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"Going Green" is going to save you some green
When you bring in your own bag, we'll put your name in the basket for our monthly drawing - a $10 gift card to use on your next visit.
Now we are also selling our exclusive heavy muslin Finger Lakes Fibers bags and BlueQ recycled materials bags . |
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Party or Meet at Finger Lakes Fibers
The shop is available for your party or other special event. Here are some ideas: Birthday parties with a knitting workshop and all necessary materials for kids and teens 8-17; hold a knit-a-thon to help raise funds for your favorite charity; Scout Troops and 4-H Clubs - work on your next badge or fiber-related project in our shop; and wedding or baby showers – host a make-a-block afghan party. Call the shop to schedule. |
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Charity Knitting Projects
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NEW! Southern Tier Hospice and Palliative Care is looking for volunteers to knit and crochet comfort shawls and lap blankets to give to their patients. Other ways for people to help is to donate soft yarn or to make a cash donation. Finger Lakes Fibers is proud to offer a 15% discount on yarn for the Comfort Shawl Project. |
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Support the effort of knitting balaclavas and scarfs for our Troops overseas -
Finger Lakes Fibers is collecting knitted balaclava's (helmet liners) and scarves to send to the troops to be worn in winter.
If you can knit or crochet, please consider making helmetliners or scarves for our troops. You can pick up a ball of the Cascade 220 wool at Finger Lakes Fibers.
View project website for more information. Download Helmet liner instructions>>>
Download scarf instructions >>> |
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 A Gift to Warm the Heart
Finger Lakes Fibers' 2008 holiday donation was to Heifer International for its Knitting Basket project that gives new hope to families in need; and will yield bundles of wool for clothes, blankets, ponchos and more. The total cost is $500; and Finger Lakes Fibers will contribute $250 of this. We are asking our customers to help us raise the other $250. For every $1 that customers donate toward the Knitting Basket, we will donate another $1 to match it.
The Heifer International Knitting Basket represents two llamas and two sheep— four animals famous for their warm, income-producing wool. From shearing to spinning, weaving and finally to selling handcrafted woolen goods at market to earn precious income for food and basic necessities, the gift of a Knitting Basket will help struggling families to break free from the grip of poverty and hopelessness. Over time, as that gift multiplies and more animals are passed on to help others in need, entire communities will be warmed by the precious wool of a Knitting Basket.
Finger Lakes Fibers participates in Caps to the Capital
News reports around Mother’s Day 2006 on Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report highlighted the fact that many of the 2 million babies who die each year in the first 24 hours of life in developing countries could be saved by simple, cost-effective measures, like placing a knit or crocheted cap on a baby’s head for warmth.
The knitters and crocheters at Finger Lakes Fibers donated 70 caps this year to Caps to the Capital. Thank you to all of our customers helped with this very worthwhile project!
Podcasts! >>>>
With the arrival of my new iPod, a new world of knitting has opened up to me - knitting on Podcasts! Here are two of my current favorites:
Lime and Violet
A podcast for the yarn obsessed. MORE >>> |
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Socks in the City
A knitting podcast dedicated exclusively to sock knitting. Download >>> |
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Meet Major Laura
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Sign up for Knitting Daily from Interweave Press. You'll receive news and notes in your email on knitting such as the inspiring message that came my way Memorial Day about Laura, a major in the U.S. Army, stationed in Iraq.
Here's Laura working on diagonal rib socks using a free pattern from Knitting Daily. Pattern >>> |
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Here's an excerpt from a note that Laura wrote to Knitting Daily:
I'm the Preventive Medicine Officer for, well, all of our troops here in northern Iraq. My team is responsible for watching over and working to maintain health. I've been lucky enough to be able to travel to other cities and bases here. That really gives you a feel for the magnificence that was, and can be again, Iraq. There are a lot of sheep, too! However, they produce mainly rug-quality wool. I mostly knit in the evenings after work ends. For entertainment, we end up watching a lot of movies, which lends itself nicely to knitting. I've been able to catch up on several TV series, too, while producing socks, a sweater, dolls, puppets and more. I also count myself lucky that internet yarn stores ship to APO addresses! Friends and family send knitting care packages, too, which are great! I call El Paso, Texas, home, although I am currently (when I'm not deployed) stationed in Ft. Benning, Georgia. We have a small knitting group there that gets together on Monday evenings--I miss them. I've only been on one short, boring (which is a very good thing!) convoy). I've also attached a couple of photos of the diagonal rib sock's progress.
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Linda Banks Hansee, Fiber Artist, creates beautiful landscape wall hangings such as this one shown at left using yarns and other fibers she gets at Finger Lakes Fibers Yarn Store. Thanks, Linda! Learn more about Linda's work >>> |
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