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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Scented Stitches

This is the third in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. In-person tickets are available and selling fast! You can also register for the free online event here.

Scent is a powerful thing. I love wearing knitted items I’ve blocked in delicious-smelling wool wash….

What to stash this week: Knit after reading

Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers is combining reading and the holidays with her Knit & Nibble series. She’s offering two book boxes themed around the holidays. There’s the Holiday Cafe theme and the A Cozy Snowy Day Inside theme. Both boxes will include a paperback copy of Silent Knit, Deadly Knit by Peggy Earhart. They also come with a sock set (a 100g skein plus a 20g mini), a set of three SamsTinyTrinkets charms and a themed Trinket Dish,…

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Farm & Fiber Knits

This is the second in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. In-person tickets are available and selling fast! You can also register for the free online event here.

Farm & Fiber Knits, a digital and print exploration of local farms and natural fibers,…

What to stash this week: Welcome to Wool-ville

We’re entering fall Fiber Festival Season, which means that Lambtown is almost here! This fiber festival in Dixon, California, is celebrating its 38th year on October 5th and 6th. There will be plenty of fiber festival staples, including shearing and sheepdog herding demos, workshops and, of course, vendors — 75 of them bringing yarn and fiber, tools, handmade textiles, baskets, pottery, notions, skincare and more.

There will also be live judging of fleece,…

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Cesium Yarn

This is the first in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. Tickets are available and selling fast!

Cesium Yarn came to my attention a couple of years ago when they released a collection of hand-dyed yarn inspired by Pyrex. Former Indie Untangled event planner Petrina is a vintage Pyrex collector and I loved the theme….

What to stash this week: Empire state of yarn

Megs & Co’s latest yarn is pure New York. Empire Estate is comprised of non-Superwash Rambouillet wool sourced from Elly’s Acres Farms, a family-run sheep farm in Jamesville. It’s spun across the Hudson River at Battenkill Fibers and then dyed in nine New York-inspired colorways by Megan at her studio in Fairport. The 3-ply DK-weight yarn has impeccable stitch definition, perfect for cables and colorwork.

If you’re an Outlander fan,…

What to solve this week: Shawls & sleuthing

Are you the type of person who loves curling up with a good mystery? Can you usually figure out the perpetrator of the crime in the first few chapters of a book (or minutes, if it’s a TV show)? Then you may just have an assignment in Washington State this fall!

Cheryl of Row House, who puts together the incredibly fun Camp Knit-a-way retreat I attended last year, is also organizing a knitting- and crochet-filled murder mystery weekend in Kenmore,…

What to stash this week: Rainier wildflowers

We’re going back to Mount Rainier next week for Indie Untangled’s second retreat! Maribel of Rainier Roses was the perfect dyer to call on for the return to this majestic mountain for the August installment of the Knitting Our National Parks project.

Maribel was inspired by this fall landscape, captured by photographer Scott Malagold. She specializes in mini skeins and is dyeing five-skein Rainier-inspired sets on four different bases.

On fingering weight,…

What to stash this week: Floral decadence

Although running Indie Untangled is usually a solo operation, I do have the benefit of a wide network of friends/coworkers. I met and got to know Stephanie of Asylum Fibers before she started dyeing yarn, when she organized a knitting meetup in New York City. She’s multi-talented, with a beautiful singing voice and a degree in opera performance. She’s since moved to Connecticut, so I don’t get to see her as often, but cherish our memories as part of the NYC fiber community….

What to stash this week: Indie color sampler

Laura of Row One Yarn offers a way to sample colors from a variety of indie dyers with the Carnival of Color Club. It’s a unique monthly subscription that sends you 10 10-gram fingering-weight minis, all in the same base. You can use it to make scrappy projects or swatch for your next sweater.

If you order two kits per month, you’ll receive a different group of colorways in each kit and get free U.S….

Author: Lisa