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  • Fiber Festival Weekend is here! Do you know where your fiber be(a)sties are?

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    Elizabeth Schell

    Our booth at SouthEastern Animal Fiber Fair is all ready and chock full of all kinds of fibery nerdy goodness! Find us at Booth #141-145 in the Davis Arena (Fri & Sat 9-5, Sun 9-4). The store will be open Fri & Sat 10-6, Sun 10-4 – closing early with NO Nerd Night – we’ll be flopping!). We hope you’ll visit us at SAFF or the store if you are in town. There’s a lot of tables & chairs near our booth at SAFF for resting your footsies and chilling out after roaming the aisles of fibery overwhelm. Rik will be doing tarot readings from our Cryptids Crafting deck at 3pm in our booth everyday. And of course if you find yourself on Hendersonville road you can stop by the shop and flop on the couch (and give me a bathroom break!).

    Everything in our booth was personally crafted by us and our local fiber friends(!) and we’re pretty excited about our collection:

    • Cryptids Crafting: tote bags, project bags, tarot deck, enamel pins, and mini skein sets
    • Purl’s hand-dyes (Adventure, Science, & Whose) AND a new set of colorways for Yarn Dick (our detective murder mystery themed yarn)!
    • A new Murder Mystery to go with Yarn Dick (you can get a booklet that includes 2 yarn-themed mysteries!)
    • all kinds of kits including Rik’s double-knit scarf and cape kits, Earth Ball, Time Traveler cowl, Away Team hats; my furry beast and Mothman kits, Transition Pride Cowls, and my new Transporter Accident cowl kit that comes in a tube!
    • 3D printed yarn carousels by ELG (Emily) for controlling that mischievous yarn when doing knit or crochet colorwork
    • stickers and zines from Ing about sheepies and shearing
    • hand-dyed yarn and roving from Skeinchanger (Sara Basile) (kits, hand-dyes, project bags, tarot decks, etc.) but we are also happy to have some really great products of our crafty friends
    • local farm yarns from the folks at Sourwood Fiber Farm (check out their beasties out in the barns)
    • project bags of ALL kinds of themes: adventure, snarky feminist, kitties, fiber animals, crafting, cryptids, Pride, and more!

    If you go to SAFF, don’t forget to pace yourself, hydrate, feed your tummy, and go pet the fiber beasties out in the barns!!! Check the SAFF schedule for all kinds of demonstrations with the sheep, goals, alpacas, etc., as well as fiber demos of all kinds. Also remember if getting to SAFF is just not in the cards for you (feeling overwhelmed by the world and/or don’t want to be tempted by the fibery things or just have other things going on), no worries! Take care of yourself cause that is most important.

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  • Malabrigo restock

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    Rik Schell

    We’ve been so busy making stuff for SAFF we have neglected posting, but we got a big Malabrigo shipment in this week. See you soon!

  • Yarn DicK preview

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    Rik Schell

    Our murder-mystery detective themed yarn is coming back with new colors and a new mystery to solve! It all starts SAFF weekend. Join us at the Ag Center October 24-26.

  • Spreading some Rainbow Pride

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    Elizabeth Schell

    This morning we installed our Pride celebration yarn bombing on a downtown path near Pack Square Park (by Pack Tavern). Earlier this year I plotted with folks at BlueRidge Pride regarding a yarn bombing installation inspired by Pride flags for the Blue Ridge Pride Festival. We settled on a path of 6 trees and 9 lampposts in an area that wouldn’t be filled with booths at the Pride festival (which takes place this Saturday).

    This year’s festival theme is “Resistance and Resilience.” A little MORE than a year ago we were filling all our buckets with water. And now our buckets are definitely in need of all the powers of resistance and resilience we can muster. I really like that we ended up with so many yarn bombing pieces in the form of crocheted granny squares. As I pieced together the granny squares made up of different Pride flag colorways I liked the idea of thinking about “Gay Grannies” and “Lesbian Grannies” and “Trans Grannies” and “Non-binary Grannies”…all these grannies and elders in our past who lived under the radar — or very much NOT under the radar. Cause being gay or lesbian or trans or nonbinary is not new. Our queer family has been here all along. And I really like to think of Trans Grannies and Nonbinary grannies and all the queer grannies in the future. Because WE WILL find a way to overcome this hatred and fear-mongering culture. We will protect one another. We will do what we need to do to RESIST and to build and support RESILIENCE. One stitch at a time. One connection at a time.

    Thanks yarny fam for crafting all these beautiful things and to those who came out to help stitch them together for the community to enjoy. The yarn bombing will be up for one week (until next Monday, Sept. 28) so go check it out while it’s up! After washing and mending, we hope to transform the yarn bombing pieces into Pride Flag blankets that we’ll be gifting to BlueRidge Pride for their community space.

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  • SAFF is Coming !

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    Rik Schell

    The Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair is October 24-26 at the WNC Ag Center. We’ve been super busy making new stuff to bring to the show!

  • The Puffiest Yarn

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    Rik Schell

    It’s fall, which means time for some fun new yarns! Want a cloudlike colorful soft single-ball project? For $30, one skein of Pouffe will make a scarf, or a hat and mitts, or whatever else you want to dream up. Using an N hook or US 11 needle, the 295 yards will go a long way. I want an extra ball just to hug!

  • Emily’s Wonderful Machine

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    Rik Schell

    Sorry it took so long, but we finally have the Colorwork Carousel up on the site for sale. I use this thing constantly and it is so much easier and more fun than the old gravity method.

    And if you are a real masochist and working with 6 colors at a time isn’t mad enough for you, you can contact [email protected] for the 12-color expansion!

  • Private Equity

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    Rik Schell

    https://youtu.be/JYDz3D9YRyI?si=Iai5OlkexS5i5IaS

    This video is very informative.

    We’ve noticed Berroco has raised prices multiple times since being bought by a big Wall Street firm. Of course everyone has raised prices, but most companies have said they are doing all they can to keep costs down. We’ve generally used Berroco as a source of inexpensive staple yarns, but it might be worth investigating other options. We want to do right by our customers!

  • Happy Anniversary to Us

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    Rik Schell

    It’s hard to believe we’ve been running Purl’s for fifteen years! And the store has been around for 20 years now, so this week we’re giving everyone 20% off all purchases! Come see us in person or check your email for a coupon you can use online.

  • Sorry About the Inflation

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    Rik Schell

    We try to keep yarns in stock at a variety of price points. There’s no shame in being budget conscious, and we want good yarn to be available to everyone. There are brands we avoid (cough cough Lang) simply because we feel like they are priced too high for what they are.

    But we are dependent on our suppliers, and when their prices go up, there’s not much we can do. We try to stock up before price hikes go into effect and put off price increases as long as we can. But tariffs that are all about feeding one man’s ego are going to affect us all. We’re sorry this is happening. We would give out free yarn if we could.

    We do have a big sale coming up, but don’t be tempted to hoard yarn you won’t use. Lean on that monthly coupon and the Go Local card. Share stash yarn with your friends. And find ways to subvert capitalism whenever you can.