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.

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Knit a Bit
Harriet & Susan
66 Elm Street
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Westfield, NJ 07090
908.301.0053

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.

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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!