We all have an inner color guru…now you can find it at The Knitting Nest in Maryville, TN!

Be a part of a workshop

with Brandon Mably on Monday, April 26!

“Concentrating on Color & Design”

Monday, April 26
1 – 7 pm
The Knitting Nest
109 E Harper Ave, Maryville, TN
$100 (includes afternoon refreshments and a light supper)

Here’s what you’ll need:

• At least 20 colors of light worsted weight yarns in small quantities (no black or white!)
• Knitting Needles sizes 7-9
• Scissors
• Notebook & pencil (optional)
• Camera (optional)

Brandon Mably comes to The Knitting Nest from the Kaffe FassettDesign Studio in London, England. To learn more about Brandon, visit his site .

This workshop is going to give you your own special tools to make the absolute most of color and texture. Learn how to select yarns with confidence and boldness for all designs…then find out how to carry the yarn in Fair Isle and intarsia knitting. This workshop will take you beyond just knitting. You will find your way to becoming a fearless designer and colorful knitter!

For more information, call the Knitting Nest at (865) 983-9554 or email antjed@aol.com.

You see, we REALLY DO knit neighbors together!

The Neighborhood Knit Shop will be open the day after Thanksgiving! So after you’ve shopped-till-you-dropped at the mall, come relax and knit with us! We’re going to be having Thanksgiving “leftovers” at TNKS!

Don’t forget we’re having a Beanie Bash on Saturday, November 28th. We’ll be knitting hats all afternoon and we’ll have lots of patterns to share! Plus, yarn will be 10% off!! (For more details, click here.)

Finally, many people have been asking about our Annual Holiday Yarn-Over! Yes, we’re doing it again this year! We’ll be celebrating on Saturday, December 5th from 6 PM to midnight. Bring a dish to share, dress in your pajamas, bring your knitting, and come enjoy the holiday cheer! As always, we’ll be having lots of great sales!

PLUS we’ll be drawing the gift certificate winner from our Name-It and Knit-It contest at the Yarn Over! (You have a few more days to finish up project and get those entries turned in!!)

Upcoming Classes

Koolhaas Hat Class – Saturday, December 5th, 1:00 PM
We had such great success this past weekend with our two Koolhaas hat classes, that we have scheduled another class for those of you who missed the first one! Be sure to purchase your pattern in advance (we have copies of Interweave Knits Accessories magazine for sale, which contains the pattern) and stop by the shop early to get your yarn and start your “homework” for the class!

New to Needles — every Saturday, 10:30 AM
Our ongoing beginner class continues every Saturday morning. If you have a friend or family member who wants to learn to knit or just needs to brush up on their skills, come by and knit with us!

Coming Soon: SOCKS!
We’re planning on some new sock knitting classes in January! Let us know if you’re interested so we can keep you in-the-know!

The Halloween Mitt-A-Thon was SO much fun that we’ve decided to keep going and celebrate the Saturday after Thanksgiving (November 28th) at the shop with a Beanie Bash!

What, you ask, is a Beanie Bash?!

We’ll be spending all afternoon on November 28th knitting hats for adults and kids. We’ll have patterns to share and of course lots of yummy yarn to choose from. Enjoy a 10% off discount that afternoon on any yarn purchased to make beanies!

Keep your Holiday-Knitting going — join us and knit along!

Come celebrate Halloween at the Neighborhood Knit Shop. We’re going to be having a Halloween Mitt-A-Thon all afternoon on Saturday, October 31st!

What’s a Mitt-A-Thon?

Our Halloween Mitt-A-Thon is the kick off to autumn and winter knitting … and more specifically, getting ready for knitting holiday gifts. What better gift than a pair of fingerless mitts!? — They’re quick and easy and friends and family with cold hands will certainly appreciate them!

Even better… any yarn purchased on October 31st (1-6 PM) to make fingerless mitts will be discounted 10% off! We’ll also have lots of great patterns for mitts, from beginner-level to more challenging.

Come sit and knit with us all afternoon and kick off your holiday knitting!

New Goodies at the Shop!

Stop in and see the fun new yarns we have! We’ve got new colors in Berroco Comfort and Comfort Chunky. We also have new, colorful Mochi Plus. And just in, we have a few more Tilli Tomas shawl kits in stunning bright red — the kits contain four different Tilli Tomas beaded yarns that are breathtaking!

