It seems like every time things get a little busy, blogging is the first thing to fall by the wayside. We've also been busily restocking all of your favorite yarns and colors, so there aren't very many new yarns to share, but we do have one very special addition! Cotton Ball, from Claudia Handpainted Yarn, is our first handpainted 100% cotton yarn we've been able to offer in the store, and it's really lovely!

Cotton Ball is a DK weight plied cotton that really shows off the amazing colorways. We'll be getting more in the next month or so, but for now we do have a handful of gorgeous colors available.
Our other exciting addition is more exciting for me than for you, but I'll share anyway - we've had a new addition to our office! After six months of cranking out invoices and labels and patterns on a nine-year-old inkjet ....

Yesterday, this arrived:

A color laser printer, with duplexing! And networking! And PostScript capabilities! (I'm not sure why this is useful to us, but my husband assures me it will be.) By the way, it's huge. It weighs 50 pounds! And it prints so quickly, and the patterns look so nice with the duplexing that I spent last night just printing out dozens and dozens of them.
By the way, if you are waiting to donate to Ravelraiser '08, do it soon! Tomorrow (April 25th) is the last day to enter to win the fabulous prizes that have been generously donated by so many Ravelers.
I've never knitted with cotton before, but I think this might be calling my name for some summer knitting! Enjoy the new printer!
I've been searching for a simple pullover sweater pattern that uses sock yarn. You wouldn't believe how impossible that is to find! So far, I've only come up with two patterns, one a waffle-knit pullover, which looks too shapeless to me, and one Noro pattern that's not bad. But aren't there more? Any ideas?