If you were drooling all over your keyboard, phone or iPad while looking at the photos of the French Market Fibers available at the Knot House indie pop-up earlier this month, then you’d better wipe them off and make sure they work: Margaret is having ...
I know a lot of knitters — a lot — who are obsessed with purple. I think purple people are kind of in their own category — I mean, what other colors have entire stores dedicated to it? On a related note, I don’t recommend ...
Caroline of Life in the Longgrass, or LITL for short, dyes her lovely variegated colorways in the County Cork countryside. The name is inspired by the lives of the creatures that provide us with wool. Her 2015 Summer Yarn Club is now ...
If you’re not headed to yarn heaven at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (and if you are, there’s an IU meetup on Saturday — 1:30 p.m. in the Lower Corral) or going to the Knot House indie pop-up, there’s plenty of non-festival stashing opportunities ...
Yes, there are still a few more episodes of Outlander left, but Bijou Basin Ranch’s series of Outlander-inspired project kits just had its finale. And this one’s for sweater knitters: the Celtic Forest Pullover by Therese Chynoweth is a top-down sweater with a ...
Toby Roxane Barna popped up on my radar a few years ago, when the first of her London Underground-themed shawls came out. I’m sure you’ll also be smitten with Toby’s latest design, the Odalie shawl, pictured above, which is inspired by the 1920s flapper era....
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Charleston Surf a new shawl design from Knit Eco Chic, has a touching backstory: Lindsay designed it for her adopted grandmother, Meme. They met when Lindsay was 16 and they were both in the hospital undergoing treatment for a chronic illness....
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The latest cowl design from Laura of Fiber Dreams is a journey to Margaret Street in London, where All Saints Church is filled with ogees, arches, and other architectural details that inspired the pattern. It’s knit in the round with fingering-weight yarn and the pattern ...
Indie Untangled newcomer Nancy Whitman is giving us quite the welcome gift: 25% off all her patterns through March 23 with the code MM2015 on Ravelry. Nancy’s accessory designs include Bocce, above, which reinterprets a weaving pattern, with slip stitches for the ...
Designer Lara Smoot has had some really fun Game of Thrones-inspired collaborations with Tennessee-based indie dyer Babs Ausherman, better known as Miss Babs. Lara’s latest designs are inspired by none other than Babs herself, whose “likeableness and charm come out in the beautiful yarns that ...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about marking my grandma’s 90th birthday with some crafty gifts. My mom was also the recipient of a handknit, a hooded scarf that she requested last year, and that she luckily gave me until January to ...
The knitters I know do so many amazing things when they’re not creating garments out of sticks and string. My friends include lawyers, editors, techies, teachers and at least one neuroscientist. Carrie Sundra of Alpenglow Yarn had a career designing and building electronics, until about ...
