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What to stash this week: Summer with Yarn Santa

Jenna of Southern Skeins is celebrating Christmas in July by debuting her 2023 Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendars. This year, Jenna’s Advent is inspired by bright, shiny Christmas lights and ornaments. She’s offering a variety of options to fit every budget, with the standard calendar including 24 fingering or DK-weight mini skeins, a 100g skein to open Christmas Day, a knitting pattern, a knit-along with prizes, extra goodies and a reusable fabric calendar….

What to stash this week: Colorful yarn countdown

For this year’s Indie Untangled New Year countdown box, I decided to turn to the color trend-forecasting group PANTONE® for inspiration. Join 26 indie dyers for Colors of the Year, and count down to 2024 with yarn colorways inspired by every Pantone Color of the Year since 2000!

Your box will include:

• 24 fingering-weight mini skeins designed to flow together cohesively (each mini is 20g and has approximately 90 yards)
• Two full fingering-weight skeins designed to showcase the minis
• Five specially-created or selected gifts
• One shawl pattern to knit with your minis,…

What to stash this week: Pride and support

Teresa of Sunny Day Fiber is celebrating and supporting her LGBTQ+ family members and friends with a rainbow mini skein set. To her, these colors represent “showing up as your authentic and unique self each and every day,” and are a reminder of the importance of being an ally. To that end, Sunny Day Fiber will be donating 20% of their proceeds this month to The Trevor Project, which provides crisis support services to lesbian,…

What to stash this week: Summer yarn

Christine of Treasure Goddess Yarn has what just might be the perfect yarn for those summer projects. Her Bamboo Linen Treasures base is comprised of 70% bamboo and 30% linen provide a combination of drape and just enough structure for lightweight summer tops and shawls. It’s also one of the featured yarns for the Olive Knits 4 Day KAL, called Lemon Spritz. (Don’t worry, you don’t actually need to finish in four days!)

It’s officially summer,…

What to stash while you wait to buy Indie Untangled tickets

Val, a longtime friend and colleague of mine, recently joined our community and started crocheting again after learning as a child. With a background in art and a love for all things vintage, Val recently started creating craft-related art and has debuted her super fun Crochet Maid design. The Crochet Maid’s tail is modeled after granny squares in groovy ’70s hues and she’s available on T-shirts, tote bags, stickers, phone cases and even wall art….

What to stash this week: Scary beautiful yarn

Sirena of The Backcountry Knitter was inspired by a photo of a Portuguese man o’ war taken at the Gulf Islands National Seashore, in the “coastal backcountry” of Mississippi, for her installment of the Knitting Our National Parks Series, which is going into its sixth year! There are two “sting-free” colorways — the specked Hydrozoa and the semisolid Beach Shadow — as part of this collection and they are dyed on two bases, plus a sock set.

The yarn is available to …

What to stash this week: ‘Yarn’ for warm weather

I’m excited to introduce these new Indie Untangled Yarn Dangle Earrings! They’re crafted in specially-chosen colors of acrylic by the team from Katrinkles in Rhode Island. Well, specially chosen because it was just so hard to decide! They’re available in Rose Gold, Confetti Glitter and Turquoise Opaque colorways. You can choose to wear them with your latest WIP or celebrate your obsession in slightly less understated way.

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive &…

What to stash this week: May yarn flowers

Teresa of Sunny Day Fiber has transitioned to spring, with her April showers leading to May yarn flowers. She has featured in her shop a pastel mini skein set with aqua, pink, lilac, peach, ice blue and mint, which she already put to work in Brie Christine’s Quartet Socks pattern, as seen on Ravelry.

Anastasia of Cashmere & Coconuts has stocked her shop with a number of new items,…

What to stash this week: A royal collection

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe have another royal installment, this one inspired by Netflix’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. With this two-month subscription, you can choose from one to three skeins of a surprise show-inspired colorway on your choice of bases.

Aiden of Undercover Otter and Ross of The Wee Yarn Company have teamed up for the Queerdo Collection. This 2023 Pride collection is comprised of six colorways in support of the LGBTQIA+ community….

What to stash this week: Best fiber friends

Audrey of The Conifer Collective has opened preorders for her BFF Collection. This collection of 12 colorways — five variegated and seven tonals — is “a throwback to growing up with your besties and all the good memories that come along with it.” Audrey worked with two of her besties to come up with the colorway names, including Friendship Bracelet, Pillow Fort and M.A.S.H. (remember that game?!).

The colorways are available on five bases,…

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