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Christmas Knitting

Can you believe it's September? Time to get your Christmas knitting started!

I have a variety of kits and patterns to knit Christmas stockings, ornaments, pillows, sweaters, etc.

Elegant Heirlooms has 3 lines of Christmas Stocking kits which I can have drop-shipped to you: Elegant Heirlooms, Googleheims, and DooLallies.

part of a knitted Christmas stocking with a teddy bear riding a rocking horse, Raggedy Anne and Andy, a doll house, a train set, and other presents

Elegant Heirlooms Kits

$82.00 – 92.00

part of a knitted Christmas stocking with Santa, a sheep and a reindeer in front of evergreen trees

Googleheims Kits

$48.00

3 knitted Christmas stocking with nutcracker motifs

DooLallies Kits

$40.00

If you'd like a change of pace from knitting, I have several Christmas-themed vintage needlework items, including needlepoint canvases, embroidery, counted cross stitch, quilting patterns, etc.

Noro Magazine 27 Design Outtakes

cover of Design Outtakes from Noro Magazine #27, with a woman wearing a knitted long-sleeved pullover

Design Outtakes from Noro Magazine 27 has arrived. It includes 6 chic garments for women, knit in a variety of Noro yarns.

Knitting Fever Shop Local

Knitting Fever is the U.S. distribution for brands such as Noro, Lykke Crafts, Euro Baby (EYB), Ella Rae, Jody Long, Queensland, Juniper Moon Farm, Louisa Harding, Elsebeth Lavold, Fil Katia, and more. U.S. customers can purchase select yarn, patterns, kits, needles, and tools directly from them with free shipping for orders of $50 or more — and support my store at the same time!

L-R: Raine Pullover in Ella Rae Color Magic, Gallium Knee Socks in Juniper Moon Farm Herriot Fine, Pieridae Pullover in Ella Rae Eco Cotton Tweed.

The garments shown here are some of their recently added kits. Multiple colorsways and sizes are available.

Support my shop by selecting "Yarn Barn of Andersonville" (zipcode 23936) during checkout.

Elizabeth Zimmermann "Knitting Around"

cover of revised Knitting Around by Elisabeth Zimmerman shows a woman facing away from the camera, looking at a river, wearing a yoked pullover

The classic Knitting Around by Elizabeth Zimmermann is now available as an updated paperback. The 9 chapters include original patterns and a bevy of EZ's invented techniques.

The update adds charts, extended directions, and illustrations, as well as bonus garments and photos. Elizabeth's daughter Meg Swansen has written a preface to each chapter with anecdotes, knitting tips, and history related to each classic EZ design.

Each chapter ends with Elizabeth's autobiographical memoirs.

An Oldie But Goodie

a knitting pattern showing a woman wearing a cropped multicolor striped cardigan with curved fronts meeting at a single button closure

I'm seeing this style of cardigan/jacket a lot in newer patterns. The one shown here is an older pattern knit in discontinued Noro Silk Garden Lite or Silk Garden Lite Solo and is FREE with your yarn purchase. To fit bust 28" - 46".

I have 16 colors of Silk Garden Lite and 8 colors of Silk Garden Lite Solo in sufficient amounts to make at least the smallest size. Get your yarn pac now!

Noro Magazine 26 & Design Outtakes

The new Noro Knitting & Crochet Magazine has arrived! It includes 32 designs to knit or crochet in Noro yarns, including women's cardigans, pullovers, tops, shawls, a skirt, a hat, tote bags, pillows, a baby blanket and amigurumi.

cover of Design Outtakes from Noro Magazine #26, with a woman wearing a striped cardigan

Design Outtakes from Noro Magazine 26 includes 2 summer sweaters and 6 amigurumi to knit or crochet in Noro yarns.

Noro Fall/Winter Yarns

I now have some stock of Noro's Fall/Winter 2024 yarns, Rittou and Saiun, as well as a couple more colors of 2023 yarn Rikka.

Rittou is named after the Japanese term for 'the first day of winter.' Each colorway has a natural brown wool blended in to give it an autumn tone.

Price: $45.00

70% wool, 15% silk, 15% kid mohair
361 yds per 150gm skein
4 – 4.5 sts per inch on US #7 – 8 needle
3 self-striping colors in stock

Saiun is the rainbow effect of the mist between glowing clouds. Each colorway contains many saturated hues.

Price: $35.00

70% wool, 30% polyamide
492 yds per 150gm skein
5 – 5.5 sts per inch on US #4 – 7 needle
1 self-striping color in stock

Emotional Support Chicken

a stuffed chicken knit in variegated red yarn with white stripes and a yellow beak

I was NOT going to make one of these, buck the trend, then I needed one as a gag gift for a friend... This is as close as I could get to her school colors. Think she loved it. I used 2 balls of Noro Kureyon #124 and leftovers for the stripes, beak, comb, and wattle. Pattern is Emotional Support Chicken, $6.50. A well written pattern.

Lavold Jasmine Top

a woman wearing a light green aran-style cabled sleeveless top

Just arrived: this nice looking cabled sleeveless top pattern to knit in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool. Finished bust 34.5" - 63" uses 5 - 9 skeins. Many colors to choose from at $7.50/skein for your yarn pac, or purchase the pattern separately for $6.

Shetland Wool Week 2025 Hat

a woman wearing a fair isle hat in browns and reds

The 2025 Shetland Wool Week patron and annual hat pattern have been announced. A digital pattern can be purchased for £2 directly from Shetland Wool Week and I can supply yarn pacs for the Jamieson Spindrift colorway shown on the cover. Or make it your own by choosing any colors from my large stock of Spindrift!

Vintage Needlework

When I moved my store from Ohio to Virginia, I did not add the needlework kits, etc. to my web site. I am sorting through the boxes and posting those that are still useable. These items are all at least 25 years old and have been in storage most of that time. They would be an inexpensive way to learn needlepoint, cross stitch, or various types of embroidery.

Now Shipping Outside United States

We have re-enabled shipping options to Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

All packages to destinations outside the U.S. will ship using a service called Global Post. This is a service where I send packages to a collection point in the US, then they are bundled and shipped to other countries by Global Post for customs clearance. Once customs are cleared, the local post office delivers your package.

I do not collect any taxes (VAT) or customs duties owed on international shipments. You may need to pay these before your package will be delivered.

Appomatox Head Start Visits the Store

Teachers from Appomattox Head Start recently visited the store to make a virtual field trip video to share with their students for a unit about clothing.

Teachers: Ms. Dill, Ms. Ferguson, and Ms. Savage