Kay's Korner - A Knitters Notes

This year's yarn shop hop is in full swing! Atlanta's knitters, crocheters, and weavers are turning out in car loads, trying to hit all nine of the participating shops in the allotted nine days. The crafters, many sporting gorgeous scarves and hand made bags, use this opportunity to visit the various shops in the Metro Atlanta area. There is ample motivation to hit every shop - a grand prize of $900 in gift certificates! But even if only one yarn shop is visited, when a customer turns in their stamped shop hop pass, they have a chance to win one of the many other prizes valued between $40 - $125. Each shop offers the hoppers a free original pattern with their $10 purchase, a purchase which qualifies them for that shop's stamp. The more stamps a shopper collects means a better chance at winning a prize. The prizes are awarded by a drawing the week after the shop hop. The winners are then notified of their good fortune.

This hopper stocked up on great new yarns
for several scarves and cowls

Sure, the prizes are awesome and plentiful, but there are no losers. There are other reasons to join the shop hop. The yarn shops get ready for this annual event with well stocked shelves, filled with many of the new fall yarns and latest patterns. The shops are all abuzz with happy crafters, checking out the wide array of sample knits in hopes of finding their next project. The Atlanta yarn shop hop is a happening! One look at the happy hopper's in the photos and you can see that this is not an event to miss.

These hoppers had custom, hand decorated
shopping bags and passport covers!

Kay Mather gives a knitting class on the Rare Purls Knitting Porch
during shop hop

The 2011 shop hop is from Sept. 17 - 25. For participating shops and more information on the 2011 Atlanta yarn shop hop, please visit www.shophopatlanta.blogspot.com