Mother's Day Offers of Squishy Yarn and Fab Turban Kits

Susan's beautiful vintage inspired yarn, Excelana Luxury 4ply wool, is now newly available to purchase from our shop. Developed in collaboration with John Arbon of Fibre Harvest, and supported by the British Wool Marketing Board and the Campaign for Wool, this yarn is 100% British wool (70% Exmoor Blueface/30% Bluefaced Leicester). Available in 8 stunning colours created by Susan, this yarn is just what you need for your vintage knitting projects.

Buy 5 balls or more before midnight on Sunday (3rd April 2011) and receive a free project bag. And if all of that's not enough, we have a limited number of Susan's Greta Turban Kit in stock and we also have a 50% sale on all remaining Pepin Press products!  And, of course if you're not looking for a Mother's Day present, all these offers still apply! Happy gift-hunting Ingrid x

Mother's Day is nearly here

...are you ready yet? If like me, it is all a bit of a flying panic or you're just struggling for ideas for the lady who has everything, fear not. We have some great offers available from the knitonthenet shop.

A Stitch in Time, Volume Two is still available to pre-order with a fabulous package of goodies including yarn, a signed copy and a project bag as part of the pre order package. Save £5 on the retail price by ordering now, and take advantage of our Gift Certificate emailed to you to print out and give to the recipient.

We also have some other excellent savings in-store. For a limited period A Stitch in Time, Volume One is available for only £20 - saving £7.99 on the retail price.

And Vintage Gifts to Knit, featuring 16 designs for women, men, children, baby and home, by Susan Crawford, is now only £10, saving £4.00 on the RRP. And for the next 48 hours Susan is signing any of her titles ordered through the shop.    Purchase either of these great titles by 3pm on Thursday for guaranteed delivery for Mother's Day (mainland UK addresses only).

Greta Turban Kit - for that Land Girl frame of mind!

 

Greta Turban. Image and Design by Susan Crawford

We're very pleased to announce an exciting new range of vintage inspired
knitting kits which are available to buy from the knitonthenet shop. Each kit
is packaged in a stylish and sturdy jute project bag, which can be used again
and again, and all the things that you need to make the garment: the needles
required (tied with some specially designed Susan Crawford ribbon), the required
yarn in a choice of colours, pattern booklet and any notions required, such as
buttons, ribbon or elastic.

A full colour pattern booklet features beautiful, inspirational photographs by Susan.

Kit bag and contents for the Greta Turban

There are currently 10 kits in the range with more to come. Susan says that she has been getting
lots of requests for the kits from yarn and vintage shops too so hopefully these little red knitting
bags should be popping up at a LYS sometime soon.

The first kit available at the knitonthenet shop is also a new design, well, in fact an enhancement
of an old design: the Greta Turban.

The kit includes 2 balls of Baby Rooster yarn, knitting needles, elastic, the pattern booklet
and project bag.

The pattern is one that Susan has enhanced from a previous design. This is what she says about it:

I brought out a similar pattern to this in the very early days of knitonthenet but always felt it needed improving. The stitch used has stayed the same and the basic principle of a shaped strip being knitted then tied with a knot also remains. The design has moved on though as the turban now has a crown, elastic attached at the back to hold it in place and a secured front knot, so much more a hat than a scarf. Perfect for those bad hair days or when you're in a Land Girl frame of mind!

Sounds good! If you'd like to buy a kit for the Greta Turban, please do visit the knitonthenet shop where
the kits are available to buy for £25 in a range of four colours. Watch out for more new designs which will
be added over the coming weeks too. The pattern will also be available as a PDF download very shortly. 

Happy knitting

Ingrid x