December 2013 Wool & Wicker 120-12051 Second Ave Richmond, BC V7E 3L6 P 604-275-1239 Toll free 1-877-966-5945 Woolandwicker.com [email protected] Happy Holidays Happy Holiday to all our wonderful customers, from Diane, Denis, Lorraine, Y, Monique, Pat, and Edita, this sixteenth season at Wool & Wicker. May all your wishes for the New Year come true, and may you start and finish much knitting!! Boxing Week Sale  (Dec.27-31st hours as usual) Draw for your discount, up to 50% off all regular priced yarns accessories Inside this issue Happy Holidays ..................... 1  50% off all discontinued yarns  25% off all full priced books and mags, many books and patterns @ $1 each  Select sweater, throw, baby samples at clear out prices, less than price of yarn Boxing Week Sale ................. 1 Gift List................................. 2  We welcome your personal cheques, cash, interac, Mastercard, or VISA  Discounts do not apply to Addi needles & Addi accessories New Products in Stock .......... 2-9 Classes Check the website at www.woolandwicker.com for the latest class news and books in stock on blog. Gift List to put on your fridge                Addi Clicks lace (skacelknitting.com) Addi Clicks long lace Addi Clicks basic Addi Clicks bamboo Addi Clicks crochet set New Addi crochet hook set in case Padraig slippers (www.padraigcottage.com) Ball winder Nifty Umbrella swift Gift certificate Della Q needle cases Namaste knitting bag GoKnit Pouches Ghana basket Knitting book____________________________ New Products in Stock From Skacel, we have received some very luscious and tempting Hikoo yarns. Simplinatural is an all natural chunky weight blend of 40% alpaca 40% wool and 20% mulberry silk. Gorgeous colours, texture and hand, 170m/100g. Have made a 2 skein capelet/infinityscarf/neckwarmer/hood “Kansas City Cowl” with the crimson red. So warm and lovely and versatile. Simplinatural sample Rylie sample New Products in Stock continued... Hikoo Rylie is equally tempting in an exceptionally pretty pastel range, dk weight at 253m/100g, blending natural luxury of pastel coloured 50% baby alpaca, 25% mulberry silk and 25% linen. Have made a 1 skein cowl with this one. So excited to have an alpaca silk dk and this one with linen has substance. What an excellent blend! Hikoo Cobasi plus is the amazing Cobasi, cotton, bamboo, silk and elastic nylon blend in a worsted weight. Enough colours to satisfy most baby and kid knitters, at 163m 100g, soft, wonderful blend which will join our go to yarns Simplicity and Simpliworsted superwash dk and chunky wool blends for baby and child projects, only offering a non-wool yarn for those concerned about allergies or itch, and proven versatility. On right below is a great lacy effect summer project to throw on which takes 4 50 gram balls of cobasi, on an 8mm needle! Cobasi, baby swing coat on Lace Capelet on 8mm 2.5 mm needles Pretty Enough Sweater 4 skeins large on 8mm Hikoo Helix is a soft wool cotton and acrylic offering a lovely painterly look for your chunky knitting at a great price Blue grass Singing the blues jewels Plum Fairy autumn wind Mossy riverbed New Products in Stock continued…. Zitron has produced a lovely 100% mohair lace Extra Klasse in devastating colours in solids and multis. Extraklasse 2.3 balls no pattern yet Artfelt rovings, needles and kits like this artfelt bowl, see itsartfelt.com Oscar’s Kleines Turmalin, Ravelry Another of their lovely all natural lace beauties is Fil Royal Multi, added some hand paint looks to the line for your shawls, scarves. Schulana has several new colours in Kid Seta Jubile New Products in Stock continued…. Winter Beach Kenzie Gradient wraps Schoppel book 4 Pur cowl, Magalog 3 Close knit Gradient cowl, 1 ball, Cast on 17 balls