Yes, July isn’t exactly the month you’d think about when you think of gathering the peeps around to do a huge yarn crawl, but it’s the perfect month – Get Your Knits in Virginia has started its 2009 season, and we’re really happy that they invited us to take part!

What is this Get Your Knits in Virginia thing, you ask? Well, a few stores in Southern Virginia (along the I-64 corridor) started this to promote tourism yarn crawls and it seems to have worked so well that they are extending their reach to the ENTIRE state. How does it work? Well, purchase a Get Your Knits bag in one of the participating stores for $20 and you will get a 15% discount on all regularly priced items – except needles, notions and classes – in any of the participating stores! Also, every $25 you spend enters you into a raffle for a $100 gift certificate… not a bad deal, right?
Now, I’m sure you’re asking which stores are participating? Well, there are only three stores in this area participating: us (of course), Uniquities in Vienna, and Old Town Needlecrafts in Manassas. However there are 16 other stores participating across the lower half of the state – a great way to get a mini-break weekend and some yarn shopping in! Stores in Abingdon, Bedford, Blacksburg, Charlottesville (2 stores!), Irvington, Powhattan, Raphine, Richmond (2 stores!), Roanoke, Staunton, Virginia Beach (2 stores!), Williamsburg, and Yorktown are joining in the fun this month. If you’ve never had a chance to visit any of these places, they are worth a visit – there’s so much Virginia history in these places that no one will get bored with a visit.
You can only get the discount and be entered into the raffle with the purchase of the bag – and the bags are very limited… so stop in and get one today!