What to stash this week: Moving Day sale
Laura and the crew at Slipped Stitch Studios crew moving to a new, larger space. Throughout this weekend, they’re holding a huge moving sale, offering decent discounts on some of their most popular products.
Simone’s new design, the Upland Socks, look like the knitting equivalent of wiggling your toes in some thick green grass. Inspired by gnarled branches and twisting roots, the socks feature a cable pattern worked on the front,…
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What to stash this week: Terrific twos
April 4 was Indie Untangled’s second birthday, so I decided to mark the occasion with a gift for you: through April 30, get 20% off in-stock Indie Untangled-exclusive bags from That Clever Clementine, porcelain buttons from Buttonalia and self-striping yarn and gradient sock blanks from Berry Colorful Yarnings. You can use the code IU2 once in each shop for the discount and I will combine shipping on orders placed on the same day….
What to stash this week: Knitting masterpieces
IU newcomer Spun Right Round has debuted a new base. Sumptuous 75/25 Merino/nylon is available in mini skeins and heel-toe sock kits that include a variegated skein and a coordinating solid.
For Masterpiece Knits: The Modern Collection, Kate Chiocchio and Nancye Bonomo of Dragonfly Fibers took inspiration from some of their favorite paintings to create more than a dozen new colorways and challenged 15 designers to create patterns inspired by works of art….
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What to stash this week: Hot new spring colors
Erica of Squoosh Fiberarts has introduced six new colors, and they look like excellent spring “transition pieces.” Her Color of the Month for March, Majestic Meadows, is a perfect pinky-green for celebrating the start of spring. Spinners are also in luck as she’s been experimenting with gradients, hand paints and kettle dyes on fiber.
The latest JOMA Yarn shop update includes some urban grit and the luck o’ the Irish….
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What to stash this week: Down the yarn rabbit hole
Glasgow-based dyer Sunshine of My Mama Knits has created a collection of 20 different colorways inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. They include, clockwise from top left, All Must Have Prizes, Hatter, Gryphon and Mad Tea Party. Colorways are available in superwash Merino DK and a sock weight blend of 75% wool/25% nylon, in single 100-gram skeins or multi-packs of mini skeins. On top of that, there are themed project bags and stitch markers available….
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What to stash this week: Sweet shawls (and yarn)
The Baya shawl from Indie Untangled newcomer Mindy Wilkes, definitely intrigued me when Mindy’s post hit my inbox. The design, which appeared on the cover of the Summer 2014 issue of Pom Pom Quarterly and is now available as an individual download, is a crescent-shaped shawl worked from the bottom up, with the lace and cable edge knit in lace weight and the garter stitch body using fingering-weight yarn. You can use two shades or make it monochromatic (Mindy used two pinks from Sweet Georgia)….
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What to stash this week: Last days till knit-mas
If you’re looking for some last-minute Christmas gifts, get over to Sweet Sheep Body Shoppe, which Alicia has stocked with the perfect stocking stuffers. Holiday-scented items include sheep-shaped goat’s milk soap in Orange Rosemary, Peppermint Cocoa and Winter Gardenia; lanolin-rich lotion bars in Jingleberry, Fresh Snow, Gingersnap and Frosted Cranberry; and tasty moisturizing lip balms in Winter Clementine or Vanilla Mint. If you need something to ship in time for the holidays,…
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After the trunk show, visit these Indie Untangled vendors at Rhinebeck
The New York Sheep & Wool Festival is an amazing, if occasionally overwhelming, experience. Unless I get swept up in the frenzy of trying to snag a Jennie the Potter mug (which depends on who I end up traveling with to the fairgrounds), I enjoy taking in the beautiful foliage, eating cider doughnuts, admiring all the knitwear and spending time with my friends.
Of course, I also do some serious shopping….
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What to stash this week: A sweater, 50% off socks, & Single Sheep
I’m loving this new sweater design by Lola Johnson of Third Vault Yarns. Swing Me Right Round can be worn with either side as the front and is meant to show off hand-dyed yarn in either fingering, sport or DK. A spreadsheet comes with the pattern that allows you to input your gauge and measurements and generates stitch counts, number of repeats and your increases. You can also choose to knit it from the center outwards — which eliminates any grafting — or from the bottom up….
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What to stash this week: World (OK, UK/European) yarn crawl
The latest addition to the World of Indie Untangled is Maria of the awesomely-named Suzy Parker Yarns, who dyes out of Hythe, a small coastal town in South East England (creating a nice little triangle with Ce of The Uncommon Thread and Linda of Kettle Yarn Co.). Maria recently re-launched her Etsy shop, and it’s filled with luxurious fingering- and sport-weight yarns in beautifully saturated semi-solids,…
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