New Pattern Release

In 2004, Kate and Rachel turned their love for hand-dyed and hand-spun yarns into Spincycle Yarns. They started small at a local farmers’ market with hand-spun yarns but didn’t stay there long. They developed Dyed In The Wool, a unique millspun 2-ply yarn known for its cool color transitions, made in partnership with a local mill, and that quickly caught everyone’s attention worldwide.

Now, Spincycle Yarns isn’t just a yarn company; it’s a source of inspiration, with a passionate team of over twenty people running the show in production and design. They’re all about innovation, community, and creativity. Their work with knitwear designers has been creating new stories in their yarns, touching crafters all around the globe.

Kate and Rachel’s journey from being hobbyists to leaders in their industry really shows the power of passion, dedication, and working together, inspiring others to get creative and share their own stories with the world.

Today, we celebrate this milestone by introducing a new pattern designed specifically for their worsted weight yarns, Trine and Dream State: A Luminary Affair Collar.

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This design draws its inspiration from the ancient Latvian love for the luminaries, especially the Sun and Moon. In Latvian tales and culture, these celestial bodies are an important matter, symbolizing light, direction, and the rhythm of life, renewal, and being in tune with nature.

The collar is knit seamlessly from the top down, starting off flat before switching to in the round with steeks at the sides. The colourwork pattern is present on both the front and back, giving it a cohesive look.

With its detailed motifs and striking appearance, this collar is a real celerbation of the beauty and connection of everything under the sky.

This pattern is accompanied by a detailed video, where we delve into the process of steeking, and I demonstrate each step thoroughly. If you haven’t already, this project presents a great chance to try out steeking.

You can join our friendly community of knitters on Slack and interact with others in the #aluminaryaffaircollar channel.

Also, explore the bundles Spincycle Yarns has curated specifically for this pattern. Discover them on their Instagram and website, available to purchase from 12 PM, PDT.

This occasion marks our fifth collaboration with Spincycle Yarns, offering a chance to revisit some of our previous creations together, including A Thousand and One Suns, Zalktis, Melancholia, Do Ewe Yoke? and A Thousand and One Suns companion cowl.

If you love SpinCycle’s colour-changing yarns, trying out a pattern from our Yoke Meditation Series would be a perfect way to really see what makes them so special. 

We hope to collaborate on many more designs with Spincycle Yarns and wish them continued success.

New Test Call

If you’ve got a bunch of fingering weight yarn leftovers and looking for a cool, quick project for the summer, check out our latest blog post – we’re looking for testers for a new v-neck top pattern. It comes in both sleeved and sleeveless options and is worked from the top down. Get a sneak peek at the yarn preparation process for the project right here.

The pattern can also work with a single strand of DK weight yarn, or really any yarn that gets you 20 stitches over 10 cm / 4”.

To get all the details on how to get involved, read the blog post. Sign-ups kick off at 3PM BST on April 25th to keep it fair across all timezones, and we’ll close it down once the group is full.

In other news...

If you’re curious about our next newsletter, here’s a glimpse of what we have in store:

Windflower Sweater

Next up, we’re celebrating 10 years of Magpie Fibers, an indie yarn company known for its top-notch, carefully selected yarns. We’ve been using their amazing Swanky Sock yarn for a colorwork sweater project. The Windflower Sweater, with its top-down round yoke design, will be the newest piece in our treasured Floral Yokes collection. Don’t miss the release details in our next newsletter.

New design

I’m currently working on a new summer sweater with a top-down design. The sweater features a rather open lace pattern, but it is still unnamed. Soon, this design will be available for testing. This pattern is knit using fingering yarn, but the largely openwork nature of the design allows for a quick knitting process. If you’re interested in trying out this pattern, make sure to keep an eye out for the upcoming newsletter.

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