Yarn Garden

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Yarn Garden
Parker Marketplace
Littleton NH
Phone: (603) 444-5915

Hours:
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Sun 12pm-5pm

Owning a yarn shop for a knitter or crocheter is a dream come true. Susan Smith, co-owner of Yarn Garden, has had this dream for ten years and is finally seeing it come to fruition. Susan, the eighth-grade science teacher at Daisy Bronson Middle School, and fellow English teacher Paula Herbert, are opening Yarn Garden in the former Elephant’s Trunk at Parker’s Marketplace. The open space and wide windows offer perfect light for the specialty yarns they will be carrying.

Staffing the shop when the co-owners are teaching are experienced knitters Jill Brewer, Amanda Lilley, and Joanie Smith. Yarn Garden will hold classes that range from beginner to experienced: Tuesday night from 4-6 is Knit-Along with Susan, Paula, and Joanie where the knitters will choose a fingerless glove pattern and knit together; Wednesday night, Jill Brewer will offer a free Beginner Knitting class from 6 to 7:30; Thursday night Jill will offer a Sock Knitting class during that same block of time; and Saturday morning Susan will offer a free Beginning Crochet class at 10:00. A Sweater Knitting class with Amanda will be held on Sunday afternoons in January. In addition to a full range of classes, Yarn Garden will hold Yarn Tastings and sessions where knitters Knit for a Cause. The Yarn Tasting is similar to a wine tasting, but with a new selection of yarns and patterns that are available for knitting swatches. As both owners have sons who will be deployed in the coming year, the first Knit for a Cause scheduled is knitting wool helmet liners for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Yarn Garden is not just a dream come true for the owners and staff, however. Since Pearl’s, the previous yarn shop in downtown Littleton, closed, knitters, crocheters, and spinners in the Littleton area have had to travel miles for their yarns. Yarn Garden has chosen a perfect time to open a shop locally which promotes and supports the fiber arts community.