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Happy Granny Square Day!

  • August 15, 2019
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It’s Granny Square Day!

In honor of Granny Square Day and #crochetsummer2019 we prepared a colorful little surprise—the Sub Rosa Earrings...

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An Interview With

An Interview with: Shannon Cook (So Very Shannon)

  • July 3, 2019
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Last month, Shannon Cook (@soveryshannon) launched Courage—a knit shawl design featuring our Read more

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Perennial for Shawl Season: The Crochet List!

  • July 2, 2019
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At Kelbourne Woolens, summer is the season for crochet and lightweight yarns. Last week we put together a list of our...

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Design Feature: Sanctuary in BC Garn Bio Balance

  • June 26, 2019
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Have you seen the new summer issue of Pom Pom Quarterly? Issue #29 is full of gorgeous design for everybody, including Sanctuary by...

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Perennial for Summer Shawl Season!

  • June 25, 2019
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It’s that time of year again when shawls are the star of the season. It’s summer, a...

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Get Your Hooks Out! It’s time for the Crochet Summer 2019

  • June 21, 2019
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Bust out your hooks!

It’s our 5th annual Crochet Summer and we’re excited to start stitching with our favorite plant fibers as the...

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Year of Hats

Year of Hats: June Hat

  • June 18, 2019
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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Are we halfway through the Year of Hats already?! I guess we are because it’s the...

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Mojave Summer KAL (and Giveaway)! ☀️

  • May 30, 2019
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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...

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Light, Lovely Lino: Linen for Summer Knits!

  • May 22, 2019
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Summer knitting—it’s a thing that people do, and we do a lot of it here at Kelbourne...

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Year of Hats

Year of Hats: May Hat

  • May 21, 2019
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It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time for the May Hat in our Year of Hats series! Read more

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Soak Wash: For The Things We Love

  • May 17, 2019
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We use Soak Wash for all our hand knits and delicate garments. Luckily, we have every scent and scentless stacked up at our office,...

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In Bloom: BC Garn Alba for Spring/Summer Knits

  • May 14, 2019
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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Do you love to knit year round, but don’t know what to make? Well, we’ve got you covered!

At Kelbourne Woolens, we not...

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Spring Warehouse Sale!

  • May 2, 2019
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It’s time to clear out the warehouse and make room for new, beautiful yarns and products! Join us on May 11, 10 am -5 pm...

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A Bow in the Sky: Local Yarn Store Day!

  • April 24, 2019
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Half Circle Shawl in gray Perennial yarn with neon pink, coral, yellow, and green stripes on a cloth mannequin with a dark grey background
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The second annual TNNA Local Yarn Store Day is coming up on April 27th,...

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BC Garn Bio Balance: Never Say Goodbye to Sweater Weather

  • April 18, 2019
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It’s spring in the northern hemisphere, and generally that means saying goodbye to sweater weather, regardless if we’re ready for it or...

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Year of Hats

Year of Hats: April Hat

  • April 16, 2019
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Forget the showers, bring on the flowers!

It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time for the April...

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Introducing Somer Jordan to the KW Team!

  • April 12, 2019
  • Meghan Babin
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We’re pleased to announce the newest edition to the Kelbourne Woolens team - Somer Jordan!

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Stitch Your Pride: International Transgender Day of Visibility

  • March 31, 2019
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility, and in celebration we decided to design a cute crochet hat for you to stitch up...

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Introducing Kelbourne Woolens Perennial

  • March 14, 2019
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kelbourne woolens perennial yarn in skeins, piled on a table, against a tan background.
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This spring season we are excited to announce the release of our newest addition to the Kelbourne Woolens family - Perennial. Specifications 60% superwash Merino,...

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Cast-On-Itis: BC Garn Semilla Melange

  • February 27, 2019
  • Meghan Babin
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Do you suffer from cast-on-itis? It’s a problem I’ve suffered from since the invention of Ravelry. Every day a new, gorgeous, must-start-right-now design popped...

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Year of Hats

Year of Hats: February Hat

  • February 19, 2019
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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Today is the third Tuesday of the month, and that can only mean one thing - the February Hat is here! This year we’re...

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Happy Little Accidents: My Humulus Sweater (Dress)

  • February 18, 2019
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Did you all watch or grow up with The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross? Well, when I tried on my freshly blocked Read more

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Designer Feature: Germantown Hats by Chiaki Hayashi

  • February 12, 2019
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Our Germantown yarn is one of those go-to-for-anything yarns we keep reaching for over and over again. It’s ideal for plain, textured, and stranded...

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Navia

Navia Duo Makes a Colorwork Knitter Out of Me

  • February 11, 2019
  • Meghan Kelly
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Now that the holidays are over, I can finally show you the hats I made for my best friends two daughters! (Full disclosure, I...

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We Want You!: Crochet Summer ’19 Submissions Call

  • January 30, 2019
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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We’re in the frigid depths of winter in Philadelphia, so naturally, it got us thinking about warmer climates and crochet! At Kelbourne Woolens, we think...

