While the soul of the collection is the unique, hand-dyed, hand-spun fibers, the shop also carries more commonplace yarns in an uncommon array of colors. Even terminally non-crafty shoppers needn ...

Hand knitters salivate over the rich colors and tonal shifts of hand-dyed yarns. “Hand dyes turn even simple stitches into something special,” says Alexandra Parks, founder of Dashing Mouse Designs.

At their simplest, spindles are long, thin rods used to hold spun yarn. Eventually, weighted discs known as whorls were added onto spindles to create drop spindles; whorls help the spinner use inertia ...

Now, the 28-year-old takes hand-spun yarns, colors them using acid dyes specific for wool, silk, and cotton fibers, and knots them into textured 3D landscapes, abstract depictions of everything from ...