HRYC

With enormous excitement, brick and mortar Holland Road Yarn Co is back!

After five years, it felt like the time was right to open up a space where you can come and hang out, make new friends, catch up with old ones and shares stories with both.

The perfect spot became available, and we open this Friday!

Come by and see us:

From 10am - 4pm Friday 9 May
10am - 4pm Saturday 10 May

1 Waiwhetu Road
Lower Hutt

Regular hours will be:

10am - 2pm Thursday
10am - 4pm Friday
10am - 4pm Saturday
and 11am - 2pm the last Sunday each month

Knit Night every Thursday 7pm - 9pm
First session Thursday 15 May

We can't wait to invite you in!

I'm so excited that Craft Camp tickets go on sale today! After chatting with a few people who were worried they'd miss out, tickets will go up in two rounds - 2pm and 8pm. 

So if you can't get online during the day, there's another chance in the evening. 

The weekend is shaping up to be an amazing one - we have embroidery, natural dyeing, notebook making, pottery painting, spinning and all sorts of other things to learn and make. 




Remember there's payment plans available, so you can spread the cost out over three to four months, with the balance paid by 11 July: 

Full package over 18 weeks:
$30 per week ($60 per fortnight, $120 per month)
Non-residential package over 18 weeks:
$22 per week ($44 per fortnight, $88 per month)

Book now!

Also on today, is a wee project a friend and I started - it goes by the name of Write Club, and it's all about getting together and writing side by side in silence. 

So if you like to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, join us tonight (or the second Tuesday evening each month) and get some words down with us.

Tonight's session is at Otto Champagneria on Featherston Street in Wellington from 6.30pm - 8pm. Tickets are a small $15 which cover a drink on arrival and help us support a local hospo venue. 


Write Club edition one

I'll most likely use the time to write web content and blog posts - so don't feel like you have to come and pen the next great novel!

In yet more event news, Woollington is coming up again! I'll be there with some VERY exciting new stock, right as we head into perfect knitting weather. 

Woollington
Moera Community Hall
Saturday 26 April
10am - 3pm

I'm so pleased to have this event in the calendar to look forward to!

Well. As the news of the world is increasingly worrisome, I've been thinking again about how we navigate things that are scary and uncomfortable. We learned a lot about coping strategies during covid, but this feels different, somehow.

At the start of this year I made a personal commitment to lean into creativity as much as possible; to cram creating in every corner of life. As someone who lives with anxiety, it's surprised even me at how much better I feel already. There's a great article on RNZ about just this, with author Martha Beck:
 

"Anytime I get anxious, I ask myself, "What could I make?" Not "What shall I do?" but "What can I make?" 

I've been sharing it with everyone, and have Martha Beck's new book 'Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose' on reserve at the library. So alongside the usual knitting, there's been added sewing and cross-stitch and writing: 

Craft Camp is returning in 2025, and our shop open day is this Saturday, 1 February, in Lower Hutt. 

I had a bad case knitter's block over the summer break, so went pattern browsing for the first time in ages. The Simple Stripes sweater by SuviKnits leapt out at me as a great option for BC Garn Bio Balance. It has lovely folded hems and is very simple (about all I can cope with at the moment). 

And while thinking about BC Garn Bio Balance, this free pattern for cute wee baby pants came across my feed. Designed to fit 0-6 months, they're a great summer knit in the cotton / wool blend. 

Browsing bright home interiors on Pinterest, these fantastic wash cloths popped up. Designed by Purl Soho, these are on my list to make in BC Garn Allino, my all-time favourite yarn for making cloths. Which happen to be a great palette-cleanser project when you have no idea what to knit next.