Hi there! If you are new here, my name is Amy Small and I am the owner and founder of Knit Collage. Welcome! Next week, we kick off a new iteration of our oh-so-popular knitting challenge, where as a community we will knit the Dream Weaver Pillow by Laurel Gervitz. Check out the video below to hear all the details! 

The Knit Collage team and I will be here to support you and answer any questions that you may have along the way so that you happily finish with something you adore. Together, we’ll jumpstart your knitting practice, so that you get to experience the amazing benefits that come from knitting things – increased creativity and a healthy tool you can lean anytime into to bring about calm and peace, just to name a few! We kick the adventure off on August 1, 2024.

Inside the 14 day knitting challenge you’ll get:

• * An easy-to follow video course on how to knit the Dream Weaver Pillow pattern from start to finish. You just need to know the very basic knit and purl stitches to join in! The course is yours forever, 25 videos in total.
• * Techniques you’ll learn: entrelac (in lots ot detail!), crochet seaming, how to make tassels and so much more.
• * A downloadable workbook with the pattern and our best tips and resources for knitting success.
• * Eight live zoom sessions with me, your teacher, and the Knit Collage coaches to help answer in the moment questions.
• * Access to our private Challenge Facebook Group to answer all of your questions and receive technical support. We are a welcoming, energetic, and kind community of members to hold you accountable and keep you motivated to actually complete your project.
• * Prizes valued at over $1000 for most improved beginner,  best cheerleading community member and more.
• * You have the option to order a yarn kit from us or use your own yarn. There will be two yarn kit options. The first will combine two different colors of our Spun Cloud yarn with one color of our screen printed cotton Wildflower yarn. There are 18 available color combos for this option.  The second option will combine two different colors of our Spun Cloud yarn with one color of our hand painted Waterfall yarn. There are 8 available color combos for this option. We are down to the very last of a few Spun Cloud and Waterfall colors, so if you have your heart set on a color, grab it quickly!
• * Finish with a closing celebration party and community show and tell!

• Bonus:

  • 10 bonus tutorial videos valued at $32 where I teach how to wind yarn, the best tools to support your knitting practice, how to needle felt ends so that you can save yourself time finishing your project and so much more!
• We open up registration on July 18^th at 10am ET for both the virtual option, priced at $26 and the yarn kit option is $158. We would so love to have you join us!

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• Here are the yarn, gauge and sizing details if you know you'd like to go with the virtual option and want to source (or maybe spin?!) yarn on your own. 

• Pattern details:

• Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate Knitter

• Needle/Hook Sizes:

  Size US 15 (10 mm) 32” / 80 cm circular needle or size needed to obtain gauge

  Size N/US 15 (10 mm) crochet hook

  Size:  One Size

  Finished Measurements:

  Approx. 18” x  18” / 45.5 cm x 45.5 cm square

• Gauge:

• 8 sts and 12 rows = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette stitch worked flat on the knitting needle, steam blocked

  Materials: 

  * Color A:  1 skein Spun Cloud Yarn (100% wool; approx. 100 yds / 200 g) or Sister (100% wool; approx. 100-110 yds / 215 g) shown in Spun Cloud Honeysuckle

  * Color B:  2 skeins Wildflower (100% cotton; approx. 60 yds / 70 g) shown in Beatnik OR 2 skeins Waterfall (100% viscose; approx. 60 yds / 70 g)

  * Color C:  1 skein Spun Cloud (100% wool; approx. 100 yds / 200 g) or Sister (100% wool; approx. 100-110 yds / 215 g) shown in Spun Cloud Orchid

  **Please note any modifications to size, width or height may require additional yarn.**

  Pattern Designer: Laurel Gervitz

• I so hope you'll consider joining in. On Friday, I'll share a blog post with more pattern pics, yarn color combo details.  I am so excited for it! AND If you are a beginner knitter, this is for you. Our team plus the video tutorials are there to guide and support you. When you're starting out, you need the most help and support - that's what this challenge is all about! Let me know in the comments if you have any questions!

  Amy

Ever wanted to turn the hobby you love so much into work that combines it all?! Come join this incredible team in our newly created job opening for an Organic Social Media Assistant and Copywriter. We are looking for someone with strong writing skills, an openness to learning our brand handwriting and growing with us! Lastly, we are looking for someone who is flexible and ok with whatever may come their way, because in small business, we all have to wear all the hats sometimes!

