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September Sponsor Spotlight

September 9, 2015 Leave a Comment

September Sponsor Spotlight at Hands Occupied

Mountain Meadow Wool / Ewe Ewe Yarns / PostStitch / Feel Good Yarn Co.

It’s September, which means I’ve got a new crop of sponsors you should check out. All four of the companies featured this month are women-driven companies based in the U.S. I love getting to spend time getting to know new yarn industry companies because it reminds me of one of the best things about being active in this community: the people. So many yarn industry folks have interesting stories to tell, and here are just a few worth getting to know!

Mountain Meadow Wool

A Mountain Meadow Wool pasture with sheep and lambs.

Mountain Meadow Wool is a fiber mill and yarn company out of Buffalo, Wyoming. I fell in love with the Mountain Meadow Wool story after hearing an interview with the owners on the Woolful podcast. The owners’ passion for producing 100% American-made yarns is inspiring, and they have a hand in the production of many yarns I love working with. Their existence helps support sustainability for the ranchers they work with, which is just so cool!

The Mountain Meadow Wool Mill

Mountain Meadow Wool Mill

What I love: I recently got a couple skeins of Mountain Meadow’s Powell yarn, an 85% wool/15% alpaca worsted weight blend yarn. I can’t wait to make something cabled with this yarn!

Ewe Ewe Yarns

The Zoey Cardigan at Ewe Ewe Yarns

Zoey Cardigan knitting pattern

We’ve got the colorful and inspiring Ewe Ewe Yarns with us again this month! As they say on their website, Ewe Ewe makes two yarns and they make them well. Featuring a catalog of fun, modern patterns to choose from and yarns that come in bright and fresh colors, they are definitely worth knitting with.

Fair Isle Friends Wrist Warmers  at Ewe Ewe Yarns

What I love: I really dig this Fair Isle Friends wrist warmers pattern. Knit in Ewe Ewe’s Wolly Worsted Washable yarn, this pattern would be a great first project for fair isle newbies!

Feel Good Yarn Co.

Feel Good Yarn Co. yarn being made

Feel Good Yarn Company makes SilverSpun yarn with only American-sourced fibers and is spun entirely at North Carolina State. In 2012, the company’s founder met with the Spun Yarn Lab Manager at NC State to discuss her idea for yarn spun with pure silver. Since then the company has grown and expanded since its public unveiling in April 2013. SilverSpun has the strength of cotton, but feels like cashmere. The silver makes the yarn conductive (great for making touchscreen gloves), nontoxic and therapeutic, as well as inhibiting bacteria (great for making socks averse to odor). Such an innovative yarn!

Greensboro Fingerless Mitts & Cowl from Feel Good Yarn Co.

Greensboro Fingerless Mitts & Cowl pattern

What I love: Their yarn! I’ll be sharing a little pattern with Feel Good Yarn Co. yarn later this month, but I’ve been a fan of this company for awhile. Their SilverSpun Sport yarn now comes in colors, which makes the design possibilities that much more exciting!

PostStitch

Knitting Notions from PostStitch

via PostStitch on Instagram

With a worldwide network of subscribers, PostStitch makes two monthly yarn project boxes, and they also have a shop with a ton of cute knitting notions and gifts. This is the second month we’ve had PostStitch as a sponsor, and they’re super fun to work with. If you’re curious, you can check out my review of one of PostStitch’s kits from last year. I still use the stitch markers & project bag from it all the time!

Sip 1 drink koozie from PostStitch.

Sip 1 koozie

What I love: This drink koozie (or cozy as we natives of North Dakota like to say!) is hilarious. I already sip 1 for every few rows I work at knit night with my friends, so this is perfect! And really, a whole case of these would be great gift ideas for your knitting group this December – just saying. ;)

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Heidi Gustad is a craft book author, designer & creator specializing in yarn crafts like knitting, crochet, latch hook & macramé. Her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now.

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In this video, you can see how the Intarsia Flower Pillow pattern knits up - two flat panels, one with intarsia, both are blocked, and then they’re seamed. Find the pattern on @hi.ravelry & my website, just search Intarsia Flower Pillow. 🌸 
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Have you ever used lifted increases? I used M1’s almost exclusively for a long time when I needed to inc between stitches, but when I designed the Intarsia Flower Pillow pattern, I needed something that would allow me to increase a lot near my cast on, and M1’s resulted in edge curling. The more you know! 🌈 
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I independently released a knitting pattern today, I independently released a knitting pattern today, my first in 5 years! The Intarsia Flower Pillow is a 16” (40cm) round pillow knit with an intentional combination of intarsia, stockinette, garter and seed stitch. This pillow has everything you need to level up your intarsia technique while also knitting something you can use. 
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This pillow allows you to practice knitting intarsia while simultaneously increasing and decreasing. The Intarsia Flower Pillow pattern was designed to be a little knit-nerdy for learning and a little cute, arming you with many of the skills you'd need to knit an intarsia sweater. 
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Intarsia Flower Pillow is available in the Hands Occupied Sh0p and on @hi.ravelry . You can read more about the pattern on the bl0g, the🔗 are where you’d think.
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YARN: @universal_yarn Uni Merino in Antiquity, Fjord and Conch / NEEDLES: US 2 (2.75 mm) / PATTERN: Intarsia Flower Pillow by Heidi Gustad
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