On Saturday we were vendors in the market at Yarnover. Yarnover is an annual event here in Minnesota, put on by the Minnesota Knitters Guild. This was our very first show, and it was tons of fun!! We met new friends, reconnected with old friends, and sold lots of yarn, books and patterns. The mini skein […]
The random number generator has spoken, and the Mini Skein set winner is….. JOAN! Joan, we’ve emailed you. Please reply so we may send out your mini skein set. Here’s her winning comment “The colors are all so beautiful! Isn’t business growth wonderful? Both daunting and exciting at the same time.” We couldn’t agree more!
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A few months ago we sent out 1000 yards of ModeSock in Lazurite for a new design for Holla Knits! Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. That lovely blue sock yarn has turned into the StoneyBrook Top, a light, airy sweater perfect for spring and summer. It’s youthful and fun, and looks great with leggings as pictured, or would look good
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Leave a comment on this post or on “Nonnatus House, Midwife Speaking” for a chance to win a 15gr mini skein set of “Midwife Speaking” in one of our favorite yarns, ModeWerk Fingering. A random commenter will be chosen on Tuesday April 8th, 2014. Join our Ravelry group ModeKnit Yarn on Facebook Follow Annie on
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You’ve probably noticed how quiet I’ve been – I apologize for that! Believe me, it’s all because of work, and that’s a good reason! We just shipped our first wholesale order, which was huge (to me) and this adventure will NOT be duplicated until 2015, when we’re set up to seriously seek wholesale accounts. All
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I’ve been rather quiet on the blog, and I apologize for that! You see, we’ve been KILLER busy! According to our [back of napkin] business plan, ModeKnit Yarn, LLC wasn’t scheduled to begin working on acquiring wholesale orders until 2015. Kathleen and I both feel that one of the easiest mistakes to make with a
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Provisional cast on? ICord Bind Off? Short Rows? Grafting? Creating a Thumb Gusset? These are all techniques that you can try out with this simple pattern. Note that I said SIMPLE, which is not the same thing as EASY!
I’ve made the decision to display ALL of the colors together, in a cohesive group, which I hope will make these more compelling colorways!
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Daryl’s the quiet muscle, the thinking wo/man’s redneck, and he’s proven to be a better friend, defender and father-figure than almost anyone else on the show.
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Today I begin revealing a series of colors based on AMC’s The Walking Dead which I’m calling, The Knitting Dead. Personally, I can’t understand why there’s not more knitting (or ANY knitting) in TWD, I feel the producers are missing out on a huge section of their fan base. And we KNOW there are some
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Each week I’ll bring out a new colorway based on a character, location or event from TWD which inspires me, and these will be available in all our ModeKnit Yarns (ModeSock, ModeLuxe & ModeWerk.)
Straighten Your Knocker brings all of the rich, masculine colors of the portal into Sherlock’s world together into one beautiful colorway.
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Mary’s Maids is a celebration of purple (sorry, Lilac) in subtle, semi-solid beauty! This colorway would work beautifully with any other color in the 221B series – or with many of our Semi Precious colors.
This is a subtle, ladylike colorway, nothing too extravagant. Charming, likable, not unlike Mary herself.
But there’s some depth there, too, something entirely unexpected.
Another most exciting aspect to the day is that I FINALLY finished dyeing up large amounts of the two final colors in the 221B Series, and have put together sets to ship! I apologize for the several days delay in getting these out, but I feel it was definitely worth the weight!
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I Will Burn You Colorway
I WILL BURN YOU is not a colorway for the faint-of-heart.
It’s rich, deep, and has a medium-length color change which WILL cause you some grief if you’re expecting tiny little color change bursts.
In other words, this color WILL BURN YOU!
But fire is exciting, no?
It seems simple, just black, right? But look deeper, there’s some grey, a bit of cream, even some sharp red hues that move toward a cerise. That’s because an Old Fashioned Villain isn’t as simple as one might think.
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