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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 02/02/2026

The shop will be closed from Feb. 2 - 13, 2026 so that I can travel back to France to visit family. Stay tuned for short snippets of the adventure! And if you're a newsletter subscriber, check your inboxes in the morning for the latest issue.

A teal background with gold text that reads "Shop closed Feb. 2-13, 2026." A white jet plane is shown in flight over a collage of images of a 17th-century chateau, a white and roan cow, and a silver stylized lion rampant.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 23/01/2026

Today, instead of #CustomerCraftinessFriday, we’re highlighting local mutual aid and immigrant assistance orgs, and how you can support them and learn from them. Stay tuned!

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 18/01/2026

And finally, you're good with losing the vibrancy and diversity of small businesses that are at the heart of so many towns and cities? You're good with the mega-corporations running business here? (4/4)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 18/01/2026

How do those of you supporting tariffs propose to provide support to the small businesses that will continue to fold under the burden of these price increases, not to mention support to all their employees? 3/…. Whoops, 3/4

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 18/01/2026

Let's hear from those of you who were out there saying that small businesses just need to hang on until the innovators show up and get US factories going to make these sorts of things. How soon can we expect that? 2/3

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 18/01/2026

Every. Single. Time. I've placed an order that includes hooks and needles, the price on all those items has been higher than the previous order. It's been almost a year since That Guy took office, and tariffs started in earnest... what, 6 months ago? (1/3)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 15/01/2026

Heyyyyyyyyyy - we’re back. In the last few months, we’ve 1) written an article on tariffs - and how they impact local shops - & had it published in Modern Daily Knitting, 2) dealt with major regional flooding, 3) been working through *gestures at current dumpster fires* How are you all?

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 15/01/2026

Yes! A very-belated thank you for checking in. We didn’t get hit too hard in our area - the Skagit Valley was much harder hit. Really, really glad the combo of smaller crest, evacuations, + investment in floodwall infrastructure happened.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 16/09/2025

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.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 15/09/2025

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 · 14/09/2025

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 · 14/09/2025

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 · 14/09/2025

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 · 13/09/2025

“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 · 13/09/2025

“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 · 13/09/2025

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 · 04/09/2025

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 · 04/09/2025

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 · 03/09/2025

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 · 03/09/2025

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 · 30/06/2025

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 · 20/06/2025

“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 · 23/05/2025

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 · 22/05/2025

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?...

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Calculated Stars: Moving Stitch Markers

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/05/2025

🚨 💉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 · 21/05/2025

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...

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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.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 20/05/2025

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 · 20/05/2025

@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 · 14/05/2025

'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 · 13/05/2025

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 · 13/05/2025

Ready for some @lystour.com pattern reveals since we're just a day and a half out? Here we go!!! Our crochet pattern is called Something You Can Cuddle Up In, featuring @berrocoyarn.bsky.social Wizard. Our knitting pattern is Calculated Stars, featuring Juniper Moon Farm Cotton + Merino.

Gold text on a navy background reads Crochet: Something You Can Snuggle Up In, Featuring Berroco Wizard. A photo features an older woman with glasses, short grey hair, and a black cardigan holding a multicolored striped triangular shawl; and a younger woman wearing a pink blouse and blue jeans holding a red/pink/burgundy/black striped triangular shawl that is slightly smaller.

Navy blue background with gold text that reads Knitting: Calculated Stars - Featuring Juniper Moon Farm Cotton + Merino. In the middle of the frame, there is a photo of a grey cowl with a mesh front draped over a piece of wood with a tree and apartments slightly out of focus in the background.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 12/05/2025

What a day shearing yesterday! Made it through 4 Kerry Hill crosses (1 x BFL, 3 x Cheviot), tried a new-to-me pattern that will be my go-to from here on out (check out that blanket in the 2nd photo 😍), and taught a new shepherd how to skirt for milling.

Three fluffy white sheep wait to be shorn, but they aren’t thrilled about it - they’re backed into the far corner of a sheltered enclosure.

A person wearing a grey shirt that says CANADA stands over a partially shorn white sheep. The shorn wool cascades off the sheep towards the floor just like the novice shearer standing partially out of frame on the left side has dreamed of for over a year.

An outdoor scene. Three adults and a toddler (yarn swatch obscuring his face for privacy) stand around a skirting table built fr snow fence, dimensional lumber, and PVC pipe. They are sorting fleece to keep only the good stuff for milling or hand processing.

Four freshly-shorn sheep are in a field and face the camera. They are much cooler and lighter than they were that morning.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 11/05/2025

One of the big advantages of our new location: PARKING GALORE, especially for @lystour.com! The red cars in the 2nd image show areas where you can park while visiting the shop. Please help us be good neighbors by NOT parking in condo resident spots across the alley from the shop (3rd image)!

A satellite view of the neighborhood around the shop is annotated with cartoonish red cars in areas where guests may park during the LYS Tour. At the bottom of the image, there is a green electric vehicle symbol superimposed on another building. At top, a car emoji is shown with an equal symbol, followed by the text "available shop parking." At bottom, the EV symbol is shown with an equal symbol, followed by the text "EV charging stations."

