What to stash this week: A Heritage Wool preview
Last month, I officially launched the Heritage Wool Collective, an exciting new yarn subscription that brings together small-batch, non-Superwash yarns with indie dyers. The first installment, which pairs up Amy of Ross Farm in Pennsylvania and Gabby of Plies & Hellhounds in Connecticut, will go out in late February. Before the surprise colorways start shipping, you have the opportunity to try a special preview line of yarn, all grown,…
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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,…
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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),…
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What to stash when you’re ready for it to finally be fall
Jenna of Southern Skeins hears all you fellow T-shirt lovers and procrasti-knitters, and runs a Knit Stitch Tees T-Shirt Club. Show off your love of crafting without needing to finish an FO! The September installment will get you ready for Halloween, so you don’t necessarily have to worry about a costume, either! You can get $5 off the Spooktacular September Knit Stitch Tee by using the code TREAT5.
You can get this month’s tee as a one-time purchase or sign up for the subscription and get a new shirt in the mail each month!…
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What to stash this week: Soaking up summer yarn
Teresa of Sunny Day Fiber is channeling the excitement of a break from nine months of Portland rain into new yarn sets. This includes a mini skein set named Summer Love, made up of six colors that reminiscent of a summer beachy sunset. It’s available on both fingering and DK. For sock knitters, there are two summer sock sets: the Sunset Beach and the Ice Pops sock set, which conjure memories of eating popsicles on the beach….
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What to stash this week: Peak color
This month for the Knitting Our National Parks series, we’re returning to Rainier — or Tahoma as it’s known by the Northwest Native Americans — with a new colorway from Wendee of Hazel Knits. Wendee’s studio is in Seattle, roughly 80 miles from the park, and she has spent many a camping trip there. Her Mountain Meadow colorway captures the beauty of the colorful wildflowers that flood the park each summer. It is available to preorder on two of Wendee’s custom-milled bases: Blueprint Sock, …
5 things to knit right now + 5 things to stash
We’re in a strange in-between season when it comes to knitting — we want to prepare for all the fall things, but we don’t necessarily want a thick pile o’ wool in our laps. So, this week, I decided to share some projects that take very little time to complete, but that don’t have to be set aside until October to wear (or, let’s be honest, December, with the way our weather tends to go). …
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What to stash this week: Prepare, in advance, for spooky season
Courtney of Silly Goose Yarns has opened preorders for her upcoming Halloween box, inspired by the movie Coraline. This spooky stop-motion animated film is based on Neil Gaiman’s novella about a girl exploring a parallel world accessed by a door in her apartment. This box will include 13 mini skeins in a fade inspired by the colors of the movie, along with stitch markers and needle stoppers by Vic’s Knits,…
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What to stash this week: Behind the skeins
The latest episode on the Megs & Co YouTube channel dives into the dye pans and shows the process of Meg creating a custom colorway for LYS Day this April. Of course, a limited amount of these lab batches are available to purchase.
Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios are celebrating Women’s History Month with their Girl Power Super Power Mystery Box, now available to preorder….
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What to stash this week: Slipped stitches that slap
Designer Ashleigh Wempe’s first-ever published book, Mosaic Knitting Workshop, is a comprehensive guide to this colorful technique. It ships on June 6 and is available to preorder now.
Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios have been binging Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix and have three brand new colorways inspired by the show.
Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers is ready for spring with a collection that includes an Easter-inspired Here Comes Peter Cottontail set. …
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