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Alley Cat's Yarn Basket

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Alley Cat's Yarn Basket

This page is for my store, Alley Cat's Yarn Basket. I hand knit various items, from socks to scarves to blankets.

I'll tackle almost any project among going back to college, and hope to give back to my chosen animal rescue with any sales made here. I taught myself to knit several years ago and have really enjoyed the journey. However, I tend to make anything that catches my eye, and because of that I end up with a lot of finished items that have no homes. I want to turn those projects into donations to Watchi

ng over Whiskers, a cat rescue in Springfield, Missouri. I use mostly blends of merino wool, additional fibers may be alpaca, silk, nylon, different sheep wools, cashmere, or fibers from plants like bamboo. 50% of all proceeds go to Watching over Whiskers, while the rest goes to materials or to help me pay for mu bachelors degree while I go back to school.

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Marionville, MO
65705

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No walk in store front, all business is completed online.

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Hello there!

My name is Tricia, and I’d like to tell you a bit about the Yarn Basket and the things happening around here. Back in 2013 my husband suggested that I should pick up a hobby. I was a stay at home mom, taking care of a small menagerie of animals and our daughter was 5 at the time. From this I never really had anything to do of my own. I picked up some yarn on sale at Walmart, some crochet hooks, and tried to learn how to crochet. Let’s just say it went poorly, and I am fairly certain I threw a hook in frustration now and then. Well, I had the yarn already, so I decided to pick up some knitting needles.

Thanks to the assistance of Youtube (especially videos by the KnitWitch) I taught myself how to knit. I started easy, a simple scarf. I moved on to coasters for project 2, and project 3 I decided to make socks. Go big or go home. They actually fit my daughter at that time, and so I kept working on more and more complicated patterns. I then discovered that Mount Vernon Missouri hosts an event called Fiber Daze. I went, and I was amazed, and came home with alpaca and merino wool yarns. The ‘cheap hobby’ my husband had been excited for had now become rather costly, because I had discovered a world of fiber.

I continued to increase my difficulty level, and have only rarely knit the same pattern twice because I want a challenge. This has included color work, faire isle style, double knitting (where the pattern can be seen in reverse on the back side), instrasia, socks, shawls, hoods, mits, gloves, sweaters... There have been a few patterns. Some I have learned to modify, not all have been a success, but it has been fun!