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What to stash this week: yarn from your LYS

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Bronwyn of Casapinka has come up with an ingenious way to help you support your LYS for Local Yarn Store Day, which is next Saturday, April 21. If you buy yarn for her Local Yarn Shawl pattern that day from any of the participating LYSs, you will be given the pattern for free! 

If you’re looking for a new shawl pin — and some advice on how to show off your shawls — check out Crafty Flutterby Creations’ website. She not only crafts lightweight pieces, but her Product Tips include some styling lessons.

Tulips from a friend inspired Terri of Whole Knit ’n Caboodle’s latest striped sock yarn. It’s available for preorder in limited quantities only on her website.

Rocket’s Cardigan, the second installment in Mary Annarella’s brilliant Cardigans of the Galaxy series, is inspired a genetically modified raccoon and an unlikely superhero.

A few patterns can cover you in Marianated Yarns from head to toe! Above is the Millcreek Canyon Hat by Katinka Designs being releaed in mid-April.

The Knitspinquilt April update is all about the sea creatures. It includes sea turtle stitch markers and manatee bags. As always, 30% of the purchase price will be donated charity, which this year is the Hispanic Federation’s ongoing Puerto Rico disaster relief efforts.

Yarn from Squirrel Mountain Fiber Arts is sourced, spun and naturally dyed within 100 miles.

Mosaic Moon has stocked its new website with tons of roving.

What to stash this week: Sunset over Yellowstone

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The latest Knitting Our National Parks colorway from Candice of The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers is inspired by a sunset over Yellowstone captured by park ranger and photographer Jacob W. Frank. Candice named the glowing pinks and earthy greens, dyed on a Merino/silk fingering, Kiowa to pay tribute to the Native Americans who inhabited the land years before it became a place where visitors flocked to see Old Faithful erupt. The colorway will be available to preorder through April 20, with the yarn shipping at the end of May.

Hey, SoCal knitters: Jen of Porterness Studio is having a trunk show at Gather DTLA on April 20 and 21 during the LA Yarn crawl. If you’re not in the area, click here to get a discount code for her lovely shawl pins, buttons and jewelry.

Want a little April in Paris? Kate of McMullin Fiber Co. has added fun snips to the shop, including a pair shaped like the Eiffel Tower. You’ll get one free when you purchase a skein of Dusty Rose and a skein of Tres Bien, which are both inspired by imaginary strolls along the Seine.

ShelliCan just had a shop update and introduced a ton of new designs, including the adorable Get Kracken, which is available on enamel pins, T-shirts and keychains.

Rebecca of Fuse Fiber Studio also updated her shop recently, and it includes a bunch of fingering-weight yarn in complementary colors that would be perfect for your next Fade.

Knittyandcolor’s Acid Rainbow colorway is back in stock and available on her Acoustic Sock, Hardcore Sock, Glam Rock Sparkle Sock, Dubstep DK and Indie Rock Worsted. Also catch her at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in May!

Shanna of Lambstrings Yarn has kits for Andrea Mowry’s Rose cardigan on her new SW Merino 3-ply sport. The four-skein kits are available in three different color combinations to produce a fade that starts light on the back and ends dark at the sleeves.

What to stash this week: vacation skeins

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Last weekend, I attended the Mohonk Mountain House Knitting Weeking, and organizer Paula of White Barn Farm was nice enough to invite me to be a vendor at the retreat marketplace. I contacted Christine of Skeinny Dipping and asked her to create a Mohonk-inspired colorway. The remaining skeins of this limited-edition colorway — similar to Christine’s beautifully rustic Hearth Tweed, but with some pops of color — are now available in the Indie Untangled pop-up shop. 

Mohonk-y Tonk is joined in the shop by the return of Duck Duck Wool’s Glaciers & Wildflowers. There are also a very limited number of yarn ball zipper bags from the talented Vicki of That Clever Clementine. 

Suzanne of Groovy Hues Fibers is bringing back Passion Fruit Creme Brulee, a much-loved colorway that only 10 people currently have. If you’re hungry for this colorway, be aware that Suzanne is limiting preorders to 20 skeins on eight different bases. 

One of the Spirit Trail Fiberworks newsletter subscribers sent a photo of a rainbow she spotted while on a ferry in Alaska. Jennifer has turned it into four different colorways: two speckled rainbows and two complementary semisolids. They are only available to order through today!

If you’re looking for some brighter colors from Skeinny Dipping, or something to complement Mohonk-y Tonk — Creature Feature and Don’t Tell Me To Smile will work well — Christine just had a shop update.

What to stash this week: A winter’s yarn ball

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Scarlet of Huckleberry Knits posted to the Indie Untangled Marketplace about her latest shop update. Her glowing tonal and variegated colorways, which she dyes on bases such as Blue Faced Leicester and Merino Cashmere silk, as well as on spinning fiber, include a batch of Hamilton-inspired colorways.

