Knitting and Stitching for Charity
Stashes. We all have one. Even if we don't want to admit it out loud. Check out TheStitchin' Den's featured charity knitting projects.
North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley is looking for knitted and crocheted hats for babies. These hats are for premature and normal newborns especially in Weld county. Thanks to Janet West of Greeley for providing the knitted pattern for these hats. It was posted in our December Newsletter and is now on the Yarn page at www.thestitchinden.com
Warm The World focuses on US children in our foster care system as well as seveal targeted orphanges overseas and at risk adults. You can donate handmade afghans, hats and scarves or your left over yarn (nicely balled).
www.warmtheworld.com
The Estes Valley Knitter's Guild is supporting the Estes Park police and ambulance service. They are in need of blankets to be kept in their emergency vehicals. You can knit or crochet asny worsted weight machine washable yarn into 10 inch by 10 inch squares. thanks to JoAnn Mullen and Liz DeCleene for orgaining and coordinating making these donations into squares.
www.thecenterforfiberarts.com
Susan G. Komen is one of our favorite foundations. They need donations of knitted or crocheted hats and scarves out of machine washable pink yarn. All proceed from the sale of these donations go to fund breast cancer research.
www.komen.org
Hats and scarves for the childen of Nepal began seveal years ago and was brought to The Stitchin' Den by Collette Smith. Collette worked at the shop for several years and has continued to inspire people to created beautiful knitted items.
www.thestitchinden.com
Needlepoint at the Stitchen Den
Needlepoint is beautiful and easy to learn, and is also durable enough to be used as upholstery. Your project is worked directly on a printed canvas, so no counting is required as with cross stitch. These projects can be as easy or as challenging as you want them to be. The Stitchin’ Den offers great ideas, projects, fibers, fabric and notions.
Want to know more? Come on in and chat with one of the staff at The Stitchin’ Den.
Everyone at The Stitchin’ Den is thrilled to announce our new addition:
An entire shop floor devoted to stitchery!
An entire shop floor devoted to stitchery!
As of summer 2011, we are the proud and happy shop keepers of a new space just for our stitching customers. Our new addition is larger and filled to the brim with fantastic and ever-expanding line of canvases, charts, kits, and fibers for all your cross stitch, needlepoint, and stitching needs. We are also carrying beautiful handmade and vintage buttons. Come check it out!
Located on the ground-level of The Courtyard Shops, we are pleased to now offer a street-level entrance for your convenience. The needlework floor is connected interiorly to the rest of the shop and is only a short distance away from the knitting and yarn floors.
Please come in and welcome this great new addition to The Stitchin’ Den!
Vintage Button Trunk Show
at the Stitchen DenButtons. Who doesn’t love buttons. Glass, plastic, wood. You name it and they have made a button out of it.
They are great to finish off that perfect sweater, vest or jacket. Knit a felted bag and just the right button makes it that much more spectacular.
Sometimes finding the right button inspires an entire project.
Rebecca Boekel has been collecting buttons since she can remember. She has organized her entire collection and it is now available for sale at The Stitchin’ Den.
Each button has a history and they are all one of a kind. Some are sold as individual buttons. Some are sold in groupings. Let your imagination run wild.
Why we LOVE Needlepoint at the Stitchen Den
The sky’s the limit when working with needlepoint canvases. Your creativity can reach the stars or use the tried and true. Our canvases feature many designers.Want to know more???
Come on in and chat with one of the staff at The Stitchin’ Den.
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Waverly Wool by Brown Sheep
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DMC Pearl Cotton
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DMC Floss
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Water Colors
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Water Lilies
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Impressions
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River Silk Ribbon
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Silk and Ivory
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Kreinik metallic blending filaments and braids
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Incomparable Buttons – amazing and gorgeous handmade buttons from Africa!
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Stitch One Needlepoint Kits
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Expanded line of mini stockings, including various states!
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Handcrafted beads
- New Cooper Oaks Canvases including Mountain Scenes
- Long’s Peak
- Columbine Flowers
- State specific especially Colorado
- Mountain and outdoor scenes
- Working With Ribbon In Embroidery
- Stitching Retreat
- Needlepoint Weekend
What’s NEW at the Stitchen Den!
Needlework Classes at the Stitchen Den Creative Camps!
Want to know about more Creative Camps? Check out our Creative Camps and Classes Page!
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Brown Sheep
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Mountain Colors
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Cascade
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Farmhouse Yarns
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Lonesome Stone Alpaca
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Plymouth
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Knit One, Crochet Too
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Crystal Palace
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Tahki Cotton
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Dye Lot Yarns
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Universal yarns
More...
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Point Protectors
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Stitch Markers
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Clover Wooden Needles
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Susan Bates Metal and Plastic Needles
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Fiber Trend Patterns
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Oat Couture
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Timeless Totes
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Scissors
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Stretcher Bars
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Needles for ribbon, needlepoint and cross stitch
Lots more!!!!
The Staff Stitch of the Month is the Cevron Rib.
This stitch is worked in a repeat of 18 sts plus one knit. So cast on your project in multiples of 18 plus one.
Row 1: (RS) P1, *K1, P2, K2, P2, P1; rep from* to end.
Row 2: *K3, P2, K2, P2, K1, (P2, K2) twice;rep from *to last st, K1.
Row 3: *(P2, K2) twice, P3, K2, P2, K2, P1; rep from * to last st, P1.
Row 4: *K1, P2, K2, P2, K5, P2, K2, P2; rep from * to last st, K1.
Rep these two rows.
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Knitting Margaritas
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Kids Can Create
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Sweater Knit-A-Long
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Needle Nutz Coming soon.
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Yarn Whisperer
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Open Knitting
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Social get togethers
Want to know more?
Check out the Home page for times and dates.
Hand Knitters Master Knitter Program
Susan, Donna, Pam, Deb, and Liz are all starting the Hand Knitters Master Knitter Program sponsored by The National Knitter's Guild.
We are meeting regularly at Kind Coffee in Estes Park to make sure we all stay on track. It is a lot of fun and is helping us fine tune all of our skills.
Interested in forming a stitchin' group?
The Stitchin' Den would like to help. We have several opportunities to meet in the shop. Monday afternoons, Tuesday mornings, Saturday all day or Sundays during the summer.
Join groups already in session at Notchtop every Thursday at 2PM or the 1st and 3rd Monday night with the Knitting Margaretas at Casa Grande
Novice stitchers, experts or stitcher wanna bes are all welcomed. A lot of help and support will be available at each group.
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Stitch Nivh
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In Good Company
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JR Designs
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Shelly Tribbey
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Cooper Oakes
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Sundance
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Other...
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Needles
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Scissors
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Bags
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Floss Cards
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Hoops
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Stretcher Bars
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Lights
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Baskets
