A Little Knitty

The newest addition to our Uptown family, Uptown DK Multi is a stunning self-patterning yarn offering a harmonious blend of colors that naturally form into beautiful patterns as you work. Each option is inspired by the changing seasons and moments of the day. This type of yarn is perfect for creating easy-care projects like scarves, shawls, or blankets, and its self-striping nature makes for an effortless way to add variety to your work without needing to switch colors manually. There are quite a few colorways....here are a couple Yards: 529 Grams: 200 100% Acrylic DK Weight $16.00 You can find this yarn in-store or online HERE  One ball made this beautiful stroller sized blanket. It is called the Yvette Baby Blanket and it is a free pattern on Ravelry!

We highly recommend a Della Q Oh Snap Sack for all that summer yarn crafting you are going to be doing this year! It's the perfect travel companion (doesn't eat, doesn't talk back, likes to go camping...see...perfect!!) You can find all of these bags in-store or online. We have Ocean and Sunset Snap Sacks in Small and Large as well as the new LYS bags with the cute car full of yarn!! Snap Sacks you can find HERE LYS bags you can find HERE

We recently created a new crochet kit that is good for a crocheter at ANY stage!!! This is a photo of the edge folded down. The yarn does all the color-changing for you!! The kit comes with a wooden bottom that you just crochet around the edge then single crochet until you run out of yarn! How easy peasy is that???  The kits have "Handmade with love" but don't have the A Little Knitty Logo You can find these kits in-store or online HERE

Lately we have been receiving more requests for darning supplies. I am LOVING this trend because I think clothes deserve to keep living even after they have a hole! While I was in Chicago I stopped by a couple booths to get supplies (fun fact: The dress I'm wearing in the photo below has a little visible mending on it because I was too close to a campfire and it spit a little ember onto me and made a hole. I LOVE that dress so there was no way it was going anywhere!!!!)    First stop was the Katrinkles booth! I love catching up with these ladies ANY time I can, and they have the best little darning tool around! My second stop was the Bryson booth! I heard they had these new kits that had just a little bit of darning yarn for fixing all those clothes that need some extra love! There are lots of colors and you will for sure find one that works with anything you are trying to mend! We now have the darning looms and darning y arn for sale in-store and online!! Plus we got a few cu...

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Wool and Pine just released a new pattern that I feel is PERFECT for the summer!!!! Meet the Sundial Tee . Not only would this be fun to wear in the warmer months, it is the perfect project for summer travel yarn collecting. You know, you travel a bit during the summer and collect random souvenir yarns at each yarn shop you visit?  On my yarnie travels this summer, I'm going to purchase 100g skeins of fingering weight yarn that kinda go together (I'm thinking greens and purples) then I'm going to knit up this tee and it's a perfect way to show off my Summer 2025 collection!!

As our Summer Vacation approaches and the reality of A Little Knitty being closed for a week draws closer...the number one question we are receiving is "What do I do if I have a knitting or crochet emergency???"  We have a plan for that!!!! Step #1. Before June 27th, stop by A Little Knitty and purchase your "In Case of Emergency" Kit Step #2. Carry on as usual while we are closed June 27th to July 4th Step #3. If something goes wrong with the project you are currently working on....rip open your "In Case of Emergency" Kit and work on that project until July 5th. Step #4. Come in on July 5th, tell us how much you missed us and it was hard living 7 days without us, and buy yourself some yarn to celebrate making it through!

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MCreativeJ isn't new to the shop, but we do have NEW KITS that just arrived!!!! We love Melissa and her amazing kits! When I was in Chicago I saw this shoe below and asked if she would be interested in teaching this as a class...how fun would that be??? She also has a book of all the different ways you can embroider on shoes!! Here is a little more information about Melissa Melissa Galbraith is the fiber artist behind MCreativeJ. She was born and raised in the desert of Washington state where her mother instilled a love of making things by hand at an early age. Melissa shares her love of nature through whimsical and modern hand embroidery kits, patterns, workshops, and her books: How to Embroider Texture and Pattern and DIY Embroidered Shoes . ​ Melissa was reintroduced to hand embroidery after finding her desk job monotonous and needing a creative outlet. She loves that embroidery is like coloring with a needle and thread. Melissa found that many craft enthusiasts also wanted to...

