It’s Spring Festival season, and Modeknit Yarn is heading out on the road! Will we be at a show near you? Yarn Fest We are at Interweave Yarn Fest in Loveland, CO April 16-19, 2015. We will have our new colors, mini-skeins, kits and FLOW, Annie is teaching classes as well (there are still spaces in Knitting […]
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The random number generator has spoken and the winner of the skein of semi-solid ModeWerk Worsted is Michelle H!! Her winning comment: “My favorite color in third grade was hot pink, the same exact shade as the dye tub in that first pic. Now it’s purple, with turquoise as an honorable mention”. Michelle H, you
And we have a winner! Read More »
Dyeing yarn is fun. It can be hard, creating colors that can be recreated consistently, working up large orders, coming up with original and compelling inspirations – that can be difficult. But, overall, it’s a blast, and I feel grateful to every customer we have who allows me to continue to dye beautiful yarn! I
Solid As A Rock [granite, to be precise…] Read More »
We’re pleased to introduce the ModeWerk FLOW Yarn Club! We are SO EXCITED to offer you this very special club! The yarn we’ve chosen for this club is our ModeWerk, available in three weights; fingering, worsted, and bulky. Strong, soft, and machine washable, ModeWerk is a truly wonderful yarn for all your projects. FLOW is
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One of the most satisfying things about making hand-dyed yarn is seeing the garments our customers create! The marriage of yarn and project is fascinating, we love to see how a pretty skein of yarn is utilized in the hands of a skilled knitter or crocheter. Right now on Ravelry there are 19 completed projects
Wednesday Wonders Round-up: The Socks! Read More »
The Winter 2014 Issue of Knitty is up, and ModeKnit Yarn was used to knit a featured pattern! A few months back we received a request for yarn support. We sent off some ModeSock to New York to designer Joyce Fassbender, and we waited to see what would be created. Would it be socks? Or
Lazurite Flow Featured In Knitty!! Read More »
SHERLOCK IS BACK! More about that later… THANK YOU! We want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped us to find our footing as a fledgeling yarn company! Our customers, our vendors, those who helped with advice, booth tricks, microwaves (thanks Karen!) and color suggestions – thank you to ALL of you!
Thankful For The Return Of 221b! Read More »
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2014 is Purple! (Well, actually, it’s Radiant Orchid) Our two newest purples are Amethyst and Lilac! Amethyst Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz found all over the world. The name comes from ancient Greek and means “not intoxicated“. The ancient Greeks wore amethyst amulets and carved drinking vessels from stones,
Amethyst is the New Purple! Read More »
Did you miss our last yarn club? Are you a sock yarn fan? Want to be part of an exclusive group? Need a really cool holiday gift for a friend? Are you tired of leading questions posted at the top of blog posts..? ANNOUNCING THE MODEKNIT SOCK YARN CLUB! Subscriptions are LIMITED! Our delicious 3-ply ModeSock yarn
Announcing the ModeKnit Sock Yarn Club! Read More »
Farewell Friends Saying goodbye is never easy, but this season we’re bidding a fond farewell to two colors in order to make way for two new colors! We’re sending off Penny Blake (The Governor’s Daughter – yeah, no one knew who she was…) We’re also sending off Hershel Greene (the best damn father figure since
NEW Knitting Dead Colors Revealed! Read More »
Did you REALLY think we could keep it in the vault? The Knitting Dead is back, but two of our beloved colors have experienced the True Death (uh oh, I’m Crossing the Memes … and here I go and do it a third time!) So we bid a fond farewell to Hershel Greene and Penny
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It’s a catchy tagline! And it’s so, so true! This past weekend we were vendors at North Country Fiber Fair in Watertown, SD. There weren’t a lot of vendors, but the ones there were exceptional! Excellent yarns, gifts, baskets, buttons, ceramics, LOTS of spinning fibers and tools – just a wonderful variety of great small
Great Faces. Great Places. South Dakota! Read More »
I LOVE Outlander! I’ve loved the books by Diana Gabaldon for years, and I’m totally in love with the Starz Mini Series (which is incredibly well done, small costume issues aside – huge, bulky knit cowls, I’m looking at you…) But overall the details are perfect, the story is exceptional, and if you’re watching it,
Claire’s Cabled Capelet – FREE! Read More »
Announcing the ModeKnit Yarn Club! We are very excited to introduce our very first yarn club!!! Three shipments of worsted weight yarn Yarn arrives as four 60gr/106yd skeins (240gr/425yds total) dyed in CLUB EXCLUSIVE colorways available only to club members Extra skein sales to members will be available while supplies last. Each shipment arrives with
ModeKnit Yarn Club — and — A COUPON for the NCFF in South Dakota! Read More »
The winner of the skein of ModeWerk Bulky is Shelly D!! Shelly you have been emailed. Your “blue batwing” comment made us smile! Life continues to roll along here in Saint Paul. We are smack in the middle of the MN State Fair. Kathleen headed over there on Friday last week, and what did she
Winner winner chicken dinner! Read More »
If you’ve been following Annie this past week, then you know it’s been a little crazy in the ModeKnit Yarn world. The brightest spot by FAR was reading all the lovely, uplifting comments left by our amazing and wonderful ModeKnitters! And because we love you all so much, we want to re-share our latest free
A new pattern- Lanark Plaid Cowl-and a contest! Read More »
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