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 ...
Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers is embracing the summer to fall transition with her Spooky Girl Summer yarn box. Preorder now, and in August, when you’re totally ready for Halloween, you’ll receive the following:
• A sock set with two 100g skeins of 75/25 Superwash Merino/nylon yarn (one main and one contrasting ...
Tickets to the 11th annual Indie Untangled Rhinebeck kickoff go on sale tomorrow, June 15, at 12 p.m. Eastern Time. You can sign up for our email list to get a reminder with all the info you need to know beforehand.
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We will be welcoming more than 40 vendors to the 11th annual Indie Untangled Rhinebeck kickoff, taking place Friday, October 18 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at HITS on the Hudson in Saugerties, NY. The vendor list is now up on the event page and includes both new businesses and familiar favorites: ...
Trisha of Yarn Jam has fully stocked her store with new supplies for fiber lovers of all kinds. There are seasonally-appropriate yarns, like silk/linen and bamboo fingering. She also now has U.S.-grown Merino/Rambouillet combed top for your spinning needs, and it pairs perfectly with her Natural Sport and Natural DK yarn ...
Melissa of Storyteller Stitchery is putting together an Adventures in Wonderland-inspired Advent Calendar that blends the joy of fiber arts with delightful self-care treats. Choose from a yarn option, a fiber option or a yarn and fiber option. Each includes 12 days of mini skeins and/or 1 oz. fiber braids,...
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Marny Kindness, a Rhode Island-based knitting instructor and knitwear designer, is weaving some yarn through her first trip through the newly-launched Explore Knitting Tours. Join Marny and tour guide Lynn Ruggieri for a nine-day tour of Italy, including the ancient city of Perugia — where Lynn is from ...
This year marked the third annual h+h americas trade show and it was the busiest and buzziest yet.
For those of you who aren’t familiar, h+h is a wholesale show for the craft industry: yarn crafts like knitting, crochet and embroidery (more on the latter as a “yarn ...
