Friends

It's funny how friends slip in and out of our lives. They move away to go to school or to take new jobs and we keep in touch as best we can with our busy lives moving on around us. But then one day they slip back in our lives and with close friends, things pick up right where you left off. You talk of old times and good memories. You drink a few screwdrivers and tell old stories and eat some Chinese. Suddenly when the night is over, you don't want it to be over. You want the good times to keep rolling on and you want to remain a few steps out of reality for a bit. But you get in your car and drive back into the present.....but you thank your lucky stars that you at least have those old memories to hold on to......and crave the next visit when you can make new ones.

Rosina Tolka is the Grand Prize winner of our Six Weeks of Socks for Annie and her family. And this is what she wrote....

I was sooooo excited when I heard your message! Of course, I didn't
believe my son when he told me I had a message, and that I'd won
something. I'm glad that I could help Annie & her family, on top of
being glad to win.

Congrats to Rosina and as always, thanks for your generosity for Annie and her family during this trying time.

Grand Prize Winner!

And the winner is...




Thank you again to everyone who purchased tickets over the past 7 weeks. We were overwhelmed by the response. However in retrospect it wasn't surprising. We have made so many friends in the knitting community. When one knitter needs help, it seems like so many come running. On behalf of Annie and her family we would like to thank you all from the bottom of hearts.

And the Winner is...

Join us next week for our Grand Prize Drawing (2 skeins of Tilli Tomas Disco Lights + Lantern Moon Needles + an autographed copy of Romantic Hand Knits). Get your tickets here.

Winner of Week 5, Carol Hurt

Carol Hurt was the Week #5 winner in the Six Weeks of Socks Contest and to her we sent a lovely skein of Cherry Tree Hill skein of sock yarn, colorway, Life's a Beach. She sent this email to us after she won.

Whoo hoo - you just called to say I won a week of socks for the donation to Annie and Jerry. I have to tell you that....24 years ago I was given 2 months to live with cancer around my heart and in my lung. I'm still here! - knitting away and thinking of Annie each and every day. I'm praying for a miracle for Jerry, just as the one I received!!! Annie, take one day at a time.

Thanks to Main Street Yarns & Fibers for helping Annie and Jerry!

Thank you Carol for the positive message of inspiration and for sharing your story with us. You are obviously a real fighter and we loved reading your amazing survival story.

Annie and Gerry leave today for Gerry's treatment in Rochester, NY and we are sending them both well wishes and lots of love as they make this journey. If you would like to leave messages here for them, we will be forwarding them on to Annie.

And the winner is...

Next week's prize: a gorgeous kit featuring Mountain Colors Bearfoot! Get your entry here.

Socks: Week Five

This week's yarn giveaway features Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in "Life's a Beach." Each unit purchased gives you a chance to win this yarn and either a set of Crystal Palace double points OR a 40" Addi Turbo (both in size 1). Buy as many chances as you like; ALL proceeds go to Annie, Gerry, Hannah, and Max to help defray expenses incurred due to Gerry's illness and treatment.
Get your tickets here.

And the winner is...

Next week's prize: a gorgeous kit featuring Cherry Tree Hill! Get your entry here.

Sundays

When I was a kid I never used to understand what adults loved about Sundays. Even my parents seemed to move a little slower and smile a little more on Sunday. And I guess it has not been until about 2 years ago that I started understanding it all myself. Sunday is the day to relax and enjoy life before the Monday work day is staring you in the face.

Right now I am in Atlanta with family, knitting my husband's 2nd sock, smelling the huge breakfast that my cousin loves to cook when we are all together, listening to my MIL break the ends of green beans for lunch, watching my nephew pull up and walk and looking out the window at the glorious pouring rain. As a child of a farmer, I yearn, hope, and long for rain like this, especially in the month of July.

So whatever it is you do on Sunday, be it gardening, swimming, going to brunch, riding your bike, felting or knitting, remember to savor it.

Tomorrow afternoon, don't miss the drawing for the skein of Trekking Pro Natura!!

Card Night

Tonight is card night at Main Street Yarns. We decided to start this new tradition on the first and third Friday nights of the month. Of course people can come and knit, but the card tables are being set up as I type this. And it is nights like tonight, Annie, that we wish you were closer so you could take a break from things and come and join us for pizza and cards.....or sit and knit socks with me!!

We love Annie as well! With that said, we are selling Tilli Tomas Disco Lights along with Tilli Tomas scarf pattern #124 (using one skein) for $40. We have 10 of Crystal, Lime Sherbert and Sapphire. All proceeds of this sale will go to Annie (totalling $1200 after this sale. We want to thank all of you for doing your part in helping Annie and her family.

