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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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What to stash this week: A (free) shawl and a sweater

I always say, there’s no such thing as too many shawls or too many sweaters:

Jetty is a simple and stunning crescent-shaped shawl designed by Linda of Kettle Yarn Co. for her Islington DK, a blend of 55% percent Superwash British Bluefaced Leicester and 45% silk....

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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Carl and Eileen Koop of Bijou Basin Ranch

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,...

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What to stash this week: A sweater, 50% off socks, & Single Sheep

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 ...

What to stash this week: This is fall

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....

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Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Amy Herzog of CustomFit

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 ...

What to stash — or knit — this week

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 ...

Some true armchair travel

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 ...

What to stash this week: World (OK, UK/European) yarn crawl

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 ...

An indie yarny journey

One of my longtime dreams is to take a cross-country road trip. In my fantasy, I would knit while my husband drives (which, um, is probably one of the reasons we haven’t done it) and visit an indie dyer at every stop. I’d blog about it,...

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What to stash this week: Hot, hot, hot

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 ...

Storing your yarn stash

If you find yourself clicking the Add to Cart button on Etsy or a dyer’s online shop more frequently than you can churn out FOs, you may have a problem.

No, not that kind of problem — there is definitely no stash shaming on Indie Untangled....

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What to stash this week: Natural look

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 ...

Untangling: Buttonalia

Just glancing at her beautifully glazed ceramic buttons, it’s not surprising to learn that Buttonalia’s Sharry Madden has a background as a sculptor. A New Zealand native now living in the U.K., Sharry starting off making large bowls used as washbasins, moving on to create hollow,...

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What to stash this week: Indie discoveries

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 ...

Starting off on the ‘Road to Rhinebeck’

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 ...