What to stash this week: Baah-loween
You can now preorder the 2025 Halloweenvent from Katrinkles. Katy and her Rhode Island-based team are conjuring up a 31-day countdown calendar filled with Halloween-themed fiber tools and notions. Think spooky stitch markers and delightfully creepy trinkets. Last year’s treats were a scream (you can peek at them here), but this year’s surprises are all new.
Preorder by July 31 — or risk the horror of a sold-out box.
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What to stash this week: Summer yarn
Just in time for prime summer knitting, Lyla of Terrapin Fiberworks is releasing her Coastlines collection, a set of 12 colors inspired by her favorite coastal locales throughout the U.S. The yarn you see here is Lyla’s new base, Kent Cotton-Tencel Light Fingering, a blend of 60% organic Pima cotton and 40% Tencel, making it the perfect summer yarn, whether you’re making light shawls or structured garments. The collection goes live this Sunday,…
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,…
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What to stash this week: Your yarn-y alibi
Cheryl of Row House Yarn, who organizes the wonderful Camp Knitaway retreat I attended a couple of years ago — where I got to knit on a peaceful lakeside deck and stand-up paddle board — is also behind a series of Murder Mystery Weekends. This year’s takes place in Denver from November 14-16 and features special guest designer Cecelia Campochiaro.
The “skein of the crime” is the Halcyon Hotel in Cherry Creek….
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What to stash this week: A souvenir from Ireland
As the plans for Indie Untangled’s upcoming spring tour of Ireland started coming together, I knew I needed to source a special souvenir of our trip — and share it with you.
Even if you’re not joining us, you can experience the magic of Ireland by signing up for Indie Untangled’s Heritage Wool Collective yarn subscription, which pairs together small yarn producers and indie dyers. The next installment,…
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What to stash this week: Crafting & crime
Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers has uncovered a fun way to get you on your blanket game — wrap it up in a mystery. Her true crime-themed, year-long blanket-along is open for preorder. Each month, starting in September, you’ll get 15 10g micro skeins in a mashup of variegated, tonal and speckled colorways, plus “clues” to help you solve the “crime.”
Carolyn of Swan City Yarns is going bold with her new Color Riot colorway collection,…
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What to stash this week: Level up your knitting
Debbie and Elizabeth of Sweet Paprika Designs have just the thing to get you to the finish line of your next project: the Skill Builder Box yarn club. Every two months, you’ll get a box of hand-dyed yarn and exclusive patterns designed to help you learn a new technique, with both photo and video tutorials to guide you.
They invited some of their favorite designers, each known for a specific technique,…
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What to stash this week: Bella lana
This fall, you can experience the culture and fiber history of Italy with Explore Knitting Tours, led by Marny Kindness and Lynn Ruggieri. From October 25–November 2, you’ll spend eight days exploring Umbria and Tuscany, including Perugia, Florence, Assisi, Gubbio and Torgiano.
Anne of Red Hen Books has stocked her craft bookstore and kit shop with fresh new products for spring knitting, quilting, cross stitch, embroidery,…
What to stash this week: Sheep to soulmates
So many of us have found our kindred spirits through the fiber world. So, I knew you’d love the love story behind Yankee Rock Farm, which is supplying the yarn for the April installment of Indie Untangled’s Heritage Wool Collective subscription — a club that pairs breed-specific yarn with the magic of hand-dyed color.
Siri and Colin grew up in New England, each with their own flock: Siri raised Finns and Border Cheviots in Vermont’s Addison County,…
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What to stash this week: Life’s a beach-y Advent
Tanya of Cornbread and Honey has been dyeing yarn for a decade and she is celebrating in festive fashion. To help get us through this brutal winter, Tanya is creating four yarn Advent color palettes, all themed around Life’s a Beach. To prepare, she’s offering them well in advance of the 2025 holiday season. Each one will contain 24 20-gram mini skeins in a traditional fade — think lots of variegated and speckled colorways — plus a coordinating full skein in either fingering-weight or DK Merino/nylon yarn….
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