chance to slow down a bit and do some holiday shopping in a much more relaxed way.  Sounds good, right? I think so!

So, are you ready to see what we’ve put together for Black Friday?  I’ve been twisting these up and the colours are so divine, I just can’t wait to show you!  We were able to dye only twelve sets for each collection, so I’ve chosen  to put them up today at 12noon (eastern) because it’s the best time to give everyone in different timezones a chance a set.  Until then, they’re marked as “sold out”, so you can take your time scrolling down to choose the colour family you like most, and then set a timer on your phone for noon (eastern) so you’re all ready to click here when they go live.

The SpaceCadet Holiday Mini-Skeins Collections

There is something about Mini-Skeins that just feels like such a treat — they’re sweet, adorable, and soooo full of colour.  So we dyed some special, never-to-be-repeated colourways and put them together by the half-dozen for a perfect holiday gift!

Presented in a lovely gift box, each Holiday Mini-Skein is tucked into a sweet velveteen pouch and all wrapped in tissue. The perfect introduction to Mini-Skeins or to Spacecadet’s beautiful colours, these little collections make a wonderful holiday gift.

Each set of Mini-Skeins is dyed in one of three colour families:

• cool blues and purples in the Cold Night Sky Collection
• warm rusts and reds in the Fireside Collection
• and the rich greens and browns of the Evergreen Collection.

Each set is unique and will vary from the samples pictured here, but each is beautifully coordinated within those three colour families.

Can I be honest with you? While I was able to convince those Mini-Skeins to stand up on their ends like that (how? I’m not tellin’!), I just couldn’t get my camera to really do the colours justice.  They are deep and rich and beautiful (and I wish I could show you!).  But most of all, I am looking forward to seeing them knit and crocheted up, because they’re just gorgeous.

Ok, now that I’ve been able to share these with you for our Black Friday Do-Over, have you set a timer on your phone?  And then you can pop back here at noon to click this link for our beautiful, adorable Holiday Mini-Skein Collections.  See you then!

This has been a week of triumphs …and defeats!  Triumphs because, despite my being sick, hosting Thanksgiving for my family was a great success (due mostly to my husband, who took over all the cooking and left me only to light the candles — I’m so grateful to him for that!).   Everything was delicious, the wine was plentiful, and it was so lovely to have my whole family together for the first time in a long time.

(See how my camera just naturally focused on the wine? I don’t know why that happened…)

And Yet, Disaster!…

And defeat because I was (and am) still so sick that I was physically unable to set up the photos and do the legwork for our Black Friday and Cyber Monday special offers. Can I tell you how important those two days are to any business?  They are hands-down the two most important sales days in the entire calendar and simply skipping them is an utter disaster (unheard of!), especially to a very small business like ours.  If there had been any way at all that I could have made my body do what I needed it to do, I would have. And because I couldn’t, we missed out on two days that really make a difference to our bottom line.   

On Monday night, after I explained my ongoing symptoms, my doctor sent me to the emergency room for scans and x-rays, and they (finally!) diagnosed me with pneumonia.  I may have been the most excited of anyone they’ve ever seen to get that diagnosis (the doctor seemed a little surprised by my reaction!) but after four whole weeks of being mostly incapacitated, I was just over the moon to have a diagnosis at last.  Now I am on meds (woot!) and looking forward to kicking this thing at last.

Black Friday Do-Over!

But what to do about that disaster of a weekend?  I have plan!  With the help of these meds (woot!), I am going to be well enough to do all the photos and legwork that is needed to get our Black Friday and Cyber Monday specials up and running.  And we are going to do Black Friday weekend one week later!  Which… can I be honest?…  which kind of feels better to me.  Last week, as I lay in bed scrolling on my phone, my inbox was just exploding with emails screaming about Black Friday.  Part of me was just devastated to miss such an important day but part of me was really glad not to be another voice in all that chaos in our customers’ inboxes too.  I’m excited about what we put together for Black Friday, really excited, and I want you to be able to look it in a nice relaxed way, just the same way we spend time together over the newsletter each week.

So (God willing and the creek don’t rise), this Friday Dec 1 will be SpaceCadet’s Black Friday and you’ll see an email in your inbox with our lovely Black Friday special.  Maybe they would’ve sold out last week and maybe they won’t this week, but I don’t mind.  My hope is that it’s a wonderful gift that’s perfect for someone on your list, and I’m glad to be able share with you, even a week late.  And the same on Monday — the SpaceCadet Cyber Monday.  Look for an email then too.  And maybe, together, we can salvage that weekend from disaster, and have some lovely yarny fun at the same time!

