What to stash this week: vacation skeins
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. …
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What to stash this week if you’re not in Scotland
The result of designer Casapinka’s recent VKL NYC shopping spree at the Fuse Fiber Studio booth is Your Slip Is Showing, a gorgeous shawl that makes a bold statement using a simple slipped stitch technique. It calls for four colors of fingering weight yarn — you can use speckles, variegated colors, semisolids, fade sets or gradients, and Rebecca from Fuse even has a kit with the colors Bronwyn used. …
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What to stash this week: A winter’s yarn ball
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….
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What to stash this week: A yarn of ice and fire
Brooke of Fully Spun — who dyes wool roving in a repeating pattern, then sends it off to a mill that creates yarn with a handspun look — recently collaborated with Francoise Danoy of Aroha Knits. She designed two patterns for the latest issue of her Fiber Muse quarterly magazine using two of Brooke’s colorways, Ice Dreamer and Fire Dreamer.
If coffeecoffeecoffee or teateatea is your crafting mantra,…
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What to stash this week: yarn chicken
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….
What to stash this week: Love and color
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….
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What to stash this week: old and new
Jennifer of Porterness Studio has come out with new shawl pin designs. Her pieces have an Art Deco elegance to them, with a modern twist. It fits with her process, which uses the ancient lost wax casting process and modern technology of 3D printing. And she’s helping you treat yourself with a 20% off coupon code just for Indie Untangled readers.
Indie Untangled newcomer Ashley of Red Sock Blue Sock Yarn,…
What to stash this week: warding off winter
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….
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What to stash this week: Leave your heart in your knitting
Julia of Pandia’s Jewels has kits for her gorgeous I Left my Heart in the Highlands Wrap available to preorder until until July 16. Each Highlands Knit Kit includes five skeins of her Aran Tweed yarn, a shawl pin and a copy of the pattern, with a big, smooshy cable. There are two different kits available: The Highlands, which moves in a gradient from gray to dark green and Heather on the Hills,…
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What to stash this week: yarn, beer and ice cream for breakfast
It’ll be 5 o’clock somewhere when Laura of Slipped Stitch Studios has her Breakfast of Champions update, with fun ice cream- and beer-themed project bags and accessories. It all starts at 9 a.m. Pacific Time.
Literature nerd alert: The second edition of the Pandia’s Jewels Regency Collection, inspired by the world of Jane Austen, is out. Colors in this collection include Lydia has run away!…
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