Upcoming Workshops

Remember to tell your friends and neighbors…
New to Needles for beginning knitters is every Saturday morning at 10:30 AM.

My First Hat – Saturday, November 7th at 4:00 PM
We’ll be making a knitted hat in the round, adult or baby-sized!

Felted Clogs - Saturday, November 7th, 14th, and 21st (3-part class) at 1:00 PM
Great for men OR women, adults and children, these felted clogs can be knit plain or embellished and super fun! Let your imagination run wild!  They make great gifts too!

Never had your hands on yarn and knitting needles before, but always wanted to?!  Now’s your chance.  On Sunday, October 25th, beginning at 2 PM, we will be having a free knitting clinic at the shop.  We’ll have volunteers here to help you experiment with knits and purls and get a feel for how fun knitting can be!

If you can’t make it on the 25th, we have our beginner New to Needles class every Saturday morning at 10:30 AM.  The cost is only $10 and materials are provided!

If you’re not-quite a beginner, we also have lots of great “next-step” classes, such as our My First Hat class, which will be offered this Saturday, October 17th at 3:30 PM.  You’ll learn how to knit in the round and do some simple decreasing and other techniques to knit an adult or child sized hat!  (Perfect for gift-giving!)

For a full listing of our classes, visit our classes and events calendar.

For those of you who might not be on our mailing list, I wanted to remind you that the shop will open at 12:00 noon this Saturday.

By the way, if you’re not on our mailing list, why aren’t you!? Sign up using the form in the right sidebar over there →

Why, you ask?  Because we’re celebrating World Wide Knit in Public Day, of course!

Bring your knitting or crochet and join us at the Hendersonville Panera Bread from 9:00 AM to noon.  Knitters and crocheters will recieve a free coffee and pastry!

… AND you’ll also get a 10% off coupon to use later the same day at the shop!

Please don’t forget to thank Knit and Crochet Tennessee for making this possible!

This year we’ll be celebrating World Wide Knit in Public Day on June 13th.

Knit and Crochet Tennessee is hosting WWKIP Day events at Panera Bread locations all around Nashville.  You can join them at the Hendersonville location at 1037 Gleenbrook Way.  If you’re not in the Hendersonville area, be sure to check their website for additional locations.

Bring your knitting (or crochet) and come join us!  Hope to see you there.

Remember, this Sunday, January 18th is our first We Knit Neighbors Together charity knitting get-together at the shop!  Stop in between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to work on  projects to donate to babies in need at Meharry or hats for chemotherapy patients through St. Thomas cancer support group.

This Sunday will be a great warm-up to The Big Stitch charity-knitting gathering, which is coming up next week on January 24th!

Also, the shop has recently gotten some shipments of simply yummy NEW yarns, and there’s more on the way!  Stop in to touch and feel all the beautiful new fibers and snag some for your own yarn-stash before they’re all gone!

If that weren’t enough, this weekend we’ll continue our MaggiKnits-along on Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m., then head over to Tina’s for our monthly Spa Night.  Be sure to call the shop to let us know if you’d like to attend Spa Night so that we can give them an accurate head-count in advance.

What a great turn-out we had for the 3rd annual YarnOver this past Saturday!  It was food, fun, and fiber -overload!!

Visit our photo gallery page to see pictures from the event.

Many of our knitters participated in our first fingerless mitten swap.  They knitted a pair of fingerless mitts, wrapped them up and put them under our tree, then we drew numbers corresponding to each package and everyone went home with a new pair of lovely mitts!

There were fingerless mittens in every color, pattern, shape, and size you could imagine.  And they were all just beautiful.  You can see lots of photos in the gallery, but here’s a sampling:

Don’t we have some wonderfully talented knitters?

We also have some very talented chefs, we discovered.  The food everyone brought to share was delicious!  It sparked the idea of a knit shop cookbook.  If you’d like to submit a recipe of yours for the book, please e-mail it to Sharon at info@neighborhoodknitshop.com.  Be looking for more details about the cookbook (and how you can get a copy!) in the coming months.

A reminder — Spa night is next Saturday, 12/20!  Please call the shop if you’d like to attend.

In case you missed it, you can now view the “Talk of the Town” interview with Maggie Jackson filmed at the Neighborhood Knit Shop by visiting our Press page.

Click to View the Video