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….
This is the third in a series of interviews with the fabulous sponsors of the 2015 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.
As someone who has attended Rhinebeck for the last few years, I was familiar with Bijou Basin Ranch,...
...I’m loving this new sweater design by Lola Johnson of Third Vault Yarns. Swing Me Right Round can be worn with either side as the front and is meant to show off hand-dyed yarn in either fingering, sport or DK. A spreadsheet comes with the ...
It’s after Labor Day, so perfect timing for Never Enough Thyme’s beautiful new Halloween and autumn colorways. The Halloween hues are available in single skeins and in the popular heel/toe sock sets, which include a full-sized skein of sock yarn with a matching mini skein....
...This is the first in a series of interviews with the fabulous sponsors of the 2015 Rhinebeck Trunk Show.
Like most women, I don’t have an off-the-rack body. At 4’9”, with narrow shoulders and curves, I send most of my clothing to the tailor ...
The Pepperberry Cowl from Mitenae, a new designer and fellow Yarn Hoar on Ravelry who hails from the Western Australian city of Perth, uses 720 yards of fingering-weight yarn in three colors. It has a beautiful chevron pattern created with an intarsia technique (the pattern ...
Knitting patterns are inspired by various things, but so many designers seem to find inspiration in the world around them, whether it’s Janina Kalio‘s Scandinavian minimalism, or Laura Patterson of Fiber Dreams naming a cowl for a mountain range in her new ...
The latest addition to the World of Indie Untangled is Maria of the awesomely-named Suzy Parker Yarns, who dyes out of Hythe, a small coastal town in South East England (creating a nice little triangle with Ce of The Uncommon Thread and Linda of Kettle ...
Fall is on the way (seriously, wasn’t it just July Fourth?!), which means it’s your last chance to get ready with The Golden Skein’s third yarn club installment, which will ship out on Sept. 1. If you haven’t heard of TGS, it’s a really cool ...
Indie Untangled newcomer Barb of Spencer Hill specializes in naturally-dyed yarn, using materials such as indigo and logwood. Based in Corning, N.Y., Barb takes a “no two snowflakes” approach to dyeing, and revels in the variations between skeins. Since Barb is also an elementary school ...
One of the best discoveries on my recent trip to Italy (aside from the delicious tiella in my friend Carmen’s seaside town of Gaeta) was Valentina of SnailYarn, who dyes out of her home in Ariccia, in the Rome countryside. I discovered her while doing ...
Around this time last year, when I first started organizing the 2014 Rhinebeck Trunk Show, I got in touch with Maria of the Subway Knits podcast. I had just started getting into knitting podcasts, which I discovered were perfect to listen to when I wanted to work ...