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Upcycling Your Yarn Scraps: 13 Creative Ideas

I don’t know about you, but regardless of how much I pay for a skein of yarn, I will always save the yarn scraps. This is because you never know when those yarn scraps might come in handy for fixing a handmade piece or for a future project.

Making projects specifically out of scraps of yarn is always so much fun since you end up with a unique piece that is basically a kaleidoscope of yarn….

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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: PostStitch

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of the 2018 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.

We knitters have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to sources for indie yarn. If you’re up for surprises,...

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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Carol Feller

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of the 2018 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.

I have long been a fan of Carol Feller‘s designs. Her Akoya and Carpino patterns have ...

The latest in the Bijou Basin Ranch Indie Dyer Series

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of the 2018 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.

Bijou Basin Ranch is known for producing yak, Cashmere, Paco Vicuna and Qiviut blends from a small ranch just outside of Elbert,...

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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: The Yarnover Truck

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of the 2018 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.

There’s a meme I’ve seen floating around social media about how great it would be to have a truck that would drive around your neighborhood ringing a ...

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Nomadic Knits

This is the third in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of the 2018 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.

You may know designer Melissa Kemmerer by her adorable sheep-y sweaters. You may not know that she and former yarn shop owner Becky Beagell ...

What to stash this week: the last of Automne

The remaining skeins of La Bien Aimée’s popular colorway from last year’s Indie Untangled, the speckled Automne à Rhinebeck, are available for sale in her squishy Merino DK — which will be perfect for your Indie Untangled sweater. 

And speaking of exclusives,...

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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Jennifer Tepper Heverly of Spirit Trail Fiberworks

This is the first in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of the 2018 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.

Since I started attending the New York Sheep & Wool Festival in 2011, I’ve known of Spirit Trail Fiberworks,...

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What to stash: get ready for Automne

If you want some Automne á Rhinebeck to knit your Rhinebeck sweater, there’s a wee bit of the Merino DK left in stock. Use it for Camille Rosselle’s Melli, or you can copy me and make a slightly less boxy version using Amy ...

What to do with yarn scraps

After knitting for 12 years, my stash of scrap yarn has started to rival my actual stash, though it’s admittedly a lot more compact. While I do save significant amounts of leftover yarn in Ziplock bags for use in other projects, to bring to classes or in case ...

What to stash this week: All about that (yarn) base

Kara and Katie, the team behind Connecticut-based Nice & Knit, have just added a new sock base to their lineup. They had pretty high standards, considering the weight, softness, twist, ply, and how the finished knitted garment looks and feels against the skin. With 75% Superwash Merino and ...

Untangling SweaterFreak Knits

While I tend to discover most designers and patterns on Ravelry, I actually learned about Jenny of SweaterFreak Knits via Instagram. I was drawn to her modern, clean aesthetic and the use of subtle speckles in many of her shawls.

Despite her name,...

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Untangling: Wool and Wine

As evidenced by the popularity of the Knitting & Gin pin, knitters like their adult beverages. Massachusetts resident John Martin took the idea a step further with his new book, Wool and Wine (affiliate link). John, who developed an appreciation of yarn and knitting from ...

What to stash this week: vacation skeins

Last weekend, I attended the Mohonk Mountain House Knitting Weeking, and organizer Paula of White Barn Farm was nice enough to invite me to be a vendor at the retreat marketplace. I contacted Christine of Skeinny Dipping and asked her to create a Mohonk-inspired colorway. The remaining skeins ...

What to stash this week: updates and an open studio

Jennifer of Spirit Trail Fiberworks recently had a shop update with her Luna non-shrink wool as well as Birte, her Superwash Merino/Cashmere/silk DK. There are plenty of semisolids and speckles, as well as “lucky pot” one-of-a-kind colors like the one pictured above. Jennifer has also ...

What to stash this week if you’re not in Scotland

The result of designer Casapinka’s recent VKL NYC shopping spree at the Fuse Fiber Studio booth is Your Slip Is Showing, a gorgeous shawl that makes a bold statement using a simple slipped stitch technique. It calls for four colors of fingering weight yarn — ...