PINK RIBBON WEEKEND, OCTOBER 19 & 20
The Artful Yarn will be collecting donations this weekend for The Gathering Place and sharing info for you to give family and friends. Be ready! We'll be serving Pink Fun and other light refreshments. The Artful Yarn will match total donations up to $500. Cathie Davidson, one of our sales associates, facilitates a fiber support group, Close Knit Friends, at The Gathering Place which has provided support and comfort for people affected by cancer. Sadly, all too many special people are affected by breast cancer.
Support of breast cancer research is having a great impact and many people are benefiting from early diagnosis and improved treatment. Let's keep that support going. Please join us this weekend! Your donation in any amount is greatly appreciated!
I Love Yarn Day, Saturday, October 12
I Love Yarn Day was created 8 years ago by the National Craft Council to celebrate all things fiber! The Artful Yarn immediately adopted this day as a way to help other organizations that use yarn for good in their communities - and you can be a part of this story with us! Every year, we ask you to bring new, unused yarn from your stash to our shop today and we'll donate it to organizations that knit and crochet for people in need. In the past, organizations receiving your donations have provided help and solace to patients and families in hospice, homeless veterans, families with babies in neonatal care, school children needing warm hats and scarves, and more. All we ask is that you donate full skeins with tags/ballbands so people know what the yarn is. If you are part of an organization that would like to receive free yarn for your mission, please contact The Artful Yarn to be placed on our list.
Here's our chance to be the good in our communities!
Visit our FREE Little Library
Borrow something from our new FREE little library to tuck into your beach bag this summer or enjoy at home! It's our own Free Little Library with a fiber jam! Browse fiber fiction, commentary, and humor along with beautiful pattern books and a stack of great magazines including copies of Vogue Knitting! Borrow or keep! Return or bring something from your own book stash. It's pretty neat to take something free, right?! Come check it out!
We are not accepting any new donations at this time, but please stop in and borrow!
Borrow something from our new FREE little library to tuck into your beach bag this summer or enjoy at home! It's our own Free Little Library with a fiber jam! Browse fiber fiction, commentary, and humor along with beautiful pattern books and a stack of great magazines including copies of Vogue Knitting! Borrow or keep! Return or bring something from your own book stash. It's pretty neat to take something free, right?! Come check it out!
We are not accepting any new donations at this time, but please stop in and borrow!
#HatNotHate Stand Up to Bullying
With #HatNotHate, Lion Brand Yarn hopes to increase awareness of the impact bullying has on children, teens, and adults by rallying together and crafting blue hats to proudly wear throughout the month of October, which is National Bullying Prevention Month. With your help, they hope to create a new "craftivist" movement to send the message that bullying is unacceptable.
Lion Brand Yarn will be collecting 25,000 blue hats and distributing them to schools around the country to wear throughout the month of October. Our goal was 100 hats! YOU helped us send 112 hats! Thank you so much! Northeast Ohio has generously supported this great initiative by Lion Brand - we'll keep you posted on further Lion Brand news and where your hats go across the nation.
With #HatNotHate, Lion Brand Yarn hopes to increase awareness of the impact bullying has on children, teens, and adults by rallying together and crafting blue hats to proudly wear throughout the month of October, which is National Bullying Prevention Month. With your help, they hope to create a new "craftivist" movement to send the message that bullying is unacceptable.
Lion Brand Yarn will be collecting 25,000 blue hats and distributing them to schools around the country to wear throughout the month of October. Our goal was 100 hats! YOU helped us send 112 hats! Thank you so much! Northeast Ohio has generously supported this great initiative by Lion Brand - we'll keep you posted on further Lion Brand news and where your hats go across the nation.