Wren House Yarns features individually hand dyed, small batch, artisan yarns. Each skein is dyed with professional acid fast dyes. While some of my hand dyed yarns may look similar, due to the dye process, the yarns will never be exactly the same. Each skein is *individually* dyed for a truly unique knitting experience. I also sell naturally dyed yarns that feature local and exotic colors.
Visit her shop online at: Wren House Yarns
handcrafted palm free soaps made with essential oils and natural colorants, felted soaps, liquid soaps, liquid wool wash, bath bombs & lip balms + micro batch hand dyed yarns all grown, milled and dyed in USA.
Visit them online at: Dusty Tree
I sell hand dyed yarn and fiber with each skein and braid dyed one at a time with love.
Visit them online at: Peppermint Knits
Youghiogheny Yarns is committed to creating beautiful hand dyed and hand painted yarns crafted in small batches for all your knitting, crocheting and weaving needs. Our colors are vibrant, bright and sometimes unusual. We offer a variety of yarn bases in weights from lace to bulky with something for every crafter!
You can visit them online at: Youghiogheny Yarns
Artisan Buttons offers locally made buttons of reclaimed wood, recycled and hand dyed buttons and unique vintage buttons that are perfect for fiber art projects.
Visit their online shop at: Artisan Buttons
We are so excited to welcome the following vendors for our November 11th, 2017 marketplace.
Spencer Hill Naturally Dyed Yarn
The Wood Rasp Shop
We are proud to announce that the Indie Knit & Spin Fall Marketplace will occur on November 11th, 2017 at the Wilkins School Community Center in the Regent Square Neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The Marketplace will be open to the Public from 10 am – 4 pm.
We are currently soliciting vendor applications for this marketplace until July 31st 2017.
All applications will be juried and vendors will be notified of their status by August 15th, 2017.
Due to high interest we have increased the number of available vendor spaces by opening up a new room on the first floor for vendors, however all vendors will go through a review process to ensure a well balanced marketplace.
Individual booths measure 8 feet by 8 feet wide and cost $60. A limited number of half booths ($30) and booth and a half spaces ($90) are available upon request.
To apply to be a vendor for the Indie Knit & Spin Fall Marketplace – please submit an application HERE.
New for this fall – Indie Pop Shop!
For vendors and individuals that are interested in selling at Indie Knit & Spin, but have limited inventory or are unable to attend in person – we have something special for you!
One small room on the first floor will be dedicated to consignment sales – vendors/individuals will be able to reserve a 2 feet wide by 6 feet tall gridwall. We provide the display hardware, tags, payment processing, and staff to run the room. You only need to provide the goods! One gridwall section is $30 to reserve and all sales will be subject to a 20% consignment fee.
To apply to be a vendor for the Pop Shop at the Indie Knit & Spin Fall Marketplace – please submit an application HERE.
If you have any questions please feel free to email indieknitandspin@gmail.com.
Hello fiber friends!
I had a wonderful time at Indie Knit and Spin on Saturday. At this show alone do I truly feel that I am amongst my people. So thank you to all the volunteers, vendors, and shoppers throughout the years. You all make this show so special and wonderful.
The first year IKS was just one room on the first floor. Seven booths. It was launched off of my last year vending at Handmade Arcade. In true indie fashion, every person who so much as glanced at the yarn in my booth got this flier – iks-flier. That and Ravelry ads were all we did and the show was off and running.
In case you are curious, our first one room show included: Beads by Eileen, Cosymakes, J Compton Creative, SpaceCadet, Klotho Handspun, Emily Eckel Artisan Buttons, Fibernymph Dye Works, Gwen Erin Natural Fibers, Wren & Rita, and Burgh Baby Gear. Here’s a mosaic from that first show.
It has been wonderful to dye for you, serve you, be friends with you, and enjoy fiber arts with you over the last 7 years and 10 shows. And now I am handing the show over into the very capable hands of the folks at HipStrings. They will continue on the legacy of having a fun indie fiber event in the Burgh.
I’m terrible at taking pictures, but I did find this pic of my booth in 2012.
And with that, I’ll see you shopping at the next IKS. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Fibery wishes,
Cosy
Join us at Indie Knit and Spin this Saturday! Come check out all the amazing local vendors, drop and/or take stuff from the Give-away Take-away table, and be sure to stay for the raffle at 1:00. All the info you need can be found here. We look forward to seeing you there!
Name: Joanna Romaniuk
Business: Joanna’s Boutique
Website: etsy.com/shop/JoannasBoutique
For me, it’s all about color. And texture. I mean softness. I like my colors clear, bright, saturated. Even pastels. And I like yarns soft and airy.
Dyeing roving, spinning it and knitting is about playing with the things I love. Selling what I made is just logical next step. After all how much knitted stuff one person can have? And I can play with the colors I love and never would wear.
And as I am selling my stuff I get to do my second favorite thing: connect and talk to the people who love the same thing as I do. Life is great.
Knowing what I like determinates my choices of dyes (Jacquard and Dharma) and roving. BFL has not only long staple length (added bonus) softness but it also has luster and takes dyes beautifully. Add to it some silk and it becomes heavenly. Even more soft, easier to draft and since silk is taking dyes a little different than wool there is added depth to the color.
Third base I am using is little less known. It’s 50% merino with 25% silk and 25% bamboo. Bamboo does not take acid dyes and in the roving looks like whitish veins. It disappears in spinning, just makes yarn a little lighter. But it adds great qualities to the yarn. Both silk and bamboo have long staple length which makes roving easy to spin and very soft. I would not use yarn made from it for hard working items like gloves or socks, but it’s just great for next to your neck and face items. It makes a great low twist, single ply yarn. And thanks to bamboo drapes well.
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