Bring even more elegance to your hand knits with some new shawl pin designs from Jennifer of Porterness Studio.

Laura of Slipped Stitch Studios has brought back her coveted pattern and chart wallets starting this week. These accessories are the perfect way to tote around your papers with all the notes and highlights without them getting crumbled at the bottom of your project bag.

Terri at Whole Knit ‘n Caboodle has been getting ready for spring with new spring-y self-striping sock yarn. If you’re in or near the Hudson Valley, check out her yarns at the Chancellor’s Sheep and Wool Showcase in Clermont, N.Y., on April 21.

Brianne and Maureen of I Would Dye 4U are updating their shop today at 10 a.m. Eastern time with both new ‘80s music-inspired colors and favorites, including some one hit wonders.

What to stash this week: Good night, Acadia

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You have until midnight Eastern time tonight to preorder Stephanie’s radiant Acadia Lights colorway (pictured here in both Solitary fingering and Golden Goose DK) for the Indie Untangled Knitting Our National Parks project!

If you don’t already know about the project, Stephanie is one of several dyers creating exclusive-to-IU colorways inspired by photos of U.S. national parks. Acadia Lights recreates a rare scene of the Northern Lights over Acadia National Park in Stephanie’s native Maine. 10% of all sales will be donated to the National Park Foundation.

Julia of Pandia’s Jewels is celebrating one of the best literary couples of all time with colorways inspired by the Pemberley Estate — where Elizabeth Bennet’s and Mr. Darcy’s love story began. The seven Regency 5th edition colors, part of a series of yarns inspired by Jane Austen, all work together to create a lovely seven-color fade. They’re available to preorder through next Sunday, March 4.

What to stash this week: yarn chicken

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Jennifer at Spirit Trail Fiberworks has been doing a fun collaboration with her newsletter subscribers in which she dyes a colorway inspired by a photo sent by one of her readers. February’s colors — one main and two complementary — are inspired by a photo of a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chicken. The yarn will be available to pre-order until February 19 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.

Jennifer has also created her latest design with TV knitting in mind. Craic — Irish Gaelic slang for “fun, a good time, a good conversation” — is a crescent-shaped, fingering-weight shawl with some garter, stripes and texture. It is knit with two 400-yard skeins of fingering, and you can even mix and match bases to get an even more interesting texture. Don’t forget that you can receive 20% off your order of any in-stock yarn through February 28 with the code Indie. 

Marian has a new six-skein gradient set called Beekeeper in the colorways Beeswax, Protect the Pollinators, Honeycomb, Dumbledore, Queen Bee and Hive Mind. It is currently available in fingering weight on her Scrumptious HT base, which is 80% Superwash Merino, 10% Cashmere and 10% nylon in three sizes.

Cat Sandwich Fibers is having a shop update this Sunday, February 18, with lots of new OOAK colorways and new Cat Sandwich enamel pins.

Pam’s latest design, Checkpoint, is a two-color sideways triangle with garter and what she promises to be easy intarsia.

Acadia Lights, the fifth colorway in the Knitting Our National Parks series by Asylum Fibers, is available to preorder through next Friday, February 23. You can get some ideas on what to make with either the Solitary Fingering or Golden Goose DK here.

What to stash this week: Northern Lights, Acadia style

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Asylum Fibers’ Acadia Lights is the latest installment of the Knitting Our National Parks series. Stephanie’s colorway is inspired by this photo of the Northern Lights over Acadia back in September. Stephanie, who hails from Maine, is dyeing the colorway on two bases. One is her Solitary single-ply fingering and the other is Silver Goose, a DK that is studded with silver Stellina reminiscent of stars in the night sky. The yarn is available to preorder here through Friday, February 23 and will ship at the end of March. As always, 10% of sales will be donated to the National Park Foundation.

Téamh is Irish Gaelic for “warmth” and it’s the perfect name for Jennifer’s new hat design. The sample above was knit using Spirit Trail Fiberworks Luna, Jennifer’s non-shrink organic wool worsted weight base, created with an organic process that’s not technically Superwash. As an Indie Untangled reader, you get two discounts! Use the code Indie on the Spirit Trail website to get 20% off your yarn order and on Ravelry to get 50% off the hat pattern.

If you love Porterness Studio’s shawl pins, you’re in luck: some have been replenished and Jen has also created some new designs. She’s showing love right back and is extending her 20% discount for Indie Untangled readers. Use the code LovingIndieFEB18.

My Mama Knits has created new colorways inspired by sea and water lore, available in themed mini-skein sets or as full sock and DK skeins.

by Briony, based in Melbourne, dyes local, Australian wool. Her colors are inspired by, and created with, nature, including Eucalyptus leaves.

