Sweet William is the place!

Have you been to the Sweet William Market in Denver yet?  Well, put it on your calendar for TOMORROW!   Mary Carol will be there from 9 am to 2 pm with yarns and all sorts of your favorite supplies from LambShoppe.  She’ll also be giving knitting demonstrations and will have sign up sheets for fall classes.  And, knowing Mary Carol, she’ll have a few jokes and plenty of creative ideas too!

Sweet William is a different kind of market – artisans and collector’s gather in the open air of Stapleton’s Founders Green at 29th and Syracuse once a month during the spring and summer – and tomorrow is the last scheduled market for 2009.  Sweet William Market promises uncommon treasures: “nostalgic, antique, retro, handmade, re-purposed, and upcycled… anything but mainstream” is how they describe it.  Join us tomorrow and see for yourself!

Need a new hat?

It’s beginning to feel like fall…

 

And we’ve got lots of new autumn colors and weights of yarn…

 

So it must be time to knit hats!!!

 

Join Mary Carol at Lamb Shoppe this Sat., Sept. 5 for FREE  hat classes!  Learn to make a rolled or ribbed hat from the bottom up at 11 – 12:30, or the Top Down Hat from Hip Knit Hats at 12:30 – 2. To make the Top Down Hat, you must be comfortable knitting on dpns (double-pointed needles). 

Once you take these classes, you can get started on your Christmas presents! – oops, did I say that out loud?!  Well, it is September….

Good Works for Good Knitters

 

Knitters gathered at Lamb Shoppe this morning not only to hone their knitting skills – but also to benefit the Children’s Museum in Denver!  Most were first-time knitters, and Mary Carol and Anita had their hands full – as did the knitters…

 This is just one of the many PlayDate events hosted by many different people around Denver to benefit the Children’s Museum at 2121 Children’s Museum Drive.  You don’t need to have mountains of colorful yarn to host a PlayDate… you just need to know how to have fun and friends to invite along.

 Just ask MaryCarol, or contact Tara Pologar at tarap@cmdenver.org.

Don’t you just love doing good work and having fun at the same time?!

Your Vote Counts!

No, you didn’t miss Sept. and Oct.!  It’s not November already – but it is time to vote!  Denver’s Channel 7 is holding its annual A-List campaign to name the best of everything in Denver. So…

We all know that LambShoppe is the best local yarn store in Denver, don’t we?  Yes, there are many wonderful yarn and craft stores in our fair city – but how many offer monthy Pajama Jams - staying open until midnight to accommodate us crazy knitters?  Check out all the other community building events here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And how many bring in masseuses for a spa/knitting extravaganza? (Look for the next one on Sept. 19. We’ll have massages, reiki, and pedicures.  And knitting, of course.)

LambShoppe is a place where our children are welcome – and often learn to knit, too! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a place where we bond together to knit helmet liners for the troops, support Girl Scouts in knitting chemo caps, and enjoy creative fundraisers like Next Saturday’s PlayDate (breakfast & knitting w/professional assistance for beginners and for special projects) to raise funds for the Children’s Museum!  Did you know you can also drop off excess yarn, needles, hooks, notions that are no longer needed by the knitters in your life?  These supplies go to non-profits like The Gathering Place to be used in their programs and for fundraisers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why wouldn’t you vote for LambShoppe as the Best Yarn Store in Denver???

Go to The Denver Channel, scroll down to the A list under Marketplace, and vote today!  Or just click on this link: http://kmgh.cityvoter.com/contests/best-of-denver-s-7-a-list/4744/shopping/arts-and-crafts

Touchy Feely

The Yarn Harlot has pronounced today Love Your LYS Day!  (For those new to knitting and knitting blogs, LYS stands for Local Yarn Store)  It’s in her 2009 Never Not Knitting page-a-day calendar, so it must be true!  And, as wonderful as this internet is… there’s nothing like walking into your favorite LYS:

 

 

 

 

 

Suddenly, the world is full of possibilities…

Old friends to greet, new friends to meet, someone to commiserate over your dropped stitch or stubborn pattern, or maybe to help you fix that mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And when you are looking for a new project – there’s no better place than your LYS!  Wander around and look at all the sample projects…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fondle the yarns… it’s okay, we’ll never tell!  Consider how different yarns behave differently…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let yourself wallow in the colors, the textures, the project ideas…  and let your creativity shine!  See you ’round LambShoppe sometime soon!

