Hello Everyone,

It’s hard to believe we are already in the final weeks of the year—it has truly flown by!

I am pleased to share that I will have a small booth at the Red Maple Country Market’s Christmas Market this year. It will be a great opportunity to find discounted yarn, favourite shop samples, and handmade goods.

Take good care, 

Tina Barrie,

Soper Creek Yarn

I was thinking about a project on my needles and wanted to share a story with you.

When the shop was open, a customer asked for yarn recommendations, saying, "I am going to make hats for the babies at the hospital; the yarn doesn’t really matter, does it?" We found a lovely, soft option, but her question made me pause. It really does matter. These hats are for fragile babies and their families. Choosing the best yarn you can afford sends a message to the recipients that someone truly cares.

I like to make these hats using leftover bits of soft cotton. It is a wonderful pattern—just be sure to use a good, stretchy cast-on. I personally recommend the German Twisted cast-on for hats.

Basic Baby Hat by Heather Tucker: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/basic-baby-hat

While I have many projects in progress, I managed to finish a few pairs of mittens using the "World's Simplest Mittens" pattern by Tin Can Knits.

Read More Online: https://tincanknits.com/pattern/the-worlds-simplest-mittens

It is an easy design that creates identical mitts to fit either hand, which is perfect for cold weather. I knit these using three strands of fingering weight yarn held together to create a dense, worsted-weight fabric. Koigu KPPPM is one of my favourite yarns, making it an easy choice for these scrappy mittens.

It’s been fun to go through the boxes in storage to find new items for our ‘Grab Bag’ assortment on the website.

I try to keep 12 ‘bags’ available and if something has been there too long it gets discounted further. It’s worth checking every once in a while, you might never know what new yarn you might find. 

https://sopercreekyarn.ca/product-category/grab-bags/

The website is always open and I do try to have your package ready to go fairly quickly, usually within 48hrs. Canada Post has been fairly reliable and parcels have been shipped all across Canada! (We are unable to ship to the United State) 

If you would like to avoid using your information online we can arrange doing the order via email with an e-transfer as a payment option. 

We are only an email away! 

"In the eternal words of Ned Stark: 'Winter is coming!'

— time for heavy wool and warm knits."

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