Meg Croft will be talking at the Mid-Michigan Knitter’s Guild on the History of Color. Learn about how color has been used on textiles through time, where our words for color come from, and the history of dyeing.

Doors open at 6:30 pm.

The shop will have a storewide sale December 6 & 7th for Green Friday and Winterglow. (Icemelon’s Stash yarn in her Pop-Up Shop is not included in the markdowns).

Join us for a two-day Pop-Up Shop event with Danna of Icemelon’s Stash! Locally dyed in Lansing, Michigan!

We are excited to announce that this year we have SEVEN shops participating. The Mid-Mitten Shop Hop now has: Woven Art Yarn Shop, Sticks & Strings (Lansing), Yarn Garden (Charlotte), Stitch in Time (Howell), Unwind (Brighton), Artisan Knitworks (Chelsea) and Spun (Ann Arbor).

Buy the $10 passport, and travel to the seven shops from Thursday, September 19 - Sunday, September 22nd. Your home shop (where you buy your passport) will provide you with a Shop Hop reusable tote bag. Go to each shop during the event, get your free pattern, find Shop Hop specials, get your passport stamped, and get entered for daily drawings. If you get to all seven shops and get your stamp for each one, you can enter for the Grand Prize Drawing - a $35 gift certificate FROM EACH SHOP.

This is such a fun event that is organized by your local shops. Grab a friend or two (or three), make a plan (I always decide where I want to eat lunch!), and have FUN! Plus, keep your passport because there are coupons enclosed you can use in October.

We have 75 passports this year, and they WILL sell out (last year we sold out in 2 weeks). If you want to reserve yours now before they go on sale this Thursday, let us know ASAP.

Shop Hop Passports on sale August 1st! We are excited to announce that this year we have SEVEN shops participating. The Mid-Mitten Shop Hop now has: Woven Art Yarn Shop, Sticks & Strings (Lansing), Yarn Garden (Charlotte), Stitch in Time (Howell), Unwind (Brighton), Artisan Knitworks (Chelsea) and Spun (Ann Arbor).

Buy the $10 passport, and travel to the seven shops from Thursday, September 19 - Sunday, September 22nd. Your home shop (where you buy your passport) will provide you with a Shop Hop reusable tote bag. Go to each shop during the event, get your free pattern, find Shop Hop specials, get your passport stamped, and get entered for daily drawings. If you get to all seven shops and get your stamp for each one, you can enter for the Grand Prize Drawing - a $35 gift certificate FROM EACH SHOP.

This is such a fun event that is organized by your local shops. Grab a friend or two (or three), make a plan (I always decide where I want to eat lunch!), and have FUN! Plus, keep your passport because there are coupons enclosed you can use in October.

We have 75 passports this year, and they WILL sell out (last year we sold out in 2 weeks). If you want to reserve yours now before they go on sale this Thursday, let us know ASAP.

Back for another amazing visit! Join us for cocktails on Friday afternoon as we welcome Why Knot Fibers back to the capital area for their third trunk show. Cocktails and trunkshow Friday afternoon, trunk show Saturday from 10-5.

Details to come.

Woven Art Yarn Shop will be in Holland, Michigan vending at the Michigan League of Handweavers Conference at Hope College. We will have yarn for knitters, crocheters, and weavers, and fiber for spinners. We will bring a selection of books, tools, and more!

Beginning Memorial Day Weekend, when you purchase Farmer’s Daughter Fiber yarn, you will be eligible to sign up for our Knit & Crochet Along and giveaway prizes. Anytime until Labor Day, you can bring your finished objects to your LYS, and you’ll be entered to win a gift basket ($75 value). You can even enter up to 3 times (3 different projects) to increase your chances! All of the yarn shop winners will then be entered into our grand prize drawing --- a guest spot at Farmer’s Daughter Fibers 2020 Montana Mountain Retreat!

We are happy to welcome gorgeous knit garments from local designer Annie Haas of This.Bird.Knits! Check out the shawls, tops and sweaters Annie has been designing over the last year.

Celebrate LYS Day with us! We will have refreshments, goodies, special yarn, tours of our expanded shop AND a trunk show from This Bird Knits!

Our early Spring Knit along is Vanora - a very simple top, suitable for all knitting abilities. You can choose how much ease you prefer (how closely it fits to your body) and the pattern is graded in bust sizes 27.25" to 62". A little more ease will give you cap sleeves or short sleeves. The pattern is FREE on Ravelry, and uses Manos del Uruguay's Milo, a wonderfully soft single-ply wool and linen blend.

Need help getting gauge, or need tips and tricks for your lace? Lynn S. will be on hand to answer questions, give advice, and guide you through your Vanora project, as she works on her own!