Congratulations to our winners! I noticed lots of socks this month!!! Good work everyone!! Jessica D. - Finally finished one of my multitude of WIPs. Contrast Blast socks from the westknits 2023 Surprise Sock Along. Kasie W. - Honeycomb Baby Blanket Han N. - 6th pair for the month. Same yarn as the 3rd pair, so I included those socks in the photo to prove they’re separate pairs. Linda K. - Here is Peony von Peck, finished May 30.

After taking a little personal look into my family last week, I decided to dive in a little more. Many of you who have been following the shop for years, have watched my kids grow up. My big one was 8 when I opened the shop and the little one was 5...they are now 17 and 14!!! They have changed, they don't really want to be involved with the shop (unless there is money involved and it's behind the scenes) and they are busy growing into the adults they will become. With this, my family has shared conversations about gender and sexual identity...conversations I NEVER had with my parents growing up!!!  But just because these conversations were something I didn't experience, doesn't mean I should push them away or ignore them. I leaned into them over the years and I have learned a lot about myself and how to parent.  I have no interest in winning the parent of the year award, but I do want to be the best possible parent for both my kids...keep with me here...I have a point!!...

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Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would say these words... but this last weekend I attended a Furry Convention in Portland, Oregon.  My youngest had heard about the furry community awhile ago and begged to go to a convention. MY only knowledge of this community was an episode of CSI many years ago (and from talking to friends, this too was their only exposure to the community). The episode did not shine a great light on things and to say that I went into all of this with a HUGE amount of apprehension an understatement!!!!  There are a lot of things that my kid is into that I just don't "get" sometimes (slime and unboxing videos to name a few)...but it's not really for me to get. Plus, I'm POSITIVE there were things that I was into as a teen that my parents just didn't understand (there is a reason there is a song called " Parents just don't understand ") So I did a little research, chatted with adults that I knew who were in the f...

Last year we introduced Unity Worsted and Harmony DK from Yarn Citizen and everyone has LOVED it!!!! We are very excited to introduce Trinity.... Trinity is a luxurious blend of Super Baby Alpaca, Mulberry Silk, and Cashmere, perfect for using alone or held double with our Harmony and Unity bases for a soft fuzzy halo. Trinity Cashmere is sourced from a fair trade mill in Peru and priced consciously too! I designed a cowl JUST for this yarn!!! You can find this pattern for $4.00 on Ravelry ! And I found over 200 projects on Ravelry that use this yarn...you can find them HERE You can find all 18 colors of this yarn in-store or online HERE

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Echoes Fingering has been a super popular yarn in the shop, and for awhile I thought I was unable to get it anymore...but turns out I was barking up the wrong tree!! When I was at H&H I not only discovered Echoes Fingering is still alive and well...but she also has a big brother!! Echoes Worsted Of course I had to steal a skein as SOON as it was out of the box and knit it up into a hat!!   This is the My Baker's Hat on Ravelry . It's a free pattern and you only need 1 skein of Echoes Worsted! It is a fairly fitted hat, so you may want to add extra stitches if you have a larger noggin or have lots of hair!! You can find both of these gorgeous yarns in-store or online HERE

My flight home from Chicago was delayed by 4 hours...so that meant I had a whole morning to do whatever I wanted. In the past I visited downtown Chicago and while I LOVED that little adventure...I wanted something a little more laid back! I slept in a bit then got an Uber to take me to a yarn shop (yes, I didn't have enough yarn in my system at this point). The yarn shop sounded cute, was in a neighborhood (Logan Square area) AND Sea Change Fibers was having a trunk show there...it sounded like the perfect morning!  First, I stopped by Firefly Fiber Arts Yarn Shop . It was a sweet little shop with really nice staff and it was fun to watch someone learn to spin (shhhhhh...don't tell them I was totally paying attention!!!) I adopted these beauties then decided to walk around town a bit. I ended up in a little bakery that had the perfect perch for sipping my Vietnamese coffee, knitting and people watching. Totally living my best life and loving every minute of it (the yarn is an ...