Free, Easy Parking
If you’ve only recently discovered the Fiber Gallery, you may not have noticed what the old-timers already know: We have our own parking lot! It’s behind the building, with the entrance on 83rd Street. Of course, there’s plenty of street parking, too, so you never have to worry about where to put your car when you visit.
Read MoreStill Room to Join Retreat
There are just a few spaces left for our first-ever store retreat. We hope you’ll join us October 24 to 27 for four days of yarn fun on Oregon’s scenic Deschutes River, where we’ll enjoy a visit to Imperial Stock Ranch and view their sustainable sheep farm and their wool processing facility. We’ll also enjoy a day of classes on achieving a better fit with designer Bonne Marie Burns of Chic Knits. All this, transportation, accommodations and fabulous food is included. Please see our website for more details or call us at 206-706-4197 to...
Read MoreWhere Does Yarn Come From?
During last month’s Art Walk, our special guest Moxie Lieberman decided that we needed a yarn faucet. She poked and sculpted wool all weekend and left us with this inventive and inspiring sculpture for our shop. We are awed.
Read MoreSummer Mystery Shawl Signups
There’s still time to sign up for our 2014 summer mystery shawl knitalong. This year we are taking a trip down the rabbit hole with an Alice in Wonderland themed shawl created with Frabjous Fibers’s Cheshire Cat colorpacks. Each pack contains five mini-skeins of fingering-weight superwash merino. We have several colorways available. Each of the five clues will be sent out via email every two weeks (if you sign up now you’ll automatically receive all the clues so far). Participation in the knitalong is $7 and will include a pdf of the complete pattern at the end of the knitalong. You can sign up at the shop or by phone at...
Read MoreZinnia Knitalong Starts June 1
Our first summer knitalong features the Zinnia cardigan, a pattern written exclusively for The Fiber Gallery by up-and-coming designer Andi Satterlund. Zinnia, a vintage-inspired sweater with a simple all-over texture stitch and a lace detail at the waist, is knit in Kenzie, a light-worsted weight blend of merino wool, angora, alpaca, silk and nylon. The knitalong begins June 1 with a kickoff party. It concludes September 13, and as usual we’ll have social and project help sessions along the way. Full details are available in...
Read MoreNew Yarns for Spring
With the warmer weather on its way (really, it is, we swear!) it’s time to think of lighter projects. We have three new yarns that would be perfect. Zooey, from Juniper Moon, is a 60-percent cotton, 40-percent linen DK-weight blend made in Spain. It has a rustic, thick-and-thin texture and comes in a variety of natural shades. Kavo (above), from Portland-based Shibui, is 85 percent cotton and 15 percent silk. Its unusual texture comes from the fact that the fact that the silk is wrapped around the cotton core. It can be knit at DK weight or looser, for a lacy feel. And finally, Llama Lace Melange is a fingering-weight yarn that’s 100 percent baby llama. It’ll knit up into super-soft lace in lovely heathered...
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