I’m thrilled to debut Lanivendole’s colorway celebrating Indie Untangled’s 10th anniversary. Fiori di Lana will be dyed on two of Lanivendole’s special bases: A Chic Blend, a fingering-weight base comprised of 60% Abruzzese wool, 20% mohair and 20% alpaca, and A Stormy Blend DK, made up of 70% Abruzzese ...
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....
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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,...
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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....
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,...
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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 ...
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 ...
This November, Rhode Island-based knitting instructor and knitwear designer Marny Kindness is organizing a three-day knitting retreat in spooky Salem, Massachusetts, through her newly-launched company, Explore Knitting Tours.
The group will visit historical and cultural attractions, including the Salem Witch Museum and Peabody Essex Art Museum....
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Before I launched Indie Untangled, I learned of Eden Cottage Yarns through a swap in the Yarn Hoars group on Ravelry. My Alaska-based swap partner listed it as a yarn she’d always wanted to try, so I happily browsed their website and grabbed a skein of bright purple laceweight and ...
As many of us spend a holiday weekend enjoying the great outdoors, it seemed appropriate to launch the next installment of the Indie Untangled Knitting Our National Parks series. This one takes us a bit further afield. Faery of Apothafaery Luxury Fibers was inspired by the stunning landscapes of the ...
For the August installment of the Heritage Wool Collective yarn subscription, Isabel and Nick of the Great Ocean Road Woolen Mill are milling up their La Bella Fingering, a blend of Australian Merino and dark alpaca, which gives the yarn a soft gray tint that will provide a complex undertone ...