LYS Day 2023 - May Outdoor Sale

We are holding a sale in the parking lot on Saturday May 27th starting at 9am and running until noon. The store will not be open until 11am.

Details for the outside sale

1. No points will be earned on the sale yarn and points can not be used to purchase yarn
2. Please bring your own bag. We will not be supplying bags
3. Cash, Visa, M/C and Debit will be accepted
4. There is parking in the empty lot beside the store - our parking lot will be closed off. If this is full there is a parking lot down the street past the Tim Horton’s.
5. If the weather is bad we will be postponing the outdoor sale until another Saturday
6. Times can change - please check back closer to the date
7. The items in the outside sale will not be available for mail order.

There will be discontinued yarn, odd balls and yarns that we are clearing out.

50 gram balls - $5

• Snuggly DK
• Sirdar Baby Bamboo
• Noro Silk Garden

100 gram balls - $10

• Sock yarns from Opal, Regia and Lang
• Harrisville Highland

Hand dyed yarns - $20 

• Singles from Uschitita, Life in the Long Grass, Long Dog Yarns, Garnstories and more
•  Sock yarn from Life in the Long Grass and Long Dog Yarns
•  Urth Yarns
• Dream in Color
• Madelinetosh discontinued yarns
• Freia - fingering (wool/nylon that is discontinued) and worsted

Yarn Cakes - $15

 These are balls of yarn that stripes. There are 200 grams and one ball will make a shawl

Estelle Yarns Rainbow Autumn and Queensland United Foursome are just a few that you will find outside.

We will have yarns from Sirdar, Noro, Rowan, Lorna’s Laces, Classic Elite, Spud & Chloe …….

There will be lots of baby yarn and we will have some self-striping sock yarns. We will have something for everyone! There will be lace weight, fingering weight, DK weight, worsted weight and chunky.

Please do some research before coming. Make some notes about how much yarn you will need for a sweater, vest or shawl. We won’t have time to look this up on Ravelry for you. We won’t have time to make pattern suggestions.

You will also find some bags that we are clearing.

Offhand Designs, Namaste (we still have a few hanging around) and discontinued Della Q colors - Light Grey and Pink.

We are going to be doing some raffles and selling off certain yarns with all the money going to Ancaster Community Services. This will take place outside between 9am and noon.

It will be cash only for the draw tickets and for the special yarn and books.

This sweater is called Jackie and is from Rowan’s magazine The Alpaca Collection. We have a kit for the sweater (bust size 36-38” with a finished bust of 43.75”) and will be raffling it off on LYS Day. Tickets will be $5. The kit is worth $210.

I found some Silky Alpaca Lace from Classic Elite.

Silky Alpaca Lace is a beautiful blend of fibers, spun into a gossamer yarn that knits into amazing lightweight pieces. 

The alpaca in this yarn provides warmth and a soft halo; The silk adds a subtle sheen to the knitted stitches. Worked in lace with larger needles, Silky Alpaca Lace makes lovely, light-as-air shawls, garments and accessories. 

70% alpaca, 30% silk - 460 yards on a 50 gram ball. 

I don’t remember the exact price but they were in the range of $16 - $20. We are packaging these (because the balls fall apart) and will be selling them for $5 each. The money collected will go directly to Ancaster Community Services.

One ball will make the Bias Before and After Scarf (a Churchmouse pattern).

Classic Elite’s patterns are no longer available but there are many amazing lace weight patterns on Ravelry.

We have copies of Rowan Magazine 70 that are slightly damaged. All the patterns are in the book but the covers are bent. We can’t sell them in their condition for full price but we are going to sell them for $5 a copy (cash) with the money going to Ancaster Community Services.

Then at 11am the store will open. Everything in the store will be marked down 10%.