knits up to 50” bust 200 st. 5mm 24” circ, join, k3,p1 around till 5 yds left. Bind off loosely in pattern Winter Beach up to 17 balls 50 Inch Hikoo Kenzie has come out with 10 new colours. Was floored with the Turtleneck Jacket design in Kenzie from KnitWear fall 2013 above. Simply elegant and stunning! This is one of the most interesting blends to come out in the last few years, 160 yds/50g, and can be knit on 4mm to 5.5mm to get gauge from 4 to 5.5 sts to the inch. Made in New Zealand people! It blooms beautifully because of the angora content. Some of the new patterns are interesting as well, check out Winter Beach and the 2 Skacel patterns below. Owl in One 5 balls Owl toy included in Skacel pattern, 1 ball Bravura 19-26 balls. Schulana adds a pearled kid silk option for your glamour knits, in Kid Seta Pearl, and Sayonara Print 100% silk adds 3 new colour blends for spring/summer knits. Made twig in rasta lined with Caribou A favourite Schoppel yarn, Leinen Los is on the needles for this lovely lacy looking one ball spring/summer top, an adaptation of Rosa’s sleeveless cardi on ravelry. Not a cardi, but whatever! Have you got more time to knit? How about some garments to ponder! Some new patterns we have in store From Sunday Knits Eve’s Ribs Cap-Sleeve Wrap Rippling Rib’s Vest Bay Laurel Adam’s ribs Shawl Collar Shawl instructions include scarf & cowl as well Clair de Lune – Carol Sunday, front and back views Stunning! Mostly simple pattern Close up on bottom lace Adrift – Carol Feller Beekeeper’s Quilt – Tiny Owl Knits Prosecco – Versaciknits Vitamin D – Heidi Kirrmaier Good little kittens by CiD Hanscom Caribou Critters so easy to make new Caribou pattern Note the mittens included!! We have lots of temptations coming for the next season!! Berroco is sending us Captiva, new to us, to replace our Seduce Yarn, more new colours in the new Boboli Lace, and a new Modern Cotton, plus their booklets of patterns, including the Great Designs of Norah Gaughan. Check out her 2013 winter issue, all sweaters top down. Windansea Hat Shearer Flow Lothlorian mitts/merino/fur Windansea hat pattern, use the Captiva, same gauge as the Seduce, or for a swingy tank, Shearer will work beautifully as well, drapey, draws the eye down, hides what we want, you could buy extra yarn and knit it straight up instead of the Vneck, and shoulders will come down over top of arms! Or how about Flow? Quick to knit, drapey and can wear both for day or dress, depending on the accessories. Rowan is sending us 4 of their new books, plus a pure Linen, Truesilk, and Silkystones, all with models for you to try on and feel. From Diamond Yarns, new to us will be Jewel Metallic railroad ribbon for your jewellery knits, and we will have more of our best sellers, Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, and Cashmerino Aran, Noro Silk Garden, Silk Garden Lite, Silk Garden sock and Kureyon, Katia Degrade Sun cotton, Hayfield Baby Changes Dk, Painted Desert and Uluru, and some more colours of Bamboo Bloom. Some new samples we have added to the store are Tiny owl Knits Twig, using Rasta lined with our furry Caribou, a horseshoe cabled cowl made in 2 balls Royalpaca, a spiral hat knit with one ball Reggae Ombre, a Spiral Cowl from knit in the new Rylie, and a Kansas City Cowl, knit in the Simplinatural. Some great newer stuff I know you will love from Skacel Addicolours crochet hook set Ergonomic swing hooks Lace tips with turbo nickel coating up to 3.25MM 3.5 up to 9MM in lace tips with Turbo coating Circulars also, with different colour needle each end 4, 4.5 and 5mm Colormatic KAL Michelle Hunter Addi click sampler set, try them all Addilinos, perfect for teaching kids, 4, 4.5 and 5mm 8” Take a look at the great projects Michelle has for u!