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Friday, November 11, 2011

Toshing





Lace and sock wound up.



Boxwood and Briar lace
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Shoppe hours

Open seven days a week.

Sundays: noon until 4 pm.

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: 10 am until 5 pm.
Wednesdays: noon until 6 pm.


Knitting by the Narrows 2013

Knit a toddler's vest and learn attached i-cord, corrugated knitting, fair isle, and steeking.

Ingrid Zotter, a Master Knitter, will be teaching the retreat.

We will be staying at the Leelanau Boat Club, September 20-22, 2013.

Contact us for more information and to register.

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Weekly Whiteboard Specials

In conjunction with our fifth year celebration, we will be having weekly specials at the shoppe. They will be posted on our white board, located to your right when you first enter our shoppe.

Each special will run from Sunday to Saturday.

Make sure you stop in weekly to discover our special!

Monday Morning Knitting

Betsy will be hosting a knitting group from 8:30 AM until 10 AM ( or as long as you wish). Feel free to bring muffins and a project.

2nd and 4th Mondays

Inspiration. Motivation. Coffee. Laughter. Fun. Snacks. Conversation.



Thistledown Shoppe - located in Suttons Bay, MI, in Leelanau County, 15 miles from Traverse City

  • http://www.thistledownshoppe.com/

May the sun bring you new energies by day,
may the moon softly restore you by night,
may the rain wash away any worries you may have.
May gentle breezes refresh your soul...
And, all the days of your life,
may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty.

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  • Chic Knits - love their patterns
  • Fiber Trends - we carry their yarn, patterns, and other goodies
  • KnitCircus
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  • Thistledown Shoppe
  • White House

Mindy case

Mindy case
Lantern Moon has constructed a sweet case out of shimmery taffeta in three luscious colors. Use it for your cable and tapestry needles. Six sleeves. Magnetic closure.

Some of what we carry

  • Blue Heron: Cotton Rayon Seed, Egyptian Mercerized Cotton, Rayon Metalllic, and Sock Plus
  • Blue Ridge Yarns: Kaleidoscope
  • Brown Sheep: Burly Spun, Cotton Fine, Cotton Fleece, Hand Paint Originals, Lamb's Pride Bulky and Worsted, Lamb's Pride Superwash Worsted, Nature Spun Sport Weight and Worsted, Serendipity Tweed, Wildfoote
  • Cascade: Eco +, Fixation, Sierra, Ultra Pima
  • Classic Elite: La Gran , Liberty Wool, Moorland, Portland Tweed
  • Claudia: Sock
  • Dale of Norway: Baby Ull and Harlequin
  • Dragonfly Fibers: Djinni, Sock, Squishy Lace, and Traveller
  • Elegant Yarns: Athena, Aurora, Daphne, Fantasy, Kaleidoscope, Stellar
  • Farmhouse Yarns: Allergic to Wool, Bo Peep Sock, Fannie's Fingering Weight sock yarn, Lumpy Bumpy , Silk Blend
  • frajous fibers: Sari Ribbon
  • Henry's Attic: Aloha, Aztec Boucle, Inca Cotton, Irish Lace, Peruvian Tweed, Prime Alpaca, Shahrazade
  • JoJoLand: Melody, Rhythm (regular and superwash), and Tonic
  • Kauni
  • Kertzer: Cool Spun Cotton, Marble, Marble Chunky, Northern Worsted, Northern Worsted Ombre, Northern Worsted Tweed, On Your Toes
  • Knit One, Crochet Too: Crock-O- Dye, Ty Dy Cotton, Ty Dy Dots, Ty Dy Wool, Ty Dy Socks, 2nd Time Cotton
  • Kollage: Delightful and Luscious
  • Kraemer: Sterling Silk & Silver
  • Lana Knits: Allhemp 6
  • Lantern Moon: stitch markers, tape measures, and bags
  • Louet: Bonnie, Euroflax Sport, Gems Fingering
  • Madelinetosh: Lace, Sock, and Vintage
  • Marion Foale
  • MillaMia
  • MilliaMia
  • Mission Falls: 1824 Cotton and Wool
  • Misti Alpaca - chunky, lace, and sock yarn
  • Mountain Colors: Bearfoot, Merino Ribbon, Twizzle, Wool Quarters
  • Muench: Touch Me
  • Namaste: bags and pouches
  • Naturally New Zealand Yarns: Bella, Buttons, Dawn, Kaleidoscope Boucle, Wool, and Mohair, Kiss, Loyal, Naturally Wool 10 Ply, Perendale, Stella, Temptation, Tussock Worsted, Vero and VeroTweed
  • Opal sock yarn: fingering and 6-ply
  • Pagewood Farm: Denali and Yukon
  • Polar Knit
  • Recycled Silk
  • Schaefer: Anne
  • Schoolhouse Press: Icelandic Lace Weight, Un-Spun Icelandic
  • ShiBui: Baby Alpaca DK, Highland Wool Alpaca, Merino Alpaca, Merino Kid, Silk Cloud, Sock yarn, and Staccato
  • Simply Shetland: Silk and Lambswool
  • Skacel: Austermann Step, Crazy Zauberball, Sockina, Fortissina, Kid Seta, Maxima, Trekking XXL and 6-ply, Zitron Loft Color
  • South West Trading Company: Bamboo, Tofutsies, Yang
  • Sweaterkits: CottonLicious
  • Swedish Yarns: Fame Trend, Raggi
  • Thistledown Yarn: Lake Effect, Third Coast, and Up North
  • Wolle's: Color Changing Cotton
  • Yarn Hollow: Sock Religious, Shawl Kits, Summer Love

