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I don't tend to hang out at knitting.com. The reason for moseying over there was to find out more about this post from one of the awesome knitters that wrote knitting.com's best knitting book of the year: New England Knits.

59% of votes is a pretty strong indication of how fantastic this book is. And we have it in store! $38 is a bit of a bargain for such beautifully designed patterns.

In the Runner Up list is Sock Yarn One Skein Wonders - another book that flies out the door faster than I can get copies. I've got other great titles arriving almost every day, and of course still wriggling with excitement about the future arrival of Ysolda's new book, Little Red in the City.

Spoilt for choice, seriously!

I'm going to put one of these up on the outside of the shop window.

Seems to be the kind of reassurance we all need right now, no?

From Kind Over Matter - click on the pic to go to the site xx

Happy St Patrick's day!

So strange to think that it's been two years since I walked along the real Holland Road, heading to the airport and St Patrick's day celebrations in Dublin. Wonderful city, great times, and LOTS of green.

To celebrate there is 10% off all GREEN yarn in the shop today! Hooray!

1/4 acre dream Knitsch Sock - only $11.65!

Woolganics Godwana - only $10.80!

Oh and if you can't make it into the real shop, the online store has 10% off green until 10am tomorrow, 18 March, NZ time. Hooray!

So I just realised that I hadn't set a deadline for linky love, twitter noise and facebook sharing for the competition - silly me!

Seeing as it's almost a month since opening day, let's make the last day for entries as 23 March at 5pm, and i'll announce winners shortly after.

Hooray!

Direct from Jeni in the UK, I almost cried when I opened the parcel of Fyberspates Scrumptious 4 ply/sport. The gentle sheen of silk combined with the most luscious colours results in a dream yarn.

Scrumptious is a commerically dyed yarn sourced from Peru (that place of yarn wonderment). It's notoriously hard to get sport weight yarn in NZ and so here is the best opportunity to experiment!

It is 55% superwash merino, 45% silk, with a massive 365m to 100g.

Fyberspates has been flying off the shelves - and with beauty like this, it's not terribly surprising!