Like most knitters, I have more than one project going at a time – a fun but more complicated project (usually a design), a quickie to work on in the evening after the girls have gone to bed, and something simple for when my brain needs a break. While small baby items or accessories usually…
Category: Kelbourne Woolens Yarn
Why Mohair Is Our Favorite Fiber
What Is Mohair? Mohair yarn, which is spun from the fiber produced by the Angora goat (not to be confused with angora fiber, which is from an Angora rabbit), has a lustrous sheen, softness, and strength. I’m here to sing the praises of mohair, my all-time favorite fiber. You may have seen that we recently…
Pattern Inspiration For Fall
We’re Dreaming of Fall! The kids are (finally) back at school, and we are PUMPED for cooler weather. There is nothing more exciting than planning a new project, so we took a moment and picked some new(er) pattern releases and paired them with our favorite cool weather yarns. If you want a quickie accessory, a classic sweater designed to…
I Remember Germantown
Do you remember Germantown yarn? A lot of knitters do, and we love hearing stories of when you learned to knit using Germantown, the first sweater you made, or the crocheted afghan that has been passed down through the generations. We love the look of this classic yarn – it’s not old fashioned, it has…
Germantown: A Classic American Yarn
Germantown is a classic American yarn. In fact, it is a revival of the very first commercial American yarn! This 100% North American wool is spun and dyed in North Carolina. Germantown is known for its softness, bounce, stitch definition, and wide range of vibrant colors perfect for both traditional and modern projects. The release…
Patterns for Germantown Yarn
Germantown yarn is a soft, durable, 100% N. American Wool with ample yardage at an affordable price point, so when we released the yarn, we wanted to be sure there were good, easy, accessible, and fun knitting patterns to support it. What’s better than a free hat pattern? 12 free hat patterns, of course! So we…
It’s Germantown Yarn Appreciation Week!
It’s Germantown yarn appreciation week! Join us this week while we wax poetic about Germantown yarn. Germantown is our made in the USA wool yarn perfect for knitting, crocheting, or any craft that makes you happy. It’s been five amazing yearns since we launched Germantown yarn, our first yarn made completely in North America. Our…
New! Germantown in Black and Natural
Black and Natural Unicorns are Here! We are delighted to have brand new black and natural Germantown Unicorns in stock and ready to ship! In the past, the unicorns have been created in small batches – as few as 2 skeins per color combo – with singles of color remnants randomly plied together. For the black and natural,…
Introducing Skipper!
Our first 100% cotton yarn! Skipper is a 4-ply 100% unmercerized cotton, perfect for knitting, crochet, and crafts. We’ve swatched a bit and Skipper works up beautifully in a variety of gauges, making it ideal for baby garments, summery tees, amigurumi, accessories, or whatever else you’re hoping to create! Why Tanguis? There are a lot of…
Cricket! A New Irish Tweed Yarn from Donegal
We are so happy to welcome Cricket, a new sport weight tweed yarn, to the Kelbourne line! A traditional sign of good luck, a cricket is a symbol of abundance and vitality, and their cheerful song is a harbinger of good things to come. We couldn’t think of a more auspicious name for the little…
New Colors of Perennial!
There was sleet hitting my face as I walked the puppy this morning, but it is going to be 66° tomorrow. That can only mean one thing: Spring is here! Whether you need a sweet bubblegum treat with pink, prefer the soft skies of cornflower, imagine a summer picnic with cantaloupe, seek refreshment through cool…
New Yarn! Introducing Germantown Bulky!
Everything you love about the classic worsted Germantown, now in bulky! Specifications 100% N. American Wool 123 yards (112 meters) / 100 gram skein 11-13 sts = 4” (10 cm) on US 9-11 (5.5-8 mm) needles Hand wash cool, lay flat to dry Made in the U.S.A. Color Palette When picking the initial lineup for the Bulky,…
Kelbourne Woolens Mail Day!
Here we are, week whatever-it-is, and we’re still doing our bit by staying home and social distancing. We are able to continue shipping to the local yarn shops you love – albeit with a very small “team” of one person (either Kate or I) per week for a few hours a day. While it’s my…
Perennial x Hand Dye = <3
One of the motivations behind the creation of Perennial was finding the perfect match to the proliferation of hand-dyed sock/fingering weight yarn on the market. It was our goal to create a highly functional and versatile yarn that serves the needs of a lot of knitters and crocheters at a good price without a lot…
December Andorra Love: Your Projects!
For our third installment in my mini Andorra love series, I wanted to share some projects by knitters shared on Ravelry over the last two years. First, for the wee babes, Kristy knit the cutest little top down hat with earflaps for Floyd, and Dana worked up an Animal Bonnet by Jenny Gordy for Nora….
December Andorra Love: Published Designs
Time for some more Andorra love! Today I wanted to showcase some lovely designs published over the last two years. Paule Lemieux from Canadian yarn shop La vie laine de Rimouski designed Shawl Moira, an homage to Moira from Schitts Creek, and we love the stripes in ink black and snow white paired with the…
December Andorra Love!
December marks the two year anniversary of the release of Andorra, so we wanted to take some time out this month to share a little love for our first Kelbourne Woolens yarn! First up, some highlights from Instagram. Showing off Andorra’s gorgeous stitch definition when worked in knit purl patterning, Kristi knit her Fragment Scarf…
Introducing Palms and Saguaro from the KW Crochet Collection!
