Click here to view the available yarn. Looking for something specific? Our current selection includes all weights from Lace to Bulky. ModeWerk Lace ModeWerk Fingering ModeWerk DK ModeWerk Worsted ModeWerk Bulky ModeSock ModeLuxe DK ModeStar Indie Design Gift-A-Long 2018 This year Annie is a participating designer in the 2018 Indie Design Gift-A-Long over on Ravelry. What’s this all about? […]
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We’ve added six new colors to our ModeKnit Yarn lineup! We’re celebrating Minnesota’s favorite pastime (and Kathleen’s favorite sport) with our new Hockey Colors, also know as Chix with Stix! Choose one of these lovelies paired with Pearl to make our new Hat Trick Mitten or Hat kit! Hat Trick uses the same slip stitch
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Our annual winter sale is HAPPENING NOW! Use code winter2018 at checkout to take 20.18% off your total purchase through January 31st! Everything (except memberships to the Cassini Yarn Club) is on sale. Have you been hankering for a new jacket? Our Garter Stripe Jacket Kit is now available online! This cozy jacket is always
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Our 2018 Spring Travel schedule is set, and boy it’s a DOOZY! We’ve added a few new-to-us shows, we’re headed back to a show we did a few years ago, and we’re definitely back at our usual spring shows! Madison Knitter’s Guild Knit-In– March 17th & 18th Yarn Con- Chicago’s Indie Fiber Fair–
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One of our New Year’s intentions is to blog more in 2018. We kind of fell away from blogging last year as we got busier with shows and travel. And today is the perfect day to blog because it’s SNOWING! It been a snow drought this winter here in Saint Paul, so a snow
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Imagine if you will a car ride from New York City to Maryland in the spring of 2004. Gerry is at the wheel, Annie is swatching with silk, translating an idea that has percolated for months into a garment. A fabulous, romantic, lovely garment now known as The Corset Tank Top. The corset slowly takes
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I love knitting gifts for friends, and I love receiving hand-knit gifts. As I knitter, I appreciate the love and hard work that goes into creating a gift just for me. This past Christmas, Annie knit me a new Slippy Cowl. I accidentally felted the Slippy Cowl I knit for myself (that’s another blog post for
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This weekend we: Dyed yarn. Annie and Becca are dyeing up a storm, getting ModeKnit Yarn ready for Interweave Yarn Fest March 31, April 1 & 2. Labeled yarn. We’re finishing up a large wholesale order; twisting skeins and writing out labels. Did bookwork. I’m getting the MKY books ready for our accountant. It’s almost
A few weeks ago, I shared the story of ModeKnit Yarn. In that post, there is a picture of my mother, MaryAnne P, taken on Christmas Eve 2012. Christmas was her favorite holiday of the year. Growing up in Connecticut, we always had a big celebration. Everyone came to our house on Christmas Eve and
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This is the view over my house in Saint Paul right now. It’s clear and cold, and the snow missed us this time. I don’t think we’ll be this lucky later in the week. What’s your Saturday look like?
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This might have happened on the way home from the Fosston Fiber Festival in early October. This also might have happened at the same time. This particular larger-than-life Paul Bunyan is in Akeley, MN, also known as the birthplace of the big guy. There are lots of fun sites like this all over Minnesota, and
I’ve been cleaning out my office, trying to consolidate paper, photos, and stuff from my mom’s house. It’s been an epic job, and it’s ongoing. I keep coming across things I forgot about, especially photos. I found my kindergarten class photo from 1973, and it’s pretty cute. Here’s me wearing a crocheted granny-square vest made
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I’ve been promising to show a few of my many works-in-progress here on the blog. Yesterday I popped over to Ravelry to check my projects page and I looked through my knitting bags here at home. I’ve realized a few things: Realization#1- I have a raging case of Startitis and have lots of projects started, or
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Did you know we have free patterns right here on our website? Annie designed a number of patterns for our different yarns, and they can be found here. Our favorite free pattern is the Slippy Cowl. This easy cowl looks great in two contrasting colors of ModeLuxe Worsted or ModeWerk Worsted. I’m wearing mine in this
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One question Annie and I are asked all the time is How did you two meet? Another question is How/Why did you start ModeKnit Yarn? The answers to both are intertwined. Annie and I met back in May of 2008 (I think). My friend Karen and I took one of Annie’s knitting classes at Shepherd’s
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