Last Monday night we combined our three favorite past times. Knitting, shopping and dancing the night away.
We set up a special customizing table where everyone was busy making Nina Rich bracelets and headbands and adorning them with ribbons and studs. Shoppers also got to browse through pieces from both the 5Preview and Wool and the Gang collections. We loved how the bold black and white 5Preview t-shirts looked against our Crazy Sexy Wool. The 5Preview girls were also launching there new magazine that night so there was a lot for partygoers to be getting excited about.
And if that wasn't enough, the night was topped off by some great live music from The Bowery Riots and The Growlers, who had the whole place going crazy.
Thanks so much to Inven.tory for being such gracious hosts.
Wool and the Gang + 5Preview + Inven.tory = Fashion Week fun!
City Bakery / Hot Chocolate Festival / Knitting Night
Amidst the craziness of New York Fashion Week, and hot on the heels of their Inventory event, the Wool and the Gang New York team headed to the City Bakery last Thursday for their Hot Chocolate Festival. A relaxing evening of hot chocolate and knitting, or so they thought! Who knew so many people shared our combined love of hot chocolate and knitting? The atmosphere was great and the City Bakery was heaving to the seams with excited knitters of all ages. There was even a queue to the end of the block when the girls arrived 30 minutes before it started!
The event brought together all the different yarn stores from around the city, each one giving different workshops and demonstrations. Throughout the evening, as well as learning some new knitting tricks, guests feasted on some truly yummy delights from the genius chefs at City Bakery (their cookies alone are worth a flight to New York). Not to mention the numerous flavors of hot chocolate that were free flowing. There were special prizes to be won throughout the night and on top of that everyone went home with a goody bag full of treats from both City Bakery and each of the knitting stores that took part.
Wool and the Gang were holding a beginners knitting workshop and the girls had so much fun meeting everyone and helping them get to grips with their new hobby. They've also had several of their new found friends come and visit them at the studio/shop since the event, all of whom confess to now being officially hooked on knitting!
Meet our new friends!
We had a visit from the girls behind 5Preview yesterday. The masterminds behind the brands simple white tees with bold graphic prints, came by to give us a preview of their new 5 piece paper magazine. We loved the girls so much we've decided to throw a party next monday with them and the coolest shop in NYC Inventory! (more info below)
"The first issue of 5-piece-paper has the theme "5 photographers". The photographers Camille Quancard, Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter, Francesco Ercolini, Sanna Berger & Fredrik Ottosson all got a box of 5preview T-shirts and then they interpreted those shirts in 5 pictures each. The result is stunning! All of these talanted photographers has their own style and all the pictures turned out really different from each other.
It's a bag. Inside there are 5 pieces of paper. Each paper contains an interview with the photographer (made by journalists we found here on the blog), 4 small pictures and on the back a big poster. The posters are printed on high quality Maxioffset 120g ecologic paper.
The design of this particular magazine is made in collaboration with a Stockholm-based graphic-design duo Lovisa & Linnea under the name Studio Ove.”
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Join the Thompson Street gang!
We've only been open two months and already we've built up a strong community of Wool And The Gang regulars at our Thompson Street location. Here are just some of the people who've caught the knitting bug with us.
Get in on the action yourself and drop into one of our 'knitting surgeries' on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 5 - 7pm, where the Studio/Shop team will be happy to help you get started with one of our kits, trade tips or even just give you someone to chat to while you knit -- they look forward to meeting you!
Happy New Year / Happy New Scarf
2010 HERE WE GO! The GANG wishes you an happy crazy wooly sexy knitting year! Lots of exciting things are coming up this year — starting with this little surprise to celebrate 2010, A NEW CRAZY SEXY WOOL KIT!
Today we are introducing the HOODY SCARF, a multifonctional, warm, cosy and clever scarf that won't just heat up your neck but make your head and ears warm too! The newyorkers are served first as you can already buy the ready-to-knit kit and ready-to-wear in our Studio/Shop on Thompson Street, but no worries the scarf will be available ONLINE January 11th for everyone!
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