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Huespun is ONE! I can’t share a slice of cake, but I can offer you a box of birthday goodies, including a full skein and two minis in SW fingering Merino, all inspired by the lovely purples, cream, and sage green in my naturally-dyed, garden-decorated cake.
Thanks to everyone who made this a great first year!
The Owl Be Knitting Sock Club is a monthly subscription for sock knitters. Every month, a new sock-knitting adventure arrives at your doorstep. It is thoughtfully curated for knitters who believe there’s no such thing as too many socks.
Inside each box, you’ll find:
🧶 An exclusive members-only hand-dyed fingering-weight sock yarn (this will vary from a single skein, mini skeins for scrappy socks, sock kits, etc.)
📜 A featured sock knitting pattern from a featured designer
✨ Stitch Markers
Whether you’re a longtime sock knitter or just falling in love with knitting socks, this club is designed to bring creativity, comfort, and excitement to your mailbox each month.
Preorders for the August box are open now for a limited time. This box will feature a pattern by the talented Deb of Knit On Designs.
Don’t miss your chance to snag this Wooly Owl exclusive before it flies away!
Closing date is July 15th 11:59pm PST.
Why You’ll Love It:
The Owl Be Knitting Socks Club isn’t just yarn in a kit.
It’s:
A monthly creative ritual
A chance to discover amazing designers
Exclusive colorways you can’t buy separately
A reason to finally cast on those socks
Cozy mail that’s worth looking forward to every month
Designed for Sock Knitters of All Levels:
Whether you’re knitting your very first heel or your 50th pair, each month’s kit is carefully curated to feel approachable, inspiring, and exciting to cast on.
🦉 Subscription Options & Important Dates
1st–15th of Each Month
The subscription window is open for new orders and renewals.
15th of Each Month
Subscription sales close. Any orders placed after the 15th will be included in the following month’s club.
Last Week of the Month
Club packages are lovingly dyed, packed, and shipped.
First Week of the Following Month
Subscribers receive their Happy Mail and can cast on their newest sock project!
Meet the Designers:
Every month, Owl Be Knitting Socks Club features a hardcopy pattern from a talented designer. My goal is to celebrate creativity, support designers, and bring knitters a truly special project experience each month.
Most people probably consider goldenrod a pesky weed, or maybe a pretty wildflower, depending on the situation. The eye-catching yellow flowers can begin blooming in July and carry on into late September in fields, yards and along roadsides. Goldenrod is one of my favorite natural dyes, partly because it’s so plentiful but also for the beautiful colors it produces. Flowers alone produce yellows and golds; adding the leaves gives greenish yellows.
I use goldenrod quite a bit, stocking up in late summer and early fall. Here’s a sampling of what goldenrod can do in the dye pot:
On Meadow Rustic Sport, left to right: Bright Goldenrod, Mossy Dawn, Mossy Dusk and Midnight Moss.
Then on Donegal Tweed DK: the soft yellow of Light Goldenrod on the left, and bold Goldenrod on the left.
Just look at those colors! Who knew such magic was hiding in those flowers. Now when you see goldenrod blooming, maybe it won’t seem so weedy after all but instead, a useful dye plant.
Use the link to visit the Flora Adora Fibers website for a closer look at glorious goldenrod gold (and green) yarns.
Inspired by the graceful movement of prairie grasses swaying in the breeze, the Driftline Cowl features an elegant flowing colorwork motif that creates beautiful movement with every round. Knit in the round as a tube, you can finish it as a classic infinity cowl or add a half twist before grafting for the always fun Möbius version.
Whether you’re looking for your next relaxing colorwork project or a beautiful accessory to carry you through these next months of summer, Driftline is designed to become a favorite. The rhythmic motif keeps every round engaging, while the finished cowl is soft, cozy, and endlessly wearable.
✨ Enjoy 20% off the pattern with code INDIEDRIFT through July 7th (Tuesday) on Ravelry or my Website.
OR
✨ Purchase a Driftline Yarn Set and receive the Driftline Cowl pattern FREE plus more!
Each Yarn Set includes:
• 1 skein of each colorway
• Download code for Driftline Cowl Pattern (download code for Ravelry)
• Progress Keeper
• Tote Bag
ABOUT THE YARN
Signal Fluff Fingering: 42% SW Merino / 32% Superfine Alpaca / 18% Donegal Nep / 8% Linen, (437 yd / 400 m / 100 g)
Draft Fingering: 80% SW Merino (21.5 micron) / 20% Recycled Nylon (437 yd / 400 m / 100 g)
Now to decide which combo is just perfect for you!
Magnolia flowers are beautiful through their entire short life span. This fade set in BFL DK celebrates that life span in pale blue-greens and creamy beiges through deep browns and greens with a hint of red speckling throughout.
It’s that time of year when reality hits indie yarn dyers: where am I going to put all that new yarn I ordered? That means it’s time for a sale on Flora Adora Fibers naturally-dyed yarns!
