Long Thread Podcast: Emily Lymm, Wool & Palette
Season 10, Episode 2: With a passion for rich, beautiful color and slow fiber, Emily Lymm uses natural dyes to create a more sustainable craft world.
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Season 10, Episode 2: With a passion for rich, beautiful color and slow fiber, Emily Lymm uses natural dyes to create a more sustainable craft world.
SUBFull of questions and seeing a need among her rural neighbors, a local yarn store owner followed her love for fiber to new heights.
Season 9, Episode 9: Beginning as employees in a Philadelphia yarn shop, Kate and Courtney have built a partnership around a shared vision: wearable classic knitwear and yarns.
Season 8, Episode 10: More and more, knitters look to the craft for meaning as well as creativity and pleasure. Through books, magazines, and partnerships, Hannah Thiessen Howard aims to connect that purpose to practice.
Fiber art gets back to its roots with an annual Montana event.
Season 8, Episode 5: After ten years, the online yarn marketplace Indie Untangled has grown from a simple website to an engine for discovery.
Season 8, Episode 2: Reclaiming the bold, bright hues that she loved as a child, Felicia Lo founded her handdyed yarn company to let knitters and spinners embrace the possibilities of “unapologetic color.”
Season 8, Episode 1: From the controls of the fiber mill, Mary Jeanne Packer and her team have a view of the fiber and textile industry that stretches from farms to consumers, all on the quest for high-quality, sustainable yarns.
Whether you’re knitting the spectrum of natural alpaca colors or choose the colors of the rainbow, this pattern is quick and delightful.
When it comes to estimating the yarn you'll need for a knitting project, the most effective method involves weights and measures.
Before you commit to a new knitting project, make sure you won't run out of yarn an inch from the end. Here's one method to estimate yarn requirements for knitting projects.
This simple shawl highlights the color and texture of unique yarns like naturally colored cotton.