I’m so excited to announce a collaborative kit with The Periwinkle Sheep!
Karin and I met at the Massachusetts Sheep and Wool festival several years ago. Karin is a knitter since childhood, a former yarn shop owner, and indie dyer of yarn for nearly 18 years. She holds a MA in English in feminist critical theory. As owner of The Periwinkle Sheep, she has brought us a wide array of colorways that want to jump onto your needles!
This year we decided to work together to bring you a Halloween-themed kit!
I picked out a few fabric choices and we settled together on a spooky purple mushroom print, for which Karin dyed up a custom colorway that matches perfectly!
The designer of the fabric (dotpatterns) was kind enough to re-scale it for smaller bags, so the print scales with bag size.
Each bag is made of 100% quilting cotton and lined with a black and white bats-and-cats print. The ties are 3/8” grosgrain ribbon.
The sock (medium) bag will hold 2 skeins of yarn easily; the shawl (large) bag will hold 4+ skeins of yarn; the sweater (xl) bag will hold 10+ skeins of yarn.
The yarn for the kit is a 100% superwash merino fingering weight (4-ply) yarn that is usually only made available to wholesale sellers! You can see how it works up in both knitted and crocheted swatches below:
In addition to the kit colorway, Karin has selected two other colors of yarn that coordinate (the black and yellow-green skeins above) and made them available as add-ons to the kit.
Pre-orders for the kit are open only until August 20th!
Order your Halloween collaborative kit here!
Once orders are closed, I will get down to work sewing up your bags, and the kit will ship on (or before) October 10th.
One last note:
We know the world is a scary place right now. That’s why we are donating 10% of the sales of the kit to World Central Kitchen, earmarked specifically for their efforts to fight starvation and famine in Gaza.
Both Karin and I feel strongly that we need not only to speak out against the horrors happening in Gaza but also to take action: we will post at the end of the preorder period about our donation total.
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