The sidewalk in front of the shop is shown with empty parking spots directly adjoining the building. Across the alleyway, gold arrows indicate parking spots mostly filled with vehicles. Text at top reads, "The spots across the alley from the shop (indicated here with gold arrows) are for condo residents only - please help us be good neighbors by NOT parking in this area!"

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 10/05/2025

Next up on our @pugetsoundlystour slow reveal, you might love our featured yarns so much you’ll need a bigger boat… errr… TOTE. Our knitting project will come in at just about $23; the crochet project will cost about $27 for the 1-ball size and $54 for the 2-ball size (all totals include tax).

A calm scene on a lake from the point of view inside a canoe. Four balls of yarn are apparently in charge of rowing the boat. One is light green with a weird white tubing running through it; one is black with fuchsia tubing running through it; one is a gentle gradient that runs from grey to green to turquoise; one is a gradient through various greys that ends with beige.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 09/05/2025

Turning to my reading pile for design inspiration has been the best thing I’ve ever done. If you’d be okay with it, I’d love to send you a copy of both patterns - and the final hand-knitted cowl.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 09/05/2025

We’re rolling out our @lystour.com pattern reveal over the next few days… first up, this year’s literary inspiration! I read both of these last year and was really touched by them. Our knitting pattern is called Calculated Stars, and our crochet pattern is called Something You Can Snuggle Up In.

A black and red book cover. A creature with tentacles, a pointed hat, and yellow facial feature dominates the cover but envelops a stout, scared-looking feminine figure. Grey chains frame the image in a diamond. Text reads: Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell.

A predominantly blue book cover, with the silhouettes of 7 figures walking across uneven ground. Text on the cover reads Mary Robinette Kowal - The Calculating Stars - A Lady Astronaut Novel. (A blurb reads “An alternate history of space flight that reminds me of everything I loved about Hidden Figures.” - Cady Coleman, Astronaut)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 08/05/2025

The @lystour.com starts next Wednesday, and as your local #FullServiceYarnShop, we’re here for your travel planning needs. On the Tour page of our website, you’ll find detailed directions, all the info on parking for the shop, a list of parks, and a list of restaurants. And for the EV owners…

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 30/04/2025

The LYS Tour is just the start of a summer of learning and community events at Stilly River Yarns. Join us on Saturday, May 31 from 3-5 PM for a class on How to Doodle with @pacificknitco.bsky.social herself! Register here: www.stillyriveryarns.com/store/p682/D...

A white background with a top-bound spiral notebook just right of center. A black pen sits at the far right of the frame, and a full spectrum of pens is arranged along the left edge. Text on the notebook reads: CLASS: How to Doodle with Jamie Lomax (Pacific Knit Co.) - Saturday, May 31, 3-5 PM @ Stilly River Yarns

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 22/04/2025

The @lystour.com bags are now available in our online shop - and in-person tomorrow starting at 10 AM! Have us ship them or reserve one for pickup: www.stillyriveryarns.com/store/p681/L...

Two event-branded bags are standing under a growing bright green hosta plant in a mulched garden bed. Both bags feature a green image on a natural canvas background: a WA State Ferry is centered on the image, flanked by tall pine trees and a large mountain - Tahoma - in the background. On the large bag, a moon rises behind the mountain and a large ball of yarn is placed in the near foreground. On the small bag, the ball of yarn is placed behind the mountain to represent the moon. Both bags read “Puget Sound LYS Tour 2025.” The large bag has dark green sides and handles. The small bag has a dark green bottom and a zippered top.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 21/04/2025

Me: “Uh… why not?” *uncomfortable pause* Recruiter: “Well - that’s the public school. Where all the Black kids go. None of our doctor families put their kids there.” I could not get out of there quickly enough, and I am SO GLAD we didn’t move there.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 21/04/2025

Yep. When my dad interviewed for a job in Orangeburg, SC in 1997, we went along to see schools, etc. The recruiters showed off the fancy private school, but I asked to see the school with the best band program. *silence* Me: “Which one is it?” Recr: “Oh honey. We can’t recommend it to YOU.” (1/2)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 20/04/2025

Chapter 6 of Domestic Wool Doldrums: what can you do to help improve the situation and learn more?

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 19/04/2025

Ah heck - still can’t edit here, but the Berroco acquisition was autumn 2022.

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 19/04/2025

They still appear to be abiding by this agreement - we’ve ALL been out of neutrals in Vintage Worsted for 4 months, and the KP website is showing as out of the same colors I am. (Someone pointed out that the blanket KAL has been wildly popular and impacted stock heavily - makes sense!) (4/⬇️)

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Stilly River Yarns (Stanwood, WA) @stillyriveryarns.com · 19/04/2025

In particular, when the news broke that Knit Picks would be allowed to sell Berroco products as part of the sale, LYSes were assured that KP would not be allowed to sell under the suggested retail price and would not be given preferential access to stock. (3/⬇️)

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