New spring colors in the shop!
Robyn’s Egg, St. Patrick’s Day, and some Rainbow mini and mega mini skein sets!
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New spring colors in the shop!
Robyn’s Egg, St. Patrick’s Day, and some Rainbow mini and mega mini skein sets!
Spring time, when the earth comes alive with flowers, singing birds and the shops start to carry PEEPS! I couldn’t resist creating a sock in tribute to one of my all time favorite treats.
Simple stranded colorwork bunnies with beaded eyes and noses, and chicks with beaded eyes and bobble noses surround the leg in a calorie free celebration.
Peep Show is introductory priced at $3.50 until March 15th. Yarn only kits will be available from Undead Yarn on Etsy beginning March 2.
One Hand in the Dyepot Yarns has added four new, unique colourways to the Etsy shop. Pictured here is Impressionist: a moody, speckled colourway featuring every color of the rainbow. To see more images of this beautiful skein as well as other one-off colourways, visit our shop!
Look what came swimming out of the studio! Schools of brightly colored fish stitch markers, progress keepers or a combination to help you with your fibery projects or just to enjoy!
Each artisan glass fish has it’s own personality! Get yours today so you can start out the spring season swimmingly!
Also newly released are shamrocks with a pot o’gold and decorated easter eggs! You can find these and many more styles on the new website!
The shop is stocked with a spring inspired collection.
This update also debuts a new base:
The Mercedes base is 80% Superwash BFL, 20% Nylon, 2-ply 400 yards/100g
Thank you for checking us out!
My husband and I have been talking and dreaming about opening a little dye shop since last summer. We finally did! We are on etsy as BigFootFibers. I am so pleased to be doing something like this with him after 23 years! It is a dream come true!
We’ll be having a shop update today at 4 p.m. Central.
I love variegated yarn, but it is often difficult to find patterns that really highlight the beauty of these complex combinations. When I developed this particular combination of slipped and lifted stitches it was for a hat worked in solid colors. But as I was knitting it I was thinking “I bet this would work awesome in variegated yarn”. After the hat was completed I asked Lindsay at The Fiber Seed if she had some crazy variegated yarn that I could swatch with and she generously humored me. The swatch came out even better than I had imagined.
The slipped stitches pull the color across the face of the fabric and each stitch pops out in a different burst of color. When striped with a complementary color it truly sings. And the yarn was so perfectly suited for socks that I just had to design a pair. Which honestly, I hadn’t before. I mean I had knit socks but just had never had the urge to design a pair. Until now. Starting toe up you work the in the contrast color and then bring in your variegated yarn. Striping proceeds with the pattern on top and a stockinette sole until you place waste yarn for an afterthought heel.
Then the pattern extends around the leg to mosey on up to contrast ribbing. You pick up around your waste yarn and knit your heel in the contrast color to balance everything out. Then, like all socks, you do it all again, LOL! I am guessing that many of the fans of Indie Untangled might have a few brightly colored skeins of sock yarn tucked away that would be perfect for this pattern. I can’t wait to see them!
Has anyone ever told you you’re crazy? Not just in general, but when it comes to your “unhealthy” obsession with yarn? Well, we as crafters are far from ordinary, and I say, “Embrace your crazy!”
I’m thrilled to announce the grand opening of Asylum Fibers. At 10pm EST on Friday, February 24th, I hope you can join me to celebrate, either by shopping or through the sorcery known as Facebook Live.
Asylum Fibers offers small batch, hand dyed yarns, with an emphasis on what I call “Chaos Colorways.” These non-repeatable batches will be included in every store update. I will also be offering regular colorways, including Bad Bad Girl, Holy Exorcism, Hydrotherapy, Metrazol, Moody, Redrum, The Shower Scene, and Voices. You get the idea, right?
Everything in the shop will be at least 25% off for the first month because I’m just so dang jolly about this whole thing.
xoxo Stephanie
Hi! I’m Sarah Hand, the indie dyer behind One Hand in the Dyepot Yarns. I’ve recently set up my shop and wanted to share my dye philosophy with you all. I have a Master of Science degree and I take a very analytical approach to dyeing. In my colour experiments, I keep track of time and temperature, pH and dye dilutions in my very detailed lab book. This attention to detail allows a level of precision and control with my hand-dyes, and encourages my creative side to test out interesting colour combinations and designs. I believe that yarn dyeing – like most crafty pursuits – requires us to engage both our left and right brains, and that striking a balance can produce inspiring results.
There’s a sexy new sock pattern on the market and if you are a lover of socks and hand dyed yarns, you’ll definitely want it!
Introducing, the Ripple Socks pattern. This wavy eyelet sock pattern is one of the few out there that is written with the knitter in mind. Independent written instructions are included for knitters who knit their socks with DPNs, for knitters who like to work with independent circulars and knitters who prefer to waste no time on second sock syndrome and knit their socks two at a time. This pattern features top-down construction with an afterthought heel and a wedge toe. Because of the unique stitch pattern, the added benefit is that both the leg and the foot are stretchy! You don’t often find a lacy sock pattern that conforms perfectly to the curves and uniqueness of your foot and leg.
And did I mention that this pattern holds its own against the randomness of hand dyed yarns? This special pattern will not be swallowed up by even the craziest of dye patterns. And if you aren’t into wildly hand painted yarns, this pattern is also gorgeous in solids and semi-solids, too. (Shown here, the Ripple Socks are knit in Cedar Hill Farm Company’s “Ellis Island” on the Journey base.)
This pattern is available on Ravelry, Craftsy, and at CedarHillYarns.com.
