We are very excited to announce that we are creating a Knitting Starting Kit. We often hear from people at HOPE Farmer’s Market that although they don’t know how to knit now, they would love to learn how . As I am new to knitting myself, I can understand that it definitely is a little [...]
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Milestones Reached!
We pulled apart our 100th sweater today! It kind of crept up on us, but while we were stamping on sweater lot numbers, there is was: one, zero, zero. The sweater of honor was a very dark blue, tweed sweater, which pulled apart nicely into a plump pile of 5 skeins. Here is the sweater: [...]
Coffeehouse Cap Extraordinaire
One of our regular customers at HOPE Farmer’s Market has submitted her creation made from our yarn. She used a really soft brown yarn and a neat, off-white yarn speckled with brown and black. The hat she made turned out quite nice and we’re thrilled to be able to present it to you. We’ve included [...]
Happy New Years!
IMPORTANT NOTE: We will NOT be at the HOPE Farmer’s Market either January 3rd or 10th. We are taking a much needed vacation to recharge our batteries after the busy holiday season. We will be back at HOPE for regular business starting Sunday, January 17th. The year 2009 was a very good year for Yarn [...]
Koozie Version 2.0 Unveiled. And HOPE Farmer’s Market is Fantastic.
Badda bing… Badda boom. Out rolls my newest and shiniest koozie to-date. I cast on fewer stitches this time, so it fits like a glove. And narry a dropped stitch in the entire project, if I may say so myself. I think one more koozie like this and I’ll be able to declare mastery over [...]
Austin Artist Recycling Sweaters Into Wearable Art
I opened up my Austin American-Statesman this Thursday morning to find an article titled, “Artist turns old sweaters into new fun.” Needless to say, I was excited to read more. This is right up the alley with what Yarn Harvest is doing. It is too cool to find out other nifty things artists are doing [...]
Announcing “Yarn Harvest December” Retail Events
We’ve planned out our holiday schedule for the year, so now we know where we will be setting up shop in the upcoming weeks. With retailers calling the Friday after Thanksgiving “Black Friday,” and online stores calling the following Monday “Cyber Monday,” we figured we’d just out and claim the entire month of December. How [...]
Amazing, stellar, awesome, first knitted project ever… Complete!
I’ve finished my first try at knitting koozies… to grand success I do humbly believe. The picture below speaks to my accomplishment. Indeed, I think that all the little holes, mis-stiches, and loose threads add a lot of character to my creation. I couldn’t be more proud of it, regardless of the fact that it [...]
Online Store Finally Open For Business!!!
We have finally launched our online store! You can now browse through a good portion of our inventory, and make a purchase of whatever yummy recycled yarn tickles your fancy. We will be adding new skeins to the store as we make them, so make sure to check back frequently. Also, we’ve posted locations of [...]
Purchasing Opportunity This Thursday
It’s been quite busy here at Yarn Harvest since our last post. We’ve been working very hard to build up our yarn inventory over the past couple of weeks, as well as making sure that we can open our online store soon. We will be setting up shop this Thursday at the First Thursday festivities [...]