Ok, and now it’s time for our regularly scheduled newsletter.  I’ve got lots of awesome fun this week.  Are you ready?  Grab a nice cuppa and here we go…

I love Advent Calendars — in a season where everything seems fast-paced and loud, they are an invitation to slow down, take the season one day at a time, and to treat yourself to something small and beautiful each day of the countdown.  And the wonderful designer Hunter Hammersen is taking that idea applying it to her gorgeous designs!  Each day from Dec 1st to 24th, she’ll put one of her patterns on sale, throwing in giveaways for the accompanying yarn along the way.  What a wonderfully knitterly way to count down the season.  And two of those giveaways are for SpaceCadet yarn!  Look for her Changeful socks on Dec 7 (and a chance to win a skein of SpaceCadet Oriana!), and for the beautiful Permutation hat on December 13 (and a chance to win a skein each of Capella and Cressida!).  Click here to join in the fun!

There’s long been discussion in the knitting and crocheting world about respecting copyright when it comes to patterns, with lots of hot feelings on either side.  Piracy is issue in the book publishing world too, and I found fascinating this article about one author’s way of proving that to her publisher.  Well worth a read.

Speaking of copyright and piracy, this article on the true cost of a knitting pattern is equally worthwhile reading.  When you buy a knitting pattern, you are truly supporting all the work that goes into it.

Christina Campbell’s Peace Project was a huge event last holiday season and I’m so excited to see she’s brought it back for 2017!  This knit-along and peace-along combines a beautiful pattern (see my pattern picks below) with a daily tip on how to infuse more peace into your life, and real commitment to doing good — proceeds from this year’s pattern will be donated to 3 non-profit organizations focused on building a healthy, sustainable world.  It all begins on Dec 1, so click here to see more and find out about the worthy causes the project supports.

Put These Dates on Your Calendar…

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Do-Over — Fri Dec 1 & Mon Dec 4

If you read the bit at the top, you’ll know how exciting this is for us (and if you skipped over it…  quick, scoot on up there and read it!).  This is our chance to bring you the awesome Black Friday and Cyber Monday specials that we had planned but which the flu and pneumonia did their best to stop!  Plus, it’s a more relaxed and quieter way to share them with you, which I really like.  So, hold onto a little (just a little) of that original Black Friday excitement and look for an email on this Friday (Dec 1) and Monday (Dec 4) with all the details.

(And pleeeease keep your fingers crossed for me that these meds kick in fast — I really really want to be able to do this this time!)

The SpaceMonster Mega Yarn Club Opens — Fri Dec 8

If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you’ll know that, while I’ve been sick, I’ve been doing a lot of knitting — and most of it with past colourways from the SpaceMonster Club because those worsted and bulky yarns are just so wonderful and smooshy!  I absolutely love this club, and our members do too.  And you know what’s the best part?  It makes an excellent (and easy!) holiday gift that lasts a whole year!

We open the doors at noon on Friday Dec 8 and I always give first dibs to folks on the waiting list, so click here for all the details and get on that list!

Project Peace 2017 by Christina Campbell

This pattern is so much more than just a pattern — it’s a knit-along and peace-along that will bring so much to your holiday season, including a chance to support three wonderful causes.  Scroll up to the Orbiting the Fiber Universe section for more details, or just click here.

Welter by Hunter Hammersen

This is a pattern I’ve shown you before but with holiday gift-knitting in full swing, it jumped out at me again as a perfect choice for a very (very!) fast holiday knit.  Knit in SpaceCadet Capella, the worsted weight helps it fly off your needles and the single ply makes it gorgeous and squishy.  What could be better?

Glitch by Rebecca Velasquez

And crocheters are busy making gifts too!  What I love so much about this hat is that tassel (pom-poms are great but I really do love tassels!) and how quickly it will work up.  Designed to work with any weight of yarn, it’s a great stash-buster too.  Perfect gift-project material!

All images © the respective designers and used with permission

Ok, well, if I’m going to get our Black Friday Do-Over up and running, I’d better get busy (and on my belly…  did you know I take most of our yarn photos flat on my belly?  The behind-the-scenes shots are kind of hilarious).  I hope you’ve found lots of inspiration here — and I really hope I’ll see back on Friday!  Until then, have a wonderful day, and all my best!