Tag: yarn
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The Inaugural Oklahoma Yarn Crawl Part Two: The Central and Western Shops
The 2024 Oklahoma Yarn Crawl recently wrapped, and my gosh was it FUN! If you haven’t checked out Part One of my recap, read it first here. Twelve fiber businesses from across Oklahoma got together to put on the state’s first yarn crawl. Yarn shops, dye works, a working farm,…
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The Inaugural Oklahoma Yarn Crawl Part One: The Eastern Shops
The 2024 Oklahoma Yarn Crawl recently wrapped, and my gosh was it FUN! Twelve fiber businesses from across Oklahoma got together to put on the state’s first yarn crawl. Yarn shops, dye works, a working farm, and a mini fiber mill dot the state map, and fiber lovers made the…
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Squish It! – Jody Long Delish Yarn Review
Hello everyone! It’s been a while! Christmas Covid is the gift that keeps on giving, and recovery has been rough. It’s Fiber Christmas In July time already! I’ve been through a slew of tests with more to come, but I’m finally able to break through the covid brain fog enough…
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The EEW Cone Winder- Unboxing and Initial Thoughts
If you’re familiar with the Electric Eel Spinning Wheel, you might know that Maurice Ribble of Dreaming Robots, the mind behind the magic, recently released an electric cone winder! I backed the project on Kickstarter in 2022. I have only backed three or four Kickstarter projects, but I have to…
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CONE Yarn Review: Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport
It’s fall, y’all! …well, it is autumn according to the calendar. Sweater weather hasn’t fully arrived yet in Northeast Oklahoma, but I am here for you with a seasonally appropriate review of Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport 100% wool yarn ON CONES! Before we get into my knitting experience, here…
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Organizing My Studio: The Main Room
We moved to our new place last year, and I have a studio! Yay! It’s a small building around 400 square feet just steps from our garage. It’s been a dream come true having a large, dedicated machine knitting space and not just a small craft room, but it’s a…
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Finding Cone Yarn
Knitting machines can use a range of yarn from all kinds of put-ups like we saw in my last post, but the easiest and best put-up for machine knitting is cone yarn. Cones don’t need extra preparation before use, have more yardage in general, and often feature unique textures or…
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Spring Seminar Coming Soon! April 1, 2023
That’s right! It’s nearly time for our next seminar! Hand and machine knitters, you won’t want to miss this! We’re learning how to design a custom fit knitted sweater! Attendees will learn measurement tips and tricks to accommodate various body type needs and draw a body block schematic based off…
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What a year!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you’re spending the end of the year how you want, where you want, with whomever you want. From launching ELY Knits as a site to attending my first in person market in years, a lot of things have happened…
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Yarn Review: Lion Brand Touch of Yak
I bought this yarn in 2020 to review, and, well, 2020 (and now most of 2021) happened. Now it’s on clearance, but if this yarn seems like it’s for you, you might find a good deal on Lion Brand Touch of Yak All opinions are honest and my own. I…
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