Heindselman's Knit & Gift
America's Oldest Yarn Shop
Welcome To Heindselman's Knit and Gift
We're happy to have you here! Our store features not just yarn and gifts but also treats, water, and a nice table to sit around. We stay open for you, you're important here. If ever you need help, please ask any of our staff, we're all skilled at knitting, spinning, weaving, or crochet and what we don't know, we'll look up or refer you to someone with the needed skill set. Thanks for coming by!Store Hours
We are open from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Evening classes, Art Stroll or other groups may have us occasionally open later but call first to make sure.
We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Years Day, and we will be closing at 2:00 p.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
Stuff Your Stocking Event!
Truth be told... we are pretty proud of ourselves with this one. This store is full of hundreds of cool things that would be great stocking stuffers and we were trying to figure out how to put them on sale. It had to be fun, seasonal and effective. Voila! It’s pretty simple, really. We are inviting you to stuff a stocking.... with stocking stuffers! Okay, we realize we are easily amused but we have an ulterior motive here. Keep reading! From December 7 through December 14, bring in a handmade Christmas stocking (regular sized – not those giant ones you could put a Labradoodle in) and get 10% off all the stocking stuffer type merchandise you can fit in there: scissors, notions, tape measures, knitting needles, crochet hooks, punch needle and needle felting tools, Kathy’s lovely hand made soaps, Dinah’s beautiful hand made earrings, Theobroma chocolate bars, any skein of yarn that will fit... if you can stuff that stocking stuffer into your stocking, you can stock up on a lot of stuff for 10% off! Why a handmade stocking? BECAUSE WE WANT TO OGLE YOUR BEAUTIFUL HANDMADE STOCKINGS! Sheesh. That is not a difficult concept. So, if you don’t have a handmade stocking you can use a commercially produced one (if you really feel that is appropriate – LOL) and if you don’t have a stocking at all you can borrow one of ours! And now, for the fine print: There are some exclusions: The only local artist products that are included are the ones listed above, limit 2 of any like item (a size 5 and a size 7 knitting needle count as 2 like items), limit one visit per customer. HAHA! You thought we were joking about “fine print”, didn’t you? We’ll see you (and your stockings) December 7th-14th!
Personalized Gifts
We are excited to announce a whole new product line with customized heat transfers. Come in and pick a product: hand dyed T-shirt or apron, tea towel, oven mitt, etc. Choose what you want on it and 5 minutes later it’s done and it’s yours! These make fabulous gifts and you need some too, to express yourself! We are most excited about the recipe cards and we are having a special event to kick it all off! We have fabric recipe cards and the permanent markers that react with the transfer process. You hand write your recipe on the card (we have paper blanks to practice on first!) and that fabric recipe card is permanently affixed to a tea towel. These are heirloom quality gifts that will be treasured for generations. The line launches December 14th with a recipe transfer party from 10-noon and 20% off ANY heat transfer product purchased that day.
UFO Party!
Start the year with a clean slate, and make use of that “down week” between Christmas and New Year with our UFO party. Bring it, whatever it is that you haven’t finished.... those sweater pieces you need to put together, that 2nd sock that needs to be knit, that crochet afghan you got stuck on, whatever that nagging unfinished project is that causes you angst every time it crosses your mind. Just bring it! Sit at the table, eat treats, party with us, and get all the help and emotional support you need to get that baby done and free it up to start its useful life as a FINISHED object, freeing you up to start the new year without that “thing” still hanging over your head. And are you one of us who traditionally casts on a new project with the New Year? Any project purchased during the party with the promise that it will be started on New Year’s Day is 10%off! Come usher out the old and start the new year off right... with a brand new project on those needles (or hook!). Monday, Dec. 30, 4-7 PM.
AS ALWAYS, when you purchase your project at Heindselman’s, you get all the help you need for as long as you need it to successfully complete that project. Really. And if you need to learn to knit or crochet to complete that project, we will teach you. For free. And if you don’t see the class you want… ask for it! We really, really love your input!
Check Out our Classes!
We're doing some fun knit and crochet classes in December! Check out our classes page (link at the top of the page) for details.
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