New amazing books have arrived:

The Haapsalu Shawl

This book of Estonian lace has been translated and is now available in the US. It has amazing photography and is worth having in your library for just the photographs! The charts and drawings are very detailed and well done. It contains over 130 Estonian lace shawl patterns.

Reversible Knitting – 50 Brand-New, Groundbreaking Stitch Patterns

Lynne Barr’s new and groundbreaking book has 50 new and reversible stitch patterns! In addition, the book boasts 20 projects that can be worn in multiple ways. Not only that, but she has pulled together some of our shop’s favorite designers: Véronik Avery, Norah Gaughan, and Teva Durham.

Check out the author’s blog tour here.

No worries! She just sent us three large boxes of fresh new yarn in so many amazing new colors. Veronica is still slowly getting it all counted and put out in our classroom, so stop by for a 10% discount while it is still unlabeled and not quite on the shelves yet.

Neighborhood Fiber Company sock yarn just arrived, and we are really impressed with the new batch of colors. They appear to be more saturated and brilliant than previous batches. Karida has really fine tuned her art. We are super proud of her and excited for the next delivery in November.

Yarn Profile – NFC Studio Sock

435 yards fingering weight yarn

Machine wash and dry merino

Two ply, medium twist

13 colors

Each named after a DC neighborhood or landmark

There are a few things that arrive at the shop that they are elevated to more than a simple twitter post. These gorgeous sets are one of them. Hiya Hiya finally sent part of our interchangeable needle order and they are STUNNING. Lets start with the packaging: rich, opulent fabric Chinese silk brocade that includes a zippered notion pocket and slots for each needle and its cords. Everything was thought of, right down to the extra piece of fabric that keeps the needles from sliding out of their spots. The needles themselves have the same fabulous joins that we love about Hiya Hiya’s circular needles. We have the first of two sets that will be available from them: sizes US#2-8. The set that includes US# 9-15 is still back ordered but expected in the next month. Tell your loved ones that you need this for the holidays (or pick one up now before they are gone.) This set includes:

tips ranging from #2-#9

Cords: 16″, 24″, 32″ and 40″

Cost is $68.

Extra tips in your favorite sizes are also available and they even included extra storage space for them in this case!

We just got in more books to add to our growing collection. I am super excited about these ones in particular:

100 Afghan Squares to Knit – you may remember the baby blanket that I made for my brother’s new one. The pattern was from this book, which is now out of print. We were lucky enough to snag ten copies!

Photo courtesy of Interweave Knits

Boutique Knits: 20 Must-have Accessories – I made flip top mittens and two awesome hats from this book last season. I am really excited that it is now in the shop.

Rowan’s Greatest Hits - yup. We have it! It is the most amazing collection of Rowan’s best patterns. Digging through it now…

Wendy of Wendy Knits‘ new book: Socks from the Toe Up. LOVE knitting toe up socks because you can keep going until that yarn is used up! No more tiny balls of leftovers.

Knitting Man(ual) – 20 plus projects for guys – clothing and accessories that aren’t spiced up (so your man will actually where them!)

itty-bitty Nursery – Kel says “This book is freakin adorable!”

Creepy Cute Crochet – Zombies, Ninjas, Robots and more: (I am not kidding…this book has patterns for ninjas)

Big Girl Knits – 25 unique patterns for women sized 14 and up. Gorgeous book!

Custom Knits – Wendy Bernard’s newest book. It is AWESOME! Great top down sweater projects. It is full of patterns that I want to knit. I believe Cameronne and I fought over the last copy at Borders last year when it first came out. We have 5 copies!

Natural Knits for Babies and Toddlers – by Tina Barrett and full of cute baby garments. It has both premie sizes and toddler sizes.