knitting our national parks

What to stash this week: A grand entrance to a yarn-y summer

Raelynn of Sincere Fiber Co., a fan of both gaming and rock climbing, was inspired by a frosty Grand Canyon image for her installment. She created two coordinating colorways: Canyon’s Winter Reverie, a variegated colorway, and Vishnu Schist, a tonal named for one of the canyon’s oldest visible rock layers.

They’re available on the following bases:

Cashmere Silk Suri — A laceweight blend of 53% super baby alpaca,…

What to stash this week: The pinnacle of yarn

Mel of Big Little Yarn Co. is finally joining the lineup for the Knitting Our National Parks project. I’ve been a fan of her incredible color sense for ages, so I’m especially excited to share this one. Mel’s colorway is inspired by Pinnacles National Park in California — a dramatic landscape of rock formations, quiet caves, and ancient oaks in one of the newest additions to the park system (est. 2013).

You can preorder it on Trusty Sock (75% Superwash Merino,…

What to stash this week: Indie-ana Dunes

Back in 2022, my husband and adventure buddy Mitch and I embarked on an epic cross-country road trip. One of our first stops was Indiana Dunes National Park. This is one of the country’s newest national parks — it had been a “national lakeshore” since 1966 and then was re-designated as the 61st U.S. national park in 2019. We visited on a day when temperatures climbed into the 90s, but still enjoyed a challenging hike through the dunes,…

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: Monarch magic

Megan of Megs & Co chose a photo of a chandelier-like cluster of monarch butterflies in a tree on the California coast as the inspiration for her Knitting Our National Parks colorway. Monarch Chandelier is stunning mix of orange, green, brown and gold, with just a hint of pink that makes for what I think of as a speckled neutral.

The colorway is available to preorder from Indie Untangled for the next two weeks on two bases that are appropriately made in the USA….

What to stash this week: Prairie Sunrise

Cierra of Ballyhoura Fibres is capturing the magic of winter in her colorway for the Indie Untangled Knitting Our National Parks series. Prairie Sunrise is inspired by a pink and purple sky above a frosty prairie at the Kulm Wetland Management District in North Dakota. It’s available on 2ply Sock, an 85/15 blend of Superwash Merino and nylon that comes in 393-yard skeins. Preorder exclusively from Indie Untangled through February 23….

What to stash this week: Yellowstone yarn

Kayla of Knotty Pine Fiber Co. of Wyoming, one of the three states that Yellowstone is based in, was inspired by a painting of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone for her installment of the Indie Untangled Knitting Our National Parks series. The painting by Thomas Moran, on display at the U.S Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, DC, played an instrumental part in the founding of Yellowstone as the first U.S….

What to stash this week: Fall far into this yarn

Monica from Vermont-based Round Mountain Fibers is dreaming of Alaska. For her Knitting Our National Parks inspiration, she chose a fittingly fall-hued photo of the blazing fall colors at Serpentine Hot Springs in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. The preserve is one of the most remote protected areas of the United States, with no roads. But you can still get two colorways — the variegated/speckled Bering Land Bridge and the semisolid Tundra Green.

Bering Land Bridge is available to preorder on full skeins of both Alder Fingering (80% Superwash Merino/ 20% nylon) and Willow DK (100% Superwash Merino),…

What to stash this week: Scary beautiful yarn

Sirena of The Backcountry Knitter was inspired by a photo of a Portuguese man o’ war taken at the Gulf Islands National Seashore, in the “coastal backcountry” of Mississippi, for her installment of the Knitting Our National Parks Series, which is going into its sixth year! There are two “sting-free” colorways — the specked Hydrozoa and the semisolid Beach Shadow — as part of this collection and they are dyed on two bases, plus a sock set.

The yarn is available to …

What to stash this week: yarn gold in the hills

Susie of Fiber MacGyver transformed nature’s magic — a photo of the Artists Palette in Death Valley National Park, taken by Jon Fischer — into this stunning colorway, Painted Hills. It’s available to preorder through Indie Untangled on two bases through April 21.

Jo of Yarn Therapy has created an enchanted woodland adventure with yarn. This collection of 18 colorways, hand dyed in Yarn Therapy’s solar-powered studio in New Zealand (that is maybe visited by hobbits),…

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