Welcome to the website for City Knitting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Peruse your options in the Navigation Bar at the right. Consider our educational offerings on the Classes Page, or read a bit about our Staff. And we’re feeling pretty jazzed about socks these days, so link to the page devoted to Socks and sock yarns alone. For now, if you’d like to receive updates about happenings at the shop, you can sign up for the City Knitting newsletter.

News & Events

City Knitting on ravelry.com

Have you joined ravelry yet? Look for us at the “City Knitting Friends” group.

Sock Summit Plans

A early heads up! for August: Lorilee will be heading out to teach at the Sock Summit at the Portland Convention Center in downtown Portland, Oregon August 6 - 9. Read more about the event by clicking on the Sock Summit button.

For a description of Lorilee’s classes, click through to this link.

City Knitting will also be a vendor, giving Summiteers easy access to our “Know Your Cuts of Lamb” totes and t-shirts pictured below. We will be printing a fresh run of shirts for the event, and are taking votes for colors at our ravelry.com group, “Friends of City Knitting.”

Stitch N’ Pitch at the Whitecaps Game- August 2

Stitch N’ Pitch brings together stores, clubs, individuals and families for an afternoon of baseball and needle art. All ages and experience levels are welcome!

Please join us at Fifth Third Ballpark on Sunday afternoon, August 2, 2:00 PM, as the Whitecaps take on the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Stitchers all sit together in a specially marked section. Reserved tickets are $9 a seat, or $11.50 for a seat + hot dog + soda. Order forms are available at City Knitting, and are due in by July 22.

We thought of something fun for this event. Rita from Yarn Hollow is dyeing a special run of sock yarn and knitted blanks in Whitecaps blues, and, like the ball on their logo, will have some white with red stitches mixed in. Fun! We will post here when they are ready (She’s working on it.)

L.N.Y.P.

The last LNYP was in April, the last one until fall. The next one will be Friday night, October 16, 7:00 pm - midnight. Bring a chair and a little food or drink to share.

Beaders

Get your beads for your next knitting project at Bead Quest, 4230 29th Street SE, 616-726- 5908, www.mybeadquest.com. They have very nice choices for those incorporating beads in to their ‘Wrap Me Up Shawls’.

Spinners

Woodland Weavers and Spinners‘ Spinning group will be meeting through the summer at the shop on these dates: May 18, June 22 & 29, July 20, August 17 & 31, 7:30 pm-9:30 pm. Notice these dates are the third and fifth Mondays of the month.

T-Shirts & Totes

City Knitting “Know Your Cuts of Lamb” signature t-shirts and tote bags are being spotted all around. We’ve shipped to about thirty states and three continents. Design credit and copyright belong to a designer friend. Shirts are available only from City Knitting for $15, in a range of men’s and women’s sizes. Totes are $12, and they hold a lot o’ yarn (and other things crocheters and knitters need).

If you need help ordering one over the phone, or have questions on sizing, give us a call (616) 454-9276. Jessica (left) is wearing a women’s small (36″); Ruth (right) is wearing a men’s small (also 36″, but with longer sleeves and a wider neckband). S=36″;M=40″;L=44″;XL=48″;XXL=52″; XXXL=56″. Pre-shrunk cotton; as of summer 2008, also available in the color avocado with brown printing.