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Ellen Kardell

Oct 20, 20201 min read

The weaving yarn project has begun!

I've been saying for a year that my line of weaving yarns is going to be happening soon. Life, however, got in the way of that until very...

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Ellen Kardell

Jun 20, 20202 min read

The Great Ravelry Meltdown of 2020

As you may know, earlier this week Ravelry sprung a total redesign on us. The graphics, fonts, colors and branding are all radically...

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Ellen Kardell

Jun 11, 20203 min read

Vintage summer yarn review

Katia Linea Katia has been producing beautiful, fashion-forward, high quality yarns since 1951, when the company opened in Barcelona....

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Ellen Kardell

Apr 22, 20201 min read

April Distractions

My new pattern, April Distraction is now available! You can find it on Ravelry, here. I'm really happy with this one. It's a great, quick...

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Ellen Kardell

Mar 18, 20202 min read

Positive Distractions

I don't know about you, but my eyeballs have been glued to the news for far too many hours every day for the past week. It's starting to...

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Ellen Kardell

Mar 4, 20202 min read

Selling Your Yarn—Part 2

I've had a number of inquiries, and thought I'd make a post on specifics. 1. Photos: I need medium or high resolution photos of your...

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Ellen Kardell

Feb 24, 20204 min read

Want to sell some of your yarn?

If you're anything like the typical knitter, you have STASH, lots of glorious, amazing stash. Yarn is wonderful and we can get seduced by...

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Ellen Kardell

Feb 14, 20201 min read

The Year of Seeing Red

New year, new focus, new blog. As you may know, I have been in the yarn/fiber business for a number of years. I had a tiny fiber farm in...

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Ellen Kardell

Jan 13, 20201 min read

2020 Privacy Policy

I've added the new policy to the site. You can view it here.

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Ellen Kardell

Jan 11, 20201 min read

New lower shipping!

I've been trying out various shipping options, and am able to offer lower rates right now. For simplicity, I'm still using flat rates,...

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Natural Dyeing a Suite of Yarns with Avocados

Ellen Kardell

Dec 13, 20193 min read

Natural Dyeing a Suite of Yarns with Avocados

In the last few years, I've been focusing more on multi-yarn projects, and dyeing yarns to get the colors I need for them. This was a...

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Ellen Kardell

Dec 10, 20196 min read

Welcome to Swatch Class

Thanks for joining me with the kickoff of Swatch Class!

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