Are you enjoying our Summer Sweater Knit A Long? We hope so! Today’s post is another Tip + Trick, dedicated to teaching you how to work perfect, nearly invisible short rows. Short row shaping is used often in sweaters – especially those knit in the round – most commonly to raise the back neck, create…
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The Allium Collection: ALLIUM + official pattern release!
Today is the day! The release of the full Allium Collection as individual .pdf downloads for your knitting enjoyment. In honor of the release, we’re delighted to present the final pattern in the collection, aptly named Allium. The name for this beautiful shawl informed the naming of the rest of the designs, so we thought…
The Allium Collection: URSA
With just two days left until the release, we’re delighted to finish sharing our collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Today and tomorrow, we’ll feature the last 2 of the 8 patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns…
The Allium Collection: UMBREL
Continuing our featured collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Over the next two weeks, we’ll continue highlighting the rest of the 8 patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns via Ravelry, or you favorite Fibre Company…
The Allium Collection: SHALLOT
We’re proud to continue sharing our collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Over the next two weeks, we’ll continue highlighting the rest of the 8 patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns via Ravelry, or you…
The Allium Collection: TWINLEAF
We’re proud to continue sharing our collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting each of the 8 patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns via Ravelry, or you favorite Fibre…
The Allium Collection: ROSEUM
We’re proud to continue sharing our collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting each of the 8 patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns via Ravelry, or you favorite…
The Allium Collection: LILLYDALE
We’re proud to continue sharing our collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting each of the 8 patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns via Ravelry, or you favorite…
Introducing…The Allium Collection: CEPA
We’re proud to announce a wonderful collaboration with Grace Anna Farrow, The ALLIUM COLLECTION: 8 original shawl designs featuring Meadow. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting each of the patterns in preparation for the full release on July 15th. Each pattern will be available as individual patterns via Ravelry, or you favorite Fibre…
New Colors of Acadia!
We’re pleased to announce two fabulous new colors of Acadia for later spring+ early summer knitting! Egret is a gorgeous cream color. The blend of natural colored alpaca with shiny silk and soft natural merino to creates a subtle and sophisticated shade that looks amazing with just about anything. Sand is a mid-tone neutral, paler…
Announcing…Kelbourne Woolens, Volume One
It’s been hard keeping this a secret all year, but we are so pleased to finally share with you our celebration of the first five years of Kelbourne Woolens! Five years ago, in 2008, Kate was in her last year of graduate school, earning a degree in textile design with a weaving focus, and Courtney’s…
Wintry Mix Chex!
Courtney loves to cook, and this extends into kitschy cereal culinary arts. Never one to truly follow a recipe, and continually adjusting and making things up as she goes, the medium of Chex offers a the opportunity for variety and as many manifestations as she can muster. Each holiday season she mixes up a batch…
Westknits Choreo Kal: Geysir Stretch
Stephen West appears to be a madman as of late – in June he published Westknits Book 4: Made for Movement, he did a followup to his wildly successful Mystery KAL in July, the Rockefeller shawl, there is a much anticipated Westknits book 5: Midgard coming out (we’re a fan of anything featuring Cirilia Rose,…
Handmade Love: Mason Jar Cosies
We hope you enjoy this premiere guest post from friend of the Fibre Company + Kelbourne Woolens, Maura Kirk. Maura blogs about her many interests at The Projectory Handcrafts. You may also remember Maura from her contribution to our guest post on the Martha Stewart blog, and the accompanying cowl she designed out of Road…
The Fibre Company + Martha Stewart Living!
The January 2012 issue of Martha Stewart Living just arrived on Kate’s doorstep {you can read a little bit more about Kate’s obsession with Martha Stewart here + here} and we’re delighted to share two projects with you that feature Organik, The Purse Stitch Scarf and Adult Handwarmers. The Purse Stitch Scarf is a long…
Knitter Projects: Gray Vine Yoke
Every once and a while a knitter blows us away with their creative use of yarn and design. The Gray Vine Yoke, a fingering weight version of the Vine Yoke Cardigan by Ysolda Teague knit by Rebecca out of Canopy Fingering in River Dolphin, is one of those projects! Since Rebecca lives in south Florida,…
Sneek Peek!
Well, the VMK-KAL is over and woah boy did it feel like knitting for the book all over again – it was pretty tight there at the end and we would be lying if we said our hands weren’t cramping up like mad! Here is a little sneak peek to whet your whistles of our…
An Interview with: Anne Kuo Lukito
This post is a long time coming, and we’re so glad to have found the time to finally put it up! We met Anne, of Crafty Diversions and the Handicraft Cafe at our first TNNA in January of 2009. She has always been a huge fan and supporter of the Fibre Company and our yarns. …
Haitian Relief Auction – a joint auction with Kristen Rengren
Like all of you, we were devastated to hear of the tragic earthquake in Haiti last week. Many knitters immediately joined a fund-raising effort in order to support the aid to this country and it has been wonderful to see and hear of the tens of thousands of dollars that have been donated so far. …
Canopy Worsted Revisited
A few weeks ago while noodling around on Ravelry we came across this amazing sweater, knit out of Canopy Worsted. It was, coincidentally, knit by Sonali (knittingowl on ravelry) who used to live in Philadelphia and bought the Canopy Worsted to make this sweater at the local yarn store we also frequent. Small world! Sonali…
Spotlight on: Canopy Worsted
We’re continuing with our Canopy theme this week with a spotlight on Canopy Worsted, the (aptly named) worsted weight cousin to Canopy Fingering. Many of the same properties apply when talking about the Worsted and Fingering — it is the same wonderful blend of 50% Baby Alpaca, 30% Merino, and 20% Bamboo. It has a…
Fiddlehead Pullover on The Purl Bee
We are very excited to share a Purl Bee exclusive, the Fiddlehead Pullover with you! I designed this sweet pullover for infants 0-6 or 6-12 months and it was featured last week on the Purl Bee website. The Fiddlehead Pullover uses Canopy Fingering, just 2 or 3 skeins. For more information on Canopy Fingering, check…
Spotlight on: Canopy Fingering
Whew. Sorry for the radio silence there. Where were we? Ah, yes. Yarn Spotlights. We have had Canopy Fingering next on the list to feature, and it turns out to be perfect timing! While we usually are particularly in love with whichever yarn we are knitting with at that moment (and as this is being…
An Interview with: Anne Hanson
We are happy to interrupt our yarn spotlight postings with an interview with Anne Hanson, the talented and lovely designer! We meet Anne at our very first TNNA in January and were delighted to be able to put a few skeins of yarn into her hands. As the time went by and we became busier…
Spotlight on: Road to China Worsted
As we dive deeper and deeper into our knitting for future patterns, the ability to share what we’ve been up to has decreased even more dramatically than before. (More on that in a bit). We both know that is no fun for a blog, especially one that is supposed to be about knitting, so we…
Artisan Yarns: a note
With so many lovely hand-dyed yarns out there most of us have gotten used to dealing with the variegated yarns pooling, striping and other anomalies. As a result we all have different ways of coping with the shift from skein to skein in a hand-dyed multi and take precautions when knitting something that takes multiple…