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For starters, we’re excited to introduce our first Wishlist. You can add products to your wishlist from any page, move items from your Cart to your Wishlist, and send your Wishlist to friends and family who might need more than a subtle hint when buying the right gift for you.

The best part? The wishlist you send to others will update whenever you make a change. Change your mind or want to change the quantity of a yarn? No problem, make the change and when your SO gets his/her email, …

I started Christmas early this year – last April or May. And I’m now done. Whew! I made 13 sets of the Felted Snowmen pattern (39 total snowmen). It was a wonderful project to work on over the summer. Very portable, small, and no heavy warm wool resting on me in the heat. Two of my Lumpies got special Christmas hats and scarves due to a Knit Picks Christmas Hat project (upcoming).
It’s great to be done with my Christmas knitting in early October – that leaves me time to make some murloc dolls (World of Warcraft video game monster) for my nephews and guild-mates, a snazzy charcoal vest for the DH, a green cabled cardigan vest for the doctor, and some socks for the DH. (DH is greedy, but that’s ok, since he’s the only relative I have that will wear wool. Sigh.)

Kudos to …

Buying a gift card is a bitter sweet activity for me. On one hand, I’m giving a gift that gives in two ways–you get it as a gift, then they get to go shop with it, so it kinda doubles the enjoyment. Also, of course, they get exactly what they want.
On the other hand, it’s kind of impersonal and can carry that negative connotation that I didn’t put much thought into it.
The designers at Knit Picks have saved the day.

The little sweaters in the Tidings of Joy kit are designed to fit a gift card! Now you can give a gift card inside it’s own little hand knit sweater. You get to give a hand knit treat (doubles as a holiday ornament for their tree) along with the very practical gift card. It’s a win, win, win. …

One advantage your LYS has always had over Knitpicks.com is ease of browsing. Just walk in the door and your eyes scan all the different colors they have to offer. Maybe one or two jumps out and catches your eye. Maybe you’re looking for that perfect shade of blue to compliment your nieces bright blue eyes or a funky purple that will match your favorite winter parka.
In person, its easy to spot those colors, but online, you’re looking for a Palette Silver needle in a Swish Worsted Gold haystack.
No more! We dug through our countless skeins of yarn and grouped them all by color for your browsing convenience. On the left-hand side of our Yarn pages, you’ll see a “Yarn Color” drop-down displaying every color of the rainbow plus grays, blacks, browns, multis and more!
Underneath each color you’ll find the weight, fiber content, and price along with a link to …

When the weather turned chilly, I realized that Alice had outgrown all the hats she had as a newborn last winter. Knitting to the rescue! I’d had my eye on the Aviatrix Baby Hat pattern for a while, so that was an easy choice. Then I just had to go stash diving for the perfect yarn. I landed on Stroll Kettle Dyed in Gold. It’s my favorite of the kettle dyed colors, but I don’t wear yellow, so it was perfect to use for Alice, who looks great in yellow. The pattern calls for a DK weight, and, of course, Stroll is fingering weight, so I simply held the yarn doubled. The bonus to this was that the doubling broke up any pooling that the yarn may have wanted to do in the short-row constructed hat.
The construction of the hat is just so cool, and it …