NancyM, Yarn Database

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Yarn Database is a directory of off-Rav knitting/crochet designers, yarn/fiber sellers, accessory sellers & tech editors. Listings are free. ND, she/they. Interested in crafts & human rights. Avoiding rage bait and capitalism. **Please use alt-text** 🏳️‍🌈🧶🥄

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Background is a mix of different kinds of black beads. Design is a blood red heart that gradually turns into roots that might be tentacles.
Three knitted hexagons stacked on a blocking board that collectively look a bit like a TIE fighter.
Hand holds can of Diet Coke encased in a tiny puffer jacket koozie. Jacket has a tiny zipper, and the sleeves are tucked into the pockets to form handles. In the background is a stone fireplace.
White knitting bowl with line drawing of two hands with knuckle tattoos that read knit and purl.
Partial sock from Laine’s 52 Weeks of Socks in Sassy Black Yarns BFL in variegated purple and hot pink. Sock is joined on a roughhewn table by a Pawley Studios mug that reads, “Fuck off, I’m knitting.”
Yarn label says Silk Merino singles. Hedgehog Fibres hand dyed yarns. Colorway is called Wish. Fiber content is 50% silk and 50% merino. Weight is DK.
Murky green beanie has large colorwork “Nope” just above the ribbed brim in tonal aqua. The hat is topped by a nearly round aqua pompom.
Silver stocking has red, green and gold motifs of pine trees, the phases of the moon, runes, mistletoe, laurel, a candy cane stripe, snowflakes, candles and bells. The toe and heel are black, because I am a masochist. A large black motif of Odin’s spear is duplicate stitched in black over the other rows of Yule motifs on the leg. It looks like a square from argyle socks.
Oracle deck in the box, with three cards turned up on a weathered table. The Lake card has a webbed and clawed hand reaching up for a swimmer’s foot. The Sacrament shows a white-eyed woman with unfortunate hair pouring a waterfall of Ranch dressing on her salad at a potluck. The 24-Hour Gas Station card is a rendering of a HELL gas station, a very real place where you don’t want to discover you’ve forgotten your wallet at 3 a.m. Also in the haul are a skull-festooned Ranch dressing pin, a pin that reads “Ope” and a sticker sheet with some of the images. “Ope” is an all purpose Midwestern exclamation that means everything from “My bad” to “Bet you didn’t mean for your car to roll into the gravel pit.”
Bottom two-thirds of a black crocheted blanket that has a pony bead inserted at each stitch to create a pixelated picture of a heart with tentacles descending from it. The heart itself is about halfway complete. The heart is blood red. The background is shades of black.
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Heel to heel splayed feet show off vanilla socks in very bright Barbie pink stripes.
Double knitting baby blanket featuring Cthulhu, with the words Love you to R’lyeh and back. Sea green on charcoal.
Deep charcoal pullover with three creamy white bands of flowers, increasing in size from the neckline to the bottom of the yoke.
Gorgeous colorwork blanket in medium brown and white. Squares depict pine trees, reindeer and a variety of snowflakes.
Actor Manny Montana, sexy baddie from Good Girls.
Blanket is a solid sea of crocheted-together pony beads, with fringe on the sides. The background is made with four styles of black beads to give it some visual interest. It looks speckled or sparkly. The design of this bottom half of the piece is several blood red tentacles.
Tunisian crochet triangular shawl shown in gradient colorway from red clay at the top to palest blue green. Shawl has optional tiny tassels about every 2.5 inches along the bottom edge.
Pinwheel shaped crocheted lace collar. Each tip of the pinwheel ends in a teardrop bead.
Blocked socks show the delicate pink and cream color of this yarn, along with tiny hints of deep green and a bit of blue.
Feet wearing dark rainbow striped shorty socks. The stripes mainly match up. The right sock is slightly brighter in hue than the left. In the background is my huge dog, whom I didn’t seem to notice was in the picture.
From the knee down, a woman’s legs in black on black python tights and socks made in a five-stripe pattern, all shades of Barbie pink. Wearer’s feet are turned outward in utter glee.
Four photos. The Fable Pixie hat, a curved pointy hat in deep reds, greens and gold. A fluffy cat is belly up, enjoying the Rainbow Galaxy blanket, a multicolor blanket knit corner to corner with overlapping spirals. The Wobble Bobble Beanie is a multicolor bobbled beanie with two faux fur poms, attached Minnie Mouse style. The last picture is the shoulder and sleeve of the Love Spiral Sweater in multicolor yarn, with long sleeves, a crew neck and a spiral motif throughout.
