Malabrigo in Arabia

We just shipped our first order to the United Arab Emirates, it seems that knitting is very hot there!

They have a group of knitters there that get together regularly to knit, called very appropriately Desert Knitters.

As my friend Hal likes to say, Knitting is Universal!

Atlanta

We are in Atlanta for the Sitches South show, yesterday we stopped by Needle Nook, a lovely local yarn shop, to pick some boxes up.

We had the opportunity to lunch with the charming Arlene, (the owner of the store and the "owner" of the Arlene's Purple) at a great Thai restaurant that's right besides the store. Thanks Arlene for letting us ship the boxes to your shop, and thanks for all the industry insights you shared.



Arlene made a fantastic shawl out of the Malabrigo Lace in Natural, it is one of the many garments she knitted with our yarns, the pattern is from the Victoria Lace book and uses less than two skeins.



Antonio and Arlene trying to look businesslike



and of course we could not leave without taking a picture at one of the many malabrigo "hotspots" in the store, this one was for the worsted weight

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Stitches South

We are going to be at the show that starts next Thursday,

We will be in booth # 122

these are the vendors that will carry Malabrigo:

Carolina Homespun - Booth 313
Cast-On Cottage - Booth 430
Fine Points - Booth 516
Fran’s Knitting Boutique - Booth 426
Great Yarns - Booth 300
Krazy Knitz - Booth 133
Mass Ave Knit Shop - Booth 406
WEBS - Booth 117
The Whole Nine Yarns - 336
Yarn Barn of Kansas - Booth 107
Yarniverse - Booth 520
Yarns etc….. - Booth 533

see you there!

Visits from Nevada!

Sharon from Nevada came visiting last week, she was very excited about the yarn and about all the colors that were available at the warehouse.
Mariana from the lab took her to a tour all around the mill and the warehouse, she could see how we dyed and do all the work.
Sharon got a preview of all the new colors in the making and of course before she left she got herself a few bags of yarn.



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She came escorted by a very happy husband who ended up picking up the tab!

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Sharon

Interweave Crochet Spring 2009

Julia Vaconsin did a great pattern with our lace yarn for this magazine issue.

Malabrigo Top, Julia Vaconsin, Interweave Crochet, Spring 2009

this is a link to more pictures of this great pattern using our lace yarn
Malabrigo Top

and this is a link to the magazine

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Sally Melville book and magazine pattern

We just received a copy of the new Sally Melville book, the book is Mother-Daughter Knits, 30 Designs that Flatter and Fit and it has a Malabrigo Pattern on it! a beautiful book using beautiful yarn ;-)



Also I was told that the September-09 issue of Creative Knitting will be featuring Malabrigo Yarn in a project.

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