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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 26d

Psst. You - yeah, the one with the yarn?

Guess what?

I finished my work tasks earlier than planned. If you live within commuting distance of the shop, you might wanna take a look over here: www.stillyriveryarns.com/store/c7/Cla...

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A locally-owned fiber arts shop in Stanwood, WA. We carry supplies for crochet, knitting, handspinning, and weaving; we also offer classes and private lessons.

www.stillyriveryarns.com

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 27d

This week's shop schedule:

- classes open for registration on the shop website at 7 PM
- Community Crafting Circle on Tuesday, 1-3 PM
- Stanwood-Camano Spinners on Thursday, 6-8:30 PM
- Rise & Shine Social Time on Saturday, 9 AM - noon
- Shop closes at 1 PM on Saturday for travel to Spokane

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 27d

It has been a fraught few days. So I went and petted a few local sheep, provided a little financial and lots of moral support at a makers’ market, and am getting ready to teach a spinning class.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 28d

I ordered this item after de minimis exemptions closed, and it was delivered today.

1) We have an awesome mail carrier at the shop

2) The “will we/won’t we pay” game is exhausting and stupid

3) This administration is also exhausting and stupid but smart enough to be incredibly dangerous

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 28d

Re: package from Ukraine

My mail carrier stopped by this morning. “So I asked about your question from yesterday, and, uh, was told we aren’t collecting that money.”

My package arrived at my house, so when I got home from work, I asked my husband about it. “Nope. No money taken or asked for.”

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 29d

“Any difference for home vs business deliveries?”

“Nope.”

“And this could all change by Monday and you’d have different procedures then.”

*snort* “Yeeeeeeah.”

I’m so sorry to know this is making his job more complicated. He’s a great carrier.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 29d

“Make a check out to the postmaster and hand it to the carrier. If that’s not comfortable for you, we can give you pink package slip and you can come down to the post office.”

“Cash?”

“I mean, yeah, it’s allowed? But it makes me SUPER-uncomfortable.”

(2/🧵)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 29d

Tariffs BS, round [I have lost track]: ordered something for my RPG from Ukraine that will arrive via USPS. Realized I don’t know how they collect tariffs, so I asked my mail carrier.

“Great question. We have no specific guidance on that, but here’s how we usually handle money due…” (🧵)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Sep 4

Here’s the table I mention in the video; this is from the August 22 edition of the ASI newsletter:

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Sep 4

Sad to say, a lot of folks are just now understanding why the domestic wool industry in the US is in deep trouble. A huge part of the conversation is the lack of financial incentive to produce wool - SO much work but so very little return. Here’s my quick explanation (the table I mention is below)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Sep 3

Sure! Drop me a line at Lindsey [at] StillyRiverYarns [dot] com with what you’re thinking about, questions, etc!

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Sep 3

Hey all! I have been massively slacking over the summer on using BlueSky.

But the mentions overnight summoned me.

So - I’m back with more plain talk about our industry, more randomness, more BTS of yarn shop ownership, MOAR SHEEP

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Jun 30

This week at the shop! Tuesday: Book signing with Deborah Held (and a sold-out class), so no community crafting circle - and After Dark Social Night is rescheduled to next Tuesday, 7/8.

Shop opens at 11 AM on Wednesday.

Closed on Friday/Saturday for the holiday weekend.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Jun 27

The weather may not be hot, but the patterns are... , by @StillyRiverYarn
substack.com/@stillyriver...

The weather may not be hot, but the patterns are...

It's a Friday Pattern Roundup!

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · Jun 20

“I’ll just go to bed when I’m tired,” she said.

1:45 AM sleepy time + weather change + work day with a giant yarn shipment coming in = bad news.

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Positively Yarnie @positivelyyarnie.bsky.social · May 22

How is it the 4th week of WIP Bingo already!? If you haven't colored in square 11, we'd love for ya to check out our LYS partners - they are amazing!

@stillyriveryarns.com
@alittleknitty.bsky.social
@theknottyknittress.bsky.social
@stringfieldyarn.bsky.social
and Cozy!

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 22

Some eager, astute knitters pinged me to let me know that I neglected to explain how to move the stitch marker after increase rows in our @lystour.com pattern, Calculated Stars.

My apologies, and many thanks to y’all! Updated pattern tomorrow, video tutorial tonight:

youtu.be/DX8vr_fv7tI?...

Calculated Stars: Moving Stitch Markers

YouTube video by Stilly River Yarns

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · May 20

🚨 💉The FDA will no longer approve COVID vaccines for people 6mo–64yrs who don't have a risk factor for severe COVID-19. People 65 years and older and those under 65 with risk factors can still get vaccinated.

There's so much to unpack here. See a few thoughts below 👇

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 21

Looking for something to use up all that yarn you got on the LYS Tour? Sign up for our How to Doodle class with the Queen of Doodles herself, Jamie Lomax! Saturday, May 31 from 3-5 PM. Registration is $75 and can be done in person or through our website: www.stillyriveryarns.com/store/p682/D...

Class: How to Doodle with Jamie Lomax

A locally-owned fiber arts shop in Stanwood, WA. We carry supplies for crochet, knitting, handspinning, and weaving; we also offer classes and private lessons.

www.stillyriveryarns.com

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 20

And I might as well start gathering ideas for more designs, because @spl.org Summer Book Bingo came out today!!

Book 1 done - “new-to-me format” (e-book from @bookshop.org ), How We Learn to Be Brave by @mariannbudde.bsky.social . So many good lessons and reminders.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 20

@lystour.com was amazing, exhausting, motivating, and draining, all at once.

Thank you SO MUCH to our visitors, volunteers, Lydia, Tour staff, and Tour board for a fantastic event.

I took today totally off and will have a non-customer-facing day tomorrow. 😴

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 20

Oh yay!! So glad you’re enjoying it!!

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 14

'Twas the day before Tour
And all through the shops
The clerks hustled madly
To find "that one box"

The discounts were set up
In the POS with care
In hopes that customers
Soon would be there

The shop teams made lists
The customers made plans
Owners posted reminders
About where to park tour vans

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 13

I watch too many storm chasing streams. Thinking through how I'm going to sequence my mornings for LYS Tour and caught myself thinking, "If I carry both signs in the car, I can deploy them more efficiently..."

Most people would say "set out," or "put them up." Not me. "Deploy."

*sigh*

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · May 13

Thank you!!

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