Please join us every Thursday from 6 - 8 pm for fun and camaraderie during our Open Stitching night. (you are welcome to join us even if you don't want to make Vanora - knitters, crocheters and stitchers of any description!)

It is the most wonderful time of the year! Yep. We are about to count EVERY BALL OF YARN, EVERY BOOK, EVERY NOTION, EVERYTHING in the shop, and we would rather not. So. All yarn and notions are 20% off, the sale bin is 40% off, and there will be special discounts on select yarns. For three days only!

Behind on your holiday stitching? Haven’t learned how to knit or crochet yet? (We can help you with that, btw!) Come shop our Sample Sale and buy hand knit and crocheted items for great prices! Starts Saturday December 15 and goes to 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve. We have hats, cowls, mitts, booties, scarves, sweaters, baby blankets and even summer tops!

Join us for the Mid-Mitten Shop Hop Thursday, September 20th to Sunday, September 23!  This year we are excited to announce that FIVE shops will be participating:

Sticks & Strings, Lansing
Stitch in Time, Howell
Unwind, Brighton (new this year!)
Yarn Garden, Charlotte

and, of course, Woven Art in East Lansing!

Passports go on sale August 1, 2018 and are $10.  Special Shop Hop tote bags will be available at each home shop when Shop Hop begins. (Your home shop is where you bought your passport.)

During Shop Hop, bring your passport to each shop to have it stamped.  Get your free shop-exclusive pattern, and keep an eye out for shop specials for Shop Hoppers only!  Enter to win  daily drawings, and if you collect stamps from all five shops, you can enter into the Grand Prize Drawing - a gift certificate from each shop.  Grab a friend, and plan a day or two of yarny fun!

Don't get rid of your passports, though, because they have coupons for October.

Planning your Shop Hop schedule? Here are some lunch stops in the East Lansing/Lansing area that you may want to try:

Black Cat Bistro, East Lansing - sit-down, full-service restaurant with good salads + protein.
HopCat, East Lansing - sit-down, full-service restaurant with burgers, crack fries, upscale barfood.
Leo's Coney Island, East Lansing (ground floor of the Marriott Hotel) - traditional Coney Island, great Greek Salads and Gyros, or breakfast all day!
Sapporo Ramen Bar, East Lansing - sit-down, full-service restaurant with Japanese noodles & soups & appetizers.
StreetKitchen, Lansing - food truck with dining room, comfort food, menu changes weekly.
Soup Spoon Cafe, Lansing - Farm-to-table sit-down, full-service restaurant, with good soups, salads, and sandwiches.
Pablo's Panaderia, Old Town Lansing - sit-down restaurant with authentic Mexican cuisine.

Mid Mitten Shop Hop Passports go on sale August 1, 2018 and are $10.  Special Shop Hop tote bags will be available at each home shop when Shop Hop begins. (Your home shop is where you bought your passport.)

Join us for the Mid-Mitten Shop Hop Thursday, September 20th to Sunday, September 23!  This year we are excited to announce that FIVE shops will be participating:

Sticks & Strings, Lansing
Stitch in Time, Howell
Unwind, Brighton (new this year!)
Yarn Garden, Charlotte

and, of course, Woven Art in East Lansing

During Shop Hop, bring your passport to each shop to have it stamped.  Get your free shop-exclusive pattern, and keep an eye out for shop specials for Shop Hoppers only!  Enter to win  daily drawings, and if you collect stamps from all five shops, you can enter into the Grand Prize Drawing - a gift certificate from each shop.  Grab a friend, and plan a day or two of yarny fun!

There are a limited number of passports, so get yours before they sell out.

Yes indeedy! Mark your calendars - our Summer Sale dates have been set. Join us for incredible deals on great yarn.  If you buy a bag of 10 you will get another 10% off. If you pay with cash or a check, get another 2% off!  Yarn will be marked 20-70% off, and our incredible buck-a-ball, and buck-a-book table will be back this year.

Select patterns $1, and more patterns free (just bring them to the checkout counter so we can get them out of inventory!)

Select yarns marked down from: Classic Elite, Cascade Yarns, Rowan Yarns, Imperial Stock Ranch, Delicious Yarns, Mountain Meadows, Madelinetosh, Universal Yarns, and Fibra Natura Fibers, among others.

Join us, June 27th at 1:00 pm for a yarn box opening (and labeling party!) of Farmer's Daughter Fibers.  We ordered sweater quantities of Squish DK in a beautiful rainbow of colors - perfect for a Kodikas Shawl, Comfort Fade Cardi, or the Ninilchik Swoncho.

