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Peaceful Making Newsletter 27

2/8/2026
Peaceful Happening
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Thank you all for your grace this week.  We had an amazing time in NYC at Vogue Knitting Live, but it wiped me out!  I am so excited to write this newsletter!  Not only to tell you about NYC and Vogue knitting, but we have so many exciting things happening! That being said,  I’d like to invite you all to contribute to the newsletter!  If you have an update, pictures, things to share - please send them to us!  The newsletter will continue to become a better source of shared making information!
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Community - 
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We will be participating in the Knit for Food Knit-A-Thon as the Peaceful Making Team April 11, 2026.  We will be in store as well as on our own knit-a-thon zoom!  We will have more information 2/11/2026 in the store and online letting you know how to join the team!  We will knit (and make) for 12 hours to raise funds for hunger and food insecurity.  100% of the money we raise will be equally distributed to Feeding America, World Central Kitchen, No Kid Hungry and Meals on Wheels. We will send out an email on how to join our team on 2/11 and we will be discussing it more during our Making times this week!  We will be providing drinks and food for the in store event and look forward to making this a big community event!
Peaceful Making Society
Reminder - if you would like to join the Peaceful Making Society - Please register on the website.  Knit a garment, display your garment in the store for a month  and we will give you 50% off your next purchase of an equivalent amount of yarn you used to make your project.  Very excited to share our community’s work!
Katie’s beautiful sweater is in the store.  Stop by and see!  
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Katie Gilreath - Pressed Flower Pullover by Amy Christoffers - Knit in Bare Naked Wools Kent DK and Feederbrook Farms Entropy DK.  Other yarn suggestions - Farmer’s Daughter Fiber Juicy DK and Spincycle Dyed in the Wool. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pressed-flowers-pullover
We should have samples knit by our wonderful Society up next week!  Come check them out!
Peaceful Making Discord Channel -
Have you signed up for the Discord channel?  We will have a tutorial for using discord up this week. It’s a great way to stay in touch with people, have a chat with someone about your knits, and participate in a knit along.  When you sign up - please use your name so we know who you are - or let us know it is you!  Look forward to seeing you all online! https://discord.gg/cGufJ27V 
New Things in the Store Week
The store has been hopping!  We have begun our knit-a-longs, we have our first Peaceful Knitting Society display (thanks Katie), and we have so many new things that have arrived!
Books - we have had an explosion of new books!  I heard that you wanted more crochet books - and boy we delivered.  We have more knitting books, of course Summer Lee’s new “The Sock Obsession”, Sewing books, and Machine Knitting books.  Come check out our new books in store and online!
Tools - we received many new support tools - beautiful leather tape measures, tapestry needles, new cords for putting stitches on hold, and lovely Japanese snips.
Re-Design bag update.  We received oh so many new Re-design bags!  Beautiful large patchwork leather bags, totes, rectangular bags and buckets.  Online and in store!
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Ito - We have received our first shipment of the beautiful and unique Japanese Ito yarn.  This is the lovely yarn needed to knit the Aegyoknits Seon Kimono.  We have Sensai, Kinu, Rakuda, and Washi in lots of beautiful colors.  We also received hand warmers and Sensai shawls made from ITO yarn.  They are lovely and soft!  
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Knitter, Crochet, Quilter, Yarnivor Sweatshirts.  We have new sweatshirts for those avid makers!  We received the XLs this week!  Going fast!
La Bien Aimee Black and White Update. We received a small shipment of Volute and Wensley Worsted in Blanc and Noir.  I ordered the Volute for summer shawls as the season will be upon us!  I also ordered the Wensley Worsted for those looking for a basking sweater or looking to make a fake Baaba!
Knit-a-longs
We will be having lots of knit-alongs with virtual knit-a-long times.  We also encourage all knit-a-long participants to join the online times as well as the in person knit along times for support!  If you need help picking out yarn, come in or call and we will help you!
A Year in Socks - Knitting the socks from Summer Lee’s new book!  Linda Sears will be leading us with a pair of socks a month from the new Summer Lee book “The Sock Obsession”.  We will pick a pair a month,  have a virtual knit night to help each other along.  The book is available in the store and on our site online.  We will be putting kits together each month or you can pick out your own yarn!
We will be wrapping up the Hibernial Sock knit-along this week.  If you participated in this knit-along, send us a picture of your socks…we will be posting all the socks next week! If you send in a picture,  we will give you a Peaceful Making stitch marker!
The Dagmar Knit-a-Long will begin this Tuesday!  Join Mischel 8-10 via zoom for this knit along. Please sign up on the website for access via zoom. Linda's time is still TBD. If you have a suggestion for times please reach out
Weaving and Spinning
We continue to offer Rigid Heddle and Floor loom classes. If you don’t see a time that works for you, let us know and we will create a class for you!
Open Spin on Thursdays continues!  If you need to use a wheel - sign up online! Click here!
We have received our blending boards!  So excited to get started making rolags!  We will be offering classes in rolag making next month!
