Amy of Canon Hand Dyes started dyeing up literary- and pop culture-inspired, self-striping skeins in the kitchen of her home in the San Francisco Bay Area three years ago. Her recent releases — including colorways based on Babar, Downton Abbey and ...
Hands down, one of the best things about Ravelry is meeting some talented, smart and interesting people. I’ve learned that knitters are also extremely generous, whether they’re slipping some of their leftover yarn in the mail for free so you can finish that shawl or sweater, or sending delicious treats ...
Thanks to all of you who participated in the Lakes Yarn and Fiber giveaway. The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of cabinfour’s He’e Nalu pattern and two skeins of Single Fingering is Sue:
It’s so hard to pick just ...
No, that’s not a typo. I did mean to write winners with an S.
Cass is the first winner of the Astral Bath Yarns giveaway. She had a little trouble picking one movie:
I do love Indiana Jones and his whip 😉 but I’ll have to say Star ...
I was already a fan of the A Playful Day podcast and blog when Kate launched the Love Our Indies campaign last month. The first post from Victoria of Eden Cottage Yarns — responding to a collaboration between a UK women’s group and an arts ...
I’ve been trying to find the best words to describe the open house that Ridgely, the artist behind Astral Bath Yarns, hosted this past Saturday in her Portland, Maine, studio. I think it could most accurately be described as one of her frenzied Etsy updates ...
I’m pretty excited to introduce you to the newest Indie Untangled vendor, which is none other than… Indie Untangled!
If you were around when this site launched in April, then you might have participated in the first giveaway of the special bags ...
I’ve been a fan of ABC’s Suburgatory since it debuted in 2011. The sitcom is about a single dad (played by Jeremy Sisto — you may remember him as Elton in Clueless) who’s raised his teenage daughter Tessa in Manhattan, but decides to move them to the suburbs to get ...
In order to get some different perspectives on hand-dyed yarn, I will periodically run posts by other knitters. Yelena Malcolm Dasher, AKA ymalcolm on Ravelry, is incredibly talented and lightning fast, and she can probably finish more sweaters in a year than I could hope ...
