Name: Karen Bachman
Business: iKNITiatives
Website: etsy.com/shop/iknitiatives and iknitiatives.com
What is your current favorite color or color combo?
My favorite color combos are lights and brights. For example, silver gray & lime, light beige & cobalt, lavender & tangerine.
Midnight blue punis, 1 ounce
Rainbow punis with a touch of creamy Tussah Silk, 1 ounce
Electric colored skeins of Merino/Cashmere/Nylon, 385 yds. per skein
Name: Jess Pflueger
Business: Fiddlehead Fibers
Website: etsy.com/shop/FiddleheadFibers
What can’t you currently get enough of?
Blending different fibers (alpaca, mohair, nylon) with wool to enhance the properties of the wool. For example, blending a lambs’ wool with a super soft alpaca into a batt that will yield a deliciously soft yarn or blending a stronger wool with mohair to make a batt suitable for spinning a good sock or mitten yarn. Also, I’ve been blending dyed and natural color fibers into batts. The pop of dyed color can make a unique yarn.
Batt – Blend of Tunis and Shetland
Merino Cross Washed Locks
Colored Cormo Locks
Shetland Locks
Name: Rebecca Shepler
Business: Dusty Tree Soap
Website: www.dustytree.com and on Facebook as Dusty Tree Soap
What are you into right now?
My favorite soap at the moment is ‘Winter is Coming’. This soap is a total winner, just perfect for my dry skin with the extra butters and oils (cocoa, shea + avocado) + the scent is just what I need to perk up in the AM.
‘Life on Mars’ – part of the Intergalactic Planetary series soaps. Contains activated charcoal, moroccan red clay + essential oils (lemon, lavender + peppermint)
‘Winter is Coming’ – for the long cold days this soap is packed with butters and the perfect essential oils (peppermint + ylang ylang) to perk up any Winter Blues.
Wool Wash – a low to no suds wash – a gentle way to take care of your hand knits.
Name: Sarah Jordan
Business Names: Knit/Wit Designs (knitting patterns) and Fluvial Fibers Handspun (handspun yarn)
Web site: http://www.ravelry.com/designers/sarah-jordan (and Ravelry group at http://www.ravelry.com/groups/knit-wit-designs-fans)
What is your current favorite color or color combination?
When I’m buying fiber, I usually tend to gravitate toward blues and greens, my favorite colors. But I am much more adventurous in buying dyed fiber than in buying yarn, because the yarn spun from dyed fiber is always a surprise, and there’s another surprise in store when the handspun yarn is knit up.
Pseudo-self-striping sock yarn, 100% superwash merino
Pseudo-self-striping sock yarn, 100% Perendale wool
Pseudo-self-striping sock yarn, 100% superwash BFL
Corespun yarn, blended merino and nylon sparkle on a merino core
Name: Nikki Bush
Business: Peppermint Knits
Website: etsy.com/shop/peppermintknitsllc
What is your current favorite color or color combo?
My favorite color right now is this gold. It makes most any color look fantastic but by itself, it just makes a beautiful statement. And it’s kind of popular in Pittsburgh.
Rapunzel Falkland
Storybook BFL
Perfect for a fractal spin!
Flame Peppermint Blue fingering weight yarn
It is so hard to photograph because it literally glows. It is 50% silk/50% BFL and is as lustrous, drape-y and soft as can be.
Pale Orchid Peppermint Sheen fingering weight yarn
50% superwash merino/tencel
Bluebird BFL
So soft and rich.
Indie Knit and Spin
Fiber Arts Marketplace
Awesome Local Vendors
Amazing Raffle Prizes
Cool Like Minded People
all in one space
The raffle of awesome things from our vendors will happen at 1:00.
Wilkins School Community Center in Regent Square, 7604 Charleston Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 **
Saturday February 25th, 10:00-4:00
FREE ENTRY!
If you’ve never been to the show before, know that it is at a school in a residential area and that all parking is street parking. If you are worried about having to park a couple of blocks away, come later in the day when the show is less busy.
The give-away take-away table is a place to get rid of the fiber arts stuff that you just have lying around collecting dust. And maybe to score something new that makes you happy. Books, patterns, needles, knitting, crochet or spinning supplies all welcome! You do not have to bring something to take something or take something if you bring something.
**Please note, this space is not handicapped accessible, and requires the climbing of several flights of stairs to get to the show. Despite efforts to raise the funds, the Community Center has not yet succeeded in getting enough money for an elevator.
I’m proud to announce the vendors for the next Marketplace! Basic show info can be found here.
Hi Friends!
I had an incredibly fun time at the Spin in, but (of course) did not snap one photo of the event. The longer I have been running Indie Knit and Spin, the more I’ve felt we need a more centralized space for folks to chat, organize, and sell fiber arts supplies… so I’ve made a facebook group.
Please join, use and enjoy!
Cosy
This just in. There is still space in this event so door entry will be $10 cash! Woohoo! Join us. This event is still capped at a certain number of people, so you may still want to pay ahead or show up a bit early. More information here.
And another lovely raffle prize you could win at the Spin In!
Indie Knit & Spin 