Back from Yarn Heaven!
Hi everyone,
Just a small note to let everyone know about the great time I had at TNNA this past weekend. It really is almost yarn heaven when you walk into the convention center and all of those yarn vendors are there with yarns and samples and everything. Oooh! I almost get shivers!
I spoke to many yarn companies and will be getting some yarns in from Be Sweet. The company’s best seller is their [Magic Ball][1]. A magical combination of mohair, ribbon, boucle and magic of course that is used alone or in combination with their boucle mohair for shawls or scarfs.
Fiber Isle is another company I made contact with. This company specializes in buffalo yarns and is located in Canada. An incredibly soft and supple yarn for shawls and wraps. I brought a sample back for the Natalie and Laura to see and feel.
There were also some books to buy with so many interesting patterns (have you every seen a knit carrot?). I am sooo excited about them arriving. And you getting to see them!
In fact I am excited about it all.
Peggy
So much yarn, so little time!
Hi,
well I write this blog entry from my room at the Hyatt in Columbus, OH. No, it isn’t a vacation, to a yarn and fiber person it is as close to heaven as you can get. This is time for TNNA. What’s a TNNA you may ask? Well, I’m glad you did. TNNA stands for The National Needlearts Association and every June they have their largest trade show here in Columbus at the Columbus Convention Center. If you can image the Dean Dome filled with every yarn company, accessories company, knitting bag company and every other item you could think of in one location for you to look at and check out, and of course feel all the lovely, luscious yarn then you can imagine what this is like.
But its not all fun and games. Retailers also have the opportunity to take crochet, knitting and business classes that will help them improve their business. Tomorrow night “The yarn group” will present a fashion show with what the hot fashions will be this fall. Inquiring minds want to know. LOL
I’ll post again before I leave, but I am soooooo looking forward to all the new yarns and goodies to bring back to the shop!
Talk to you soon,
Peggy
Sometimes we don’t understand!
Who would have thought that I would blog about the highs and lows of life as we know it on a daily basis. Right now I have many things to be happy about. Two wonderful grandchildren, a great family, a job, good friends, so many things to be thankful for. I work full time in a church and that should be a plus too. But I have told many people that by working in a church you see the best in people and you sometimes see the worst of situations. This has been one of those weeks.
I can’t really go into detail, but I think that one thing I understand is that everyone wants what is best for the church, but it doesn’t make decisions any easier to accept sometimes.
Excuse me for talking in riddles, and also for allowing me to vaguely vent just a little.
Join us tomorrow, Saurday May 2nd, for the last day of our 3rd annual “thank goodness tax season is over” sale! We’re putting new stock out everyday! Be there or be square!
Peggy
Tax Season is Over – And Now!!!
Well, I think the 2009 tax season is over. At least I did until I sent out an e-mail for the church yesterday that said yesterday (the 22nd) was April 15th. Was I having a flashback?? Who knows – certainly not me! Even a couple of days at Holden Beach hasn’t been able to completely clear away all the numbers and words from this feeble brain. Ha! Ha!
But, now that the tax season is over I can proudly and happlily say that we will indeed have our 3rd annual “Thank Goodness Tax Season is Over” Sale next week! Yes, that’s right! Next Thursday through Saturday, April 30th through May 2nd. However, this year we are doing something a little different. In keeping with the government’s attempts to stimulate the economy Common Threads will have our very own “Yarn Stimulus Packages” Brightly colored packages of yarn (both new and old) that will be packaged in bags on sale. The stimulus packages will be 35% off on Thursday, 40% off on Friday and 45% off on Saturday. Also, for all of you working ladies we want you to know that new yarns will be put out all during the three day sale. So everyone should get the chance to get a variety of yarn.
So, everyone join us next week and help stimulate High Point’s economy, or at least the shop’s. 
See you there,
Peggy
And now for our August treat!
Hello everyone,
Well, first of all let me say “thank you, thank you” for all of you who came by the store and helped me whittle away some of my extra inventory. I really appreciate every one of you and it was also great to be able to see so many of you. Of course, you know me. I have a couple of extra cubbies and that just won’t do so I have a very special shipment coming into the shop from Twisted Sisters Yarn. Some beautiful hand dyed yarns that I think you’ll really love. We are also restocking our Lantern Moon needles (the Cadillac of needles).
You may or may not know that I have one grandson Cole and also an almost granddaughter that will arrive in August. I just love babies, don’t you? So to celebrate my granddaughter’s birth day I am putting all of our baby yarn on sale for the entire month of August. This sale will be for 30% off all of our baby yarn and it begins this Friday, August 1st. Come by the shop and look over what we have in stock for all of our wee ones.
thanks for listening,
Peggy
p.s. I almost forgot to tell all of our crocheters that we have started an open crochet night at the shop. That is every Wednesday night from 6:30-8:30 with Judy (our resident crochet expert). We welcome everyone from expert to beginner. Come by, sit and just relax as you crochet to your heart’s content.