Business card for Knitting notions with Celtic knot image spreads out into a tree. Maker is Catherine Harrison, Nashville, Tennessee. 615–5 85–1077, KnittingNotions@gmail.com, KnittingNotions.com.
Ball of Aran mohair from UK farm New Forest Mohair and a maple Nostepinne, a tapered wand with a handle for winding cakes.
Set of seven mini skeins spilling out of the label bundling them together. Colors include aqua, spring, green, deep pink, iris purple and gold, and earthy browns and oranges.
Black sparkly 3D-printed caldron with playful skull design on the front and two handles holds bright skein of yarn.
Morse code card for the alphabet and numbers.
Beanie with folded red brim, then blue and green single row stripes. Some of the green stripes contain red stitches that represent his ham radio call sign and our club.
Two color tote with alternating vertical designs of a large compound leaf and a narrower botanical motif. Top and bottom of the bag, including handles, are in the contrast color. Bottom border between colors is zigzag.
Cover of Short-Row Colorwork Knitting includes photos of three colorwork short-row patterns. Cover reads, “The definitive step-by-step guide. 50 stitch patterns. 10 projects.”
Wood sock blockers with large open sections to promote fast drying. At the heels are intricate laser-etched hydrangeas or sunflowers.
Woman wears cloth hair wrap and two-color cowl is close to the neck then widens into a flat round collar.
Be-socked feet awkwardly wearing worsted weight socks with alternating knit and purl rows in the front panel. Yarn is a deep red. Model demanded a fee immediately after photo was taken.
Three images of the cowl show the Mothman, Nessie, Sasquatch, the Lake Erie Monster, a Jackalope, and another unidentified cryptid. The yarn hank is shades of the Jackalope’s environs, in the form of dried and green meadow grasses.
Fingerless mittens with beautiful openwork cables are worked horizontally using slip stitches. Right and left mitt are symmetric.
Christmas stocking in white, red, green, and gold. Symbols are holly, pine boughs, mistletoe, pine trees, bells, candles, fire wheels, phases of the moon and Yule logs.
Table of contents features orange fabric background and the categories Gallery, Works in Progress, and Stash.
Cover has a a cloud of gold dust on black and says Brain Dump 2024
Colorwork Christmas stocking in red, green, aqua, purple and dark blue on a white sparkle background. Motifs are snowy mountains, snowflakes and pine trees.
Tilted view of blanket shows different size pale blue stars against a deep gray background.
Colorwork Christmas stocking starts with red and white corrugated ribbing, then blue mountains, purple snowflakes, then snow falling on green pines and more snowflakes.
Medium rose tonal yarn in made from organic merino in a worsted spin with just the slightest sheen.
Five spooky oracle cards: The Vision, which is a deer in headlines. The Signal, an ornate street lamp with wildly waving wands of light. The Swing, a broken down swingset in an overgrown field at twilight, with a tot who has glowing eyes. The Trucker, a man lit from behind with mutton chops, flannel and the glowing eyes. The Corn, a dark cornfield with several pairs of glowing eyes.
Three pillows. First is large pink skulls on black. Second is blue roses with thorns, on black. Third is black roses and skulls on purple.
Four leaf shaped garter stitch washcloths with a loop at the top for hanging and a copy of Mason-Dixon Knitting Field Guide No. 7.
Jovi smiles, wearing simple stockinette sweater with huge textured spiders down each sleeve.
Beanie with a textural, chevron pattern, knit using two-color brioche.
Pattern for DeBrosse Zanmann throw and Hanna’s stitch guide in document sleeves. I’m ready!
Guideline summary: KTR accepts unworn knit, crochet or woven winter items, any color, any fiber, doesn’t have to be washable. They can’t accept yarn or supplies. Don’t attach a tag. Don’t join hat/scarf sets. Do join sock sets. Don’t put items in individual bags. Do weave in your ends, FFS (editorial comment mine). Mail to 456 W. 167th St., Unit 1D, NY, NY 10033 or make arrangement to drop at their NY office. Tax receipts available.
Colorwork cowl with horizontal motifs, starting from bottom with waves, fish, waves, surf, pines, mountains, and clouds.
Double-knitted Cthulhu blanket says, “Love you to R’lyeh and back.”
Tom mugs as he holds a shortrow cowl divided horizontally into two colors. The lighter color forms … flames or leaves or something that’s just amazing.