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What to stash this week: Soaking up summer yarn

Teresa of Sunny Day Fiber is channeling the excitement of a break from nine months of Portland rain into new yarn sets. This includes a mini skein set named Summer Love, made up of six colors that reminiscent of a summer beachy sunset. It’s available on both fingering and DK. For sock knitters, there are two summer sock sets: the Sunset Beach and the Ice Pops sock set, which conjure memories of eating popsicles on the beach….

What to stash this week: Peak color

This month for the Knitting Our National Parks series, we’re returning to Rainier — or Tahoma as it’s known by the Northwest Native Americans — with a new colorway from Wendee of Hazel Knits. Wendee’s studio is in Seattle, roughly 80 miles from the park, and she has spent many a camping trip there. Her Mountain Meadow colorway captures the beauty of the colorful wildflowers that flood the park each summer. It is available to preorder on two of Wendee’s custom-milled bases: Blueprint Sock, …

5 things to knit right now + 5 things to stash

We’re in a strange in-between season when it comes to knitting — we want to prepare for all the fall things, but we don’t necessarily want a thick pile o’ wool in our laps. So, this week, I decided to share some projects that take very little time to complete, but that don’t have to be set aside until October to wear (or, let’s be honest, December, with the way our weather tends to go). …

What to stash this week: Prepare, in advance, for spooky season

Courtney of Silly Goose Yarns has opened preorders for her upcoming Halloween box, inspired by the movie Coraline. This spooky stop-motion animated film is based on Neil Gaiman’s novella about a girl exploring a parallel world accessed by a door in her apartment. This box will include 13 mini skeins in a fade inspired by the colors of the movie, along with stitch markers and needle stoppers by Vic’s Knits,…

What to stash this week: Behind the skeins

The latest episode on the Megs & Co YouTube channel dives into the dye pans and shows the process of Meg creating a custom colorway for LYS Day this April. Of course, a limited amount of these lab batches are available to purchase.

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios are celebrating Women’s History Month with their Girl Power Super Power Mystery Box, now available to preorder….

What to stash this week: Slipped stitches that slap

Designer Ashleigh Wempe’s first-ever published book, Mosaic Knitting Workshop, is a comprehensive guide to this colorful technique. It ships on June 6 and is available to preorder now.

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios have been binging Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix and have three brand new colorways inspired by the show.

Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers is ready for spring with a collection that includes an Easter-inspired Here Comes Peter Cottontail set. …

What to stash this week: Journey to warmth

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios are ready for spring even though there’s still snow on the ground in some places (granted, they are in Florida). This includes their Many Minis of Spring set of pastel-y semisolids with their signature tone-on-tone speckles.

Last May, attendees of Maryland Sheep & Wool had the opportunity to attend an indie pop-up organized by Mary, the dyer behind 29 Bridges Studio and Valerie of Knitting Fairy Godmother….

What to stash this week: Join the club

Stephanie of SpaceCadet has opened sign-ups for the next season of the SpaceMonster Club and wants you to come along on the journey. You can sign up for six months (three parcels) or 12 months (six parcels) and receive one to three skeins and a special gift from a fellow maker.

Olive & Two Ewe Studios’ newest shop addition is Horse & Buggy, a lightly-speckled lavender that was first introduced in their 2022 Twelve Days of Christmas calendar….

What to stash this week to stay warm

Lanivendole’s Aestiva wool/linen yarn is pictured here in Florence Spurling’s Winslow Tee. This pattern would require 1-3 skeins of Color 1 and 1-2 skeins of the other three colors (I used Moka, Baltico, Persefone and Tabacco). There are nine currently in stock to choose from. And, if you want a little more wool for some warmth, you can see the Baltico color pairs perfectly with the Harris Sling bag in teal. …

What to stash this week: A mountain of love

For her installment of Knitting Our National Parks, Jensen of Sugarplum Circus chose a gorgeous image of Mount Rainier by photographer Doug Shearer of the mountain surrounded by scarlet and lilac wildflowers on a misty morning — very Valentine’s Day. Since she couldn’t decide on just one color to spotlight, she dyed up four different colors: Mountain Blush, Alpine Aster, Moody Mist and Scarlet Paintbrush. All are available to preorder individually on full skeins of Sugarplum Sock,…