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Our Corona Virus Response: Keeping You Safe
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Here at Fairlight Fibers, we have been working on our COVID-19 response for at least two weeks. We're located in the Seattle area, the center of the outbreak of this disease in the US, so we've been following the news about this virus closely since the first case was isolated right here in our hometown hospital. We care very deeply about our customers, and we know that many of you are in high-risk groups or are the loved ones of folks in those groups. Your safety is paramount to us.
Great Ideas: Five Skein Fades
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Have you been swept up in the Fade madness? Patterns like The So Faded Sweater by Andrea Mowry or Fading Point by Joji Locatelli need five beautiful skeins of yarns that can fade from one to another without big jumps in color. The closer the fades, the better! These first kits are from JOMA Yarns, a Canadian hand-dyeing company run by Emjay, who paints her yarns by hand to create their beautiful layered appearance. Because these kits are all from the same dyer, the colors are consistent. JOMA kits are made up of two sock bases: Sock-a-Rino, which is a...
Great Ideas: 10 One-Skein Sock Yarn Projects... That Aren't Socks
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So you have some lovely hand-dyed or unusual fiber sock-weight yarn, right? Single skeins you've purchased over the years, or maybe just two little balls of yarn... stash-bound beauties that have no set purpose. What can you make, besides, you know, socks? Here are 10 projects that you can make with a single skein (or its equivalent yardage) of fingering-weight yarn, and that aren't that one shawl everyone makes with a single skein of sock yarn. You know that one. All images are from the Ravelry page for the pattern, and all patterns are FREE! 1. Taylor by Jennifer Lysen...
Pretty Projects: Whistler Wedding Shawl
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Several months ago, on the eve of my wedding, I received a beautiful sample skein of Fibrelya's bamboo/merino mix sock yarn, Bamba, when I ordered their self-striping sock yarn for the shop. I took one look at the gorgeous purple-and-grey colorway called Callicarpa, with its subtle blue speckles, and was in love. It certainly produced the desired effect, because not only did I order it for the shop, but I also immediately cast-on my wedding shawl from it. And by "immediately," I mean as fast as I could wind it, find a pattern, and get that yarn on my...
Great Ideas: Beautiful Projects Using Our Onion Yarns
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Gorgeous Onion Yarns are not familiar to many folks in the United States, though they are popular in Europe. Made with natural, unusual fibers and known for their softness and sheen, Onion's yarns are both luxurious and still reasonably priced. They are already one of our best-selling yarns! We wanted to provide inspiration on how to use our unusual Onion yarns, so we plumbed the Ravelry project pages to bring you beautiful examples of Onion yarns in action! Click on any photo below to go directly to the Ravelry project page! Nettle Sock: this is a fingering weight "sock" yarn that...
Our Corona Virus Response: Keeping You Safe
• safety
Great Ideas: Five Skein Fades
• faded • fades • fading • fading point • knitting fade • so faded • yarn fade
Have you been swept up in the Fade madness? Patterns like The So Faded Sweater by Andrea Mowry or Fading Point by Joji Locatelli need five beautiful skeins of yarns that can fade from one to another without big jumps in color. The closer the fades, the better! These first kits are from JOMA Yarns, a Canadian hand-dyeing company run by Emjay, who paints her yarns by hand to create their beautiful layered appearance. Because these kits are all from the same dyer, the colors are consistent. JOMA kits are made up of two sock bases: Sock-a-Rino, which is a...
Great Ideas: 10 One-Skein Sock Yarn Projects... That Aren't Socks
• great ideas • patterns • projects • sock yarn
So you have some lovely hand-dyed or unusual fiber sock-weight yarn, right? Single skeins you've purchased over the years, or maybe just two little balls of yarn... stash-bound beauties that have no set purpose. What can you make, besides, you know, socks? Here are 10 projects that you can make with a single skein (or its equivalent yardage) of fingering-weight yarn, and that aren't that one shawl everyone makes with a single skein of sock yarn. You know that one. All images are from the Ravelry page for the pattern, and all patterns are FREE! 1. Taylor by Jennifer Lysen...
Pretty Projects: Whistler Wedding Shawl
• fibrelya • onion nettle sock • pretty project • pretty projects
Several months ago, on the eve of my wedding, I received a beautiful sample skein of Fibrelya's bamboo/merino mix sock yarn, Bamba, when I ordered their self-striping sock yarn for the shop. I took one look at the gorgeous purple-and-grey colorway called Callicarpa, with its subtle blue speckles, and was in love. It certainly produced the desired effect, because not only did I order it for the shop, but I also immediately cast-on my wedding shawl from it. And by "immediately," I mean as fast as I could wind it, find a pattern, and get that yarn on my...
Great Ideas: Beautiful Projects Using Our Onion Yarns
• great ideas • onion
Gorgeous Onion Yarns are not familiar to many folks in the United States, though they are popular in Europe. Made with natural, unusual fibers and known for their softness and sheen, Onion's yarns are both luxurious and still reasonably priced. They are already one of our best-selling yarns! We wanted to provide inspiration on how to use our unusual Onion yarns, so we plumbed the Ravelry project pages to bring you beautiful examples of Onion yarns in action! Click on any photo below to go directly to the Ravelry project page! Nettle Sock: this is a fingering weight "sock" yarn that...