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What to stash this week: Rainier wildflowers

We’re going back to Mount Rainier next week for Indie Untangled’s second retreat! Maribel of Rainier Roses was the perfect dyer to call on for the return to this majestic mountain for the August installment of the Knitting Our National Parks project.

Maribel was inspired by this fall landscape, captured by photographer Scott Malagold. She specializes in mini skeins and is dyeing five-skein Rainier-inspired sets on four different bases.

On fingering weight,…

What to stash this week: Floral decadence

Although running Indie Untangled is usually a solo operation, I do have the benefit of a wide network of friends/coworkers. I met and got to know Stephanie of Asylum Fibers before she started dyeing yarn, when she organized a knitting meetup in New York City. She’s multi-talented, with a beautiful singing voice and a degree in opera performance. She’s since moved to Connecticut, so I don’t get to see her as often, but cherish our memories as part of the NYC fiber community….

What to stash this week: Indie color sampler

Laura of Row One Yarn offers a way to sample colors from a variety of indie dyers with the Carnival of Color Club. It’s a unique monthly subscription that sends you 10 10-gram fingering-weight minis, all in the same base. You can use it to make scrappy projects or swatch for your next sweater.

If you order two kits per month, you’ll receive a different group of colorways in each kit and get free U.S….

What to stash this week: Season of the wool witch

This November, Rhode Island-based knitting instructor and knitwear designer Marny Kindness is organizing a three-day knitting retreat in spooky Salem, Massachusetts, through her newly-launched company, Explore Knitting Tours.

The group will visit historical and cultural attractions, including the Salem Witch Museum and Peabody Essex Art Museum. There will also be knitting classes to help you get a head start on your holiday knits. Lodging is at the luxurious Salem Waterfront Hotel,…

What to stash this week: A cozy anniversary cottage

Before I launched Indie Untangled, I learned of Eden Cottage Yarns through a swap in the Yarn Hoars group on Ravelry. My Alaska-based swap partner listed it as a yarn she’d always wanted to try, so I happily browsed their website and grabbed a skein of bright purple laceweight and moody brown/gray fingering for my package. A couple of years later, Victoria was one of the first dyers I contacted about my new marketplace and she has been a consistent presence in this newsletter….

What to stash this week: A trip to Australia

For the August installment of the Heritage Wool Collective yarn subscription, Isabel and Nick of the Great Ocean Road Woolen Mill are milling up their La Bella Fingering, a blend of Australian Merino and dark alpaca, which gives the yarn a soft gray tint that will provide a complex undertone for hand dyeing. Hannah of Circus Tonic Handmade, also based in Australia, is creating a colorway inspired by a 300-year-old Ghost Gum tree she visited in the Northern Territory to create “garment-perfect neutrals,…

What to stash this week: Spooky Girl Summer

Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers is embracing the summer to fall transition with her Spooky Girl Summer yarn box. Preorder now, and in August, when you’re totally ready for Halloween, you’ll receive the following:

• A sock set with two 100g skeins of 75/25 Superwash Merino/nylon yarn (one main and one contrasting color for colorwork) and one 20g mini for heels, toes and cuffs

• The I’m Batty for Halloween sock pattern by Stone Knits
• A set of three SamsTinyTrinkets charms
• A SamsTinyTrinkets themed Trinket Dish …

What to stash this week, before October

We will be welcoming more than 40 vendors to the 11th annual Indie Untangled Rhinebeck kickoff, taking place Friday, October 18 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at HITS on the Hudson in Saugerties, NY. The vendor list is now up on the event page and includes both new businesses and familiar favorites: yarn and fiber dyers, hand spinners and producers, along with talented makers selling project bags, stitch markers, jewelry and other fun yarn-related accessories and tools….

Yarn and craft trends from h+h americas 2024

This year marked the third annual h+h americas trade show and it was the busiest and buzziest yet.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, h+h is a wholesale show for the craft industry: yarn crafts like knitting, crochet and embroidery (more on the latter as a “yarn craft” in a bit), as well as fabric and thread crafts like quilting and sewing, though it was light on garment sewing brands….

What to stash this week: A Heritage Wool New Year

Preorders are now open for A Heritage Wool New Year, a special holiday countdown box of sustainable yarn and farm goodies. Six incredible indie dyers will be creating coordinating colors dyed on mini skeins made of super soft, non-Superwash wool that is completely grown, processed and spun in the U.S.

Your box will include:

• 24 fingering-weight mini skeins and one full skein made with non-Superwash Shaniko wool,…

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