Over the last two weeks we released the first four pieces in our six piece KW Crochet Collection, Sub Rosa, Summer Sunset, Succulent, and Canyon. Today we’re unveiling the last two pieces of our desert-inspired, laid back designs, Palms by Padma R and Saguaro by Natasha Robarge! The final pieces include another first for us,…
Perennial for Summer Shawl Season!
It’s that time of year again when shawls are the star of the season. It’s summer, a season full of events that require a little extra “something”, and shawls are the perfect We’ve compiled a list of our favorite shawl designs to pair with our soft and sweet Perennial. We compiled a few of some…
Mojave Summer KAL (and Giveaway)! ☀️
Join us this summer for a low-key Make-Anything-In-Mojave KAL! We couldn’t settle on one design for our KAL, so we’re just making whatever we want together. We’ve been pulling together a list of our most coveted designs that’s we’d love to either make in Mojave. We’re all taken with Ranunculus and LOVE The Happy Squash’s…
A Bow in the Sky: Local Yarn Store Day!
The second annual TNNA Local Yarn Store Day is coming up on April 27th, and we’re really excited to share a new design, available exclusively at your Local Yarn Shop—A Bow in the Sky by Courtney Kelley! What is a rainbow? Have you ever thought to ask? The human ability to see the world around…
Introducing Kelbourne Woolens Perennial
This spring season we are excited to announce the release of our newest addition to the Kelbourne Woolens family – Perennial. Specifications 60% superwash Merino, 25% Suri alpaca, 15% nylon 497 yds (454 meters) / 100 gram skein 28-36 sts = 4″ (10 cm) US 1-3 (2.25-3.25 mm) Why Perennial? Because we think it will…
Happy Little Accidents: My Humulus Sweater (Dress)
Did you all watch or grow up with The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross? Well, when I tried on my freshly blocked Humulus his famous phrase was my first thought: “There are no mistakes, only happy little accidents.” Humulus by Isabell Kraemer called to me from the moment I saw its hop-filled yoke last…
Introducing 5 New Colors of Scout!
Introducing five, fresh new colors in Scout! Meet strawberry heather, plum heather, teal heather, moss heather, and meadow heather. Our new colors add depth and dimension to our already rich color palette for even more appeal and colorwork options! Find the yarn specs, full color palette, and our list of of stockists here. We want…
A Brief History of Germantown Yarns
In our previous posts we’ve alluded to Germantown’s long history as a good quality American yarn. This post will go a bit more in depth about the history of how Germantown Yarn got its name, and how the little town of Germantown, PA launched a yarn with a history older than the United States itself….
Germantown Collection: Building Blocks
As we mentioned in the introductory blog post for Germantown, the collection we designed in conjunction with the release of the yarn is a little different that our typical approach. For Germantown, we thought a lot about the “point” of the yarn – it is entirely N. American sourced, spun, and manufactured, but it isn’t…
Germantown: Redesigning a History
It’s not often in life that one gets to have a dream and follow it all the way to reality, and I feel extraordinarily lucky to have done just that. For many years I wanted to remake Germantown. Some of you will remember it from it’s previous life as a Brunswick yarn, or if you…
Kelbourne Woolens, Celebrating Ten Years
If you had asked us last year at this time to look forward to right now, we would have probably burst into tears. Change is hard, and what feels like a life’s work – even when you’re still in your 30’s – is a hard thing to let go of, especially when it’s not your…
Introducing Kelbourne Woolens Germantown
2018 marks the ten year anniversary of Kelbourne Woolens and we are celebrating this milestone with something we have been dreaming about for a long, long time: Our own line of quality, affordable, classic yarns. We are proud to announce the fourth and final yarn celebrating our ten year anniversary: Germantown. An icon of American…
Introducing Kelbourne Woolens Mojave
2018 marks the ten year anniversary of Kelbourne Woolens and we are celebrating this milestone with something we have been dreaming about for a long, long time: Our own line of quality, affordable, classic yarns. In celebration of our ten year anniversary, we are launching a small selection of yarns throughout the year. Each season…
See You at TNNA, Part One: Kelbourne Woolens
Our 10th Anniversary Year has been filled with new adventures, and this summer and fall we’re thrilled to be bringing you lots of new products we feel good about. In between developing the Kelbourne Woolens line of yarns, this season we are happy to be adding more yarns to our BC Garn offerings for fall, and bringing a…
Introducing Kelbourne Woolens Scout
2018 marks the ten year anniversary of Kelbourne Woolens and we are celebrating this milestone with something we have been dreaming about for a long, long time: Our own line of quality, affordable, classic yarns. In celebration of our ten year anniversary, we will be launching a small selection of yarns throughout this year. Each…
Andorra Feature in Interweave Knits!
We were so thrilled to open the pages of the new Interweave Spring 2018 to find an article about our new yarn, Andorra! I mean, it’s good business practice to send yarn to magazine editors if you want them to use your yarns, but we didn’t think the yarn would speak to the editors so…
Introducing Kelbourne Woolens Yarn!
2018 marks the ten year anniversary of Kelbourne Woolens and we are celebrating this milestone with something we have been dreaming about for a long, long time: Our own line of quality, affordable, classic yarns. Our years of crafting, working in yarn shops, speaking with our wholesale customers, and meeting thousands of knitters and crocheters…