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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦

@urbanyarns.bsky.social
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🧶 Local Yarn Store in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 linktr.ee/urbanyarns

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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Circle your calendar for next weekend's 2nd annual Love My LYS [Local Yarn Store] Crawl! 🧶 Sept 26th & 27th, 2026 Lower Mainland, BC 🍁
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are excited to be accepting applications for two types of new staff this fall (Retail & Admin), with opportunities for advancement! 🧶 All positions are in-person at our store in Vancouver, BC 🍁 Full details on our website: www.urbanyarns.com/employment/
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Early closure today, Wed. Aug. 26th: 10am-3pm 🧶💕
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Closing early ‘cause it’s hot in here 😅: Tues. July 21st closing at 4pm Wed. July 22nd closing at 3pm
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Urban Yarns is accepting applications for immediate start! 🧶 We are looking for July through December 2026, July 2026 through April 2027, or permanent staff 🧶 Details here: www.urbanyarns.com/employment/
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
June 2026 Newsletter 🧶 Blue Sky Fibers Organic Cotton Sport (pictured), A User’s Guide to Yarn by @spindleprincess.bsky.social for @ninetenpub.bsky.social, and Garibaldi Sock dyed by @kzipknits.bsky.social! conta.cc/4oy0HAq
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
May 2026 Newsletter 🧶 Seeknit CURVE bamboo needles, new Noro & Opal yarns, and our annual online-only Spring Clearance sale: conta.cc/4dsZZ2a
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May 1st marks our transition to Spring/Summer hours, specifically being closed Sundays! Enjoy your Sunday stitching, outdoors or indoors, and we’ll see you the rest of the week 10am-6pm (stat. holidays 12-5pm) 💕
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
April 2026 Newsletter 🧶 @arnecarlos.bsky.social countdown, @sundayfibreco.bsky.social x @longwayhomestead.bsky.social Grassland, Istex Fjallalopi, KnitPro Stelo, and more! conta.cc/4vqEcAK
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
@sundayfibreco.bsky.social x @longwayhomestead.bsky.social, exclusively at Urban Yarns 🧶🐑🇨🇦 Launching in-store this Apr. 4 at 11am, featuring a meet-and-greet with dyer Elise 11am-1pm, then online at urbanyarns.com on Apr. 5 Grown, milled, & dyed in Canada and canadianwool.org certified 🇨🇦
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Urban Yarns is accepting applications for immediate start or mid-April start date! 🧶 No summer-only applications please; we are looking for April through December, April 2026 through April 2027, or permanent staff. Details here: www.urbanyarns.com/employment/
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
March 2026 Newsletter: Springtime with @berrocoyarn.bsky.social, Rowan, Sirdar, and introducing Spun Up 100% recycled wool yarn! 🧶 conta.cc/46I6rA6
Cumberland shawl crocheted in Berroco Modern Comfort yarn, colours #12629 Dove Grey and #12613 Granite
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Nine Ten Publications @ninetenpub.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A USER'S GUIDE TO YARN, by Michelle Boyd @spindleprincess.bsky.social, is coming in June, and it's now available for pre-order in our online shop 👉 shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/a-u... You can also pre-order through your local bookstore or craft shop, and we encourage you to do that 📚
The book cover of A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd, is featured in a graphic declaring that pre-orders of the book are open. Below the book cover it says the title and author, "Coming June 16, 2026. Pre-order today at shop.ninetenpublications.ca."
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
February 2026 Newsletter: More Canadian Wool, New Technique Books, and Tiny Teddies 🧶 conta.cc/4aPEtog
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
January 2026 Newsletter: New Noro Koma yarn, Crochet How book, and more! 🧶 conta.cc/3M7H3fX
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
ARNE & CARLOS are coming to Vancouver, hosted by Urban Yarns! 🧶 “Sit and Knit for a Bit” Live: A Design & Inspiration Lecture with @arnecarlos.bsky.social Wednesday April 22, 2026 www.urbanyarns.com/arne-carlos-...
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
December 2025 Newsletter: Gifts for Yarnies and more! 🧶 conta.cc/4s1vk2q
A rumpled golden brown tablecloth shot from above. On it is a stack of three books, two with black covers and one with a golden brown cover in the middle, two skeins of dark green yarn with black labels, and a white ceramic dish holding two wooden pencils, a wooden case for darning needles, a spool of undyed hand spun yarn, and a sprig of dried flowers.
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Our entire online-only sale section has been further discounted to 20-80% off original retail price! 🧶Friday Nov. 28 through Monday Dec. 1st only 🧶all prices as marked; no coupon codes or cart discounts 🧶in-store pickup or shipping within Canada only 🧶full details here: conta.cc/4pGkE7L
Graphic image says BLACK FRIDAY SALE in white text on marbled black background, with in-line block images of a pink card deck of colourwork charts, a row of yellow ochre skeins of yarn, and an interchangeable-tip circular needle set with silver metal tips and black carbon shafts. Below that, white text reads ONLINE ONLY NOV. 28 - DEC. 1, www.urbanyarns.com/sale, and @urbanyarns
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
November 2025 Newsletter: Laine x Novita, Cosy Must-Haves, and a Black Friday Save-the-Date 🧶 conta.cc/4ptUYuX
A pile of skeins of yarn against a beige background. The skeins are solid colours of burgundy, black, pale pink, cream, beige, olive green, and oatmeal. The burgundy skein has a black label with white text that reads LAINE x NOVITA.