Woven Art is the first shop in Michigan to carry Farmer's Daughter Fibers, and we are so excited to bring this beautiful indie dyed yarn to you!

Kat Eldred of Why Knot Fibers in Traverse City will be packing her trunks and hauling them down to East Lansing for a Trunk show early this June!  You can expect lots of beautiful Farm-To-Needle yarns (grown locally, milled locally, dyed locally, and some, botanically) as well as staple base yarns. Woven Art will also be hosting a Pop-Up shop for Jessy Gregg, of Seams fabrics!  Jessy will be bringing linen-blend fashion fabrics available by the yard, as well as her own line of hand dyed cottons.

This is a one-of-a-kind trunk show for all types of fiber lovers. Come and see us from 10 to 5 on Saturday, June 9th, and from 12 to 4 on Sunday, June 10th!

If the weather is good on Saturday afternoon we hope to grill peaches on the deck, and enjoy some locally made ice cream.

Join Kate Larson to learn how to make Dorset Buttons. Soft, handmade buttons made from linen thread and bits of cloth were made in Dorset, England, as early as the beginning of the seventeenth-century. Come learn about the history of these special buttons, how they were traditionally made, and how we can adapt these buttons for very modern uses. Starting with Blandford Cartwheels, you will learn to make several ring-style, thread-wound buttons. Bring a set of US#3 knitting needles if you would like to also learn a fantastic knitted button-hole technique to go with your handmade buttons. Class is $45, and includes all materials. Call the shop to register: 517-203-4467. Class size is limited.

About Kate: Kate Larson loves using fiber arts as a bridge between her passions for art and agriculture. Her fiber journey has led her to a degree in soil chemistry, travels through northern Europe in search of textile traditions, and back to the farm where her family has lived for six generations. She keeps an ever- growing flock of Border Leicester sheep and teaches handspinning and knitting regularly in central Indiana and around the country. Kate is the author of The Practical Spinner's Guide: Wool (Interweave, 2015) and several videos, including How to Make Yarn to Knit (Interweave, 2016). Her articles and designs have appeared in Spin-Off Magazine, Jane Austen Knits, Enchanted Knits, Knitting Sweaters from Around the World, and more. Follow her woolly adventures at KateLarsonTextiles.com. 

Get your copy of the Practical Spinner's Guide to Wool signed by the author. Need a copy of the book? Call to reserve a copy and get 20% off the cover price! You are welcome to bring your wheel or spindle for a spin-in. RSVP requested.

Our Team is now Full!

Team Woven Art is looking for spinners to join us for Spinzilla 2017.  Spinzilla is a global event where teams and individuals compete to see who can spin the most yarn in a week. Spinzilla is held during Spinning & Weaving week - the first full week of October. Spindle spinners and novice spinners are most welcome to join!

Registration begins September 1 and goes through September 30th. It costs $15 per team member to join, and all proceeds from Spinzilla go to the The National NeedleArts Association Foundation - to support the future generation of needlearts enthusiasts!

Spinzilla is a world-wide spinning event where competing teams and individuals challenge each other to see who can spin the most yarn in a week! Although the competition lasts only a week, many teams and individuals are already training, preparing their fiber and monstering up their spinning skills. The winning team is awarded a year's worth of bragging rights, the traveling Golden Niddy Noddy, and $25 gift certificates for all team members!  Spinzilla also offers individuals a way to participate in the Rogue Spinners category.

Stay tuned for an information session and some fun workshops!

Are you interested in taking a beginning tapestry course online with a local group of weavers?  Rebecca Mezoff is offering her Weaving Tapestry on Little Looms online class at a group rate!

The course is regularly $129.  Group prices are: 5-9 people $75 each; 10-14 people $65 each and 15+ people $55 each. You need a good internet connection that allows for online streaming. Sorry, no dial-up content is available.

Woven Art is hosting a free informational class on September 14, 2017 at 6:00 pm for those interested in getting more information. Kathy Popoff will be the facilitator for this group.

Specifics of the course are available here, including an introductory video.  Rebecca provides detailed written materials and well-produced videos.

The information session is FREE, but please RSVP to the shop so we can provide adequate seating. 517-203-4467

Join us on Thursdays, starting August 31st for our next Knit Along. Andrea Mowry of Dreareneeknits is hosting a Mystery Shawl Fade-Along.

Supplies: Fingering weight yarn, six colors in a consistent fade, and buy the pattern on Ravelry. This project is PERFECT for Stash Diving! Need help filling in a fade? Bring in the colors you have and we will help you fill in the holes. 

This shawl project will feature easy brioche and garter stitch, and will have tutorial videos posted by Andrea Mowry.