Please check out our website for updates http://www.knit-a-bit.com/
or if you would like to receive our newsletter, just email us at orders@knit-a-bit.com


Knit a Bit
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Westfield, NJ 07090
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Socks: Week 4

This week's yarn giveaway features Skacel's Trekking Pro Natura yarn, color # 1604. Each unit purchased gives you a chance to win this yarn and either a set of Crystal Palace double points OR a 40" Addi Turbo (both in size 1). Buy as many chances as you like; ALL proceeds go to Annie, Gerry, Hannah, and Max to help defray expenses incurred due to Gerry's illness and treatment.
Get your tickets here.

Friends

Today's post is about friends. We started this blog for our dear friend Annie and she is on our mind today because here in Watkinsville we are celebrating the lives of two of our other friends.

A regular customer in our store, whose absence has been going on well over a year, stepped through our doors today to tell us that she has been sick with cancer but is now in remission. We have been helping customers, dyeing, carding and felting today and imagine my surprise when I walked in from cleaning my dye mess to see this wonderful friend standing in my shop after such a long time. I was so overwhelmed I could barely speak.

And as I stepped in the post office to take the shop mail, I looked up and our favorite post office employee, who has been in Iraq for the last year, was back at work and completely unscathed. Again, I felt like a soccer ball had been thrown at my stomach (but in a good way).

The point of my teary rambling is this. Life is hard but life has its beautiful moments.

And the winner is...

Don't forget to enter next week's drawing!

Partners

On Thursday, Harriet at Knit-a-Bit in New Jersey contacted us here at Main Street Yarns about joining up with us to help Annie and her family out. Their project is in the works and we don't have all the details yet but they are planning something great! We will be posting more about this as it develops.

www.knit-a-bit.com

Socks: Week Three

This week's yarn giveaway features Opal sock yarn. Each unit purchased gives you a chance to win this yarn and either a set of Crystal Palace double points OR a 40" Addi Turbo (both in size 1). Buy as many chances as you like; ALL proceeds go to Annie, Gerry, Hannah, and Max to help defray expenses incurred due to Gerry's illness and treatment.

Get your tickets here.

Winner: Week 2

This week's winner is:



Don't forget to enter next week's drawing!

Record a Message for Annie

Marly at YarnThing is sending out messages to Annie via her podcast. If you'd like to record a message and participate, visit Marly at YarnThing. She's extended the deadline, so send Annie a poem, a story, or a message of hope!

Socks: Week Two

This week's yarn giveaway features STWC Tofutsies (color 733). Each unit purchased gives you a chance to win this yarn and either a set of Crystal Palace double points OR a 40" Addi Turbo (both in size 1). Buy as many chances as you like; ALL proceeds go to Annie, Gerry, Hannah, and Max to help defray expenses incurred due to Gerry's illness and treatment.

Get your tickets here.

Week 1 Drawing

And the winner is:



Don't forget to register for next week's drawing!

Love for Annie Pouring In

Thanks so very much for all the support so far! We're thrilled that we're getting so many donations (and boy, do you people want some prizes!), and we're so glad to see our blogging friends sharing their stories and love for Annie! Here's a little roundup--we'll add more as we find them!

Crazy Aunt Purl remembers a special Christmas encounter

The Crochet Dude writes about inspiration

Socks: Week One

This week's yarn giveaway features Opal Crazy (color 1905). Each unit purchased gives you a chance to win this yarn and either a set of Crystal Palace double points OR a 40" Addi Turbo (both in size 1). Buy as many chances as you like; ALL proceeds go to Annie, Gerry, Hannah, and Max to help defray expenses incurred due to Gerry's illness and treatment.

Get your tickets here.

We love Annie Modesitt

Thanks for visiting We Love Annie. We hope that this site will serve as a hug of support from the fiber community to Annie Modesitt and her family on their current journey. Annie's husband Gerry is battling Mulitiple Myeloma, a terminal cancer that strikes plasma cells.

Annie has graciously agreed to let us help her family. Here are a few ways that you can help out:

• Make a donation and enter the "Six Weeks of Socks" contest. Starting July 2, we'll be drawing one name per week from that week's donations. The winner will receive a sock kit (yarn & needles). Check the blog weekly for the new sock yarn!
  
• Send us your favorite Annie story (kid safe, please!) and we'll post them to the blog.
  
• Send pics of your knitted/crocheted Annie designs and we'll share those as well.
  
• Download the blog button (to your left) and link to us from your blog.

If you know Annie, you know her as an eclectic, sparkling, joyous person who is, above all, refreshingly honest and open about her life. On her blog, she shares all--her creative processes, her struggles, her joys and sorrows, her dry humor--and we love her for it.

We at Main Street first met Annie when she came as a guest instructor in March 2006. In the few days she was with us, we grew to love her as many of you have. As we watched this current story unfold on her blog and in conversations, our hearts ached for her and her family. We hope that the combined efforts of the fiber community can ease the pain of this situation in some small way.

If you'd like to leave a comment of support for Annie, please do so. Thank you for your time and support.