@leadingmenfiberart
With their hand-dyed yarn inspired by the theatre, pop culture, and nature, partners Steve and Andy truly are the Leading Men in the world of COLOR. Established in August 2013, their dye studio and store front is located in Clinton, IL. #knitsky
Tangelo - Box Office
This springy superwash worsted weight yarn is sure to be a Box Office Smash!
Yardage: 218 yards/100 grams
Content: 100% Superwash Merino
Weight: Worsted
Care: Machine Wash Gentle/Dry Flat
We are proud to bring center stage our July colorway of the month: Hot Flash. This colorway artfully speckles and layers plum and cayenne red with grey speckles.
Don’t forget, enjoy an exclusive discount on all of yarn bases for the new colorway if purchased during the preorder timeframe.
Rumpelstiltskin - Intermission
Intermission is the halfway point in a performance. This half skein of Show Stopper is just that: halfway to a full skein.
Yardage: 231 yards/50 grams
Content: 75% Superwash Merino & 25% Nylon
Weight: Fingering
Clean Slate - Soliloquy
Any time you wear a hand knit item featuring our Soliloquy base, you are sure to have all eyes on you. With its 100% Superwash Blue-faced Leicester fiber content, this yarn has excellent stitch definition and is less inclined to pill.
Oh! I almost missed Cowl Week for #ShowMeYourKnits!
Love is Love cowl by me. Pattern on Ravelry. (There’s a sweater pattern with the same colorwork, too.) Cream and rainbow cowl yarn by @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social Brown and pink is local non-superwash. 🧶
Several dozen small knitted swatches in many colors, scattered on the floor. Each swatch has a small tag with the name of its color.
Tropical inspired set: Citrus Splash, Perfection, Bean Stalk, Fierce and Fabulous, Shadows in the Trees, Nacho Cheese Three knitted swatches and three small skeins of yarn on a white background. The colors are Citrus Splash, a coral-orange; Perfection, teal green; Bean Stalk, bright spring green; Fierce and Fabulous, a red with orange undertones; Shadows in the Trees, a dark pine green; and Nacho Cheese, a light yellow-orange.
Severed Lobby set: It’s Cold Outside, Lucky Charm, Dirty Truce, All the Way to the Bank, Bare Necessities, and London Fog. Six small knitted swatches spread out in a fan. There’s a tag on each with the name of the color: It’s Cold Outside, a medium blue; Lucky Charm, a shamrock green; Dirty Truce, a yellow green with gray undertones like a green olive; All the Way to the Bank, a deep green that leans to teal; Bare Necessities, off white; and London Fog, a medium gray.
Low tech, but fun. 🧶
I don’t know how other designers work, but this is how I create colorway sets for my patterns when I’m working with @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social
(I have about 130 mini skeins that still need to be knit into swatches, too. 🙄)
The Floor shawl coming in July.
Miyuki 6/0 Glass Beads 133 - Transparent Amber
With a reputation for high quality and uniformity, Miyuki Seed Beads are a terrific way to add sparkle, color or interest to any project.
Packages of 6/0 beads weigh approximately 30 grams and contain approximately 360 beads.
Absinthe - Show Stopper Gradient Set
Gradient sets contain 6 mini skeins with 92 yards (20 grams) each for a total of 552 yards.
Content: 75% Superwash Merino/25% Nylon
Weight: Fingering
Care: Machine Wash Gentle/Dry Flat
An old wooden bowl holding small skeins of yarn in the 11 Progress Pride flag colors. One finished square piece of crochet in the original rainbow colors is hanging out of the top of the bowl. The second square is in progress on a crochet hook in the bottom left of the bowl. The bowl sits on my rainbow mushroom notebook on my dark wood dining table. There’s an open can of Diet Coke in the upper left of the pic. There’s two cactus arms photobombing the scene from the top right.
This project got off to a rocky start last year because my doggo chewed it (you can see the piece she got in my profile pic) but I’m back on it for Pride month. ✨
Pattern by: @carissabrowning.bsky.social
Yarn by: @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social
Katrinkles Gauge Wheel
With this new Gauge Wheel, all you have to do is hold the windows up to your swatch and get the points to match up between the stitches. Turn the tool until your stitches line up perfectly.
Our Pride & Progress Cowl Yarn Sets have been restocked for this year. We even have a DK Mini Skein Set! The Pride & Progress Cowl was designed by the talented @carissabrowning for both a knit and crochet version. PLUS, 20% of the pattern sales will always be donated to the @trevorproject
We are proud to bring center stage our June colorway of the month: Transcendence. This colorway artfully speckles aqua blue and rich pink on a natural background. PLUS: $1 from every skein sold through LMFA from June 1st-8th will be donated to the Trans Lifeline.
translifeline.org/donate/
A Modern Guide to Granny Squares by Celine Semaan
A collection of forty creative designs for easy and colorful crochet blocks.
Not your usual granny squares! Celine Semaan has designed more than contemporary and colorful 6″ x 6″ blocks to get your creativity flowing.
