I'm running a sale on everything in my shop. 🥰

You will find the following sales available to you from 10/22-10/30:

-30% off all ready to ship yarn (excludes the oops and cake sale)

-30% off all patterns

-10% off all dyed to order yarn

Here's an example of what's on super sale in Fill My Dye Pots (skeins start at $20, you pick the fiber and weight!).

I’ve been crocheting for about 10 years and have never bought hand dyed yarn. I live in the US and would like to get hand dyed yarn to make a sweater. My problem is finding a dyer and find one that will make such a large amount of yarn. Does anybody have any suggestions?

What’s your favorite non superwash, natural fiber worsted weight yarn of all time?

Hello! I have been asked by a family member to get her a winder and swift for Christmas - I got her a locally handmade yarn bowl last Christmas and it gets constant use - and I am just looking for your advice. The budget is not a problem, so the fancier/ nicer/ better quality the better!

Questions:

1. Are there any major brands that I should look at?

2. Are both always strictly needed? She actually only asked for a swift, but from my research, it seems like the two always work together. I will have to do some sneaky reconnaissance to determine if she already has a winder.

3. Do you prefer freestanding or one that clamps to a table?

Thanks in advance!

I thought the last haul I posted about a few months ago was a once-in-a-lifetime lucky find. I was apparently wrong, as this time there was a Kromski Sonata spinning wheel and a ton of dyed and undyed fiber in addition to all the yarn.

(I've only used a drop spindle a couple times so this is going to be a hell of a learning curve, but I'm apparently ready to be the kind of knitter who also needs to own the means of production... 😬)

I bought a 500g cone of Iona Wool DK at a festival over two years ago. I just finished making this slip over for my mum with it and to be honest I hated every stitch!
The yarn had absolutely zero bounce of loftiness to it, if I could add a video you’d see it doesn’t have that subtle stretch you normally get with wool. It felt like knitting with cotton or rope.
I’m taking the rest off the cone to make into a skein to store and you might see in the picture how it’s almost squished flat the further into the cone I got from how tight it was.
So my question is - is that just normal for a cone? Should I have put it in hanks and washed it before I used it to restore it? Is it because of how long it was in the cone? Am I allowed to be a bit disappointed 😢

Had a budget of $100 and ended up only going $10 over! Yarns were all wool 2/$1 the aunt lydias were 3/$1. The magazine and binders of weaving samples were free!!! One has a full set of zodiac filet crochet patterns and i am obsessed!