What's Going On & Free Pattern Friday

There is too much going on.  Mom and I leave for TNNA (yarn market in Columbus) today/Friday sometime.  We return on Sunday, then the Metro Yarn Crawl starts on Friday June 5th!  Speaking of..have you bought your bag yet?  You have to have the (MYC) bag to get 20% off of ALL YARN in participating shops.  Casapinka arrives sometime Friday and will be at the shop both Saturday and Sunday, the 6th and 7th.  She is teaching Color Work and Steeking and is also bringing her shawls for a mini truck show.  We have been such fans of hers since we met at Rhinebeck last year are just tickled to death to have her for the weekend.
We finish up the MYC on Sunday June 14th then turn the corner and Tuesday the 16th Veronika of YOTH will be in The House teaching and doing a preview of the YOTH/Knot House Launch.  You can sign up for this event here.  We are the ONLY shop on the East Coast that will carry YOTH in 2015.  🙂
In July we have a Felting Workshop planned with Going Gnome.  More on this next week….
So enough of that…right now I am loving 2 of the top 5 patterns in the Hot Right Now list on Ravelry.  #1 is Alicia Plummer’s Cooldown using Lake’s Lochsa DK, and I really really like it.  We are working on getting more Lochsa DK now.

#5 and FREE is Stephen West’s Yes Checks hat which uses 1 skein of DK, and anything Stephen does is adorable.

So there you have it…that is what’s going on.
Enjoy!
~Heather