Starlight Knitting Society is having trouble keeping red yarn in stock.
“Every other person that walks in the door is like, ‘Hey, I have this pattern. I’m looking for red yarn,’” said Melissa Nelson, inside the cozy yarn shop she owns in Southeast Portland.
That pattern is a relatively simple knit cap with a tassel called “Melt the ICE Hat,” created in January by Paul Neary, an employee of a yarn shop called Needle & Skein in Minneapolis…