Teresa of Sunny Day Fiber is marking the holiday with some new colors. There are two mini sets: the Lipstick set has cranberry, magenta, sugarcoated, cinnamon, cayenne and plum, and is modeled on the classic makeup counter. There’s also a Spicy color set with carrot, melon, paprika, soft peach, mist ...
For her installment of Knitting Our National Parks, Jensen of Sugarplum Circus chose a gorgeous image of Mount Rainier by photographer Doug Shearer of the mountain surrounded by scarlet and lilac wildflowers on a misty morning — very Valentine’s Day. Since she couldn’t decide on just one color to spotlight, ...
Mary Annarella’s latest mystery knit-along, Who Ya Gonna Shawl?, is an homage to Ghostbusters. Like Mary’s other popular movie MKALs, the pattern for the “festival of knit stitches shawl/wrap” will feature tons of movie references. The first of six clues drops on February 24. This project takes four skeins ...
Sizing is a challenge for sock knitters, especially when you’re knitting socks for someone else. Even if they’re conveniently around, you don’t necessarily want them constantly trying on the WIP. Dawn of Twice Sheared Sheep has a new Sock Sizing Ruler. To use it, you place the ruler ...
I recently added yarns from Australia’s Great Ocean Road Woolen Mill, a sustainable, boutique operation, to the site. La Bella fingering is an 80/20 blend of Superfine Merino and natural white alpaca that is incredibly soft, with not a trace of prickle factor. You can use it to knit ...
It’s time for Valentine’s yarn! Liz of Knitting Lizard Fibers has Valentine’s sock sets available for preorder. The sets, on a choice of two bases, will come with one full skein and two minis in a mixture of variegated, speckled and semisolid colorways. Preorders are open ...
I don’t normally do repeats of Knitting Our National Parks colorways, since it involves a special order and it can be tricky to get the timing right. However, Wild Tarnish, the Pacific Crest Trail-inspired colorway from Chelsea of The Enchanted Kettle, was so popular when it was released back ...
After putting together a couple of surprise boxes this year, Dawn from Twice Sheared Sheep is going to do a whole Surprise Box Club next year! The club consists of three boxes that will be shipped in March, June and September. The seasonally-appropriate themes are A Flutter Of Wings, ...
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Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers takes the subscribers of her A Woolen Yarn Box on a journey. This monthly subscription box is themed around places. Each month, you will receive your choice of a 100g skein or a sock set, two handcrafted polymer clay progress keepers and stitch markers from SamsTinyTrinkets ...
December’s Knitting Our National Parks colorway celebrates our feathered friends. Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers was inspired by a photo of a white-faced ibis with incredible purple, crimson, teal and gold feathers, captured by photographer Leslie Scopes Anderson at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah. As the young folks say,...
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