You’ll want to mark your calendars for Saturday August 28th for our Anniversary Sale.  It’s hard to believe it’s already been a whole year at this location!!!!!   You won’t want to miss the sale, in addition to lots of great deals there’ll be door prizes, and the chance to get up to 50% off your entire purchase.

Fall Yarn Tasting

Another thing to mark on your calendar.  Sunday October17th from 12-4 will be the fall yarn tasting.  These fill up fast so be sure to call (778-471-5562) or drop by the store to book your space ASAP.  New to the Twist of Fate yarn tastings?  For just $10 you’ll get a bag filled with samples of 20 of the new fall yarns plus access to a one day only yarn tasting sale on the yarns you’ll be sampling.  there’s only 25 spaces and they fill up fast!

Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival

Once again Twist of Fate will be at the GLFAF on the beautiful Sunshine Coast.  The Merchant Mall runs Thursday-Saturday in the highschool gym.  I’m really looking forward to being back, I love the sunshine coast and can’t wait to see everyone.  As always I’ll have lots of great stuff with me, including hte new Fantasia Wheel from Kromski and I’m not sure hwat else, you’ll just have to stop on by and see.

Finally the Fall Retreat

We still have room for the Spinning Designer Yarns retreat at Sunpeaks October 1-3.

here are some photos of what we’ll be learning from Caroline Sommerfeld who will be instructing us

So some of you may remember how when I was getting ready to open the store I taled about Flicks and Sticks events.

Those of you who don’t remember are currently going “what’s Flicks and Sticks?” right?

Well it’s a movie and you knitting needles (sticks) of course crochet hooks, drop spindles what have you work too!

So what’s the deal exactly?
you come on in to the store, and bring your knitting, a movie and snacks will be provided and you just hang out and knit and watch a flick and have fun.

The store will be open for sales that day, and for each Flicks and Sticks event a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Charity.

February 28th will be our first one (I’m thinking monthly) it’s a Sunday and doors will open at 1:00 and the movie will start at 2:00.

It’s a no charge event, but as I say a portion of all the day’s sales will go to charity, you are also encouraged to donate what you can!

This is where the money will go in February
I love that this is an initiative which can provide ongoing income and a better life for a woman and her family. I also like that there is a connection to the fibre work we do for recreation (and sometimes for income)

I’d love suggestions of worthy causes for future months,
i know some things I’m thinking of are a sheep from Oxfam Canada, an alpaca from World vision, what else is out there?

With that in mind in lieu of weekly specials this week and next what I’m doing instead is putting everything PINK in the store on for 14% off until February 14th!!

I want to send January out with a bang,
so we need not one, not two, but let’s say three specials this week.

Opal Sock Yarn 20% Off (who doesn’t want some toasty new socks for the rest of the winter because we know the cold weather is coming back!) ****

Buttons 25% Off All of them, the ceramic, the pewter, the wooden, all of the pretty pretty buttons!

Drop Spindles 15% Off (all in stock drop spindles, including the Jenkins Turkish Spindles!!)

So this is what happens when I have too much time on my hands. I decide to put stuff on sale.

I’ve got new yarns coming in, and I need places to put them.

SOOOOOOO

For the rest of the week all clearance merchandise, all that gorgeous Colourworks, Mohair Plus, Merino et Soie and whatever else is on the clearance table, plus the stuff in the 25% off basket up at the front desk is an extra 10% off.

skeins of the colourworks make a super cute toque that knits up fast for a christmas gift!

Let’s make room for the new yarns including the Dream in Colour Starry that’s on it’s way!

I kept meaning to post completed pics of the store, then grand opening pics, then I got pics emailed to me by the lovely Angie, then I wanted to post pics of the retreat, but I forgot my camera, then I rearranged everything.  Those of you who’ve known me awhile, like say 10 minutes or so will know I have a tendency to do that a lot.

but today I took new pictures

TA DA!

those couches are every bit as comfy as they look!!

YES THAT’S A GINAT DISPLAY OF FLEECE ARTIST/HANDMAIDEN in the pucture above

Tuesday’s are still the night for knitting here at Twist of Fate, would love to see you out some week, or every week, from 7-9.

In other news gearing up for Christmas there is going to be a yarn tasting and sale on Sunday November 15 from 1-5 pm.

