This is the first in a series of blog posts featuring the fantastic sponsors and partners of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 16, 2026, in Saugerties, NY. Tickets are available and selling fast!
Indie Untangled would not be possible without our fabulous vendors and wonderful sponsors and partners. Each of them brings something unique to our show, and today we want you to meet one of our sponsors, Hedgehog and Moss.
Hedgehog and Moss is a community-focused yarn shop in Woodstock, NY, offering thoughtfully curated yarns for a range of budgets. The shop creates a welcoming, affirming space for makers to connect, learn from one another, and celebrate the rich history and culture of fiber arts.
The women behind Hedgehog and Moss are Stephanie and Christina, and we asked them a few questions about how their business got started, what classes they offer in their shop, and more. Read on to get to know more about Stephanie and Christina before you meet them in October!
Tell me how Hedgehog and Moss came to be?
It’s a bit cliché, but after many years as a municipal bureaucrat, Stephanie wanted to spend more time feeding her greatest addiction. There hadn’t been a yarn shop in Woodstock for a long time, and there was a perfect little space available. Ignoring common sense and a lack of experience in retail, she decided to jump in. Christina was not a yarn addict (yet), but supported the project with enthusiasm!
How did you come up with the name Hedgehog and Moss?
The short version is that Stephanie had a dream one night of a hedgehog using its quills as knitting needles to make a blanket out of moss.
Who is behind Hedgehog and Moss?
Stephanie Parsons, former teacher and school administrator, curates the yarn and designs the shop according to her interests and passions. Christina Kelly, artist, writer and video editor, works behind the scenes on QuickBooks, the website, and steps into working retail from time to time. Together they work on ideas for the shop, community events, outreach, and the dreaded social media.
We also have a really special community of local makers, who show up week after week and keep us in good spirits!
What makes your shop different from others?
We make an effort to offer different products from other nearby shops, which helps us support one another rather than compete. It’s important to us that people have access to quality yarns at a range of prices, so we offer great workhorse yarns as well as beautiful hand-dyed yarns and luxury fibers. We also like to work with local makers and dyers.
Participating in the local community is important to us. We feature local artists on our Instagram, host a book club and a trivia night, and hold one of our weekly crafting sessions at a local beer garden when weather permits. In preparation for Pride, we work with Queerly to host the makers who knit and crochet Woodstock’s tree coverings. We even have a cabinet of donated yarn and supplies that is free for the taking.
What items do you carry in your shop?
Pretty much everything you need to knit and crochet any project, and some things you don’t need, but are fun. Besides our wide variety of yarn, notions, vintage buttons, and kits, we also sell supplies for visible mending and felting. Gift cards and hand-knit teeny tiny sock key chains too!
Our yarn brands include Daruma, La Bien Aimée, Magpie Fibers, Isager, Knitting for Olive, Spun Right Round, Hue Loco, Farmer’s Daughter Fibers, Cascade, Amano, Noro, among others.
What are some new products you’ve brought to the shop that you’re excited about?
We are excited by our local products. We’ve experimented with a batch of New York State yarn dyed with natural dyes by a dyer working here in Woodstock. We have yarn of beautiful colors from Jill Draper Makes Stuff, based in Kingston. We adore everything done by Spun Right Round, based in Rochester.
In the not-quite-local sphere, we just started working with Farmer’s Daughter Fibers, and are excited that our community will be able to see and touch this yarn.
What type of classes and events do you host at Hedgehog and Moss?
We host two community crafting events every week where anyone at any level can come with their projects and get help or just enjoy the camaraderie. We offer a variety of knitting, felting, and crochet classes. We also host a book club and trivia night
What are some future plans you can share for Hedgehog and Moss?
In the very near future, we are excited about our one-year anniversary of opening the shop, which happens to be the same weekend as Rhinebeck!
If we’re fortunate enough to be able to expand in the future, we’d love to offer tools and supplies for other fiber crafts, such as spinning, weaving, and felting.
How did you learn to knit?
Stephanie was a longtime crocheter who knew how to knit at the most basic level. While she learned both of these from her mom, it’s really YouTube that gets most of the credit. When she knew she was opening a shop, she resolved to up her knitting game and embarked on a learning curve that was pretty much vertical. She has now done all-over colorwork, simple lace designs, and is about to steek a cardigan. Her next frontier is brioche knitting.
Christina is learning to knit from Stephanie and others who come to the shop and are kind enough to help.
What’s currently on your needles?
Christina is working on her first sweater, a simple turtleneck made with Lion Brand Fishermen’s Wool, which should be done just in time for a Woodstock winter.
Stephanie, at any given time, has about a dozen WIPs going, but is almost done knitting Caitlin Hunter’s Engle sweater in La Bien Aimée Kumo, Andrea Mowry’s Brume sweater in Farmer’s Daughter Oh, Dang! DK (this yarn is her current obsession), and crocheting the Ginkgo top by Yumiko Alexander, in Magpie Fibers Equinox Worsted. Oh, and some vanilla socks in Magpie Fibers Swanky Sock yarn. And the aforementioned steeked cardigan.
