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One more vendor event for Norah's Knits & Handcrafts this fall - I will be a vendor at the Winter Artisans' Market at Thomas Dunn Learning Center, 3113 Gasconade, on Saturday, Nov. 28th (Small Business Saturday), from 10 to 2. Hand-knit and hand-crocheted scarves, shawls/wraps, clutch bags, fingerless mitts, etc. I expect to have my niece's hand-stitched & hand-tied all-cotton flannel baby blankets for sale at my table too!! Looking forward to it!!

This was posted by the WGSL - one of my shawls is pictured! See prior post for details about the sale!

Norah's Knits & Handcrafts will have items in the Weavers' Guild of St. Louis' 43rd annual sale this year. The dates are October 23 and 24, 2026. See below for times & location (official postcard image). Some posts by the WGSL on Facebook follow - two of them have images of my items. 

I'm signed up to be a vendor at the Old North St. Louis House Tour and Arts Festival on October 3, 2026. I'm planning to bring mostly crocheted purses and bags - but also a few lace shawls and scarves -  to sell. Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, 10 to 4. Exact location of my booth TBD, but somewhere near the intersection of St. Louis Avenue and North 14th Street. This is the corner where Crown Candy Kitchen is located, and House Tour tickets will be for sale at that corner also.   

I'm posting photos of a few items (out of quite a few) that I will have in the WGSL Annual Sale Oct. 23-24, 2026. I'm looking forward to the sale. It's one of the only places around where you can purchase hand-spun yarn.

Norah's Knits news - I plan to participate in the Weavers' Guild of St. Louis annual sale this year, October 23 & 24 at the First Congregational Church of Webster Groves. Details are below.  

The small shawl on the left is knit from Little Knits Mirus, half silk and half camel fiber, purchased online. It's about 23 inches measured along the "spine." This yarn is exceptionally soft. The small wrap on the right, doubled over so that the pattern is obscured (sorry!) is knit from Isager brand Tvinni, 100% wool laceweight or very light fingering, purchased at Brooklyn General Store on our recent visit. The yarn is made in Denmark and is a very "crisp" wool that is said to be long-wearing, although that may not have much application to lace knitting.   

I finished this during the past week. It was a fun crochet but a little bit hard on the hands because of the big yarn and large crochet hook needed, but I'm happy with the finished product. The yarn is "Snowstorm" from Hobbii Yarns  which I ordered online. It arrived fast, considering that it had to go through customs. For my next blanket, I'm going to try a different method of joining the squares. 

  Our downstairs kitchen table, a "still life with Featherweight sewing machine" and various works in progress, such as the lining for a crocheted bag and linings for two cowls with reversed stranded knitting patterning. The Featherweight is a 1941 Singer 221 (1/2 size) that "someone" in the family has been restoring along with a number of Singer 99 machines (3/4 size) for City Sewing Room . He worked on this machine and then when it didn't sell at a recent fund-raiser, purchased it for us. CSR has several vintage Singer machines for sale that have been restored to working order.  

I had some left-over yarn to use up, and this is the result. The finished bag is lined and has a magnetic snap at the top of the body. 

Posting this just because it turned out sort of cute.  About 26 inches square; individual squares were 4 1/2 inches across. Lion brand yarn Woolease DK, leftover from another project.  The squares differ slightly in size, pumpkin vs. light blue, as the yarn is not uniform from color to color. 

Red cotton & silk crocheted small cowl & large scarf or wrap, Noro yarn; blue and black granny square cowl made with left-over Lion Brand Wool Ease DK; crocheted wrap in dark pinks, etc. - mostly alpaca, left over partial balls of yarn; small light blue & navy crocheted cowl in Alpaca (Berrocco brand).  

I've been working on using up yarns in my stash. The two-at-a-time ribbed fingerless gloves above are knit in a discontinued Berrocco "Cosma" yarn that knits to a fingering gauge. The yarn is alpaca, wool and silk and is very nice. The finished gloves will be seamed along the outside edge and will fit various hand sizes. I got a couple of cowls out of this leftover yarn as well.  The crocheted wrap below used about 5 skeins of a Noro cotton & silk yarn that I came across at the City Sewing Room while looking for fleece fabric to use to line knitted cowls. (I found some pieces of fleece to use for linings too, so "success.")

  Several cowls and a rectangular shawl being blocked. The shawl was knit from handspun yarn purchased at the 2025 Weavers Guild of St. Louis sale; the pattern is porcupine lace from one of Barbara Walker's stitch books. The cowls include one knit in the Oriel lace pattern and one in an alternating leaf lace pattern. 

The Winter Artist Market at TDLC was postponed due to weather. They hope to reschedule it in the spring. If so, I hope to be there with knits, crochets, blankets & handcrafts!!

Thomas Dunn Learning Center is located at 3113 Gasconade Street, and there is a parking lot on the north side of the building, between Marquette Recreation Center and TDLC, where the main entrance to TDLC is.  Norah's Knits & Handcrafts will be at the sale with purses, scarves, etc., and my niece will be with me, selling her flannel baby blankets. Come see us on the 29th!!   Sample of items we will be selling: 

The image above was posted on the WGSL Facebook event page, and shows one of the items I will have in the sale. And here's a link to the WGSL 2025 sale info on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeaversGuildOfStLouis

I'll have items in the WGSL sale this year!!

  In addition to knitted & crocheted shawls, wraps, purses, etc., by Norah's Knits, I plan to offer my niece's hand-sewn flannel baby blankets at the sales that I do this fall. (Other than at the Weavers' Guild of St. Louis sale, which will be Oct. 24 & 25, 2025.) These blankets are a generous size and made of two layers of sturdy flannel with quilt batting in between, and can be used through toddler-hood.

The pattern is Trellis Leaf pattern, the yarn is Noro Yukata.