Skeins on Main

Vote for the Best!

Lori Sheffield — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:56:55 +0000

It’s that time of year when WDIV does their Best of Detroit voting. That means it’s your chance to tell everyone that Skeins On Main is your favorite shop and the best in the Detroit area. To do that, please go to: http://wdiv.cityvoter.com/contests/4-the-best/4771/shopping/fiber-arts-shop Register your email address (don’t worry - you won’t get spammed), and tell the world how much you love us. Visit the site often and find out where Skeins sits in the ranks. But hurry - voting ends in August and we want to WIN this year!

New Stuff!

Lori Sheffield — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:29:30 +0000

One of my favorite things, given the right mood, is shopping. Especially shopping for the store. And I’ve been doing just that… Now you’ll begin to reap the benefits.

This week we received beautiful new Atenti bags. These bags are all hand-made in California from beautiful and durable materials. You have to see them to believe them.

Addi needles have FINALLY arrived! After a very long wait, our big shipment of Addi’s arrived last Friday. We worked feverishly to get them on the shelf for you by Saturday morning. Be careful, though - now we’ve rearranged the shelves to accomodate some new lengths to serve your needle needs even better! Addi Clicks should arrive within a couple of weeks, and the Lace Clicks that we’ve all been waiting so patiently for are currently scheduled for the end of summer or beginning of fall. They’ll be worth the wait, though!

Berroco will start arriving next week, as well as Madelaine Tosh and Shibui! I can’t wait for these new yarns! I have to say… There are some truly AMAZING yarns for the fall. And lots of chunky! That means we can accomplish things at lightning speed and have time to use all the yarns that we want instead of having to choose. And I promise - you’ll want to use them all!

Insel Haus

Lori Sheffield — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:25:49 +0000

The time has come when our dear friend Christa up at Insel Haus must make her B&B available to other guests. That doesn’t mean we don’t still have room available - it just means that we don’t have quite as much room.

This trip is a once-in-a-really-long-time opportunity for knitters. We’ll travel to Bois Blanc Island up in the Straits for a full weekend of knitting, classes, great food, and wonderful friends. The trip takes place August 20-23. The low cost of $350 includes your accomodations for three nights, ALL meals (!), and SIXTEEN HOURS of classes with either Christa or Lori! So let’s break this down…. Sixteen hours of workshops in the store would run about $160 or more. Let’s figure 6 meals per person. Eating out would probably cost $100 or more. So that’s $260 of your $350. That leaves $30 per night for accomodations at a summer resort island. Does it get better than that?! More information is available in the newsletter, and as of right now there is still room available. We will NOT be making this trip annually, so please don’t put if off until next year. Come join us for an amazing girls’ weekend away.

Castle Farms

Lori Sheffield — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:20:55 +0000

This year’s annual trip to Castle Farms will be on Saturday, July 24th. We’ve teamed up with Heritage to rent a bus, so no one has to drive all the way up or all the way back - you can save your energy for lots of shopping! There’s more information in our newsletter (if you didn’t receive one you can click the link to the left). There are still a few seats left, but don’t delay - they’re filling quickly!

Order Your Cookbook

Lori Sheffield — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:55:11 +0000

The first-ever Skeins On Main Cookbook is just about ready to go to print. We’re just finishing up the pre-order process, then we’ll wait for the books to arrive. You can order yours by stopping in or calling the shop. The books are $10 each, with proceeds going to KnitMichigan, an organization that helps raise money to fight cancer. We’ve all been affected in some way - this is just one small thing we can do to help in the battle. Pre-orders will be taken until the end of the month. While some books will be available for purchase, quantities after May 31 will be extremely limited so pre-orders are recommended.

MaggiKnits

Lori Sheffield — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:53:15 +0000

Skeins on Main proudly welcomes MaggiKnits yarn to the shop! It arrived last week in large quantities with tons of pattern support to go with it. Take a look at the linen, misty slub, lurex (ooooh, sparkle!), rags (a cotton tape), angora (used as an accent in many of her designs), and cotton. There are even free patterns when you purchase the yarn called for to go with it. We love that!

New Store Hours

Lori Sheffield — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:10:15 +0000

We’ve had it posted on the door for a couple of weeks now, but in case you missed it, our spring hours will be effective on April 1. The only change is that we’ll close at 4pm on Friday and Saturday instead of 6pm. We’ll resume the later hours in September for those long winter months.

Newsletter Sign-Up

Lori Sheffield — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:57:02 +0000

While our new process for sending newsletters seems to be getting them to most, a few people have still commented on not receiving the newsletter. If you’re one of those people, please take a moment to check your junk email folder on your computer. There’s a chance your computer just isn’t intelligent enough to realize how incredibly important, useful, and entertaining our newsletters can be and is actually considering them to be (gasp!) spam! Can you imagine? But unfortunately it happens…

If you’re new to Skeins On Main and would like to begin receiving our newsletters, or even if you’re not new and you’ve found that your computer isn’t hiding them from you and they were never received, please follow this link to sign up: http://lists.skeinsonmain.com/mailman/listinfo/newsletter You should start receiving it with the next newsletter, which generally comes out during the first few days of the month and is filled with information about what’s going on in the store, which events are coming up, and how to get involved both in the store AND in our community projects.