Get more information here on the Ravelry project page, including yardage amounts per color, and color suggestions.

Woven Art will be having our annual Summer Sale (or this year, End of...) August 17, 18, 19, and 20th. (Thursday - Sunday). Select yarns will be 10% - 70% off.

You will find yarns on sale from Rowan, Regia, Shibui, Cascade, Classic Elite, Madelinetosh, Malabrigo,  Camellia Fiber Company, Crystal Palace, Misti Alpaca, Mountain Meadows, Schoppel, Swan's Island, UKI, Universal Yarns, and much more!

All sales final, discounts cannot be combined with Customer Reward coupons.

You may have noticed that Woven Art now has Boomerang Bags as an option for how you get your purchases from the shop to your home. If you are interested in learning more about the Boomerang Bags Project in the Greater Lansing Area, we are holding a mini sewing bee and information session at the shop. We will construct some bags from start to finish and answer any questions that you might have about the project. You don't have to be able to sew to help! We will be cutting, pinning, snipping and ironing, too. If you have a sewing machine, bring it and help with the construction of the bags. If you own and can operate a serger, bring it!

We exceeded our goal of 50 bags (we donated 64) for Allen Farmers Market in Lansing. Now we are ready to get started on some bags for the East Lansing Farmers Market!

Please contact the store to sign up, as we do have space limitations: 517-203-4467
If you would like to bring a sewing machine, please bring a heavy-duty extension cord.

Based in Traverse City, Why Knot Fibers and Kat Eldred will be visiting Woven Art for two days in July! We will have a shopable trunk show, including their newest samples, patterns, and color ways. Come meet Kat, and see (and buy!) her hand dyed yarns.

Trunk Show: July 14 & 15th 

Deck Party: July 14th from 4-7 pm, weather permitting

Light refreshments will be available - lemonade and grilled peaches and MSU ice cream

The event is FREE, but please RSVP for the Deck Party.

Join us for our 2017 Stitch 'n Pitch event to cheer on the Lansing Lugnuts at Cooley Law School Stadium on Thursday, July 13th. Game time is 7:05 pm.  This is a joint event with Sticks & Strings, and we will be a big group of knitters and crocheters stationed behind home plate!  It is Craft Beer night at the stadium, and craft beers are 1/2 off, and there will be a commemorative Lugnuts beer stein giveaway.

Stitch 'n Pitch tickets go on pre-sale June 13th at 10:00 am. $20 per ticket, with a goody bag included. Tickets are limited, so be sure to call early. 517-203-4467

Tickets are currently being printed, and will be available for pick-up before the event. In the case you can't pick-up tickets at the shop, we will be handing out tickets to attendees before the game, in front of the ballpark at 6:30 pm.

You may have noticed that Woven Art now has Boomerang Bags as an option for how you get your purchases from the shop to your home. If you are interested in learning more about the Boomerang Bags Project in the Greater Lansing Area, we are holding a mini sewing bee and information session at the shop. We will construct some bags from start to finish and answer any questions that you might have about the project. 

You don't have to be able to sew to help! We will be cutting, pinning, snipping and ironing, too. If you have a sewing machine, bring it and help with the construction of the bags. If you own and can operate a serger, bring it!

We hope to finish what is needed to meet our end-of-month goal of 50 bags for Allen Farmers Market in Lansing. We don't need many to meet our goal!

Please contact the store to sign up, as we do have space limitations.

There is no charge for this event.
Facilitator: Lynn Schense

Ready for a whimsical summer knit? Time to make a River Otter softie!  

Starting on Thursday, June 15th we will be hosting our next KAL - a river otter softie designed by Sara Elizabeth Kellner. Buy the pattern on Ravelry, and pick your yarn! The pattern calls for worsted, but you can knit it with any weight yarn you want.

KAL hours: 3-5 pm, 6-8 pm

We recommend that you try to snag some of East Lansing's very desirable free parking on MAC Avenue, just north of Linden St. By not needing your parking validated you help Woven Art provide free events like this! 

Let us know if you will be joining us! 517-203-4467, or reply to this email.

Woven Art will have a booth at the upcoming Michigan League of Handweavers Conference at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. We will be in Haworth Inn and Conference Center, Ballroom 3 - 255 College Avenue.

We will be bringing some Quince & Company yarns, Hedgehog Fibers, silk on cones, and lots of treasures. We will also have a good selection of tapestry looms and tools by Jim Hokett Would Work, books on weaving and textiles, and new publications from the fiber world.

Hours are:

Friday June 2nd: 2-5:30 pm
Saturday June 3rd: 10-5:30 pm
Sunday June 4th: 10-2 pm

Hope to see you there!