Cumberland shawl crocheted in Berroco Modern Comfort yarn, colours #12629 Dove Grey and #12613 Granite
March 2026 Newsletter: Springtime with @berrocoyarn.bsky.social, Rowan, Sirdar, and introducing Spun Up 100% recycled wool yarn! 🧶
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The book cover of A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd, is featured in a graphic declaring that pre-orders of the book are open. Below the book cover it says the title and author, "Coming June 16, 2026. Pre-order today at shop.ninetenpublications.ca."
A USER'S GUIDE TO YARN, by Michelle Boyd @spindleprincess.bsky.social, is coming in June, and it's now available for pre-order in our online shop 👉 shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/a-u...
You can also pre-order through your local bookstore or craft shop, and we encourage you to do that 📚
February 2026 Newsletter: More Canadian Wool, New Technique Books, and Tiny Teddies 🧶
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January 2026 Newsletter: New Noro Koma yarn, Crochet How book, and more! 🧶
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ARNE & CARLOS are coming to Vancouver, hosted by Urban Yarns! 🧶
“Sit and Knit for a Bit” Live:
A Design & Inspiration Lecture with @arnecarlos.bsky.social
Wednesday April 22, 2026
www.urbanyarns.com/arne-carlos-...
A rumpled golden brown tablecloth shot from above. On it is a stack of three books, two with black covers and one with a golden brown cover in the middle, two skeins of dark green yarn with black labels, and a white ceramic dish holding two wooden pencils, a wooden case for darning needles, a spool of undyed hand spun yarn, and a sprig of dried flowers.
December 2025 Newsletter: Gifts for Yarnies and more! 🧶
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Graphic image says BLACK FRIDAY SALE in white text on marbled black background, with in-line block images of a pink card deck of colourwork charts, a row of yellow ochre skeins of yarn, and an interchangeable-tip circular needle set with silver metal tips and black carbon shafts. Below that, white text reads ONLINE ONLY NOV. 28 - DEC. 1, www.urbanyarns.com/sale, and @urbanyarns
Our entire online-only sale section has been further discounted to 20-80% off original retail price!
🧶Friday Nov. 28 through Monday Dec. 1st only
🧶all prices as marked; no coupon codes or cart discounts
🧶in-store pickup or shipping within Canada only
🧶full details here: conta.cc/4pGkE7L
A pile of skeins of yarn against a beige background. The skeins are solid colours of burgundy, black, pale pink, cream, beige, olive green, and oatmeal. The burgundy skein has a black label with white text that reads LAINE x NOVITA.
November 2025 Newsletter: Laine x Novita, Cosy Must-Haves, and a Black Friday Save-the-Date 🧶
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Two vertical rows of skeins of yarn on a flat white surface, top to bottom in an autumnal-toned rainbow and then a gradient of marled neutrals. The two rows are mirror images of each other along a vertical axis, with the white background between them. The yarn is the Fall 2025 new colours of Blue Sky Fibers Baby Alpaca.
October 2025 Newsletter 🧶 New Rowan, Lykke Flight, and Spooky Stitches
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Effective immediately, Urban Yarns no longer hosts a social stitching drop-in (“Sunday Stitch”) 🧶 There are several community fibre arts and general crafting drop-in’s and meet-up’s in the Lower Mainland of BC; many are listed here:
www.vancouveryarn.com/groups.html
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Yellow and pink poster for Love My LYS Yarn Crawl, September 26th, 2025. All poster text is included in link.
Yellow and pink poster for Love My LYS Yarn Crawl, Deal Reveal. All poster text is included in link.
Urban Yarns is one of 4 Local Yarn Stores (LYS's) on the “Love My LYS Yarn Crawl” this Friday September 26th, 2025! 🧶
In-store-only, Greater Vancouver BC area 🇨🇦 Details here and on each shop's social media: www.urbanyarns.com/events/
A close-up shot of four skeins of yarn that have been leaned against the base of a tree. There is moss and lichen on the bark of the tree, and the foreground and background is green grass with brown autumn leaves on it. The skeins of yarn, left to right, are off-white, raspberry, gold, and dark olive in colour. The unbleached paper labels read “baa ram ewe WOODNOTE DK BLUEFACED LEICESTER, MASHAM BLEND”
September 2025 Newsletter 🧶 Autumn Arrivals, Juleteppe KAL Bundles, and a New LYS Crawl!
