It's at the heart of everything we do - no matter whether that's selecting new yarns for you, figuring out recyclable packaging, or paying people fairly.
Sometimes, it's really useful to see all the patterns from a knitting publication at one glance.
That's why we published a blog post for Issue 11 with the key information about each knitting pattern as well as a few photos for each design in it!
Perfect for planning your next cast on, quickly checking yardage, or deciding whether Issue 11 is for you.
Fabulous – we might have just the thing!
The Making Stories Collective is a monthly membership with awesome benefits. Think early access to shop updates, a monthly Knit Night, and a discount code, just to name a few!
We offer three levels, and we'd love to welcome you to the Collective!
Every other week, Hanna Lisa takes to the camera to chat about all things knitting – what's on her needles, what's coming to the shop, and what's going on in the world of Making Stories.
No matter whether you're looking for advice on how to get gauge or pattern inspiration for one of our yarns, we're pretty sure we have a blog post about it!
Hi my lovelies! When we received our latest restock of BC Garn's Semilla Melange (one of my favorite sustainable budget-friendly yarns - 100% wool, non-superwash, GOTS-certified), I couldn't resist: I had to pull out our box of De Rerum Natura Bérénice, the wonderful fluffy silk-mohair-merino yarn, to see if I could find a few color matches.
And I did! 12 perfect matches – I couldn't believe it. So naturally, I had to share them with you!
Hi lovelies! You know how much I adore our 100% non-superwash wool color-changing yarn "Zauberwolle", right? I already knit myself a Pressed Flowers Hat and a Pressed Flowers Cardigan in it, and I can't wait to get the next project on the needles.
I thought it would be really cool to combine Zauberwolle with BC Garn's Semilla Melange, a wonderfully woolly GOTS-certified sport-weight yarn. (I knit the Pressed Flowers Cardigan in this exact combo, and it's a good one.) So imagine my delight when I realized how many colors of Semilla Melange actually work perfectly with the color-changing magic of Zauberwolle!
Without further ado, let me introduce you to a whopping 24 perfect color matches!
The joy of spinning your own yarn is that you can design the yarn from the fibre up. In theory this means you can hold the pattern or project you’d like to make in mind, and create the yarn to match.
However in practice, at least at the beginning, that’s often not how it goes. Perhaps your spinning is either a bit inconsistent, or you find it hard to spin to a specific weight of yarn. Maybe you enjoy spinning from gloriously dyed variegated fibre and the result is very busy-looking yarn. It might be that you have small, precious skeins of practice yarn, or on the other end of the scale, you’re amassing hand-spun yarn faster than you can possibly knit through it.
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