Celebrate Woolly Weekend from September 25–28 with four days of yarn-filled fun – book launches, featured indie dyers, a local yarn crawl and in-store celebrations. Whether you’re heading to Knit City or exploring your local yarn shops, make it a full fibre weekend with us. Click on the links below to learn more about this wool-packed weekend!

• Baaad Anna’s Extended Store Hours
• Book Launch & Pop Up – Thursday, September 25th, with Anna Hunter and Iron Dog Books & West Coast Colour Pop Up
• Yarn Crawl – Friday, September 26th
• Woolly Weekend Sale – Friday to Sunday
• Feature Yarns – new yarns launching Thursday, September 25th

Baaad Anna’s Extended Store Hours

We’re keeping the doors open a little later this weekend, so you have time to swing by the store after a day at the marketplace, or between fibre classes. We’re only 2 blocks from the PNE!

• Thursday, September 25 – 11am – 9pm
• Friday, September 26 – 11am – 8pm
• Saturday, September 27 – 11am – 7pm
• Sunday, September 28 – 11am – 6pm

Yarn Crawl

Friday, September 26th, 11am–8PM (at Baaad Anna’s, other store hours may be different) Somewhere further down the road, shining in the distance, is Knit City. The Emerald City of fibre. You’ve heard about it for weeks, maybe months. But to get there properly, you’ll need to collect something along the way. At your first stop, a kind shopkeeper hands you a punch card. “Your traveller’s map,” they say with a smile. Every time you make a purchase, another little hole is punched, proof you’ve made the journey. In October, you’ll trade it in for your reward:

• SHOP ALL 4 STORES FOR A 30% COUPON
• SHOP 3 STORES FOR A 20% COUPON
• SHOP 2 STORES FOR A 15% COUPON

By the time you reach the Emerald City, you realize the truth: the road was just as good as the destination. And there’s no place like your local yarn store. Participating Shops

SHOP EARLY; ONLY 75 PUNCH CARDS AVAILABLE AT EACH STORE ON DAY OF! 

Woolly Weekend Sale

What’s a quest without a reward at the end of the day? During Woolly Weekend, treasures come in the form of skeins tucked into your project bag at a little less cost. September 26–28 (Friday–Sunday)

• Buy 2 skeins of the same base = 10% off
• Buy 3 skeins of the same base = 15% off
• Buy 4+ skeins of the same base = 20% off

This magic only applies to Featured Yarns (below), but each day brings its own surprise sale items as well – watch our social media for the announcement each day. And if you like a little mystery with your making, we’ll be giving away door prizes at random times all weekend long!

SHOP EARLY; WE ARE GIVING AWAY 50 OF OUR NEW BE BAAAD BAGS FOR THE FIRST 50 CUSTOMERS TO SPEND $50!  

Feature Yarns

Every good journey has treasures hidden along the way. Ours come in the form of skeins, hand-dyed and shimmering with the stories of their makers. Some of these dyers are brand new to our shelves, waiting to be discovered; others are familiar friends who always have a surprise tucked into their colourways. All are small, Canadian dyers who aren’t at Knit City, with beautiful in-store samples ready to show off their best features!

Feature #1 – Sea to Sky Designs (Surrey, BC)
Coastal inspiration spun into Sock and Worsted Mohair.

Feature #2 – Full Moon Fibres (Barrie, ON)
Solar Sock base.

Feature #3 – Les Laines Mailles à Part (Saint-Hubert QC) Nuage d’alpaga, a suri

laceweight, and two durable sock weights: Yak Sock, and BFL Steel Sock.

Feature #4 – Songbird Yarn & Fibres (Stratford, ON) Sock base & Love Bird duos, fraternal twins based on the male & female colourings of bird species!

Thursday, September 25th, 7–8 PM at Iron Dog Books

Join us at Iron Dog Books (register through their website) for an evening of words, wool, and community.

Baaad Anna’s will keep its lights on late that night, so you can wander in after the launch. With any $50 purchase, you’ll take home a free Baaad Anna’s project bag to hold your new adventures.

To make the night even more special, we’ll be hosting Lynne of West Coast Colour for a pop-up that evening from 6:00-9:30pm and she will be featuring Canadian wool and roving from her farm in Tappen, BC near Shuswap Lake! She will be bringing some yarns that have never been available in yarn store (only through her pop ups and online shop) so attendees will be able to explore her homegrown three-ply in white and deep brown, homegrown rovings milled in BC’s newest mill, and her most exquisite Shopshire base processed entirely on her farm!

Additionally we will be our selection of BC-based wools we regularly carry- including GN’R Alpaca, Disdero Ranch, and Shelterwood Farms, each with its own story spun into every strand.