Use our Floor Loom!   Sign up for a week of floor loom use!  Choose your loom of choice and sign up for your session on the website. Request here
Vogue Knitting Live NYC
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Linda Sears and I traveled to NYC for Vogue Live knitting.  It was an amazing trip!  We had great flights, scary cab rides, sketchy fake uber - but we made it!  We stayed with the show at the Marriott in Time Square- even getting Time Square facing rooms!  So lucky!  
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We started off in the West Village at “A Time to Remember”.  A very crowded little VIP event Thursday night sponsored by MYak.  We had a great fan girl time here saying hi to Aimee Gilles from La Bien Aimee and meeting Isabell Kraemer.  It was a small event with MANY people!  Yarns shopped were MYak, La Bien Aimee and Wondering Flock.  
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We did several classes, some good, some - interesting.  My favorite was the Embroidery on Knits lecture.  I was tortured with Brioche - and I’ve done brioche before - but in the end I felt good about it.  Knitting Brioche patterns flat - kinda not fun - so I don’t think I’ll be doing a large Brioche patterned shawl anytime soon! I’ll stick to it in the round :).  We took a class in managing your floats and frankly didn’t stay.  The teacher's catch method was the same as mine - so nothing new here, but his method was to catch every other stitch.  Just no….To each their own, but that complicates knitting past where I would like to do it.  Linda took a Patty Lyons class  - check in with her during her making times and see what she thought :). We also saw Patty and the MDK ladies do a talk and that was fun!  PS - Patty will be coming to our shop!!!!
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Shopping was a little disappointing at the actual Vogue event.  It was super crowded with limited vendors.  I don’t think this is one we’ll attend again.  We did see Andrea, Aimee, Isabell, Candice, Kate Burge-Tibi and the Katrinkles crew - so it was super fun seeing all of our vendors and Isabell.  We found a new vendor in Coastal Cashmere!  So it was fun and successful!
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On the non-making side - we did get in some major shopping, saw Hamilton (OMG so excellent and what an applicable time to see this!).  We ate well, and got some knitting in.  All in all a great trip!
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Classes and New Events -
We have begun our Making Academy classes! We have rigid heddle, floor looms, and knitting so far and will add crochet, embroidery, and more soon!
The knitting classes are one a week alternating between Thursday at 6:30 is a Skill’s Tune Up class and beginners classes on Sunday from 1-3.  
Check out the calendar! Classes can be purchased individually by the hour,  by the month or a yearly membership that includes all events, classes, and equipment used in the store for a year.  Here is the price schedule:
Individual classes by the hour:  $10 per hour.
Monthly classes: $24 per month ( one month of unlimited classes in a specific craft)
Yearly membership: $247 per year (one year of unlimited classes all crafts included
FO’s
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  • CSM - Circular Sock Machine Sock- I finished one sock - heel and toe!  Next sock this week!  I thought a lot about folks saying this is cheating.  It’s just a different make. It takes skill.  Not just a crank and go - takes practice and it’s fun!  Makes a lovely finished product!
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WIP’s
Patterns of Interest
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Andrea Mowery - Frost Lines - This is Andrea’s new cropped striped cardigan pattern. She uses Wandering Flock - an alternative would be Camillia Fiber’s Som. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/frost-lines
Red Hat Patterns
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The red pointed protest hat, or nisselue, originated as a symbol of Norwegian resistance against Nazi occupation in the 1940s, representing patriotism and silent defiance. Recently, this historical symbol was revived in Minnesota as the "Melt the ICE" hat—a knitted red beanie with a braided tassel—to protest federal immigration policies, raising hundreds of thousands for charity. (Google reference) 
Olympic Beanie Patterns
Rachel Cardigan - Heidi Hennessy - Beautiful cashmere cardigan pattern - spring is coming!  Coastal Cashmere will be in store in the coming weeks!  Non-pilling!
The following two patterns use the new Ito Yarn that just came in. See the sample pink Seon Kimono in the store! The Lyra Blouse is a simple pattern that will be lovely for spring and summer evenings.  Fabric will be lovely and light!
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Recipes
Slow Cooker Beef Stew
3 lbs beef stew chunks 
cup of wine
cup of water
large can of tomatoes smashed
carrots
celery
small potatoes
onions
frozen peas
½ cup flower
salt/pep
garlic powder
garlic
bay leaf
thyme
Put flour, salt/pep, garlic powder in a bag or bowl - add meat and mix to coat.  Take meat out and put in a hot pan with olive oil. Brown meat without crowding the pan.  Leave extra flour behind.
Add all ingredients except peas in the crock pot. Cook on low for 8 hours, high for 4 hours.  Add peas before you serve - let them warm up as you get ready.  Correct seasoning if necessary
Serve with sour cream.
Wrap up
This Newsletter is growing!  Look forward to adding segments from all of you!  If you have something to share - a photo, a FO, a story, recipe -  reach out and share with me!  I look forward to growing this Newsletter to a community newsletter!
Keep up to date on www.peacefulmaking.com , Instagram, and Facebook!  New classes, schedules, products, and other information.  Reach out by text or phone or messenger!  Peaceful making all!  Look forward to seeing you all this week!
Mischel and Jenna
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