Always helpful, Annelle, Karen, Lenora, and Rosanna bring you the finest yarns from around the world and the Mendocino Coast..

39 Yarn Companies We Carry

Alchemy ~ Art Yarn ~ Araucania

Berroco ~ Cascade ~ Chasing Rainbows

Classic Elite ~ Curious Creek ~ Dale of Norway

Debbie Bliss ~ Ella Rae ~ Euro Yarns

Fiber Trends ~ Frog Tree ~ Galler

Hanne Falkenberg ~ Hemp for Knitting

Jade Sapphire ~ Jamieson's Shetland

Karabella ~ Katia ~ Lana Grossa ~ Lovet

Manos del Uruguay ~ Marks & Kattens

Mission Falls ~ Misti Alpaca ~ Muench

Noro ~ Opal/Isager ~ Plymouth

Sirdar ~ Sublime ~ Regia ~ Rowen

Swedish Yarns ~ Tahki/St. Charles,

The Fibre Company ~ Trendsetter

EASY AND HELPFUL ORDERING

just call toll free: (888) 530-1400

or email: yarnshop@mcn.org

 

STORE HOURS

Mond, Tues, Wed, & Friday 10:30am-5:00pm

Thursday 10:30am-7:00pm

Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm

Sunday 11:00am-4:00pm

Open 7 days a week except 4 days:

New Years, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

 

Learn to spin from Lenora at MYS

 

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Mendocino Yarn Shop 45050 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA 95437

 

 


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Mendocino Yarn Shop

P.O. Box 2475, Mendocino, CA 95437-2475

 

 

 

 

 

Located in the heart of Mendocino Village, we've now moved one block...to an even nicer place, with more space for classes! Come and enjoy paradise with us...one stitch at a time. - Annelle

Spring Knitters' Retreat
April 22 - 25
Thursday afternoon through Sunday noon

"Designers on Designing"

Meet 3 local knitwear designers - Pamela Allen, Lenora Shepard and Sandra McIver. Pam designs hats and children's patterns. She will talk about color and fibers and how she uses both in her designing. Lenora has written a pattern for a beautiful sideways knit cardigan with oriental overtones. She used variegated yarn - Noro's Silk Garden - as her inspiration. She will talk about using the sideways technique, shaping for fit and intarsia. Sandra is writing a book based on her design for a very unique sweater. It is knitted circularly, with lots of drape, and can be worn in many ways. Sound intriguing? Sandra has attended Cat Bordhi's seminar for designers and recently spent time with Jared Flood and other well respected designers who all loved her book. It will be published soon - so we will be the first ones on our block to get a chance to see the designs and to knit one. All of the designers are glad to help you get started on whichever project you choose and answer questions about their patterns. Even if you have no aspiration to write your own pattern, you will have a new appreciation for how it is done.

Cost: $350 double, $450 single (1 available). Cost includes all meals (except Sat night), lodging, and materials provided by the designers.

We will be staying at an ocean view vacation rental home in the Pt. Cabrillo area. Come ready to relax, knit, eat, meet other knitters and experience the beauty of the Mendocino Coast!

Retreat is limited to 12. Please e-mail questions or your reservation to yarnshop@mcn.org or call 888-530-1400 and ask for Annelle.

 

Annelle has carried Manos for 9 years and our customers appreciate the quality of the yarn and the mission of the Manos organization. Karen Moreland, who has been with MYS since we opened in 2001, designed this great Unisex Hat [pattern pdf] especially for Manos del Uruguay's wool yarn. It is reversible!

Happy knitting, Annelle

"St. Petersburg" in Manos Silk Blend

Wool Clasica: colors

Cotton Stria: colors

Silk Blend: colors

"Baby Doll" in Manos Cotton Stria

About Manos del Uruguay

Manos del Uruguay is a non-profit organization, owned and run by rural women, that has worked for over 40 years to provide economic opportunity as well as beautiful handspun (Wool Clasica) and hand-dyed yarns. Manos is a member of the International Fair Trade Organization. Over 400 women spin, dye and prepare the yarn for local use and export. The lable on your yarn is signed by the co-op member who dyed it. The colors are rich and the kettle dying results in subtly striated colors.

Website last updated March 3, 2010

 

 

 

 

Our March Sale

20% OFF all Frog Tree Yarn in stock.

Free shipping for orders over $100.

Patterns and books also available at MYS

To order: call (888) 530-1400 or email yarnshop@mcn.org

Details: Frog Tree "Meriboo" bamboo/merino wool blend/ gauge is 5.5 st=1"/ yardage - 105yds/ball. Price $7.00. This is a light, lustrous yarn that combines the warmth of merino wool with the strength and luster of bamboo. 11 to 14 skeins of Meriboo are required to make most sweaters. Colors in stock are #64, 501, 000, 45, 100, 37, 405 and 5 (colors). Internet special is 20% off. One could make a beautiful sweater for under $80.

"Cropped Swing Jacket" in Meriboo®. Pattern from Dovetail Designs (K2.36) -$5.

This is an "easy" knit design which uses 7 to 11 skeins.

New "Origami Cardi" in Meriboo®.

Pattern FT-165 -$6. This one size design takes 15 skeins.

Meriboo® "Reversible Cable Scarf"

Pattern FT-86 -$6. It takes 4 skeins.

Frog Tree Sport Alpaca: 100% Alpaca/ gauge is 6 st=1"/ yardage 130yds/ball. Price is $6.80 per ball. Sport Alpaca was our most popular yarn last year. The Origami Pullover jacket pattern is available. I takes 12 to 14 balls for this Origami jacket. Cost of the Origami jacket with the 20% off internet special is $66.00.

"Origami Pullover" in Frog Tree Sport Alpaca Pattern FT-66 ($6). colors

Frog Tree Sport Melange Alpaca: this yarn is similar to the sport alpaca, but has an underdye resulting in a melange color effect. The price is $7.20 per ball.

"Jennifer's Jacket" in Frog Tree Merino Melange Pattern FT-158 ($6). colors

Knitted in Merino Melange 11 to 15 sk / sizes 36 - 52". This pattern incorporates cables into a seed stitch background. The yarn feels like a soft mousse. I saw this jacket at the Needle Arts show in January and it is beautiful, but it's not a beginner's project.

 

Frog Tree Picoboo is a sport weight cotton and bamboo blend. The gauge allows one to exchange this summer yarn for the warmer alpaca and merino blends in most of the Frog Tree patterns. This machine washable yarn has 116 yds per ball, and is priced at $6.40 each. A typical sweater would take 13 to 15 skeins. With the internet discount you could make a drapy Origami sweater for $72.00. Lots of colors are in stock including a watery blue (#1041) and the very best red (#1011). colors

 

Frog Tree Yarns Mission

"To provide meaningful and continuous work to talented and hard working artisans, providing them with just wages. We strive to use the company we founded, Frog Tree Yarns, as a tool for supporting educational and environmental projects."