Come and meet us at The Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace, 8-11 October. Bring a friend, bring your knitting, bring your crochet, bring your questions... we'd love to meet you.

Bring a copy of this newletter with you to receive 10% discount and a free gift with any purchase.

You may have seen these beautiful needles in recent knitting magazines, now you can buy them from Yarn Box!

What's special about them? Each needle is constructed from aircraft quality aluminum and each point is precision turned and hand polished allowing stitches to glide effortlessly. For Single Point needles you can choose the "sharpness" of the needle tip, the end cap and the length (7", 10" or 14") to have your own ideal needles. They also come in a range of DPNs in several different lengths to suit a range of projects.

Available to pre-order now.

New to Yarn Box for Autumn, luxury knitting kits from Kitglobal,a collaboration between designer Jeanette Sloan and yarn spinner John Hewitt. You may recognise Jeanette Sloan's name from patterns published in "Simply Knitting" and "The Knitter ". You'll find more of Jeanette's patterns in our Artesano pattern range.

Each kit includes:
Full Pattern Instructions
Enough Baby Alpaca Yarn to complete the design
Pair of Bamboo Knitting Needles
plus a Cotton Drawstring ‘Kit Bag’ - perfect for carrying your work whilst you knit the project.

A beautiful gift, or a treat for yourself perhaps.

Do you crochet rather than knit? Have you seen the Yarn Box advert in "Inside Crochet"?  I'm interested to hear what we could stock to support crocheters. Please contact me and let me know whether there are particular yarns, patterns, books or hooks that you'd like to be able to buy. Yarn Box will soon be stocking Tunisian crochet hooks from Addi.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Composed 19 September 1819, John Keats (1795-1821)