Wildcat Night Out is TONIGHT! + Two new kits

September 22, 2026

Welcome back Wildcats!

When schools are fully back in session, it's really, truly fall. We're happy to welcome CWU students back to Ellensburg, and we'll be participating in Wildcat Night Out tonight from 5-7pm. Stop in to see fresh yarns for fall, and sign up for our weekly email to enter a drawing for a $40 gift card.

…mark your calendars

Social Stitching

Every Saturday, 2-4p

Every Tuesday, 10a-12p

📍Have a Ball Fall Crawl

The virtual crawl takes place on Zoom September 19, 20, 26, 27. Register here--you'll have access to replays from last weekend's presentations and can watch the second weekend shops live. Xandy Peters is this year's guest designer.

📍Wildcat Night Out

September 22, 5-7p Welcome back to Ellensburg! At participating downtown businesses & Unity Park, following Bite of the Burg

Factory Girl Design Trunk Show

Dates to be confirmed , yarn & fiber

22 Mile Studio Hand-dyed Fiber Trunk Show

October 3, a special opportunity to get ready for Spinzilla!

Spinzilla

October 5-11, we'll be in touch with the Twisting in the Wind team soon!

Malabrigo Day

Saturday, October 24th

…new in the shop

We've got quite a few new things to share--but we are going to spread them out over a couple of weeks.

Pictured here are not one, but TWO, new kits.

Most prominently featured is Andrea Mowry's The Traveler Cowl, which we made in three colors of Malabrigo Torzal. The modified bandana style cowl was designed with handspun yarn in mind, and the two-ply, handspun look of Torzal is a great substitute.

I color-blocked "with my heart," with plenty of yarn to spare. You can find the kits here--choose from five different color combinations. Relaxing to knit, easy to wear.

And underneath is the Instant Gratification Cardigan, knit up in cowgirlblues Fluffy Mohair. If you, too, want a wearable cloud, we did all the math for you. Knit on size 10 needles with minimal finishing, this project FLIES. Our garment kits always combine sizes (while making the finished sizes clear) that require the same amount of yarn. If you're on the fence, you'll know if you have more than one option with the same number of skeins. Find the kits here.

…to inspire

Looking for inspo?

Check out the Deep Fall edition of Knitty, where the patterns are always free, always tech edited, and the designers get paid. I'm not even done browsing the issue, and I've already seen some gorgeous basics!

Also, it's time for Knitworthy 10 pre-orders, and you can do that on Ysolda Teague's site here. Ysolda's Knitworthy collections are patterns for gift-giving delivered in subscription fashion, and this year they are all swatchless! Like the Musselburgh hat, you cast on, and plot your course from the gauge you are actually getting with your yarn and needles. As long as you are happy with the fabric you are creating, you are good to go! I pre-ordered my collection and can't wait to see what she has in store.

...currently stitching

I just separated the sleeves from the body of Hey Halo--once I get to the end of my current ball of Woolia (and I'm almost there), I will switch to the sleeves and work those before I finish off the body.

I'm including a photo of a current strategy for putting the sleeve stitches on hold. Once I arrive at the sleeve stitches, I push a Stitch Saver Cord onto the left-hand needle and pull the sleeve stitches through, then keep knitting. As an added security measure, I like threading the stitch saver cords through a Stitch Stopper and tie a little knot. Those sleeve stitches aren't going anywhere!