Slowing Down to Gear Up!
Asking for help is hard, almost as hard as resting. I have to get better at doing both if I intend to do this rather physical job of yarn dyeing for the long haul!
Work / Office
Learning Curve
ModeKnit Yarn is in it’s 5th year, which kind of blows Kathleen and me away. And every day we learn new things. We started this with $2,000 and an agreement on who would do what (which was pretty fluid, but for the most part I do the dyeing, and Kathleen does all of the less-sexy-but-more-important …
It’s Time for our Winter Sale!
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 …
Year Three – Finding Our Groove
This Fall marks the third year of ModeKnit Yarn’s existence. Shocking. In some ways it feels like we just started last month, in other ways it feels as though we’ve been doing this for five or ten years. We have some new ideas coming down the pike (new ball sizes, new NO SPOILER colorways, new …
TO DYE FOR!
Since we’re still in flux with the move, there will be precious few orders finished this coming week.
We anticipate getting the dye works up to full speed beginning Monday, 9/19, and then we’ll be in full production for the Fall.
ModeKnit Yarn Dye Studio is MOVING!
If you place an order, please know that it will be given our full and complete attention AFTER we set up in our new studio on Sept 15, and it will be all the more beautiful for that!
A Kill Room (er, DYE room…)
If you’re in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio or Michigan, this has been your Summer to visit with ModeKnit Yarn! We hope to see many of you at Stitches Midwest and/or the Michigan Fiber Festival! Getting a chance to visit with our customers is – in all honesty – the highlight of our trips!
The Corset Tank Top KAL
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 …
Knitting for Friends-A Slippy Cowl Giveaway!
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 …
Black Cyber! Brahmin Moth at 15% Off All Weekend!
ON SALE! 15% OFF THROUGH DEC 1! You pick the three colors you love (think HIGH CONTRAST) and we’ll kit this up and send it off to you right away! The Brahmin Moth is a beautiful creature, full of lines and circles and color juxtapositions that you can almost feel. I’ve worked on this pattern …
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Minnesota Fun!
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 …
Free Patterns on Friday!
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 …
Weekending
This weekend we: Retreated with friends to The Gathering Place at Whitetail Ridge. There was knitting, quilting, cooking, eating, blogging, laughter, wine and cider. Shopped at Quilt Haven in Hutchinson, MN. Some of us went more than once. I love the fabrics and the historic building but I didn’t buy anything. I don’t quilt, but …
Breaking the Silence!
It’s been such a long time since we’ve posted! (Since August! I’m somewhat amazed how fast the time has flown by…). Annie and I have resolved to post more often here and over here at her personal page. I’m even thinking about blogging here every single day in November! I’m challenging myself! We’ve been …
How To Be A Cheap On-The-Road Date…
Come by and see us at the Schaumburg Renaissance Center and we’ll give you a delicious Green Tea candy and a hug!
Ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!
Hey Folks! 2015 is SUCH an exciting and busy Summer, if it seems that at times The ModeKnit Yarn Team of Annie & Kathleen (& Becca part time!) has been incommunicado, it’s because we’re crazy busy. And busy is GOOD! As we grow our company and develop some wholesale accounts, do more fiber shows and just …