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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, …

What to stash this week: Holiday preorders

It’s the last weekend to order your Colors of the Year new year countdown box! Aside from the yarn — 24 mini skeins and two full-sized skeins, plus a shawl pattern — there is an exciting custom-designed, non-yarn surprise in the works that will be exclusive to this box. I cannot wait to share it with you!

Dawn of Twice Sheared Sheep has opened preorders for her Advent calendarand it’s a daily gift of practical accessories,…

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: Summer with Yarn Santa

Jenna of Southern Skeins is celebrating Christmas in July by debuting her 2023 Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendars. This year, Jenna’s Advent is inspired by bright, shiny Christmas lights and ornaments. She’s offering a variety of options to fit every budget, with the standard calendar including 24 fingering or DK-weight mini skeins, a 100g skein to open Christmas Day, a knitting pattern, a knit-along with prizes, extra goodies and a reusable fabric calendar….

What to stash this week: Colorful yarn countdown

For this year’s Indie Untangled New Year countdown box, I decided to turn to the color trend-forecasting group PANTONE® for inspiration. Join 26 indie dyers for Colors of the Year, and count down to 2024 with yarn colorways inspired by every Pantone Color of the Year since 2000!

Your box will include:

• 24 fingering-weight mini skeins designed to flow together cohesively (each mini is 20g and has approximately 90 yards)
• Two full fingering-weight skeins designed to showcase the minis
• Five specially-created or selected gifts
• One shawl pattern to knit with your minis,…

What to stash this week: Pride and support

Teresa of Sunny Day Fiber is celebrating and supporting her LGBTQ+ family members and friends with a rainbow mini skein set. To her, these colors represent “showing up as your authentic and unique self each and every day,” and are a reminder of the importance of being an ally. To that end, Sunny Day Fiber will be donating 20% of their proceeds this month to The Trevor Project, which provides crisis support services to lesbian,…

What to stash this week: Summer yarn

Christine of Treasure Goddess Yarn has what just might be the perfect yarn for those summer projects. Her Bamboo Linen Treasures base is comprised of 70% bamboo and 30% linen provide a combination of drape and just enough structure for lightweight summer tops and shawls. It’s also one of the featured yarns for the Olive Knits 4 Day KAL, called Lemon Spritz. (Don’t worry, you don’t actually need to finish in four days!)

It’s officially summer,…

What to stash while you wait to buy Indie Untangled tickets

Val, a longtime friend and colleague of mine, recently joined our community and started crocheting again after learning as a child. With a background in art and a love for all things vintage, Val recently started creating craft-related art and has debuted her super fun Crochet Maid design. The Crochet Maid’s tail is modeled after granny squares in groovy ’70s hues and she’s available on T-shirts, tote bags, stickers, phone cases and even wall art….

What to stash this week: Scary beautiful yarn

Sirena of The Backcountry Knitter was inspired by a photo of a Portuguese man o’ war taken at the Gulf Islands National Seashore, in the “coastal backcountry” of Mississippi, for her installment of the Knitting Our National Parks Series, which is going into its sixth year! There are two “sting-free” colorways — the specked Hydrozoa and the semisolid Beach Shadow — as part of this collection and they are dyed on two bases, plus a sock set.

The yarn is available to …