A Very Special Place

Did you notice the exquisite bouquet of long-stem red roses on the front table?  No, they’re not for a birthday or anniversary or congratulations.  They were from the reception held Friday night to honor and celebrate the life of Vickie LaPerriere.  Vickie’s life was filled color and texture and warmth and her three daughters, Aimee, Michelle and Renee, could think of no better place to hold her memorial than at LambShoppe, her second home.

The eulogies by family, neighbors and friends were filled with stories of Vickie and her knitting – the many people she taught to knit and the stash of yarn and patterns and needles that filled her home.  Even though it was a very warm night, one woman was wearing a sweater which Vickie had helped her make.  Another knitting friend may have surprised the family when she said that Vickie could “swear like a sailor” when frustrated by a particularly stubborn pattern.  And all agreed that the empty chair in their knitting circle could never be filled.

Our hearts go out to her family and friends.  And our needles salute the extraordinary life of Vickie LaPerriere.

It was a beautiful summer Sunday…

…and LambShoppe was rockin’ with all kinds of knitters!

Mary Carol was teaching her famous Learners’ Permit to Knit class.

Men

Women

Adults

Kids

We were knitting up a storm – on a perfectly sunny day.

The rest of the shop was hoppin’ too. 

New fall magazines and books are in, and people are thinking about sweaters and shawls and throws, oh my!  Come on by, pull up a chair, and join the fun!

Burnin’ Up!

Don’t know about you, but my thermometer is burning up – finally! It’s a good thing I’m working on socks and baby stuff, or I’d be burning up myself! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I stopped by LambShoppe today – it was 95 F! – and joined all the folks burning up the yarn.  This is the Fountain Lace Short-Sleeve Sweater from Country Weekend Knits by Madeline Weston, in process.

It was soooo nice and cool – and there’s that delish frozen custard next door…. mmmm.

Hope you had a chance at some of the fun last week! We had a terrific sale on Friday, Pajama Jam on Sat., and Jazz in the Park on Sunday.  So much fun!

Don’t forget to check our webpage (click on the last link above) for special events, and make sure we have your email so you don’t miss out!

See y’all soon (under the a/c).

Oohhh! What’s that on your needles?!

I hear this everytime I’m in LambShoppe.  Knitters really enjoy each other’s work, and a lot of us come to LambShoppe in the summer to knit in air conditioned comfort – and to chat with each other, or get our problems fixed, or get ideas for a new project, or… , or…

Recently, Selena dashed in between exercise and picking her boys up at camp to work on her sweater.  It’s the Obi pattern from Simply Knits book, using Jamieson’s Simply Shetland DK.

 

Caroline is working on a wide, wintry, cabled scarf… and really appreciates the a/c!

Caroline in the comfort of LambShoppe.

 Cherie was taking a private lesson from Anita. She’s working on a lace cardigan.  These gals enjoy a challenge!

 

Annie was helping Cathi with the Medallion Shrug she is making from the “Vague” (Vogue) pattern. 

 

What’s on your needles? Bring it by and let us oohhh and aahhh over your work!  Pajama Jam is coming up on July 18 – but you don’t have to wait for an occasion. We’ll be glad to see you anytime.

Our thoughts are with you…

Hope you all had a terrific Fourth! It was kinda quiet around the Shoppe -which was good, because we were closed!  When we re-opened on the 5th though, all our faithful knitters were back. Well, almost all. …

We’re a pretty close community here at LambShoppe, so we really miss folks when they aren’t around.  We were wondering where Jean S. was at when we learned she was in the hospital over last weekend.  You might know, Jean has been battling an illness for awhile now, and now she is facing open-heart surgery in August. She’s home from the hospital now, working on getting stronger before the surgery and no doubt knitting. 

Ellen McD is also battling for her health, against an immune system shutdown.  She went into the hospital on July 7th, and right now the docs are trying to stimulate her own bone marrow through immunotherapy.  Doesn’t sound like a picnic.  She reports that she brought sketching, reading, and – of course – knitting to fill the days until she returns home next week.  She is also enjoying a view of our mountains, and keeping her spirits up. 

We think these friends will appreciate your thoughts, prayers, good wishes, good energy – and know you will be sending them along!  Coz knitters are the BEST!