yarn 5 - Indie Untangled

What’s new from Mitchell Wool Co.

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. In-person tickets are available and selling fast! You can also register for the free online event here.

We are thrilled to welcome back Mitchell Wool Co. for their third year at Indie Untangled!…

What to stash this week: Indie-ana Dunes

Back in 2022, my husband and adventure buddy Mitch and I embarked on an epic cross-country road trip. One of our first stops was Indiana Dunes National Park. This is one of the country’s newest national parks — it had been a “national lakeshore” since 1966 and then was re-designated as the 61st U.S. national park in 2019. We visited on a day when temperatures climbed into the 90s, but still enjoyed a challenging hike through the dunes,…

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Knit & Note

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. In-person tickets are available and selling fast! You can also register for the free online event here.

Knitting is the epitome of an analog activity, but I’m not sure what kind of knitter I’d be without all the digital resources out there….

Murky Depths dives into fiber

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. In-person tickets are available and selling fast! You can also register for the free online event here.

Debbie of Murky Depths Dyeworks has been dyeing yarn since early 2018 and joined us for her first Indie Untangled a year later….

What to stash this week: Felice anniversario

I’m thrilled to debut Lanivendole’s colorway celebrating Indie Untangled’s 10th anniversary. Fiori di Lana will be dyed on two of Lanivendole’s special bases: A Chic Blend, a fingering-weight base comprised of 60% Abruzzese wool, 20% mohair and 20% alpaca, and A Stormy Blend DK, made up of 70% Abruzzese wool and 30% alpaca. The yarn is available to preorder through next Sunday, October 13.

Undercover Otter’s October shop update includes a large selection of semisolid colorways on their Neon Neppocalypse DK base,…

What to stash this week: Knit after reading

Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers is combining reading and the holidays with her Knit & Nibble series. She’s offering two book boxes themed around the holidays. There’s the Holiday Cafe theme and the A Cozy Snowy Day Inside theme. Both boxes will include a paperback copy of Silent Knit, Deadly Knit by Peggy Earhart. They also come with a sock set (a 100g skein plus a 20g mini), a set of three SamsTinyTrinkets charms and a themed Trinket Dish,…

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Farm & Fiber Knits

This is the second in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. In-person tickets are available and selling fast! You can also register for the free online event here.

Farm & Fiber Knits, a digital and print exploration of local farms and natural fibers,…

What to stash this week: Welcome to Wool-ville

We’re entering fall Fiber Festival Season, which means that Lambtown is almost here! This fiber festival in Dixon, California, is celebrating its 38th year on October 5th and 6th. There will be plenty of fiber festival staples, including shearing and sheepdog herding demos, workshops and, of course, vendors — 75 of them bringing yarn and fiber, tools, handmade textiles, baskets, pottery, notions, skincare and more.

There will also be live judging of fleece,…

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Cesium Yarn

This is the first in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 18, 2024, in person in Saugerties, NY, and online. Tickets are available and selling fast!

Cesium Yarn came to my attention a couple of years ago when they released a collection of hand-dyed yarn inspired by Pyrex. Former Indie Untangled event planner Petrina is a vintage Pyrex collector and I loved the theme….

What to stash this week: Empire state of yarn

Megs & Co’s latest yarn is pure New York. Empire Estate is comprised of non-Superwash Rambouillet wool sourced from Elly’s Acres Farms, a family-run sheep farm in Jamesville. It’s spun across the Hudson River at Battenkill Fibers and then dyed in nine New York-inspired colorways by Megan at her studio in Fairport. The 3-ply DK-weight yarn has impeccable stitch definition, perfect for cables and colorwork.

If you’re an Outlander fan,…

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