Saturday, February 28, 2026

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Good morning lovely knitters!  I have great news for you - it is February 28!!  We've survived February!  Oye - what a month.  It was possible that those last snowflakes that we saw almost pushed Aja and I right over the edge!  I know we are all feeling a bit of the winter blahs though - I think today will be a glorious break.  A perfect time to come and grab a new project - and you won't even have to be bundled up so much!

I took a dive into the long process of updating our kits with new colorsets this week!  And our first is SEVEN NEW colorsets of our delightful, soft and entertaining Frosted Multi Scarf!  This is perfect for spring!  The color changes keep you so engaged and it is the perfect knit for taking along - nice and small and just a 4 four repeat.  Check out the great NEW colorsets here.

We also had some spring Mad Balls last week!

And - you guys brought in SO many hats this week!  I can't tell you how much I appreciate you contributing to our fundraiser for Stand with Minnesota!  We broke $1000 this week and with 21 hats now up for auction - wooo!  It's going to be a good week!  If you can share the link with any of your peeps who would like a hat, that would be fantastic!  

The deadline for collecting hats is March 14 - I hope to have them all online and shipped out so that as many people as possible have them for the next No Kings on March 28th!!  Thank you all so much!!

If you are late to this party, we still have some red yarn and here is a link to the many variations of patterns that people are using - all gauges and both knitting and crochet!

And just a head's up to those of you who are feeling the spring itch.  Though we haven't been doing destashing due to the crazy sicky last year that I had, we will start accepting destashing again, starting March 1st.  For those of you who don't know - you can bring in your unwanted yarn (no bugs, no scents please - those things can head to the trash!) and we'll weigh it and give you 250 stash cash points for every pound!  You can clean out the old and get some great discounts for something new!  Partial, unlabeled skeins are also fine.  Spring yarn clean out weekend?  Maybe you'll find some rogue red in that stash!  Also, please come in Thursday thru Saturday if possible if you are bringing destash.

You can find us on Facebook and Instagram, you can also now find us on Bluesky!  So, if you have already fled the others, follow us there!  We'd love to see you!

I hope we see you on this sunny day!

Island Yarn 

189 Main Street

Maynard, MA  01754

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12 - 5

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