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Pictured: Baa Ram Ewe Woodnote DK
Small hand-wound balls of yarn and pine cones are displayed in an oblong wooden dish on a rustic wooden floor, next to a pair of wooden knitting needles, brown paper packages tied up with string, and more balls of yarn. The yarn balls are in various solid colours of red, cream, burgundy, rose pink, slate grey, navy, cobalt blue, emerald green, and golden yellow.
A hand-knitted wool blanket and cushion on a midcentury modern wooden chair, on a hardwood floor, next to a Christmas tree decorated only with small white electric lights. The blanket and cushion are made from squares of detailed stranded colourwork motifs such as bells and snowflakes in the colours red and cream, and there is a wicker basket of balls of yarn in those colours at the base of the tree.
A hand-knitted wool blanket and cushion on a midcentury modern wooden chair, on a hardwood floor, next to a Christmas tree decorated only with small white electric lights. The blanket and cushion are made from squares of detailed stranded colourwork motifs such as bells and snowflakes in the colours burgundy and rose pink, and there is a wicker basket of balls of yarn in those colours at the base of the tree.
A hand-knitted wool blanket and cushion on a midcentury modern wooden chair, on a hardwood floor, next to a Christmas tree decorated only with small white electric lights. The blanket and cushion are made from squares of detailed stranded colourwork motifs such as bells and snowflakes in the colours slate grey, navy, cobalt blue, emerald, and golden yellow, and there is a wicker basket of balls of yarn in those colours at the base of the tree.
Urban Yarns in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 has blanket bundles for the new “Juleteppe” Festive Knit Along by @arnecarlos.bsky.social in Rowan Norwegian Wool! 🧶 free shipping within Canada of blanket quantity 📦
www.urbanyarns.com/kits-bundles/
Screenshot of part of the Kickstarter dashboard. It says: "A User's Guide to Yarn: The Ultimate Book for Yarn Nerds. CA $19,819 pledged. 99% funded. 400 backers. 14 days to go."
We're SO CLOSE 🙏
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August 2025 Newsletter 🧶 3 new indie dyers (including @woolertonyarns.bsky.social!), plus an East Coast classic!
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July 2025 Newsletter 🧶 New @berrocoyarn.bsky.social yarns, Knitter’s Pride needle set clearance, and Firefly Notes advents!
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June 2025 Newsletter
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Featuring Rowan Rhythmic Knit Along (pictured) & nylon-free sock Trifecta Fine (hand-dyed BFL/mohair/silk 🤤) by Vancouver’s own @sweetgeorgia.bsky.social 💜
PS. We forgot to post our April newsletter here! 🙈🦋
April 2025 Newsletter 🧶
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May 2025 Newsletter 🧶
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Urban Yarns exclusive “Urban Single” (pictured) by local Canadian indie dyer Puzzle Tree Yarns, new pattern books from Noro & Laine, and The Fibre Co. Farewell Sale!
Spring Sale Save-the-Date 🌸🧶 All products in our online-only sale section will be further discounted at midnight Pacific time this Friday March 28th! urbanyarns.com/sale/
Final prices will be as marked; no coupon code needed.
Shipping from Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 or in-store pickup available
March 2025 Newsletter 🧶
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Pictured: local Canadian indie dyer @sundayfibreco.bsky.social’s Sock Set in colours Dreamscape & Frozen Over
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Pictured: George blanket by Amy Christoffers
Free Pattern: berroco.com/patterns/geo...
Yarn: www.urbanyarns.com/berroco-vint...
February 2025 Newsletter: New Spring Yarns from Berroco, Juniper Moon, and MODE at Rowan! 🌸
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And easy! Two balls but you’re only ever using one per row, and the colours change themselves 🌈
Pictured: Alexia scarf by Annabelle Speer
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in Noro Saiun yarn, shown in col. 8 & 11 (1 ball of each) 🧶 slip-stitch and self-striping!
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Hello Blue Sky! We are a local yarn store (LYS) 🧶 in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 We primarily use socials to post our monthly email newsletter in case you don’t subscribe directly. We ship throughout Canada & the States. So here’s January 2025!: conta.cc/3E7TTWY