3/50 Project

Helmet Liners for our military

Helmet Liners

We are coordinating with other yarn shops throughout the nation in an effort to make enough helmet liners for all deployed members of our military.

Each helmet liner is made of 100% soft wool, using military regulations; right down to the correct colors. The head gear protects troops from the environment, keeps them warm in the cold nighttime desert air, wicks away sweat from 120 degree daytime heat, keeps the sand away from their faces, and forms a needed cushion between their head and the helmet they must wear.

The shoppe will have Nature Spun worsted wool and Mission Falls 1824 wool in the required colors of tan, black, gray, brown, and olive. If you chose to knit from your stash, the yarn must be 100% wool - no alpaca, lama, mohair, or acrylic. Gauge is also very important.

We will be accepting the liners and then sending them on to Yarn Heaven in Texas, where Tarie, the owner, will pass them on to the four military bases in her area. Different units deploy at different times, so she will be handing them over to the military in groups. We will be continuing to collect head liners until they are no longer needed.

If you wish, a personal message, inserted into the head liner, is appreciated by the troops.

If you are a crocheter, go here for your pattern and the knitters should go here for their pattern.

This is a video of Tarie with some of the military talking about the liners.

Community Service Projects

  • Knitting for our Children (November, 2009) - I am actively involved with the Leelanau County Family Coordinating Council (we catch folks who fall through the cracks) and there are families that could use some goodies for the cold weather - hats, scarves, mittens - you get the idea. Being the fiber snob I have become, I like wool, but I also realize that not everyone agrees with that. So whatever you choose to knit, label it for fiber content and care. We will continue to take donations year around and will turn the items over to Parenting Communities (they work directly with the families). And let me add that we will also happily accept items for the children's older sisters, brothers, and parents.
  • Leelanau County Jail Inmate Art Project - Inmates, volunteers, and staff teach inmates the arts of quilting, knitting, crocheting, sewing, and baking. Help them out with donations of materials and/or your time. They can accept everything but metal needles. Donations may be dropped off at the shoppe. Contact us if you need more information.
  • 4-H Sale - the second weekend of every August we sell fiber related items. 100% of the proceeds go to our 4-H.
  • Blankets for Cherryland Humane Society. Blankets knitted and crocheted for the critters at our animal shelter. Ongoing.
  • Birthday Party - gifts donated to the Laundry Project, Baby Pantry, and Leelanau Christian Neighbors. October, 2007
  • No Idle Hands - handcrafted items knitted and crocheted for Goodwill Inn. Fall, 2008
  • Hats on to You - knitted hats created as a "Thank You" for our county plow drivers. March, 2009

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Suttons Bay, MI, United States
A shoppe owner on the lovely Leelanau County peninsula in Michigan. I also work 3 days at my paying job. Knitting is my passion and I am ready to deal yarn in order to gain more addicts.
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