The Flora Adora Fibers sale collection has some out-of-the-ordinary choices, such as heritage breed Tunis Chunky and soft Targhee Polypay Silk DK. All items in the Sale Collection have been further reduced (no code needed). Here’s what you’ll find there:
Meadow Rustic Sport — Flora Adora Fiber’s best-selling yarn and rarely on sale. There were just too many different colors to manage, so some have been discontinued. Two skeins, one of each color is all you’ll need for the mosaic-stitch Pines and Needles shawl or the modular-knit Manty Wrap.
Heritage breed Tunis — A rare-breed, chunky-weight, woolen-spun yarn in naturally-dyed colors. One skein is enough for a Gathering Hat.
Mountain Sport — Made from springy and soft American Rambouillet, just two skeins will make the slip-stitch Springvale Cowl or classic Leipziger Hat.
Targhee Polypay Silk DK — Only four skeins left of this woolen-spun yarn, made at now defunct Zeilinger’s Woolen Mill in Michigan. One skein makes an eye-catching Gro Hat.
Peaceful Worsted — An Aran-weight mix of U.S. Rambouillet and Mohair, one skein of this soft, slightly fuzzy yarn makes two Elisbeth Headbands, or one Classic Ribbed Hat.
Coopworth DK — Grown in Wisconsin and spun in Michigan, this Coopworth yarn is undyed, highlighting its natural gray-brown shade, slight halo, and sheen. It has a wonderful drape, making it perfect for a Sophie Shawl or First Rhythm Wrap.
Take advantage of this sale and experience naturally-dyed yarns at super prices. All yarns are naturally dyed or undyed, and non-Superwash.
Litha
On Fig Lace, Selkie and PolDK
Summer Solstice was June 21 this year.
The sun is at its strongest, the earth is lush, and what began stirring at Imbolc, emerging at Ostara, and roaring into life at Beltane is now visible. It is a time to honor fire, both literal and symbolic.
Ways to Celebrate: Watch the Sunrise or sunset. Gather herbs to dry. Gather friends light candles share food and wishes for the season. Spend the day in nature. If you can, visit a location aligned with the summer solstice.
Coming to the shop Saturday June 27, 10a ET. Ready-to-ship and preorders will be available.
Enjoy these little moments of summer: A glass of lemonade. A weekend by the sea. A walk through a field of wildflowers. A stop at the berry stand and ice cream parlor and more!
The Summer Cast-On Collection is a celebration of the simple joys that make summer unforgettable. Small batch, hand-dyed, and ready for your next favorite pair of socks.
We’re very excited to bring you the first-ever 100% cotton Sweet Paprika yarn!
Like many of you, we really enjoy working with plant fibres as well as wool yarns, especially in the hot summer months. So we spent some time this past winter researching and sampling cotton and hemp yarn bases, and in the end we decided to bring in a small batch of a sportweight organic cotton.
Toccata is a 2-ply yarn that’s soft and relaxed, with a subtle sheen. Since the acid dyes we normally use for animal fibres don’t work on cotton, this was a fun chance to experiment with some new dye techniques. We used fibre-reactive dyes for these colours and we played with lots of variables to get a range of both rich shades and pastels. Ivy (our studio assistant) named each colour after a song or piece of music, so we have everything from Clair de Lune to Purple People Eater! We didn’t write down any recipes though, so we won’t be restocking these colours once they’re sold out.
This yarn is a light sportweight that creates a lovely fabric in both knitting and crochet. It can be worked up at a loose gauge for increased drape, or more tightly for structured projects. We found that it knits up very nicely on needle sizes ranging from 3.25-4mm, with a gauge of between 22-26 stitches over 4″. We tested our swatches and they stood up well to machine washing and drying on cool settings, so this is a great choice for projects that need to be easy to launder.
The cotton fibre for this yarn was grown in Turkey, spun into yarn in Italy, and hand-dyed in our studio in Montreal.
Where do natural dyes come from? Natural dye sources are all around us. But they may be invisible until they flower or set seeds. Black walnuts are an example: invisible until they drop from their trees and make a smashed mess along the roadside.
Black walnut hulls — the coverings around the actual nut (and the mess makers) — are great natural dyes, providing lovely browns. Reusing the dye bath (exhaust dyeing) provides a range of browns and tans. Here’s a sampling:
The darkest brown, Russett (on Donegal Tweed DK), comes from the first and strongest dye bath. It’s a gorgeous, slightly reddish brown. In the middle, on Meadow Rustic Tweed-Black Walnut, from the second dye bath. A nice brown brown. And finally, Latte (again on Donegal Tweed DK), from the last bath. The color strength is lessening so the yarn dyes a soft tan.
Natural dyes take a lot of time to prepare — collecting, cooking, etc. — so it only makes sense to get your money’s worth from each batch! And sometimes, exhaust dyeing is the only way to get certain colors. For example, there’s no Latte unless you dye Russett and Black Walnut first!
Hope you enjoyed learning more about where natural dyes come from. Use the link to shop yarns dyed with Black Walnut and other botanicals.
