So I hope you have been enjoying our Freebie Friday patterns!  When we started it, we were just planning on running it through the holidays but since it's been so popular, we thought we'd continue it on into 2012!

This week I thought I'd revisit some of the most popular Freebie Friday patterns - in case you missed one!

One of our favorites is Cassidy Clark's Rubber Chicken!

Read more...

Birch Bay is back! Last time, I had just spun the roving into a (roughly) fingering weight single and was just getting ready to ply the ends together on my wheel at home. Now it's all spun up and ready to knit!

Read more...

A few months ago, I finally got the nerve to try my hand at weaving. I first was intrigued by weaving when Kelley started to prepare the samples for her Weaving with a Ridig Heddle video class. I don't know why, but for some reason I had it set in my mind that weaving was complicated and time consuming. And don't get me wrong - weaving isn't some I am able to start on a whim as easily as casting on some stitches for a knitting project. The preparation is a bit time consuming and takes a bit of finessing, but once you are actually weaving the entire process goes along fairly fast.

Read more...

Like Kerin, I'm a bit of yarn snob.  I mean, I started out using big box store acrylic yarns but when I discovered how much I liked working with wool, I pretty much left them behind.  So I was initially trepidatious when we first received our initial samples of Brava.  But I always like to play with new yarns and I did have a project in mind where acrylic would be the best fiber to use.

These are the Feet Eaters from Knitting Mochimochi!

Read more...

Developing yarn lines takes a long time, and our lead times can be up to a year in some cases!  We're just entering the new year, and we already have to start planning new colors for Fall/Winter 2012.  Our meetings aren't starting for about two weeks, so I thought I would check in with our blog readers and see if you have any suggestions for exciting new shades that you'd like to see in our non-cotton, non-lace yarns (think warm wool, cozy alpaca, and our other cold-weather yarn lines).

Pantone's Color of the Year for 2012 is Tangerine Tango - is there a color that you feel is fresh, new, and just needs to be seen in yarn form?  Have you ever played around with sites like ColourLovers or Kuler for color inspiration? Give us your color ideas in the comments below!