Lisa of White Birch Fiber Arts, a popular self-striping yarn vendor at the Indie Untangled Rhinebeck Trunk Show, is officially on the Marketplace!

IU newcomer NanoStitch Lab is a pair of dyers who find inspiration in all aspects of science.

What to stash this week: Love and color

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In 2015, my friend Alisa launched KitSpinQuilt, selling her handmade project bags and stitch markers, many with a geeky bent, and donating 30% of the purchase price to charitable causes. Since Alisa is a grad student on a limited budget, she decided this was the best way to give back. This year, your purchases from KitSpinQuilt will benefit the Hispanic Federation‘s Puerto Rico disaster relief efforts, helping the 40% of the island that still lacks electricity.

You should have what she’s having. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Kate of McMullin Fiber Co. is collaborating with charm maker Little Bitty Delights on yarn and stitch marker sets that celebrate three famous couples. Pictured here is her tribute to Harry Burns and Sally Albright from When Harry Met Sally. The colorways are inspired by their outfits during a reunion in the Personal Growth section of NYC’s Shakespeare & Co. bookstore (notice where the strawberry ice cream is…). Click the pic to see the other inspirations.

Sign-ups for the Spirit Trail Fiberworks Cosmic Color Club are now open! Jennifer offers yarn and sweater clubs and all the colorways — a mix of tonal solids and subtle speckles — are completely exclusive to members. Jennifer also has two new six-skein gradient speckle kits ready to ship, the beautiful result of a dye mistake. They are dyed on her Birte base, her DK weight Superwash Merino, Cashmere, and silk blend. Pictured above is her favorite, Crystal Cave.

I got to glimpse the yarn from Undercover Otter at VKL last week and I’m thrilled to welcome dyer Petra to IU! She’s doing preorders of her 40-plus repeatable colorways on three fingering-weight bases, but only through this Sunday.

Amanda of Crabapple Yarns, another IU newcomer, just had a shop update with a bunch of new speckled and tonal colorways that are perfect for combining. She also has a new base called Keen Sock, a wonderfully soft blend of 75% Superwash Merino and 25% nylon.

This third new girl, Sarah of Knittyandcolor, reintroduced her blazingly bright Ain’t It Fun colorway, which is her antidote to winter and ode to the band Paramore. It’s available on three different sock bases.

Karen of Round Table Yarns will be releasing at least a dozen new legends of King Arthur-inspired self-striping colorways in the coming months. The first two, Courtly Love and The Underwater Bridge, are now available.

What to stash this week: warding off winter

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Casapinka’s latest, Yondah Window, will have you have you quoting Romeo and Juliet with a Rhode Island accent. This unique boomerang shawl, inspired by beautiful windows aglow in the cold, frosty Rhode Island winter, was designed to showcase Magpie Fibers Swanky Sock and the long color changes of Spincycle Dyed in the Wool.

Slipped Stitch Studios has re-released bags with popular knitting fabrics that sold out in two days last year. They’re available to preorder starting today at 9 a.m. Pacific Time.

Pam’s latest shawl, Farnum, uses a unique construction, beginning with a center triangle worked with yarn over increases. It is perfect for two skeins of fingering from your favorite indie.

You still have time to get 20% off all in-stock items in the Post-Rhinebeck Pop-up. Use the code INDIENEWYEAR on bulky hand-dyed yarn from The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers to make super-fast, super-warm hats and cowls to ward off the polar vortex.

Once Upon A Corgi is kicking off the new year with Edgar Allen Poe colors.

Marianated Yarns will be at the Wasatch and Wool booth at VKL NYC next weekend.

What to stash this week: yarn deadlines

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In honor of the new year, I’m offering 20% off all in-stock items in the Post-Rhinebeck Pop-up with the code INDIENEWYEAR. This includes a few kits with Jill Draper’s exclusive Knitting Our National Parks colorways along with a code to download Kirsten Kapur’s stunning Joshua Tree Cowl (because most of us would love to be in the California desert right about now…). The discount runs ‪through January 15‬.

Today is the last day to guarantee your skeins of Aimée’s Automne à Rhinebeck on both Merino Singles (pictured above) and Merino DK! Aimée is sending me her shipment right after the new year, so preorder today to make sure your yarn is in one of the big boxes I’m expecting from Paris in a couple of weeks.

You have ‪until Sunday‬ to get four exclusive colorways from four indie dyers based on these picturesque locations, and patterns to go with them.

Next year, four indie dyer/designer teams — Hue Loco & SweaterFreak Knits, Pandia’s Jewels & C.C. Almon, Little Fox Yarn & Caitlin Hunter and Dark Harbour Yarn & Amy van de Laar — will collaborate on an exclusive colorway and accessory pattern inspired by the places they knit.