National Wear Red Day and Sew Red!

Hi everyone!

I hope you are all wearing red today for National Wear Red Day and the kick off of American Heart Month! We certainly are! The crew at Jimmy Beans Wool wore red today and snapped this photo after our morning meeting. 

Also, I wanted to tell you all about a fun contest we are hosting for the kick off of our new book Sew Red! Sew Red is the follow up book to last year’s Knit Red and features sewing and quilting patterns from over 25 celebrity designers! Each copy purchased from Jimmy Beans Wool will be signed by the author herself, Laura Zander (aka. Jimmy)! Inside Sew Red, you’ll find pattern sheets, instructions, beautiful photography, heart healthy tips and recipes, and personal stories of heart disease shared by the designers themselves. Not only that, but we also had the honor of welcoming back Deborah Norville to write the forward for this very special book.

Some of the many designs from Sew Red include quilts from Kaffe Fassett, Valori Wells, Tula Pink, and Mark Cesarik as well as gorgeous accessories and garments by Brett Bara, Anna Maria Horner, Amy Butler, Ty Pennington and so many more! We feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with such an accomplished crew of designers and are sure that there is something for every type of sewist in this book!

As our contribution to the Stitch Red campaign, we have agreed to contribute a minimum of 5% of our gross profits from the sale of Sew Red to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) in support of The Heart Truth® and women's heart health education and research.

You'll be hearing much more about Sew Red in the coming month, and we hope you'll be adding it to your library soon. In fact, if you Pre-order your copy from Jimmy Beans Wool starting today, we'll add you into a drawing to win your copy for free! We’ll draw names on the day the books arrive to our warehouse, which is expected to be sometime next week! How fun is that?!?! 

We all hope you have a lovely, heart healthy weekend!

<3

Kristen, and the Stitch Red team!

Sew Red is Now Availble for Pre-order!

We couldn't resist creating a follow-up to the wildly popular "Knit Red" book so we took all of that excitement and combined it with our love of sewing to create "Sew Red!" Tons more info and inside looks will be released about Sew Red in the coming months, but we wanted to let you all know that Jimmy Beans Wool has added Sew Red to their site for pre-order, just in time for the holidays! If you love to sew you'll love all of the fun projects in Sew Red!

Remember, all copies purchased from Jimmy Beans Wool will be signed by the author!

Happy stitching this holiday season!
Kristen

Knit Red Book Signing Tonight!

Knit Red! Oh, the possibilities are endless...

Are you a local customer hoping to get a few signatures in your copy of Knit Red? Well, we would like to invite you to come on over to Jimmy Beans Wool tonight at 6pm for a book signing with the author of Knit Red and four of the designers in the book! Copies of Knit Red will be available for purchase, so don't fret if you haven't purchased your copy yet! 

From 6-8pm at our local store, we will have Laura Zander (the author and owner of JBW), Jeanne Giles (local designer), Kristen Ashbaugh-Helmreich (local designer), Diane Soucy (of Knitting Pure and Simple), and Ann Norling here to sign your copies! Please join us this evening for a Knit Red book signing! Bring your books, favorite pen, and questions for these lovely ladies!  Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Kristen's mom and a few of her friends are making the trip from Lodi, California just to have their copies signed! So, even if you aren't in the Reno-Tahoe area, we would still love if you could stop by!

Not sure where we are located? Here's our address:

1312 Capital Blvd. Suite 103
Reno, NV 89502

If you have trouble finding us, please feel free to give our customer service gals a call at (775)827-9276 and they can help direct you!

We look forward to seeing you tonight at 6pm!

Knit Red book review with Laura, Jeanne, and Kristen!

Knit Red preview now available!

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Well, behold this beauty.

A preview of the Knit Red book (to be released June 5th, 2012) is now available here!

In addition to 30 gorgeous designs by some of our favorite stars in the world of knitting, this book also features recipes from The Heart Truth® and heart healthy exercise tips. A pattern book, a cookbook, an exercise guide... what a beautiful contribution to Stitch Red.

To add to the excitement, you can pre-order a copy of the Knit Red book at jimmybeanswool.com and receive a copy signed by the author and founder of Stitch Red, Laura Zander. We already have our orders in. :-)

Happy Monday to you and your heart!