Can't Wait to Celebrate 13 Years with YOU! 🎈

Join us any time during our open hours this Saturday, April 11, 9a - 4p! We'd love to celebrate 13 years of Yarn Folk with YOU!

We'll have a trunk show from Embery Fibers, and you will love Amber's bases and colors inspired by nature.

We'll have two yarns from Kim Dyes Yarn, the versatile Sourdough Sock, and Cronut Sport (a luxurious wool/silk blend).

It's our shop anniversary, but the gift opportunities are yours--everyone can enter to win one of two door prizes, and you get extra entries for every $20 you spend. A $20 purchase also gets you a themed favor bag, and it might be my favorite one yet!

Several new yarns spring yarns have arrived, we have a restock from Malabrigo expected tomorrow or Wednesday, we'll have refreshments, and you are so welcome to join our Saturday Social Stitching from 2-4p.

Bring a friend, because fiber friends ARE the best friends!

Some new yarns arrived last week--

Eternity from Lang shares some DNA with Infinity, but just in time for warmer weather, it is a soft 100% cotton chainette. It works up as a worsted, but the yardage is incredibly generous--372 yards in 100g. It hasn't been in the shop long enough for me to try in an actual project (I loved the swatch, though), but my instinct is that it would work well with patterns that employ som slipped stitches, like Stephen West's Icelandscape Scarflet or The Bubble Bandana, both of which call for fingering weight yarn, but would be easy enough to adapt--one skein for a small scarf, two for something bigger.

From Plymouth Yarn's stable of Peruvian highland wool yarns comes Roam, a lovely non-superwash sport weight. It's 302 yards per 100g, comes in a range of gorgeous, mostly heathered colors, and sits at a fantastic price point. 

And while we only got three of the colors we ordered, what we DID receive reinforced why we ordered Sea Isle. Another chainette, it combines 50% fine Merino wool with 50% organic Pima cotton. It's incredibly soft, squishy, and breathable.

…to inspire

With an outdoor temp of 76ºF as I write this, I thought I would share a few short sleeved sweater patterns that have caught my eye recently.

Rebecca Clow's Nostie pattern is written for DK or fingering weight yarn. It's a drop shouldered design combining ribbing and lace. 

© Rebecca Clow

Her Tolsta Tee is from a couple of years ago and also offers the same yarn weight options. It's a raglan sleeve with optional bust shaping, and several suggestions on how to personalize it.

© Jaq Studio

Bocce from Jaq Studio is a lacy ribbed polo cardigan with dropped shoulders. If I manage to make time, I want to make this as a perfect summer layer.

© Nomad Stitches

Nomad Stitches Vesiuvius Tee shares a look with Nostie, above, but it is crochet, and has a split hi/lo hem with clean and stylish edges.

 

 

The Arcuate Vest in Blue Sky Fibers Organic Cotton Sport is moving toward the underarm split fof front and back, and you can see the full effect of the cables. The design is cropped, but I'm knitting it to my preferred underarm to hem length of 14.5".

Spinning: I experimented with plying some Shetland wool with Corriedale. The additional natural is where I chain plied the amount of the Shetland that exceeded what I'd spun of the Corriedale.