HRYC

Here is your chance to create a sale!

If the Holland Road Yarns Facebook page gets 300 'likes' by 5pm on Monday we will:

Have 20% off everything online (via discount code - woot!)

and provide a printable voucher to bring in the shop and get 20% off all Knitsch Yarns and Cascade! Yay Yay Yay!

20% off deals will run for 4 days from Tuesday to Friday.G

Go on, like us! You know you want to! Oh and tell your friends xx

Hooray! Who would have thought that there would ever be a international day for yarn bombing? How ace is that?

So we're joining in - as is only appropriate, seeing as Tash started the knit graffiti shiz right here in Wellington with OutdoorKnit way back when.

The deal is:

Meet at Holland Road Yarn Company at 1pm, Saturday 11 June

Bring: darning needle, small scissors, and any appropriate knitted item that you think might suit a lamp post, tree, rubbish bin, bench, etc etc.

We'll head out in teams and bring some yarny joy to the streets of Petone. Wheee!

We had such an AMAZING time at Handmade over the long weekend - it was, in a few words:

inspiring, busy, knitty, crafty, hungover (ahem), chatty, bright, inspiring, warm...

There were so, so many wonderful people to meet, things to learn and beautiful things to look at. We've already started our list of how to make the Knit Lounge even better next year - and we really really hope there is a next year! New Zealand has been missing out on all the amazing huge craft events seen in the states and the UK and it's about time we had one for our very own.

As it was such a busy weekend, we didn't get any photos of the Knit Lounge itself, but here are a few from our knit graffiti installation - pretty amazing to be allowed to do this at our national museum!

Tash has been running all over the show and knitting like crazy for a bit of fun promo ahead of Handmade this weekend.

You can see her interview on Good Morning here and our bit of fun on Breakfast this morning is in chapter 4, about 2/3rds of the way through over here.

Have you always wanted to knit socks? Felt a little overwhelmed by the challenge? Had too many people tell you they are hard to knit?

Well, phoooey I say.

Along with Belinda of Blendy Knits Socks, Tash is going to be teaching the sock knitting basics at Handmade 2011 this weekend. We'll be covering how a sock is structured, and will break it into easy parts.

Honestly - knit just one sock and we'll guarantee you'll be hooked. There is no treat quite like putting on a pair of hand knit socks. They are cosy, excellent temperature controllers and addictive to knit.

Join us! Go on, you know you want to!

You can book online - and don't worry if you aren't of the credit card type - you can also pay by direct credit. Hooray!