SOCKTOBER! Coming Soon!

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Upcoming Events


Our Doodles KAL begins Saturday, October 25, from 11am-1pm!

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    KAL Doodles

    Dates: Saturdays 11am - 1pm 
    October 25 (*Bring a pencil & yarn), N    ovember 8, and November 22

    We’ll be using either the Doodle Decks or the Doodle Knit Directory by Jamie Lomax to design colorwork projects. Jamie has created a system that allows you to use her pieces to become a budding colorwork designer. Base patterns for socks, hat, cowl, mitts, or cup cozies are available in the shop and on Ravelry. Choose your base and choose a Doodle Deck or the Doodle Directory. We’ll help you put together your pattern.

    There are multiple preferences on how to do colorwork, so this KAL will be a group effort. We’ll be hearing from multiple people on what their preferred method is. This will give you options to discover what works best for you!

    First class, bring a pencil and have yarn and pattern chosen. If you’d like help picking colors, stop by the shop (and btw, more minis are on the way!)

    If you haven’t already, please join our Facebook Group Wild Knits KALs . 

    KNIT IN ONE WITH MARIE GREENE

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    Come celebrate with us!

    We’re so excited to celebrate with Marie Greene (Salem Local!🎉) on her 5th book, Knit in One, 30 Clever Projects Using One Skein or Less! Order your book here and join us Thursday, October 23, 2:00PM to have it signed.

    Patterns in this book are organized by yarn weight and include options for fingering weight, sport weight, and even DK and worsted weight yarns, which are often overlooked for single skein projects. As always, Marie packs this book with smart tips about how to avoid running out of yarn before the pattern ends, yarn substitutions, and more valuable resources for creating classic pieces with modern features. These small-scale designs come together ultra-fast and are perfect for a weekend project or a last-minute gift. Whip out your needles and see how far one skein can go!

    Coming Soon: SOCKTOBER!

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    It’s time for our annual sock contest!

    Let your socks get the love and appreciation they deserve! Bring one sock to the shop with your name, phone, email, & pattern name attached inside.

    Entries will be accepted thru Saturday, October 25th. 

    HAPPY SOCKTOBER!

    BEGINNING CROCHET: CROCHET BASICS FOR CIRCULAR PROJECTS

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    Learn how to start projects like stuffed animals and baskets with a magic ring. Learn to single crochet and make increases and decreases to shape projects. Become familiar with crochet abbreviations and patterns. Students make an amigurumi pumpkin, animal or basket as they practice their new skills.

    Date: September 6, 2025
    Time: 10:30 am -12:30 pm
    Class fee: $45 (Cash or check paid to instructor)
    Instructor: Carol May

    Supplies:
    Worsted weight yarn in a light color. (It is easier to see stitches in a light, solid color.)
    Crochet hook in size F or G (3.75, 4 mm)
    Or
    Amigurumi Kit

    TWOFOLD SWEATER KAL - AUGUST 23RD 2025

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    WHEN: We will meet Saturdays, 11am -1pm,
    August 23, September 6 & 20, and October 4

    An easy top-down, loose knit in bulky weight yarn OR two strands held together for a gauge of 10 stitches for 4” or 2.5 stitches for 1”

    Wild Knits’ Recommended Yarns are:

    Road to China Light + Lace Weight
    Techno + Lace Weight
    Jamieson Aran + Lace Weight
    Imperial Klamath
    Quince & Co Puffin
    Malabrigo Noventa
    Juniper Moon Beatrix
    Universal Bella Bounce
    (A few lace weight options are Alpaca Lace, Silk/Mohair & Suri Alpaca)
    *It may take multiple swatches to get gauge*

    Play & Have Fun!

    *This designer does not sell thru local yarn shops on Ravelry
    If possible, please purchase the pattern directly thru Ravelry


    KAL YUME BY ISABELL KRAEMER - MAY 31ST

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    Date: Starts Saturday May 31st 11am to 1pm and will continue once a month as follows: June 21st, July 19th, and August 23rd.

    Mark your calendars to cast on with us May 31st! Isabell’s patterns have a high success rate, which explains why she’s 3 for 3 with our KALs. Yume is a sport/dk pullover (22st/4”) and can be adapted for warm or cool weather.

    Throughout the Knit Along, you’re welcome to stop in with questions and/or post them on our Facebook Group (follow Wild Knits KALs ).

    If you’d like to learn, meet nice peeps, and have fun, here’s your chance!

    You can view and purchase the pattern on Ravelry here https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/yume
    Our suggested yarn list is:

    Cascade Anchor Bay
    Cascade Pandamonium
    Cascade MeriKash
    Hikoo Sueno and Sueno Tweed
    Berroco Lana’s Light
    Malabrigo Susurro
    Malabrigo Dos Tierras

    Please call or email the shop to register.



    GUEST SPEAKER DAVID ALTMAN - MAY 17TH 11AM - 1PM

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    In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re excited to welcome David Altman this Saturday at May’s Knit for Mental Fitness (OSH volunteer hat knitters). 

    David is a Professor at Willamette University and will discuss the relationship between fiber arts, knitting, crochet and mental health. This is such a worthy topic and one dear to our hearts. We hope you’ll join us! 

    (*Cost of admission = knit + donate a hat 😉).


    Oregon State Hospital Fundraiser 

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    Throughout 2025
    February 15, 11:00am -1:00pm - Volunteer Knit Time
    (Continues the 3rd Saturday of each month, same time) 

    We’re excited to share we’ve been invited to partner with the Oregon State Hospital in celebrating the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest! 

    If you’re familiar with it, you know Jack Nicholson wore a knit beanie for most of the movie. Wild Knits has been asked to donate handknit hats throughout the year, with proceeds benefiting the Oregon State Hospital Museum, as well as a nonprofit mental health charity (yet to be determined). 

    Su Fennern of the Salem Knitting Guild has adapted a 1941 Red Cross pattern found here Watch Cap Pattern

    We’re hoping to get future yarn donations, but for now stash is great. The only requirements are that the same pattern and worsted weight yarn must be used (unless you get gauge on a different weight). Color is your choice. Finished hats can be dropped off at Wild Knits. We still have a few details to fine-tune, but you’re welcome to start knitting and join us the 3rd Saturday of each month!

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    Weekly Ongoing Events


    Open Knit/Crochet Time

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    Dates: Wednesdays 11am - 1pm & Fridays 4pm - 6pm
    Cost: None

    Whether it’s knitting, crochet, or embroidery, you’re welcome to stop in during these times, make some progress on a project and get to know your Local Yarn Shop Community. This is a time set aside for what unites us, not what divides us. 

    ALL are welcome!