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
October 2025 Newsletter 🧶 New Rowan, Lykke Flight, and Spooky Stitches conta.cc/435JIvO
Two vertical rows of skeins of yarn on a flat white surface, top to bottom in an autumnal-toned rainbow and then a gradient of marled neutrals. The two rows are mirror images of each other along a vertical axis, with the white background between them. The yarn is the Fall 2025 new colours of Blue Sky Fibers Baby Alpaca.
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Effective immediately, Urban Yarns no longer hosts a social stitching drop-in (“Sunday Stitch”) 🧶 There are several community fibre arts and general crafting drop-in’s and meet-up’s in the Lower Mainland of BC; many are listed here: www.vancouveryarn.com/groups.html baaadannas.com/community/vi...
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Urban Yarns is one of 4 Local Yarn Stores (LYS's) on the “Love My LYS Yarn Crawl” this Friday September 26th, 2025! 🧶 In-store-only, Greater Vancouver BC area 🇨🇦 Details here and on each shop's social media: www.urbanyarns.com/events/
Yellow and pink poster for Love My LYS Yarn Crawl, September 26th, 2025. All poster text is included in link.Yellow and pink poster for Love My LYS Yarn Crawl, Deal Reveal. All poster text is included in link.
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
September 2025 Newsletter 🧶 Autumn Arrivals, Juleteppe KAL Bundles, and a New LYS Crawl! conta.cc/4mUV9i2 Pictured: Baa Ram Ewe Woodnote DK
A close-up shot of four skeins of yarn that have been leaned against the base of a tree. There is moss and lichen on the bark of the tree, and the foreground and background is green grass with brown autumn leaves on it. The skeins of yarn, left to right, are off-white, raspberry, gold, and dark olive in colour. The unbleached paper labels read “baa ram ewe WOODNOTE DK BLUEFACED LEICESTER, MASHAM BLEND”
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Urban Yarns in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 has blanket bundles for the new “Juleteppe” Festive Knit Along by @arnecarlos.bsky.social in Rowan Norwegian Wool! 🧶 free shipping within Canada of blanket quantity 📦 www.urbanyarns.com/kits-bundles/
Small hand-wound balls of yarn and pine cones are displayed in an oblong wooden dish on a rustic wooden floor, next to a pair of wooden knitting needles, brown paper packages tied up with string, and more balls of yarn. The yarn balls are in various solid colours of red, cream, burgundy, rose pink, slate grey, navy, cobalt blue, emerald green, and golden yellow.A hand-knitted wool blanket and cushion on a midcentury modern wooden chair, on a hardwood floor, next to a Christmas tree decorated only with small white electric lights. The blanket and cushion are made from squares of detailed stranded colourwork motifs such as bells and snowflakes in the colours red and cream, and there is a wicker basket of balls of yarn in those colours at the base of the tree.A hand-knitted wool blanket and cushion on a midcentury modern wooden chair, on a hardwood floor, next to a Christmas tree decorated only with small white electric lights. The blanket and cushion are made from squares of detailed stranded colourwork motifs such as bells and snowflakes in the colours burgundy and rose pink, and there is a wicker basket of balls of yarn in those colours at the base of the tree.A hand-knitted wool blanket and cushion on a midcentury modern wooden chair, on a hardwood floor, next to a Christmas tree decorated only with small white electric lights. The blanket and cushion are made from squares of detailed stranded colourwork motifs such as bells and snowflakes in the colours slate grey, navy, cobalt blue, emerald, and golden yellow, and there is a wicker basket of balls of yarn in those colours at the base of the tree.
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Nine Ten Publications @ninetenpub.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We're SO CLOSE 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
Screenshot of part of the Kickstarter dashboard. It says: "A User's Guide to Yarn: The Ultimate Book for Yarn Nerds. CA $19,819 pledged. 99% funded. 400 backers. 14 days to go."
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
August 2025 Newsletter 🧶 3 new indie dyers (including @woolertonyarns.bsky.social!), plus an East Coast classic! conta.cc/4onCYm3
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
July 2025 Newsletter 🧶 New @berrocoyarn.bsky.social yarns, Knitter’s Pride needle set clearance, and Firefly Notes advents! conta.cc/4obWQIY
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
June 2025 Newsletter conta.cc/43Q8b9p Featuring Rowan Rhythmic Knit Along (pictured) & nylon-free sock Trifecta Fine (hand-dyed BFL/mohair/silk 🤤) by Vancouver’s own @sweetgeorgia.bsky.social 💜
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
May 2025 Newsletter 🧶 conta.cc/43ksKZW Urban Yarns exclusive “Urban Single” (pictured) by local Canadian indie dyer Puzzle Tree Yarns, new pattern books from Noro & Laine, and The Fibre Co. Farewell Sale!
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Spring Sale Save-the-Date 🌸🧶 All products in our online-only sale section will be further discounted at midnight Pacific time this Friday March 28th! urbanyarns.com/sale/ Final prices will be as marked; no coupon code needed. Shipping from Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 or in-store pickup available
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
March 2025 Newsletter 🧶 conta.cc/4htifsu Pictured: local Canadian indie dyer @sundayfibreco.bsky.social’s Sock Set in colours Dreamscape & Frozen Over www.urbanyarns.com/sunday-fibre...
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
February 2025 Newsletter: New Spring Yarns from Berroco, Juniper Moon, and MODE at Rowan! 🌸 conta.cc/4aKZejm
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Urban Yarns 🇨🇦 @urbanyarns.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hello Blue Sky! We are a local yarn store (LYS) 🧶 in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 We primarily use socials to post our monthly email newsletter in case you don’t subscribe directly. We ship throughout Canada & the States. So here’s January 2025!: conta.cc/3E7TTWY
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