What to stash this week: New year, new sale
Barb of Spencer Hill Naturally Dyed Yarn has been busy, but has restocked her shop with Charlotte Pennsylvania-grown and spun Shetland fingering weight, and its new heavy worsted weight cousin, Madeleine. There’s also a Good Riddance 2016 sale, with select colors of Pippi BFL/nylon sock yarn, and the entire stock of Molly non-Superwash Merino and Lily Merino/silk available at a discount.
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What to stash this week: Home is where your yarn is
Next week, I’ll be moving (no, not to Canada). Among the piles in my bedroom is a huge box of yarn, with skeins from Kim of The Woolen Rabbit and Nikki of Dark Harbour Yarn that are for sale on Indie Untangled. I’m hoping that the skeins go to good homes before I put the box on a moving truck, so I’ve decided to hold a little sale….
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What to stash this week: Moving Day sale
Laura and the crew at Slipped Stitch Studios crew moving to a new, larger space. Throughout this weekend, they’re holding a huge moving sale, offering decent discounts on some of their most popular products.
Simone’s new design, the Upland Socks, look like the knitting equivalent of wiggling your toes in some thick green grass. Inspired by gnarled branches and twisting roots, the socks feature a cable pattern worked on the front,…
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What to stash this week: Knitting masterpieces
IU newcomer Spun Right Round has debuted a new base. Sumptuous 75/25 Merino/nylon is available in mini skeins and heel-toe sock kits that include a variegated skein and a coordinating solid.
For Masterpiece Knits: The Modern Collection, Kate Chiocchio and Nancye Bonomo of Dragonfly Fibers took inspiration from some of their favorite paintings to create more than a dozen new colorways and challenged 15 designers to create patterns inspired by works of art….
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What to stash this week: The fandom at the end of the yarn rainbow
If you’re still bummed over the cancellation of Firefly, then smuggle this yarn into your stash. The inaugural Third Vault Yarns yarn club has quarterly packages of yarn and goodies themed around fandoms that knitters vote on, with the first inspired by Joss Whedon’s space western.
Michelle of Berry Colorful Yarnings has not one but two kits to tempt you. One is a Rainbow kit with a 463-yard skein of 12-color self-striping sock yarn and a handmade zippered project bag. …
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What to stash this week: Sweet shawls (and yarn)
The Baya shawl from Indie Untangled newcomer Mindy Wilkes, definitely intrigued me when Mindy’s post hit my inbox. The design, which appeared on the cover of the Summer 2014 issue of Pom Pom Quarterly and is now available as an individual download, is a crescent-shaped shawl worked from the bottom up, with the lace and cable edge knit in lace weight and the garter stitch body using fingering-weight yarn. You can use two shades or make it monochromatic (Mindy used two pinks from Sweet Georgia)….
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What to stash this week: Indie discoveries
One of the best discoveries on my recent trip to Italy (aside from the delicious tiella in my friend Carmen’s seaside town of Gaeta) was Valentina of SnailYarn, who dyes out of her home in Ariccia, in the Rome countryside. I discovered her while doing a quick Google search for indie dyers there, and though we weren’t able to connect during my trip, she surprised me by posting on Indie Untangled a couple months later!…
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What to stash this week: A summer yarn sale & shawl
To celebrate the eighth anniversary of Squoosh Fiberarts, the fact that it’s almost summer and an impending move, Erica is putting her entire shop on sale. Yes, you read that right. Through the beginning of June, find great deals on hand-dyed fibers, yarns, rolags, batts and handspun.
Spring/summer is also the perfect time to knit the Solar Flare Circular Shawl….
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What to stash this week: Knit up kicks
Even if you do knit socks, here’s a great way to show off your love of knitting from head to toe: Lisa, AKA The Knitting Artist, provides the canvas sneakers, which are dyed in the color of your choice and embellished with her hand-drawn stockinette “fabric.”
If you live in the Northeast, you probably want to reach into your screen and grab that cowl….
What to stash this week: Resolve to knit more and buy more yarn
All patterns from Sand and Sky Creations are Buy One Get One Free on Ravelry through today, Jan. 3. Simply add any two patterns to your shopping cart and use coupon code “bogo” to get the discount.
Designer M K Nance often partners with indie dyers on her accessories, which incorporate colorwork, cables and lace. Coloring, the blue scarf shown shown here,…
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