Our dream: By moving towards selling yarn from local-ish, ethically sourced fiber, we hope you bring your sweater a little bit closer (figuratively speaking) to the sheep it came from. (Or alpaca, or goat, or bundle of flax!)
For those about to craft, we salute you.
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on the loom | very special hand spun, hand dyed sumi ink wool as weft with hand dyed organic cotton as warp
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I did a cover for a french comic book called superworld. It’s really gratifying to be called back by french publishers for comics, because...
Freshly dyed - cooling on the window sill.
Neon-dyed handspun skeins - drying in the sun.
Writer/illustrator/knitter Franklin Habit joins us for his monthly column on the life of a yarn crafter. I was at a yarn shop a few weeks ago, troubleshooting a thumb gusset in the company of those…
Great article from Franklin Habit on the divide between those who knit and those who crochet.
I would love to see more mixed-media patterns, personally.
Knitting inspiration for today, courtesy of my renewed search for a visual representation of quantum time: fractals.
Love the colorwork on the top and bottom left. Like continents of color.
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Colorful Transparent Rain Boots
Oooh, need a pair of these to wear my handknit socks under.
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Un Hiver en Couleur by Florent Tanet
Great color inspiration for gradients and dip-dyes.
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Have you seen the ultimate yarn storage idea? I am so jealous. The minute I get a house or at least a two-bedroom apartment, I am going to start planning this sucker.
I got a pegboard for my sewing/knitting tools but I definitely never thought of this! Looks like I need a second pegboard.
So ECCC was incredibly great.
We met so many awesome knitters (and got to see their WIP’s) and spread the gospel of The Knittrix.
The floor was so much bigger this year, and there was a ton to look at. Lots of great cosplay - we particularly dug all the Mabel Pines’.
There were a few…
Y’all should check out my comic - Issue #1 now online!
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