WAY early this morning, as we were checking in the goodies that arrived yesterday on our day off. And what goodies they were!! Our KARABELLA CASHMERE LACEWEIGHT, which we picked out personally in NY on Friday, is in the shop. We bought some terrific patterns to go with this luscious yarn, including the CROCHET SHRUG below:

Best of all, Karabella gave us a great price on this yarn and we have passed the savings on to you. The yarn would normally retail for $24.99 a skein; we are offering it at $17.99. And this yarn is perfect for those projects that use ROWAN KIDSILK HAZE—if you don’t like mohair, consider this substitute!

And we received HALF of our fall SCHAEFER order. You will notice a vast expansion of SCHAEFER yarn at the shop this year—when Colinette closed their U.S. distributor we pouted for a few moments but then realized it offered us a tremendous opportunity to work with CHERYL and the folks we love at SCHAEFER. We have expanded the color ranges AND fibers from her. You will see ANDREA (lace weight silk), ANNE (sock yarn), NICHOLE (superwash fingering weight), MISS PRISS (light worsted merino), NANCY (worsted textured yarn), and KATHLEEN (superbulky) at the shop now, and we are expecting ESPERANZA and BLOSSOM shortly.

And Cheryl did something really special for us—she put together a few kits. For the men in your life, take a look at the MISS PRISS sweater kit:

as well as two different afghan kits. And we bought a TON of patterns from her, including the infamous SHRUGIGAN that takes just one skein of NANCY:

or the gorgeous jacket made from KATHLEEN:

Is it any wonder we love SCHAEFER???