What to stash this week: Down the yarn rabbit hole
Glasgow-based dyer Sunshine of My Mama Knits has created a collection of 20 different colorways inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. They include, clockwise from top left, All Must Have Prizes, Hatter, Gryphon and Mad Tea Party. Colorways are available in superwash Merino DK and a sock weight blend of 75% wool/25% nylon, in single 100-gram skeins or multi-packs of mini skeins. On top of that, there are themed project bags and stitch markers available….
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Reveal of the Where We Knit yarn club’s first installment
Back in October, when Ami of Lakes Yarn and Fiber gave me a preview of her exclusive Drops of Honey colorway for the Where We Knit yarn club, I have to admit that I did a little happy dance in my apartment. It was perfect — not necessarily a color I would gravitate toward for myself (though my color palette has expanded since I’ve started knitting pretty exclusively with hand-dyed yarn) but stunning….
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What to stash this week: Oh, the places you’ll knit
I’m thrilled to open sign-ups today for Where We Knit. This quarterly yarn club, which will begin shipping in February of next year, brings together four dyer/designer dream teams: Lakes Yarn and Fiber & Janina Kallio, French Market Fibers & Toby Roxane Barna, Skeinny Dipping & Stephannie Tallent and Magpie Fibers & Lara Smoot. Each pair will collaborate on an exclusive colorway and an accompanying accessory design inspired by their favorite spots to whip out their WIPs….
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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: French inhale
While I’m not promising that it will be easy, I’m pleased to be able to give you a little head start: Margaret of French Market Fibers, will be having an Etsy update today (Jan. 9) at 10 a.m. Central. It will be her first major update in over a year, since she took time off from dyeing to be a stay-at-home mom.
A woman after my own heart,…
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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Post-Rhinebeck winners
Thanks to everyone who commented on the Indie Untangled Trunk Show recap post! The winner of the stitch markers from Leticia of A Bit of Spark is Carol B, while Dee and Christine will each get a copy of PLY Magazine.
I still have a bunch of samples from Leticia that she generously sent to give out at the trunk show,…
Kicking off Rhinebeck the Indie way
In the months that I spent organizing this past Friday’s Pre-Rhinebeck Trunk Show, I wasn’t quite sure exactly how to envision it. I of course expected tables, racks and baskets full of gorgeous yarn and fiber, along with sweater and shawl samples, but I didn’t expect such beautifully designed displays, and the crush of people angling to get at it all…
A line of people waiting to get in and browse is something that you’d expect at the Jennie the Potter or Miss Babs booths at the festival (and I experienced plenty of that over the weekend)….
paper and yarn giveaway winner
The random number generator has spoken, and congratulations to Stacy, who will be getting a set of stitch markers from paper and yarn with two of the best four-letter words:
My three: aargh, wine?, oshit
In my experience, wine makes most things better, but unfortunately knitting is not usually one of them…
While I couldn’t participate in the giveaway, I did have fun coming up with some some pop culture-y and grumpy stitch markers of my own:
Legend WaitForIt Dary (yes,…