We are accepting applications for this role through Wednesday, June 26th, 2024.

This role is part time and remote work. If you know someone who would be a great fit, please pass this along.

At Knit Collage, we foster a kind and joyful community that is a welcoming space for creative self-expression where all belong regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, age, gender identity, and size. We believe every fiber of our company is made stronger by appreciating what makes us each unique and diverse as a community of makers. To read more about our company values, please click here.

To apply for the Organic Social Media Assistant and Copywriter position, please read the job description, found at the link here. Applications, which include your resume and cover letter, will be received via Airtable at the link here.

We invite all candidates who feel they are a fit for the position and who align with our values to apply. Thank you!

Next week, we officially open up our 2024 Winter Solstice Kits for pre-orders. Unsure about what a Winter Solstice Kit is? Think of it as a yarn countdown calendar where each yarn is wrapped up as a surprise present to the opener! It is a limited edition, artfully handspun, creative fiber treat created to bring a little extra joy into your life or into the life of someone that you care about. Check out the short video below for more details. 

A few weeks ago I worked diligently alongside our India based team to come up with three different color combinations, Iridescent Star, Nebula / Galaxy and Rhinebeck Weekend. This year we have two options - you can either order the mini skein version, like we've done before, or the full skein version - it's your choice! In the mini skein version you'll get 12 mini skeins in it. Each mini skein will be 17 yards. In the full skein version, you'll get 12 full skeins. Each skein will be approximately 35 yards.

Each Winter Solstice Calendar will come with 12 handspun yarns that are completely unique, never been made before / never to be made again designs. Each Winter Solstice Kit will be thoughtfully wrapped in beautiful custom wrapping paper and numbered so you know which yarn present to open first and so on. I'm going to be a little secretive about details but here is what I will say....

Each of the three colorways was designed to be a circular gradient. This means that each yarn color flows perfectly into the yarn before it and the yarn after it. I used math (!!!!) to create fiber recipes for each colorway so that they seamlessly blend into each other. For example, skein #1 will blend perfectly into skein #2 AND skein #12. Skein #6 will blend perfectly into skein #5 and skein #7. They all work together as a capsule collection. If you arranged them in a circle, they'd all flow together. As I was working in India, it dawned on me that a full skein option would be completely next level amazing because these would make an incredible larger project like an oversized sweater or blanket. 

Each 12 mini skein or full skein kit is comprised of 6 skeins (mini or full) in a yarn we currently run (but all new colors) and 6 skeins (mini or full) in a yarn we do not currently run (all new colors but I can say no more because it's a secret!).

Each colorway of each yarn is a never before produced yarn that will never be produced again. These are super special and available only by pre-order for one week. We have a certain capacity we can make in order to get the yarn here in time, if we hit that early then we may not leave ordering open for the entire week.

We've created mood boards to represent each colorway to give you a feeling of what magical yarn assortments each calendar may hold. Check them out at the links below! There are some clues in these mood boards but that's all I can say!

Mood board for the Iridescent Star Kit

Mood board for the Nebula / Galaxy Kit

Mood board for the Rhinebeck Weekend Kit

When you order a kit (either mini skein or full skein), you'll get a free knitting pattern to work with one mini skein version of the Winter Solstice kit. That pattern will be available on December 1. You'll also get access to a challenge knitalong experience that we'll run in early January.  In this challenge and as a Winter Solstice Kit buyer, you'll get a class on how to knit this pattern from start to finish, live coaching zoom calls with myself and our coaches and of course the community to cheer you on. We did this last year and it was a complete BLAST and such a fun way to begin the new year and jumpstart our knitting practice. The pattern will be something to go around your neck but that's all I can say....!

Yarn details:

Suggested needle size US 17 / 12.00mm

Pricing details:

Winter Solstice Kit - Mini Skein Version (17 yards per mini skein): $248

Winter Solstice Kit - Full skein Version (35 yard per skein): $488

Pre-orders being on June 5th at 10am ET and will be live for one week only. Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions or feel free to reach out to Amy at hello@knitcollage.com anytime.

EXCITED!