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What to stash this week: Yarn-y mystery

If you enjoy a good mystery, then check out the Murder She Knit and Crochet club from Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers. This is a year-long yarn subscription and blanket make-along comes with a mystery, with your mini skeins as the “clues.” Detectives will be knitting the Northeasterly blanket by Melissa Alexander-Loomis or crocheting the Northeasterly blanket by Katy Stevens throughout the year and can also enter to win prizes by knitting or crocheting all 12 blanket chevrons each month….

What to stash this week: Best of both yarn worlds

Monica of Gothfarm Yarn, who specializes in non-Superwash, naturally-colored yarns, has collaborated with Ali of Savvy Skeins on the Q 4000 sock kit. The main color is a new custom-milled, fingering-weight yarn from Gothfarm called Oxide, which was created by blending Jacob sheep wool with cinnamon red alpaca fleece, and is only available in the kit. Accompanying the natural yarn is a hand-dyed mini skein available in your choice of three contrasting colors — orange,…

What to stash this week: Frogs, not frogging

The next Lyrical Knits mystery knit-along is most sensational, celebrational and inspirational: The Muppet Shawl. The pattern is for a rectangular shawl with several different stitch patterns and a fun twist to the construction at the end. It’s worked up in fingering-weight yarn with one main color and six mini skeins, though it’s possible to do it with fewer contrasting colors.

The first clue drops on March 1, and if you purchase the pattern during the preorder period,…

Indie Untangled 2023 Year In Review: Make-along winners and faves

One of the best parts about going to the New York Sheep & Wool Festival and Indie Untangled is seeing beautiful knitwear everywhere. Even when I don’t get to see everyone’s FOs in person, I get to review all the entries to our annual make-along.

To close out 2023, I’m sharing the winners of the MAL, chosen at random, and also some of my personal favorites from among the entries….

What to stash this week: Yarn party

Stephanie of Wonderland Yarns and Frabjous Fibers is extending an invitation to a “Tour of the Season” — and there is definitely crafting allowed. This new monthly yarn club for 2024 features 12 hand-dyed colorways inspired by a grand literary event — country manors, city estates, masked ballrooms and a garden party or two. The colorways will be dyed on their base of the year, Mad Hatter sport, or that month’s featured base. …

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: A heritage wool mood

Gabby of Plies & Hellhounds has revealed her mood board for the first-ever installment of the Heritage Wool Collective hand-dyed yarn subscription! The theme is appropriately earthy and has Gabby’s signature moody vibe. I cannot wait to see what she has in store for the yarn, which is a bouncy Corriedale DK from The Ross Farm, located in Pennsylvania, just a few states over from Gabby’s Connecticut studio. Sign up by the end of this month to become a member of our Founding Flock!…

What to stash this week: Knit with us in 2024

I’m thrilled to open sign-ups today for Where We Knit 2024. This quarterly club, which will begin shipping in February, brings together four dyer/designer dream teams: Bad Lux Designs and Kacey Herlihy, Wooldreamers with 316 Dye Studio and Moody Knitter Design, AT Haynes House Yarns and Mother of Purl and Tanis Fiber Arts and Andrea Rangel.

Each pair will collaborate on an exclusive colorway or colorways on one or two skeins of yarn and an accompanying accessory design inspired by their favorite spots to whip out their WIPs….

What to stash this week: A Rhinebeck tradition

Mary of Lyrical Knits — one of those friends I can’t wait to see in New York this weekend! — has a new Rhinebeck tradition of releasing a fun hat pattern in collaboration with Miss Babs. Mary’s Bubbalicious hat is knit in DK-weight yarn with a knit-below bubble stitch pattern that makes for super easy but complicated-looking colorwork. If you’ve knit Mary’s Killer Queen Cowl or pullover, you’ll recognize the stitch. Mary designed it especially for Babs’s 2023 Rhinebeck colorway,…

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),…