Local Author to Visit the Iron Horse Book Club in May!

For our May 5th book club meeting, local author Barbara Delinsky will be joining us to discuss her latest novel, Not My Daughter. A $10 fee will be charged, as with every meeting, and refreshments will be served. It is sure to be a great evening!

Please call ahead to reserve your spot for this meeting as seating will be limited. We can be reached at (508) 647 - 4722.

And think about joining us for earlier meetings as well! We meet the first Wednesday of every month and work on our fiber-related projects while discussing our latest read. Our picks for the next few months are as follows:

March 3rd: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

April 7th: The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak

May 5th: Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinksy

June 2nd: South of Broad by Pat Conroy

July 7th: Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Happy Reading!

March Book Club

Bring your knitting and come join us for our March book club at the store! We will be discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. We meet the first Wednesday of the month, our March meeting will be on Wednesday 3/3 from 6:30 - 8:30pm. A $10 fee is charged which includes refreshments.

Be sure to check back at the blog soon - we will have a local author joining us at an upcoming meeting to discuss her latest novel. Further details will be released here as soon as dates are confirmed. Happy reading!

Think Spring

I beginning to get tired of the cold, dull colors of winter (never mind the temperature!)
Spring is in the air and on my needles. I just finished up the Spring basket. It is felted (don't you just love felting!) I'll have the sample in the store and will be offer a workshop on it in March. Can't you picture a beautiful primrose or pansies in the basket??? ahhhhhh spring

Charity stitching

A little side note to the last post. We will be creating wonderful crochet items also. Found some great free charity crochet patterns to use. Love crochet baby blankets!

Great things to come... Giving back... Stitch for Babies

A few of us got together to brainstorm how we could give something back to our community. Many of us have knit hats for chemotherapy patients as well as hats for soldiers but we wanted something that would benefit the community locally. One of our new favorite customers delivered a baby boy, 8 weeks premature. She came in to pick out yarn to knit for her tiny baby to make him look more "baby" than the hospital linen. LIGHT BULB! Who can resist a baby? Not any of us!

We will be knitting preemie and newborn hats, booties and blankets (the size of a nice hand towel)for sick and premature infants at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA. There is a real need for all those infants who stay past their mothers' stay to be seen as babies as well as us wanting their families to see them as babies, not just connected to tubes and monitor leads. There is a huge appreciation from the families that receive these small gifts.

We will have free patterns for all to select or knit up your own. Join us any Thursday morning from 10 to 12 to sit and stitch (free) and work on these projects or join us the first Saturday afternoon every month, our first meeting will be February 6, from 1 to 3 in the afternoon to stitch for babies!

Please use a yarn that can be machine washed and dried since we all know babies can be spitty or accidentally wet their bedding. Ask us at the store how you can get a special offer on Berroco's Comfort yarn to use for these projects.

All donations are greatly appreciated! If unable to join us at one of the stitch times, donations may be dropped off at the store any time. Debbie will package and deliver the items to the Special Care Nursery personally once a month. Please place your name in with your donations so we can thank you! We will have pictures soon.

Fun, warm, fast keyhole scarf

Wow. This was an awesome project to work on and the Brown Sheep Burly Spun Yarn was divine to work with. We'll be offering this as a workshop in February. Watch your email for info.

Norah Gaughan Men

Another recently completed project by a store employee is the Wilson Hat from the Norah Gaughan Men pattern book. Knit by Kirsten as a belated Christmas gift for her father, this was a quick knit with an easy cable pattern. The Berroco Peruvia was a dream to work with and the pumpkiny-spice color really showed off the pattern well. This book has tons of great patterns and we carry a wide range of the Peruvia, as well as the Ultra Alpaca, among others. Stop by and see for yourself!