I achieved STABLE way back (stash acquisition past life expectancy). If I ended shopping for yarn now I’d have sufficient to knit with for years. The issue is, yarn is fairly and mushy and colourful, and I’m completely not going to cease shopping for it. Yarn is my completely happy place…er, factor.
Yarn makes me joyful. I like knitting with it. I like squishing it on the yarn retailer. Once I have to calm down mentally, I take a look at yarn on Instagram.
That’s precisely how I discovered these indie dyers that I completely love. These dyers are so cool that I simply needed to share them with you.
My favourite discover from final 12 months is Mitchell’s Creations and her unicorns assortment. Try this wonderful rainbow yarn:
On the left we’ve Drunken Unicorns and on the precise, Unicorns Unite.
I like Mitchell’s Creations use of rainbows of their variegated yarn. It’s completely happy and fluorescent and harkens again to my 80’s childhood. Their different colours are additionally beautiful. I picked up this set to make a fade scarf:
Left to proper the colours are: Funky Chilly Patina, Beneath the Willow Tree, Oh Marie and Crab and Corn Bisque.
I may also attempt Tunisian crochet for the primary time and try this Entrelac and Key scarf. A part of the enjoyable of shopping for new yarn, for me anyway, is looking for the most effective sample for it.
After the Neflix collection Bridgerton got here out, numerous indie dyers have been impressed to make Bridgerton-themed yarns.
That’s how I ran throughout Teeny Button Studio and their attractive yarns. I gave into temptation and ordered these for myself.
The skein on the left is Most Enchanting Certainly and the skein on the precise is A Worthy Suitor. I knit a number of socks and since these have such mild, delicate colours they’ll go nice with a lacework sample.
I’ve additionally been working my method by means of 52 Weeks of Socks and I assumed this yarn would make a fantastic pair of Toivoharju socks.
Talking of socks and shawls, I actually love fandom-themed colours which led me to Woman Dye Yarns. This indie dyer does tons of golf equipment for every thing from Schitt’s Creek to Bridgerton to Anne of Inexperienced Gables. I simply splurged on their Hight Tea Time Membership which comes with yarn and a scarf patter, sew markers, a scarf cuff, tea and a undertaking bag. The yarn and sample are a complete shock. The golf equipment promote out quick, however usually embrace yarn (clearly) plus treats like stickers, sew markers and baggage.
I not too long ago purchased these two skeins from their Black Panther assortment. On the left is Ruth and on the precise is Lupita.
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve additionally been interested by this Bridgerton themed yarn known as Penelope A LOT.
I usually knit with fingering weight yarn as a result of I make a ton of shawls and socks, however my vacation knitting wants despatched me searching for a pleasant worsted weight yarn in Christmas colours. Neighborhood Fiber Co. had some attractive jewel-tones in a worsted base, so I snagged them proper up and made these hats.
The yarn I used for these is Natural Studio Worsted. The purple hat is a closely modified (I fucked up the sample and improvised) Antler Toque within the colorway Station North. The inexperienced is Maldonado within the colorway Juneteeth.
Lastly there’s Spherical Mountain Fibers. Their patterns are impressed by nature they usually have a whopping 5 releases a month: botany, entomology, aquatic, geology and ornithology.
I particularly love their aquatic colours and purchase that launch just about each month from my native yarn retailer. It has a number of speckling and shiny colours. It’s all the time enjoyable to see the images that encourage the yarn as nicely.
Proper now I’m engaged on a pair of primary socks of their bobtail squid colorway.
These are my socks:
Please notice that in case you order from these dyers (or any indie dyer) they’re experiencing the identical pandemic associated stress and constraints as the remainder of us, and the USPS continues to be having points and delays. So please be affected person (although all of us need our yarn immediately!).
Have you ever discover any cool indie dyers this 12 months? Please share within the feedback!