HRYC
Happy birthday to us!
It's our birthday times two!
Saturday marks two years of Holland Road Yarn Company. It's such a joy for us to share the love of great yarn with you.
This week is also the third birthday of Knitsch Yarns - the little hand dyed sock yarn company I decided to start while sitting in a gorgeous yarn shop in London. It's pretty amazing to think that 3.5 years after that moment, both dreams are now part of my everyday life.
How are we celebrating?
Well! It's Knit Night tonight and there shall be cake!
Frozen Peanut Butter Cheesecake, to be precise.
There will also be a few specials and other treats in store. See you tonight from 7!
Crochet Blanket Addicts (anonymous)
The badge says it all! Join our brand shiny new club!
Crochet Blanket Addicts (Anonymous) is a monthly meet up for those addicted to, struggling with, or desirous of creating a crochet blanket. An oftentimes tedious, yet rewarding task, this is an occupation that needs regular support.
Our resident crochet teacher Sofia will be present for technical, and the group is free to attend. We'll provide tea, coffee and sugary treats to keep your crochet-rate up.
The dates:
Saturday 23 February, 11am - 1pm
Saturday 23 March, 11am - 1pm
Saturday 13 April, 11am - 1pm
Saturday 18 May, 11am - pm
More dates to be confirmed soon.
To secure your spot, you can book in online (I find it's a great way to commit yourself to going. Like booking myself into 6am hot yoga class in advance, it removes the element of choice!), or just turn up on the day.
We'll set up a thread on the Holland Road Yarn Co group forum for cheerleading and moral support, with the odd giveaway and prize for effort, diligence and completed projects. Hooray!
If you can't yet crochet, we recommend you book in for our Beginner Crochet classes, and join the club after you're happily hooking.
Crochet Workshops: all lined up!
It's a real pleasure to have Sofia back to teach crochet! Here's our class line up for the first half of this year:
Amigurumi
Saturday 23 February 2013
1pm - 3.30pm
$30 - includes tea, coffee and treats
Learn the skills to make all the cute (and scary!) Amigurumi creatures you've seen online. You will need to know how to crochet at a beginner level for this class.
- a 3 or 3.5mm crochet hook
- and DK / 8ply yarn in two colours
Beginner Crochet
Saturday 6 and 13 April
1pm - 3.30pm
Learn the basics of crochet during the first session, moving onto tips for working in rounds and reading patterns – you’ll be hooking in no time.
- a 4 or 4.5mm crochet hook
- and DK / 8ply yarn in a light colour.
Next Steps Crochet
Saturday 18 May
1pm - 3.30pm
For those that know how to hold their hook and yarn but would like to move beyond simply edging their knitting. Covering reading patterns and charts, invisible decreases, foundation single crochet and joining squares.
First Dibs! A Yarn Club
Goodness, what's this?! Another yarn club? Am I mad?
Yes, quite possibly.
This one is a little different from the others, though.
Yarn Club on sale 10am Friday 8 February
The details:
Strictly limited to 20 places
Purchasing a place will cost NZ $54 plus shipping ($4 NZ, $7 Australia, $10 ROW)
What you get:
4 x Knitsch Sock 100% merino 4ply
One week prior to shipping, you will receive an email containing images of brand new Knitsch Sock colourways. From these, you can select as many or as few skeins of each colour as you wish.
If your yarn selection total is more than 4 x 50g skeins, we will email your final cost for payment prior to dispatch.
Yarn will be shipped all in one parcel on 4 March, 2013
As usual, your parcel will contain sweet treats!
Lucky place-getters will not only see the brand colours before anyone else, you will touch them too! New colours will be launched at Unwind Retreat in Dunedin on 8 March, and won't be online until the week following.
Simple, simple, easy peasy!
Yarn Club on sale 10am Friday 8 February
Shiny shop
The shop is packed with wonderful stock right now, and a few new features to make your shopping expedition that little bit lovelier!
There's a brand new bright pink chalk board door - we'll use it to tell you about exciting new products, upcoming classes, and maybe share some pretty pictures.
Mmmm all our Zealana is looking gosh darn fantastic.
And a new window display is up - which as usual is impossible to get a decent photo of, so you'll have to use your imagination and go by the planning drawing:
You get the idea? Right? Yes?
Anyway. We're super looking forward to Saturday Sit & Knit this weekend - flourless chocolate cake is on the menu. Oh, and we had better mention the return of Thursday Knit Night - it'll be fortnightly this year, with the first session next week.