Yes I said Sunday.  We’re still closed on Sundays which is actually why this will be a sunday event.  It’s an excusive sale, you have to pre-register.  There are only 20 spots!

It’s an event, and has a small fee, but here’s what you’ll get for your $10…

• A goodie bag with sample skeins of 20-30 different yarns (I haven’t decided on all of them yet but will let you know) valued between $30 and $50 (again I’ll know this number better once I’ve finished picking all the yarns
• Every yarn in the tasting will be on sale for the one day of the event only at 20% off
• Everything else in the store will be on for 5% off, even clearance priced items will knock off an additional 5%
• I will be having a magazine back issue sale that day too, buy any 2 mags get 20% off
• I am hoping to have sample garments or swatches knit from most of the tasting yarns ready for the event
• every person who makes a purchase over $50 will also be entered to win a gift basket
• and of course there’ll be refreshments too

there’s only 20 spots so you’ll want to register early!

The painting’s not quite done yet, but we had to get started on the floors, by the end of this week they should both be done, done, done!

This is what the floor looked like after it had been swept and scraped and was ready to have the laminate laid down

kind of uggh right?  Well Chris worked hard over the weekend, this is what it looked like about halfway thourgh Saturday

He’s now past that other doorway but apparently I didn’t take a picture yesterday.  It looks amazing, I can’t wait for it to be finished for real.

Everything is coming along really well and I’m sure I’ll have no problem being ready for the grand opening on August 29th (it’s a saturday you should come ;)  I know it’ll be hard being away for nearly 5 days when I head to Gisbons Landing Fibre Arts Festival on Wednesday and don’t come back Sunday afternoon!  The way I figure it by the time I get home all the painting and flooring will be done so it’ll be time for sweeping, mopping window cleaning and getting all those shleves together so that Monday morning I can start filling them!

The only thing I may not have before opening is the couches I’ve been talking about.  I went and picked them out yesterday but they may not be able to deliver them in time.  So we’ll see.  If not before the opening then definitely soon after

pretty yes?

can’t you just see yourself knitting on that?

My painter is a great guy, and works like a maniac.  He works all day painting for his day job, then he works all night painting for his own jobs.

2 nights in the shop until midnight has resulted in this

what a difference eh?

I also went out and paid for the flooring today, which we’ll pick up tomorrow probably and install on the weekend.

it looks like this

and I actually have a piece of it sitting here in the shop if you’re by in the next couple of days you’ll have to be patient with me as I make you look at it while squeaking with excitement.

**glee**

Okay really here’s the thing.  Thy have these little itty bitty 9″circulars for knitting things like socks.  They are just about one of the cutest things ever.

When I first cast them on I wasn’t so sure, they took some getting used to but by about the 2nd round of knitting I was in love.   They are really so much fun to knit with.

In the pic there I’m using Classic Elite Summer Sox to knit a pair of socks for my man, because every man really needs a pair of girly socks.

In case you’re sitting there thinking some thing along the lines of “oh those are cute, but I don’tknit socks” or “I like my dpns” or I knit my socks magic loop”  the Hiya Hiya needles can meet all your needs.  I got in a full range of bamboo and steel needles.  The bamboo are lovely, that’s what I used for those socks.  The stell are hollow and weigh pretty much nothing.

The range goes from 9″ to 60″ and they do dpns too.

There is an interchangeable set but they’re on back order right now:(  I’ll be sure to let you know when they come in.

Finally

I know what you’re really looking for is an update on the store.  We went to Calgary on the weekend for a friend’s birthday.  While we were there we picked up about 1500 pounds worth or shelving at Ikea.  So many shelves, so heavy, so gonna be awesome!

The afternoon the painting begins.  Maybe I’ll have new pics tomorrow.

A key to what?

you guessed it!!!

notice the “Coming in August” sign in the window, I’m hoping to be open by the end of the month!!

It needs some work, new paint, new floors.  We’re working on that.  This is how it started out

Chris spent a few hours out there on Saturday ripping out carpets, and we met with a friend of ours who’s a painter yesterday.

and of course there’s all those orders still coming in.

I’ll keep posting pictures and updates as the renovations progress.

in the meantime mark your calenders, I’m anticipating being abe to have the GRAND OPENING saturday August 29th