Contributors to the pattern magazine (GREAT designers):  Pam Allen, Jennie Eveleigh Lamond, Jared Flood , Laura Grutzeck, Franklin Habit, Robin Melanson, Mary Jane Mucklestone, Carol Sulcoski and Ysolda Teague

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In other news, we had some Tilli Tomas yarn on sale last week, it flew out the door.  Thanks for your purchases and enjoy the discounted Tilli, a rare thing.

I was going through my stash and thinking about knitting up all the samples that we have.. well, the ones I haven’t knitted up yet anyway  ;-) .  I started out with the samples for Spud and Chloe, the Sweater yarn that arrived all looped up on pencils, very cute.  But even cuter is knitting the colors up into a mini-scarf.

It’s amazing how well ALL the colors look good together!

Next up is the Tilli Tomas Symphony-Kid Lace with beads, a super kid mohair blend with a metallic thread and beads.  The photo doesn’t do it justice, AT ALL.  But my little fish wanted to be in the shot, haha.

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This sample of garter stitch was knit up on US 4 needles.
Fluffy, soft, and the beads as a nice weight to it.
On US 4 needles it knits up nice and tight for a sweater, or use larger needles for a scarf or shawl.

Coming up next: Habu yarns with the new SWTC Xie yarn, a new ultimate favorite.

Although I don’t have photos of some of the test knits, my new favorite yarns are as follows:

Blue Sky Alpacas Melange

I haven’t had too much time to knit with this yarn until now.  The heathery look of the colors really comes through in the finished knit!

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Tilli Tomas Beaded Plie

This lace edge was knit with Tilli Tomas Beaded Plie.  A silk yarn with beads throughout, hold up well to wear and looks great in stockinette too!

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Loop-d-Loop Tundra

<– New FREE pattern . Tundra yarn
by Missa of kpixie.  You can download it from ravelry.com (click the photo)

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And Baby Alpaca Lace by Plymouth.
This affordable lace weight alpaca is SO dreamy.

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In other news, a friend of mine has just launched a new shop at etsy.com!

Her KOALA Caddie™ is a new way to knit and crochet.  Visit the website to learn more about this new yarn craft apron.  I have been using mine for about 3 weeks now and will never go back to plastic bags!

And visit the shop at koalacaddie.etsy.com to view the current offerings.

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This is color 362, a “Casual Stripe” shade.
The speckles of red make the stripes blend, very cool.

Also, coming soon, a new quick crochet pattern using Karaoke yarn.
I call it “Northern Lights”, a fun decoration for winter!

  I want to knit Dahlia with Plymouth Galway

And oh my gosh!  Stardust is so darn cute, and
we have a great Gossamer color in stock for it!

And what’s this?  Another Disco Lights pattern?  We just can’t get enough of this yarn huh girls.

Want to see one of the cutest puppy photos I’ve ever seen in my life?  Check out the pattern Cables + Bits

And finally, I’m not really a shawl knitter, but the Jeanie pattern is amazing.

To take you back to knitty Fall 2004, remember the Hallowig?
here is mine from back in the day
 silly, isn’t it

~missa

Eye candy!  You can “steal” these photos for your blog if you like.

It’s been a great 2 years since we opened shop, Jessica and I are planning some great additions for 2007. We are always on the look out for cool new products to add to the product line, and with your repeat customer support we can continue… thanks to all you kpixie fans!

Here is a photo from February 2005, in which the
store had 1/8th the amount of yarn it has now. Hard to believe.

Our goals for 2007 are very similar to our original ones. To bring you hard-to-find yarns, stay as natural as possible with the fiber content, support those knitters who do not have a cool yarn store close to home, photograph every yarn that comes into the shop, always choose yarns that we would knit with ourselves, and get your orders out fast fast fast. We hope we have satisfied your yarn cravings, we hope our customer support has lived up to our reputation, and we hope to keep you as friends in 2007.

Knit on!

get the yarn here

And here she is, so cute!!

The bear is now with Jessica’s daughter (which she named “Lady Halloween”) who will test it for kid abuse. We are going to take photos two weeks from now and see how the yarn holds up.

Also, I crocheted a new hat for the free patterns section… available very soon!
I’m working on a matching scarf pattern as I type this post.
update… here are the new patterns!!

We wanted to let you know about our new store name.

It’s a small change, from knitpixie to kpixie.
We’re still the same woman owned and operated company,
Jessica and I are still here for you!

We were approached by a large corporation that threatened a lawsuit unless we changed our name. They thought our store name was too similar to theirs. We did not feel that anyone would confuse the two stores, but to avoid a lawsuit we decided to change our name. We chose the knitpixie name carefully and were very attached to it, but we think the new name is just as cool!

Please email us info@knitpixie.com if you have any questions.

click here for more info

We will be located at the new domain name (kpixie.com) by November 15th!
All newsletter subscribers will be notified when the change is made,
and you will still be able to reach the online store by typing in knitpixie.com