Freebee for our Blog Readers!

You may pick it up in our store or drop me an email that you want it as a word file: you get a free pattern for the West Coast Thrum Mittens, see photo.
Pam assembled this mitten pattern and knitted a pair for Inge and myself for Christmas. We LOVE them! She can help you any time because the thrums are a bit tricky.

The natural fleece inside the mittens felts on exposure to water and wear and provides the warmest mittens imaginable - great for our west coast climate and for skiing!

Welcome to our store!

Hard to get all the beautiful yarns, the accessories, the scent of tea and candles, and the Knit Cafe on one photo. Take this snapshot, come in, relax, read our blog postings, give us your feedback!
Take this advice: please go through all the archived postings and see for example which own patterns we have to offer!

Our contact information:

• Needle & Arts Centre, 910 Island Highway, Campbell River, BC, Canada V9W 2C3
• phone and fax: 250-286-9717 or toll-free 1-888-588-7834
• email: jkettler@earthlink.net

WOW - New Spring and Summer Colours!

This only a small portion of the piles of new yarn coming in daily. This is Merino, Cotton, Baby Double Knit and Microfibre on thye table. Want to see the colour trends for Spring and Summer? Come to the store. Still some SALE yarn left, too!

Sewing & Needle Art Show in Campbell River

Did you know that we have a LARGE Sewing & Needle Arts Show coming up in Campbell River on Saturday February 25 in our Community Centre? It is run every year around this time and has grown into a large show (open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, free admission) and seminar event (23 sessions 10:00 am - 5:00 at $10 each).
The exhibits and seminars on Saturday are all around fibres: quilting, beading, fabric painting, bear making, crochet and knitting, Bargello, Brazilian Embroidery, sewing, machine embroidery, colour value workshop...
Our Yarn Department will have a booth there, too, presenting many finished projects and new yarns!

If you live here, want the program and like to sign up for seminars: check in at the Community Centre! If you want us to fax the program to you, call 287-8898.

Hand Spun Yarn from Urugay is in!

From all yarn shipments which we got these days, we like the 100% Wool and Merino Wool from Uruguay best. It is worsted weight, hand spun and hand dyed. This "RIO DE LA PLATA Yarn" comes in beautiful shades and mixes of coulors for a real good price of $16.95 (new wool) and $18.95 (merino) per 100g skein!