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A Love Affair With Lice

  • January 28, 2019
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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For the last two weeks, I have exclusively been working on the Barnelopper (Baby Fleas) cardigan by Ann Myhre (Pinneguri) in Read more

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Designer Feature: Bynx Hat by Hayley Geary

  • January 25, 2019
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We have a soft spot in our hearts for our snuggly Scout yarn. The entire Kelbourne...

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An Interview With: Dianna Walla of Paper Tiger

  • January 24, 2019
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Dianna Walla, the designer behind Paper Tiger, recently published The Chalet Collection in conjunction with Montréal...

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Introducing 5 New Colors of Scout!

  • January 23, 2019
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Five colors of Kelbourne Woolens Scout: strawberry heather, plum heather, teal heather, moss heather, and meadow heather, in a flat lay on a white background
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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...

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Year of Hats

Introducing the Year of Hats!

  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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White hands with a blue and white long sleeve shirt and pink painted nails sewing a leather hat tag on the heavily bobbled and cabled January Hat, knit in Germantown in sage.
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It’s a new year and about time for a new year-long-knit-a-long pattern series from Kelbourne Woolens! What’s better than a free hat pattern? Twelve free...

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Behind the Scenes

Crafting a Responsibility

  • January 13, 2019
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There has been...

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Fresh for 2019: Introducing Meghan Babin to the KW Team!

  • January 2, 2019
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Meghan? Which Meghan? We’ll have to devise a system.

Here at the Kelbourne Woolens office we suffer from name confusion issues. There’s Courtney Kelley...

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Designer Feature

Designer Feature: Meta’s Bonnet by Maura Kirk

  • December 17, 2018
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Our dear friend Maura (another former Kelbourne Woolens employee!) stopped by yesterday with her darling wee babe, Meta, who was wearing her brand...

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Knit-A-Long

Navia Knitalong: Updates and Progress

  • December 13, 2018
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whhhooooooossssh! Did you hear that? That was the sound of the last three weeks flying by! We’re still excitedly plugging away at the knit along,...

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Designer Feature: Grayson by Leah McGlone

  • December 11, 2018
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The Winter 2018 Knitty is live, and in it is a stunning wrap, Grayson, by our dear friend Leah McGlone! Leah...

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A Giveaway for the Bohéme Christmas Hat!

  • December 6, 2018
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Just in time for the holidays, we have teamed up with Randi Hjelm Debes of Faroe Knit to offer a giveaway for her Bohéme...

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Provisional Cast On

  • December 4, 2018
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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A provisional cast-on is a way to cast on stitches using waste yarn as a temporary cast on so that it can be easily...

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Finished Projects

Courtney’s Carbeth Cardigan

  • December 3, 2018
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Every now and then a pattern hits you like a ton of bricks, and you stop everything you’re doing to cast on.
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Bobbles

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There are many types of bobbles created using different techniques. The basic concept for all bobbles - regardless of their size - is that you are...

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Filet Crochet

  • November 30, 2018
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While often very complex in appearance, filet crochet is a simple form of crochet that uses a open netting and filled spaces formed by...

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Aslant Pullover + Andorra Yarn Giveaway!

  • November 27, 2018
  • Courtney Kelley
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The Aslant Pullover, designed by Lana Jois using Kelbourne Woolens Andorra and published in the latest knit.wear issue is the perfect...

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New Free Pattern: Llumeneres Hat!

  • November 23, 2018
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When we received the new colors of Andorra this season, I saw the deep navy and immediately fell in love. I had always wanted...

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Bohéme Christmas Hat by Faroe Knit

  • November 21, 2018
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Last night while relaxing with a cup of Sleepytime tea and some Instagram therapy, I happened upon the perfect Christmas-y knit to add to...

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Cables Across Repeats

  • November 19, 2018
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Working cables in the round in all-over repeats requires working the cable at the end of the round differently than the others in the repeat. When...

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Navia Knitalong: Swatches and colors

  • November 16, 2018
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Despite a bit of snow that surprised every meteorologist in the tri state area, we all managed to do a little bit of swatching...

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Navia Knitalong: Free Pattern and Plans

  • November 12, 2018
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It is time to get excited for the Navia Knitalong! As I mentioned in the post last week, the design, Troyggja Við Mynstur (Sweater...

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Announcing the Navia knitalong!

  • November 8, 2018
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As I mentioned in my previous post on Navia, we’re hosting a casual knitalong using the Troyggja Við Mynstur (Sweater with...

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Collection Feature

Scout Collection: Powell

  • November 4, 2018
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Throughout the process of creating and growing the Kelbourne Woolens line of yarns, it has been really fun to see how Meghan...

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An Interview With: Óli Kristian á Torkilsheyggi of Navia Yarns

  • October 24, 2018
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As mentioned in my last post, we spent some time with Óli Kristian á Torkilsheyggi (Kris), the owner of Navia Yarns, in...

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Our Visit to The Faroe Islands

  • October 18, 2018
  • Kate Gagnon Osborn
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2018 was a pretty crazy year, and one of the absolute highlights (besides the birth of Courtney’s daughter, Gilda, and the release of four...

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