VBYC, YOUR Local Yarn Shop: The Fiber Arts Trendsetter in Acadiana!

21oo Verot School Road, Suite 8 Lafayette, LA 337-216-4564
To send email, write to: vermilionbayyarnco at Yahoo

M: noon-6pm; T: 10am-8pm; W: 10am-6pm; Th: 10am-8pm; F: 10am-6pm; S: 10am-4pm; Sun: Closed

Classes


Beginning Knitting and Crochet: Beginning classes for knitting and crochet are scheduled one-on-one at your convenience during business hours. You may schedule lessons just for yourself, or for yourself and a few other friends. In beginning knitting, you will learn your stitches while you create a beautiful chunky yarn scarf. At the end of your mastery period, you'll have a fabulous accent you can actually use!

Classes a la carte: If you weren't able to attend a specific class, or you missed out entirely on one, here's your chance! Simply schedule the class topic of your choice at the time that's convenient for you.

How Much Do Classes Cost? At Vermilion Bay Yarn, we're all about getting you moving on your fiber projects and getting you going with new techniques. All classes (including beginning knitting and crochet) at VBYC are $20 plus materials. You do not pay each time you come in to continue the same class.

What's Available At Vermilion Bay

The Vermilion Bay Yarn Company is your local source for the fine yarns of Rowan, Classic Elite, South West Trading, Cascade, Plymouth, Schaefer, Malabrigo, Muench, GGH, Brown Sheep, Lana Grossa, Tilli Tomas, Universal, and many others! We offer high quality needles and hooks from Addi, Chiaogoo, Hiya-Hiya, and Brittany. Vermilion Bay Yarn (YOUR local yarn shop) is YOUR one stop for all your knitting and crochet notion needs: counters, holders, markers, darning eggs, tapestry needles, etc.

Knit Cafe: The Evening Fiber Art Group meets on Tuesdays from 6pm-8pm at the shop. Bring your project(s) and sit for as long as you like. Food, coffee, and soft drinks are always provided, and everyone is encouraged to add to the buffet.

Need something repaired? Favorite sweater with moth holes? Heirloom lace with a snag? Bring it in for an estimate.

Don't have time to knit or crochet it? The Vermilion Bay Yarn Company is your only local custom fiber art source! Please visit the shop for an estimate.

Knitting Parties at VBYC: Gather together 10 of your friends or colleagues and set a date/time for a knitting party at Vermilion Bay Yarn! Beginners and seasoned knitters can participate in the same party! Folks who've never knitted before will learn how and the experienced knitters work their own fun project! Contact the shop for details!

Our Return Policy

Now and then we purchase a bit too much, or decide that a different yarn might be better for a project than the one we selected. Here's how VBYC accomodates merchandise returns. This policy is also clearly displayed in the shop by the register. Thank you for your business!

Merchandise purchased at The Vermilion Bay Yarn Company may be exchanged/returned for shop credit only. No cash refunds. No exhanges/returns on special orders. Gift Certificates may not be redeemed for cash. Yarn presented for exchange must be odor-free and in new condition with the yarn band intact. Yarns wound into skeins are not accepted for exchange.

Knitting Rescue and Project Help

We are most willing to assist YOU, our customers, with quick help or to fix minor blemishes in your fiber work at no charge. As I see it, that's all part of what YOUR local yarn shop is about, especially if your project originated from VBYC. If you find yourself in need of frequent coaching on a particularly challenging project, or if you require detailed assistance with a project obtained elsewhere, we encourage you to make that project into a class ($20 fee applies) for the duration of your work.

09 September 2010

It begins to tell....'round midnight....

And so begins the Thelonious Monk jazz classic. If you haven't heard Ella Fitzgerald sing it, you haven't had your soul melt, and you haven't experienced a jazzy musical winter. Pour a martini, sit back and take a listen. Smooth like Grey Goose and two olives. Jazz. Autumntime signals nature's winding down for winter sleep. What once was lush, green, starts to thin, fade. Soon, skeletal stalks and bare branches alone remain as nature slumbers. When Ella finishes those languid runs, our musical pulse is suspended until the voice comes to rest, the piano stills, and we're left gazing out into the distance. It's mystic, this gladsome sadness! Stacy Charles champions these aromatic autumn and blustery winter moods in the collection of the same name as the Monk standard: Round Midnight. When I first heard the title of the story, my first thought was New Year's Eve Party: a line of glitzy fabulousness intended for a sparkly, festive bash of sequins, diamonds, glitter, cocktails, counting backwards from 10, Moet 5 Star, slurred regrets, broken resolutions, running masquera, lampshade hats at dawn, and bleary-eyed Mimosas in the Quarter (it's a sin to waste half a bottle of Moet). However when I opened the book, what I saw wasn't this at all. Photographed on a backdrop of leafless trees, fallen and dry foliage, the collection is much more Ella's Midnight, than the other one of clanging cathedral bells on Jackson Square. The song, if you don't know it, is lonely, but not depressed. Love is gone, yet expected to return -- like the leaves in spring. The Charles designs inject color into a drab landscape. They catch your eye and, with their jazzy magic, keep you engaged. The Stacy Charles Round Midnight Collection. "Let our hearts take wings 'round midnight...Till our love is safe and sound. And old Midnight comes around."

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