Holiday wishes and Holiday Hours!

This is our last blog post for the year, and what a year it has been! We'd like to say a huge thank you to all of our wonderful customers, and to thank you all for creating another year of wonderful memories for us. We couldn't do it without you, and are so grateful for your support of the store!

We hope each and every one of you has a wonderful holiday season, filled with love from family and friends, delicious food and hopefully some crafting time! If you need supplies, here are our holiday hours:

Monday 22nd Dec: 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 23rd Dec: 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 24th Dec: 10am - 1pm

After that we are going to have a little break ourselves and close the store, and try and get some of our wips finished!

We will open again on Friday the 2nd of January. For the first week of January the shop hours are:

Reopen Friday 2nd Jan: 10am - 3pm
Saturday 3rd Jan: 10am - 3pm
Sunday 4th Jan: Closed
Monday 5th Jan: Closed.

Our online shop will remain open, and orders will be dispatched as soon as we receive them, so if you have a yarn emergency, jump onto our website!

During January we are going to have reduced hours:

Mondays: Closed.
Tuesday - Sat: 10am - 3pm
Sunday: 12am - 4pm

Have a wonderful finish to your year, and we are looking forward to seeing you all and your projects in 2015!

x The Woolarium crew.

Christmas decorations

Tinsel is nice, and fairy lights even better, but what we really love at Woolarium is a knitted Christmas decoration, which is why our shop is beautifully decorated with them!



These gorgeous Christmas stockings are knitted using a Millamia pattern and their Naturally Soft Merino yarn, both of which are available in-store. Just the thing for hanging on a mantle and stuffing full of treats for Christmas day!



We'll admit it - we've gone crazy for Millamia festive decorations this year, like these hanging baubles. The pattern is available as a pdf, and they look gorgeous hanging from a tree!



Christmas wouldn't be complete without a wreath adorning your door, so pop on in and pick up one of our fun Pom Pom Christmas Wreath Kits! Each kit comes with the wire frame, a pom pom maker and the yarn required. It's a great Christmas activity for the kids, and a brilliant way to add some festive cheer!

Speaking of festive cheer, it's not too late to pick up some yarn for your loved ones. We also have gift vouchers available, which is a gift any knitter or crocheter would love to receive!

Christmas Festive Evening at Woolarium

Come and celebrate Christmas with us at our special Christmas Festive Evening! On Thursday 11th December we will stay open late until 8pm, giving you plenty of time to pop in and enjoy some yuletide cheer at Woolarium.

It's the ideal opportunity to find the perfect gift for the yarn lovers in your life (or even maybe just a special present for yourself!). We can help you put a gorgeous gift together, or you could choose one of our beautiful kits for quick and easy presents, or even get some yarn to make beautiful Christmas decorations.

There's also free gift wrapping, plus free postage for any items sent within Australia. And if you really can't decide, there's always gift vouchers, made up in the amount of your choice. That's Christmas sorted!

We'd also love the chance to thank you for your support over the year - it's been another great year here at Woolarium, and it's all thanks for our amazing customers. So come on in, enjoy our Christmas decorations, have a glass of bubbly and let's make this a wonderful Christmas for all the knitters and crocheters!

And if that isn't enough Christmas fun for you, the Northcote Town Hall Kris Kringle Night Market is on just down the road on the same evening. Hopefully we'll see you then - let's make it an evening to remember!

Christmas Festive Evening
December 11th, 2014
Woolarium
211a High St, Northcote
Special opening hours: 10am - 8pm

Madelinetosh now in stock!

The day we have all been waiting for has finally arrived - we now have Madelinetosh yarn in stock!







These gorgeous yarns, using nothing but the best natural fibres, are all hand dyed in small batches using traditional methods in Texas, USA. All the yarn has been ethically sourced from Peruvian and South American spinning mills before being sent to Texas for dying, using only low impact organic compound dyes.

Let me tell you, we are thrilled to be able to share them with you - they are sumptuous, beautiful yarns that come in the most amazing colourways.

Here at Woolarium we are stocking the Tosh Vintage (10 ply worsted), Tosh DK (8 ply) and Tosh Merino Light (4 ply Fingering). Have look at our website to see the colourways we have, and remember - if there is a colourway we don't have we can easily order it in for you.

New knitting patterns and kits at Woolarium!

It's that time of year again - the time that we are meant to be full of goodwill towards our fellow man, but instead we all feel frazzled trying to figure out what to give to our nearest and dearest (and are driven completely bonkers by dreadful Christmas jingles in the meantime).

Fear not, though - Woolarium is at the rescue, with our range of patterns and kits that are perfect to knit up as gifts, or just to give to loved ones of a knitterly disposition.

Our latest pattern, which is available as a downloadable pdf online or in kit form from the store, is the beautiful Chunky Moss Stitch Cowl. Quick to make, gorgeous to wear, this will be received with raptures by those who like to keep snug and warm.



Knitted in Rowan Big Wool, the kit can be made up in your choice of colour. Have a look on our website to see the colour range!

Our Chunky Cable Cowl and Cable Fingerless Gloves are also available as pdf downloads or in kit form from the store. So many beautiful things to make, and all of them are quick, easy and great projects for beginners.



Kits will soon be available online, but in the meantime you can purchase the pattern and the yarn from our website. Don't forget - we offer free postage for Australian orders!

Christmas Gift Ideas - Cable Fingerless Gloves

Scouting around for a quick Christmas gift to make? Then you can't go past these gorgeous fingerless cable gloves! This easy project, which is great for beginners, uses one skein of 10 ply Spud & Chloe Sweater.



The pattern is free with the yarn purchase, or available to buy from the Woolarium website. Knit flat before being seamed together, they are the perfect gift: fast to knit, beautiful to behold, and sure to be welcomed by anybody who loves to stay warm. And there's no better way to keep snug than being swathed in hand knit goodness, especially when it's organic wool and cotton!

Sit 'n' Knit Sundays at Woolarium

We love yarn crafts. And we love people. So we thought that a wonderful way to bring the two together was to hold a Sit 'n' Knit session every Sunday afternoon in our lovely light filled space!

Our Sit 'n' Knits have been running for quite a while now, and are always a very happy gathering of wonderfully crafty people. We have knitters and crocheters both, of all skill levels and abilities, who come together to craft away, and it truly is the most fun you can have whilst sitting down.

With the café next door supplying hot drinks, and often a few cakes and nibblies finding their way onto the table, we can think of no better way to spend our Sunday afternoons. New faces are always welcome, and our regular ladies are always more than happy to assist with any project difficulties, or even just to provide lots of enthusiasm for everybody's projects!

So if you've been looking for a regular knitting or crochet group to hang out with, we'd love to see you join our table at Woolarium. The sessions run every Sunday from 2 - 4pm, with no bookings required - just turn up, find a chair and tell the lovely café people next door that you'd like a latte whilst you stitch the afternoon away!



Details
Event: Sit 'n' Knit
Date: Every Sunday afternoon
Time: 2 - 4pm
Everybody welcome, plus it's free of charge!