It's the end of a few hot and humid weeks in Vermont! To celebrate, we have Chestnut Darn Pretty™ needles! Sheep cases! Sheep pouches! 

We have new stops! The same wonderful people that have made our gauge are making stops! These fit our normal size cables for Northern Light™ and Darn Pretty™ needles. They are crafted from acrylic with a layered DC logo!

We also have a new batch of 4 inch black nickel Northern Light™ needles in, and Tom has carved a batch of beautiful Peacock™ crochet hooks too!

We're about to send out a new newsletter - read up on these and more! Happy 4th of July!

We have our very own needle gauge! Crafted for us in the US from clear acrylic, the gauge includes all our needle sizes, from the Heavy Metal™ sock sizes on up. And it includes US 6.5/4.25 mm! 

These, new cases, and more are all listed on the site today! Happy (almost) Summer Solstice!

We have a new color in our Darn Pretty™ needles! Kaleidoscope - a mix of red, pink, yellow, blue, green, and charcoal! Presently we have them in 4 and 5 inch length sets. These are gorgeous!

​Also, Heavy Metal™ needles have been restocked!

We have restocked 5 inch Black Nickel Northern Light™ needles! Our very best needles, these are solid aluminum needles, with a perfect point between lace and regular. Stitches just flow from these needles! You'll find them on our site on the Northern Light™ Black Nickel page.

Tom is feeling much better and is back at the wood shop working on a new color. Hopefully we will have that up this weekend/beginning of next week. And he is finishing up the expanded Spring Forest set for the Chester Andover Family Center raffle. Details on the raffle will be coming soon! 

Lots of changes this week. Smaller set requirements, fewer places we can ship to, more lengths in Northern Light™ needles! All of it is in our newsletter.

Our newsletter this week features Darn Pretty™ needles in Sunrise Stripe and Rosewood Swirl. Amazing needles. Tom has worked for months to improve his methods. It has paid off in the finest work he has ever done. Really. The needles are amazing.

We are also featuring four women and their businesses that we would love for you to experience. Kim Kaslow of The Woolen Rabbit. Amy Ross Manko of The Ross Farm. Jill Duarte of HipStrings. Scarlet Tang of Huckleberry Knits. 

https://mailchi.mp/dyakcraft.com/sunrise-rosewood-and-yarn-love

Let's see. We have more Black Nickel in. And we are taking 20% off! More Heavy Metal™ needles. Some incredible emerald green Darn Pretty™ sets, as well as individual pairs of Darn Pretty™ needles - also 20% off! We have free shipping and we are willing to hold orders. Woot!

And we have friends. This week's newsletter has loads of links to dyers, makers, and merchants - all independent small business persons who are taking huge hits right now, between show cancellations and shelter in place/essential businesses only orders. We encourage you to spend some time with this issue and get to know some of these amazing people and their work!

If you do not receive our newsletter, sign up on our Contact page or click on this link to read it.

From our newsletter:

But there's more! We want you to save on needles, but also shipping. Right now we are offering free first class shipping in the US, free first class international with insurance to Canada on orders over $50, and free first class international with insurance world wide on orders over $75.  (Please see note at bottom from USPS) It's a bit of savings that we hope you can pass on to the many vendors, designers, and teachers who have lost so much! So many of our friends and colleagues are hurting right now. They are reliant on shows for income, and shows are canceled for the spring and possibly longer.

Visit the vendor/exhibitor pages of the shows you had planned on attending and brighten the day of a few independent artists. We all Iive with little to nothing for a safety net. It's a trade off we make in order to do the work we love. But it makes for stressful days and nights in times like these. 

One of my favorite of these is The Ross Farm. Having recently lost her husband, Amy runs the fiber end of the farm herself, featuring some amazing wools from some amazing sheep. Her son, Drew, runs the meat end of the business and is presently working to feed the community!  

And then there is Shannon Okey. Shannon has the energy and creativity of a dozen people! Shannon created and runs the Cleveland (Ohio) Bazaar, which relies on people gathering and shopping, and Cooperative Press, publishing a multitude of pattern books. Like Amy, Shannon relies on shows to reach her customers for a significant portion of her income, so after you have purchased some needles from us and some amazing yarn from Amy, pop over to Cooperative Press and pick up some wonderful new pattern books!

There are so many more people we could recommend. We love them all and hope we all get through this. One thing is for certain - we can only get through this together!

Thank you. Be safe, be well, and stay home and knit!

Love,
Tom and Linda Diak

Service Alert from USPS (Visit this link to read the service alert in full) "The Postal Service has so far experienced only minor operational impacts in the United States as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We do continue to have a temporary suspension of the guarantee on Priority Mail Express International destined for China and Hong Kong, which has been effective since Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, due to widespread airline cancellations and restrictions into this area. In addition, customers may see delays in mail and packages destined to China as well as from China, as well as to and from European countries subject to restricted passenger airline travel. The Postal Service is undertaking all reasonable measures to minimize the impact to our customers."