In-Person Open Knit Night and Crafternoon!
Every Tuesday : 6 – 8 pm
Every Sunday: 3 - 5 pm
Join us for a relaxing evening or afternoon with a friendly group of knitters and crocheters. Masks are optional.
BIRTHDAY CLUB BASH
Saturdays: January 25 & February 22
Another month, another party to celebrate YOUR birthday!
Join us for our Birthday Club celebration on the last Saturday of the month - simply share your birth month and email address with us, and you'll be invited to enjoy treats and a 10% discount on your purchases when your birthday month comes around.
You can even bring a friend or two - when they sign up for birthday club, you ALL receive the discount!
Stitches on State Party
January 28 • 6-8 pm
Come strut your stuff at our first Stitches on State party!
We're kicking off the new year with a cocktail party celebrating your favorite finished sweaters and handmade accessories. Wear your Uncommon Threads looks to the party, walk the red carpet and take paparazzi pics from 6 - 8 pm at State Street Market in Los Altos, just one block from the shop. We'll have light appetizers and soft drinks on hand - included in the ticket price - and you're welcome to purchase wine, cocktails and other food directly from the Market vendors.
Cost: $35 Register online.
Art Exhibit with Sylvie Levesque
Ongoing
I'm thrilled to present - for the first time ever - an art exhibit featuring original works by Sylvie Levesque.
Come browse gorgeous multimedia artwork with knitting themes created by this talented local artist and knitter. Both original pieces and prints will be for sale - it's a fantastic opportunity to take home a truly unique gift and support art in your community.
Super Sunday Yarn Swap
February 9 • 12 - 4 pm
Possibly our most popular event! The Super Sunday Yarn Swap is back, once again generously co-sponsored by the City of Los Altos.
Here's how it works:
- Bring your stash yarn to the Los Altos Community Center starting at 11 am and you'll receive a ticket to enter at 12 noon.
- No stash yarn to bring? That's ok - you can enter the Swap at 3 pm
- Doors open at 12 noon and each participant may fill ONE grocery bag of yarn to take away.
- Yarn remaining at the end of the Swap will be donated to local charities.
Please bring only full or mostly full balls/skeins, dirt- and moth-free. No rug yarn or tangled scraps.
FIBERSIDE CHATS
We're delighted to partner with Longmont Yarn Shoppe to bring you fascinating guests from all over the world to talk about anything related to fiber! Registration for each virtual event is through www.longmontyarn.com and when you choose Uncommon Threads as your LYS, a portion of the $20 registration fee comes back to us. Many of the events are recorded and available after the live event is over, so even if you can't make it live you can still enjoy the presentation!
Marie Greene
Sunday, January 12 • 10 am PT
Never Leave Home Without Your Knitting!
Practical tips, tricks and tools for knitting your way through a busy life from knitwear designer and best-selling author, Marie Greene of Olive Knits ®.
Marie Greene is back with her hilarious and practical guidance to bring more joy and skill to your knitting journey. If you’ve ever joined us for one of Marie’s talks, you know she brings a wealth of valuable advice, and she’s coming back to share clever hacks for those of us who are always-knitting-no-matter-what. She’ll share expert secrets for travel knitting, how to make do when you’re missing the supplies you need, and how to be resourceful with your knitting when the need arises. No tape measure? No problem. Ran out of yarn mid-project on your vacay? Need to track your cable progress without a notebook nearby? You'll learn all of this and more!
Marie will share practical tips for knitting on the go – from socks to sweaters (and everything in between) that you can apply to every project!
This is a live Zoom Event on Sunday, January 12th at 1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST
This Fiberside Chat will be recorded - a link to the recording will be available for one week and shared with registered attendees only.
Your ZOOM Link will be sent the evening before and about 1 hour before the event. Check your spam filter if you do not see it. Register online
Jamie Lomax
Sunday, January 26 • 10 am PT
Doodles: Design & Knit Custom Colorwork with Mix-and-Match Motifs
Doodles by Pacific Knit Co. are modern and whimsical colorwork motifs that enable knitters to design and knit exactly what they want! The Doodle Framework has three simple steps: 1) Pick your Pattern Shape, 2) Pick your Doodle Motifs, and 3) Pick your Yarn Colors. Then just start knitting! During this session, we’ll deep dive into each step and learn how to choose and modify your base pattern, how to re-create your master chart using Doodle motifs, and how to build cohesive yarn palettes that work for colorwork. Afterwards, you’ll have the confidence to create your own unique colorwork projects, which gives you endless customization with just one pattern!
Bio:
Jamie Lomax (she/her) is a Seattle-based knit designer dedicated to helping knitters learn how to knit design and knit something unique. She loves colorwork knitting and considers it to be like "doodling with yarn," in that a fiber-y illustration is created, line by line, as you knit the pattern. Her background in design, standards, and technical writing has led to creating a system of patterns, where all motifs and all pattern shapes can be used interchangeably. And experience with graphic design (as well as having ADHD) has created an accessible and user-friendly experience, which eventually translated into offering multiple forms of patterns from digital to printed card decks. After designing the first Doodle pattern in 2020, she's now taken the concept into over 25 themes and 11 base pattern shapes, and hopes to add even more as she continues to expand Doodles.
This is a live Zoom Event on Sunday, January 26th at 1:00pm EST, 12:00pm CST, 11:00am MST, 10:00am PST
This Fiberside Chat will be recorded - a link to the recording will be available for one week and shared with registered attendees only.
Registration will close 1.5 hours before beginning of event. Register online.
Ongoing
We do our best to help you any time you come with project challenges–if you need more focused attention, or want to be sure someone will be available to help, the Drop-in sessions are for you! We’ve recently added more help times, and limited the participants to 4 people to make sure you get the attention you need.
One-on-One Knitting & Crochet Help
By appointment. (650) 941-1815.
Hit a rough patch in your pattern? Made a frustrating mistake? Our expert advice can get you back on track. $20/half-hour payable to Uncommon Threads.