Rumor Has It - Mini Skein
Show Stopper is the perfect sock yarn. It has your basic composition of sock yarn with Superwash Merino and Nylon, but there is nothing basic about it! This base is so soft you won’t be able to not have it next to your skin.
Cocoknits Tape Measure
The metal tape inside measures both inches and cm/mm (78 in / 2 m long), and has a metal tab on the end to keep it from retracting into the body of the tape measure.
Gatsby - Mini Skein
Show Stopper is the perfect sock yarn. It has your basic composition of sock yarn with Superwash Merino and Nylon, but there is nothing basic about it! This base is so soft you won’t be able to not have it next to your skin.
Mountain Sunrise - Soliloquy
Any time you wear a hand knit item featuring our Soliloquy base, you are sure to have all eyes on you. This wonderful fingering weight yarn is perfect for garments and accessories alike.
Kelbourne Woolens Perennial
Perennial is a blend of vibrantly dyed superwash merino wool, soft Suri alpaca, and nylon. The superwash merino and suri alpaca create a soft and strong yarn that is a modern take on an easy-care superwash staple, and the nylon adds strength and durability.
Beginners Bookmark Cross-Stitch Kit
This kit contains everything you need to stitch and finish your very own bookmark:
Hand-dyed fabric (14-count Aida),
Hand-dyed 6-strand embroidery thread - one yard each in five (5) colors,
Embroidery needle,
Felt backing,
Infusible web,
Ribbon,
Instructions.
Moody Blue - Intermission
Intermission is the halfway point in a performance. This half skein of Show Stopper is just that: halfway to a full skein. Please change yardage and skein weight on individual stash pages.
Crushed Velvet - Dramaturg
Dramaturg is a springy superwash DK weight yarn! This 4 ply yarn made with 100% Superwash Merino is a treat for your hands to work with, and with it’s springy nature, it is sure to be great for garments, textured stitches, cables, and anything else you mind could imagine!
How adorable are these Lucky Jonquil Yarn Ball Wood Embroidery Kits that we snagged at @hhamericas last week? We have a limited number in store and online now.
Empty set of elevator lobby on Severed floor from Severance. Mid-century aesthetic furniture. Area rug is concentric shades of green, with deep green leather armchairs sitting on top. The walls are off white panels with silver vertical strips between them. The ceiling has frosted light diffusing panels with an overlaid dark grid. Shawl uses fingering weight yarn to recreate the mood of the lobby picture above. Colors and yardages are as follows: Color 1: It's Cold Outside (blue), 70 yards Color 2: Lucky Charm (green), 187 yards Color 3: Dirty Truce (bile green), 200 yards Color 4: All The Way to the Bank (teal green), 53 yards Color 5: Bare Necessities (off white), 388 yards Color 6: London Fog (medium gray), 173 yards Please enjoy all colors equally. Shawl is worked from the center out (innie to outie) and therefore requires a long circular needle: US5 (3.75 mm) 60" long. The first 2 sections are most easily worked using the Magic Loop technique, until the stitch counts fill out and make it easier to turn corners. See alt on second pic for continuation.
Testers will receive the pattern this week (May 13-17) and will have until the end of June to complete knitting. I'm mostly looking for confirmation that my pattern is written in such a way that it makes sense. Testers will not be required to post pics on social media/Ravelry, though I do appreciate that. Communication will be via Discord. I will send codes for a free pattern from my Ravelry pattern shop as a thank you.
Looking for a couple of test knitters for a #Severance inspired shawl. I cannot offer monetary compensation, but you will have my undying gratitude.
🧶: @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social
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Golden Hour - Mini Skein
Show Stopper is the perfect sock yarn. It has your basic composition of sock yarn with Superwash Merino and Nylon, but there is nothing basic about it! This base is so soft you won’t be able to not have it next to your skin.
Are you planning on attending the Midwest Fiber Festival this weekend in St. Louis? If so, make sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter as we will be announcing tomorrow morning something fun we will be doing in our booth at the festival this year!
#scavengerhunt
PomPom Issue 47: Winter 2023
We love colour so much that often we try and get as much of it into each piece as we can, but for this monochrome-themed issue we wanted to see what could be done with fabrics that used more subtle tonal differences within a single hue, or closely related ones.
Yarn samples. Five square knitted samples: Lucky Charm, a clear green; Dirty Truce, a yellow green; All The Way to the Bank, a medium teal blue green; Bare Necessities, a white/natural color; and London Fog, a medium gray. On top of those samples sits a twisted mini skein of It’s Cold Outside, a medium blue.
Just to create some interest, these are my colors.
@leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social
Watermelon Sugar - Targhee Twist DK
Targhee Twist DK is a springy DK weight yarn that is milled exclusively for LMFA! This 3 ply yarn made with 66.6% Superwash American Targhee Wool and 33.4% Non-Superwash American Targhee Wool is a visual and tactile wonder.
Fishing Sticker
Now that’s a catch! Cast your line or just cast on with this yarn-themed fishing sticker.
ITEM DETAILS
* Resistant to scratches, water, and sunlight so you can put it pretty much anywhere!
* 3 inches tall - the perfect size for your notebook, water bottle, or laptop
Watermelon - Faux Fur Pom Pom