but when we tested it this morning by calling in, we were unable to hear the voicemail message. Instead we heard major static. If this happened to you, just call back after 11. The phone does ring at the shop and we can answer it during business hours. Yes, we have called VERIZON once again, so hopefully all this will be resolved soon. Stay tuned. Trust us, we are as frustrated as you are.

Unfortunately, we no longer seem to have a fax machine; when both are hooked up they ring simultaneously. But hey, we can be reached by phone again!

Our SATURDAY KAL to design a shell is FILLED!!! Please remember to bring a favorite sleeveless top with you to the first session. It doesn’t have to be hand knit, it just has to be the garment that you wear thinking “I wish everything I owned fit this well!”

And on SUNDAY we go GREEN with our MARKET BAG. You will love this cotton number—you can take it proudly to the grocery shop or farmer’s market and help save our environment. It takes 200 yards of worsted weight cotton (consider splitting a skein of LAUREL with a friend) and size 13-17 (depending on how open a look you want) circular needle either 24 or 32” in length. We are a bit low on needles (what DO you all do with them?????) so bring ‘em if you have ‘em. As always, the program is free of charge-just give us a call to make sure you have a space at the table. Actually, since our phones STILL aren’t working, why don’t you send us an emal to jacqui@woolwinders.com

We’re back from our brief trip out of town, and just about everything that could possible happen did in those few days.

We missed the storm (good), lost our phone service at the shop (bad), and dealt with a crashed laptop so were completely without technology(ugly). We had to close the shop on Monday because of the snow (bad), but reopened on Tuesday to boxes from SCHAEFER YARNS and JOJOLAND (really good!). We still didn’t have phone service (beyond ugly). We arrived at the shop this morning at 7:30 to wait for VERIZON who gave us a time window of 8-5 to fix the phone line (good? bad? ugly?). So here we are.

And the truly good? We have to give a shout out to our amazing staff. HEATHER closed up on Sunday so we could make our flight before the snow, MARIETTA schlepped back and forth to the shop in an effort to fix our phones, GAIL, FLO, KATHY, BRENDA and PAIGE received, tagged and shelved all the new beautiful yarns. KATHY also went to our house TWICE to check and make sure our cats hadn’t locked themselves in any closets as one did while we were in NY in December, and KERRY brought her son over to SHOVEL OUR DRIVEWAY!!! How terrific are they????? Whatever else goes on in retail, we are blessed with a truly wonderful staff and we wanted all of you to know that.

Stay tuned for the next post about our upcoming weekend activities. We think you will have some fun at WoolWinders!

Hello customers! thanks for hanging in with our phone drama. If you need to call the store please dial 240-632-9265 this is normally our fax number but for now it is the main number. We will still check our voice mail for our regualr number until we can get this settled.

now for the YARN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the Schaeffer Laurel and Susan is in!!! Laurel is a lovely worsted weight variagated 100% mercerized pima cotton and Susan is its sport weight sister. New colours for us this year - BEATRIX POTTER, ETHEL WATERS and BARBARA MCCLINTOCK -and favourites to - FRIDA KAHLO and BILLIE HOLIDAY just to mention a few.

If you are calling and get a busy signal or it goes straight to voicemail, we are not ignoring you! We are very sorry but we are here during regular business hours 11-6. We don’t know if it is the phone itself or Verizon but we are working on the matter. So try try agin - or just come on in and visit us!

-Marietta

Due to all this beautiful snow, WOOLWINDERS will be closed today, Monday - all day. So I am staying home and crocheting with Max. Jacqui is in warm and sunny Las Vegas but she will be updating our voicemail too.

IF we get hit with this late season storm again, we will update here and on our voicemail if we are closed tomorrow

Sorry for any inconvenience.
-Marietta

Maybe our next career will be as a weather forecaster-we were convinced of a March storm. OK, we didn’t think it would be the first DAY of March, but still……

We are open today but tomorrow, Monday, looks a bit dicey. So make sure to check the website AND the phone before heading out. If we are closed we will make sure that information is in BOTH places. We want everyone to stay safe, and given our sales over the past two weeks we are pretty sure everyone has projects to keep them busy!