Spinners! Lexi Boeger of Pluckyfluff is putting together an art installation for a show in Norway, and she needs your help to create a HUGE handspun skein.

I am spinning up a skein for this. If you’d like to participate, just spin one yourself then bring it to Stringtown ready to go in a ziplock baggie all tagged and pretty by Valentine’s Day. I’ll put all the local yarn in a box and mail it to Lexi so that it gets there before the March 1st deadline.

From Lexi’s Blog Post about this:

YARN!: This is the heart of it. We need each of you to spin one yarn to contribute to the Revolutionary Skein. It should be whatever YOU want it to be. It can be tradtional, non-traditional, any fiber spun in any way. Put your best effort into it. ANYONE can contribute, even if you just learned how to spin yesterday. we are trying to show the world the craft as a whole in all it’s facets and variations. TAGS: SIZE OF A BUSINESS CARD OR SMALLER ONLY! Your yarn needs to be tagged!!! Since this is about all the individuals that make the whole, please tag your yarn with the following: YOUR NAME. Where You’re From. Whatever else you want. These tags will remain on your yarn for all the world to see!

STATEMENT: Please include a piece of paper, any size any style written with any utensil stating what spinning means to you. What it does for you, what you think about it, a weird or exciting story about it, a poem about it, or anything else to this effect. I WANT YOUR THOUGHTS ON SPINNING. either personal, or abstract, or analytical or hysterical. doesn’t matter. (I plan to wallpaper the gallery with these revolutionary ideas).

So get busy!

~Elizabeth

Now at Stringtown! Just what you need to contain all those interchangeable needle sets you own, or a perfect gift for a friend who has a set he or she keeps in that clunky box it came in.  All 4 colors are in stock as of this morning.

Each case has two snap-in pages that are sturdy enough to be removed and taken with you for traveling light. Everything zips shut for secure storage, and is sized just right for all the tools you need to have with you—stitch markers, scissors, measuring tape, whatever you want. The pockets in the inside covers are divided for easy organization of needles and hooks. All pockets have heavy duty fabric backings and extra-sturdy see-through vinyl fronts so you can always see where your stuff is.

They’re big enough to hold a whole Denise kit (plus more), yet small enough to be unobtrusive at 7.5” x 10.5”.

100% made in the USA and built to last a lifetime.

Winter Knitty is up today. Check it out

I’m really loving some of those shawls and cabled things.

In case you’re not signed up for Interweave’s Knitting Daily email list, I thought I’d let you know they’ve got a $5 rebate offer when you buy any Interweave product at your LYS. (that’s Stringtown!) Just click HERE to get your rebate coupon, print it out, and send it along with your receipt for the purchase of any Interweave Press book or magazine including Spin Off, Interweave Crochet, Interweave Knits, IK Holiday, or the new Interweave Knits Accessories Special Issue.  Our batch of the Accessories issue was lost somewhere in the UPS maze, but they’ve assured me that it is on it’s way again and should arrive next week sometime. Just let me know if you need me to save you a copy.

~Elizabeth

You may have noticed that the site looks a little different today. That’s because my friend Michele Hedegard at Mockingbird Creative has done such an awesome job of redesigning it for me. I’ll be working with her over the next few months to add a shopping section to the site. Soon you’ll be able to order yarn from Stringtown online and have it shipped right to your door! How exciting is that?

Stay tuned for more changes and updates.

~Elizabeth

Help Knit the World’s Longest Scarf

Join in the fun of knitting the World’s Longest Scarf while helping raise money to fight poverty around the world.

As part of the celebration of the International Year of Natural Fibres, Keep the Fleece in partnership with Heifer International is helping to organize teams around the world to knit sections of the World’s Longest Scarf that will all be joined together at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival Oct. 17-18, 2009.

Our goal is to raise $250,000.00 that Heifer Intenational will use to donate fleece-bearing animals of all kinds to needy families all around the world. Heifer not only donates the animals, but provides the necessary training so that the families can nurture and grow their herds and become self-sufficient. (For more information about Heifer, please visit their website, www.heifer.org.

We ask everyone who participates to consider a donation of $1.00 per row knitted/crocheted or $10.00 per inch woven/felted. Keep the Fleece will collect the donations from the teams and pass it on to Heifer.

If you’d like to participate, bring your $$ to Stringtown, let me know how many rows you want to sponsor, and knit on the scarf or just sponsor some rows and someone else will knit them for you. You’ll get your name on the wall

OR you can go to the keep the fleece website to donate via paypal. Don’t forget to look for the space on paypal to put in your team name, and enter “stringtown yarn” as your team.