Santa’s workshop
Hello,
Well, here I am back from Nashville and I have to say that if you ever get the chance to go to the Grand Old Opry then you better go. Holy mackeral! I had the greatest time at the Opry. Maybe it was the people who performed, but maybe it was being in the building with it full of good old rednecks just like me. But it was so cooooool!!!
Anyway, back to the real world. I learned a lot that can help me and the church and am back in town just in time for Santa’s workshop that begins tomorrow at the shop. We have a lot of things on sale-
Books on the sale floor 40% off, Bags and baskets on the sales floor 50% off, Red and green yarn in any shade or from any company 20% off, and the part that really has people questioning my sanity the Big Bag Sale. The bag sale is really taking a lot of space at the shop. Bags fill the couch and the floor just waiting for someone to buy them and take them home. The bag sale is in addition to the red and green yarn that is on sale. The bag sale includes yarns from Cascade, Berroco, Sublime and Debbie Bliss in addition to others. Stop by the shop and see what we have available.
also, make sure you stop in on Saturday at 11 am and 1 pm for the Santa’s workshop that will have Christmas crafts on display and patterns available for you.
Thanks and see you there.
Peggy
Hello from Nashville!
Well, I am writing this tonight in my room at the Opryland hotel in Nashville, TN. Many of you know that I work full time at First Presbyterian Church in High Point and have my certification in church business administration. I bet you didn’t know that church business administrators could get certified. ; ) (wink)
Well, I have my certification and every year the national association has a convention where I can get education and new ideas to help me in my job at the church. I am really blessed to work for a church that supports my continued education. In fact they also paid for my education at Union Theological Seminary to get my certification in the first place.
Not only do I get educated this week, but we are going to the Grand Old Opry on Tuesday night and I actually get to see “Charlie Daniels”. I’m already practicing “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
So I’m away from the shop all week, but I wanted to remind you of the Santa’s Workshop to be held the last full week in July. Check the web site for details, but we will have another BAG SALE and KIT SALE in addition to other items will also be on sale. Well, got to go. I’m actually knitting on my baby blanket tonight.
See you soon,
Peggy
Closed on the 4th
Well, leave it to me to forget an important piece of info for all of our customers. In observance of the Independence Day holiday the shop will be closed on Friday, July 4th. But, we will re-open on Saturday July 5th at 10 am. (I would have said “bright eyed and bushy tailed, but you know I’m not a morning person). But I’ll be thrilled to see all my customers. Just drop by the shop and pick up a project to knit or crochet! When your husband goes to Home Depot or Lowe’s just have him drop you by the shop! Save your gas!
Love ya,
Peggy K
Do I Hear “Jingle Bells”??????
Ahhhhh!! So much to tell you! And so little time to type!
Well, let me begin with the big news! I am happy to announce that the shop will have a Santa’s Workshop on Saturday, July 26! All day long we will be celebrating Christmas (who wouldn’t like to have at least one little Arctic blast right now) and gifts and knitting and crocheting and having fun and …..well you get the picture. Our incredible teachers are working like elves (get it – elves) to put together some small, useful and beautiful projects that can be completed or close to it in an hour to hour and a half. The special thing about the Santa’s Workshop is that the classes will be FREE! (yes, I said FREE!). Not only will the classes be FREE (there’s that word again), but we the class materials will also be FREE. We will be finalizing the class schedules in the near future and we will have to ask that you pre-register for the classes (so we know how many kits to have ready). More detail will be available to you soon.
Also, I just want to announce that even though our Santa’s Workshop isn’t until Saturday we will revisit our “Bag Sale” on current discontinued yarns at 50% off regular retail price for the Thursday through Saturday during last week in July. That’s July 24 – 26. Heck, we may even throw in some new yarns that aren’t currently on sale and bag them up.
And, to help you plan your Christmas we will have select knitting bags at 50% off so you have some place to store all your Christmas projects.
And ….. (it just keeps getting better doesn’t it) all of our books will be 35% off. Pick out special books for all of your knitting friends. They’ll be glad you did!
I may even put together a few more surprises for those three days. Gosh, but I love Christmas!
All this information is going up on the blog before we even send the info by newsletter. Now, aren’t you glad you read the blog. And, I haven’t even gotten to all the goodies I ordered while I was in Columbus.
Well, I’ll post again soon with info on the new arrivals we’ll soon see.
Love ya,
Peggy K
Hello world!
Hello world! Hello to everyone from Peggy K, the owner of Common Threads Yarn Shop in High Point, NC. The yarn shop owner who doesn’t know how to knit! (Yet) But I do know how to crochet. This is my very first blog post and I hope to provide you with knitting and crochet tidbits from the needle arts universe as well as info from the shop. In the next few posts I will pass along news from the National Needlearts Association (TNNA) trade show I attended week before last in Columbus, Ohio. I’ll be posting again soon, and I’ll be providing you with some highlights from the Fall/Winter 2008 Fashion Show.
