It’s our favorite time of the year! Time for the Brown Sheep Spring Mystery Knit Along! Every year since 2021, we’ve hosted a mystery knit along pairing a Brown Sheep yarn with a fabulous knitwear designer. Each year, we wind up with a colorful, uniquely beautiful shawl. Last year, Tonia Lyons gave us the True Blue Shawl  in 3 colors of Nature Spun Sport. In 2022, we knit Aud Bergo’s Lofty Ambitions Shawl in Lanaloft and Lanaloft Handpainted and Mone Dräger’s Swift as an Arrow Shawl in Shepherd’s Shades. And in 2021, we knit Stefanie Goodwin-Ritter’s Low Hanging Fruit Shawl in Prairie Spu ..read more

When winter retreats, knitters and crocheters should shift focus towards the best methods for storing handmade knits. We spent a lot of time, energy and fiber crafting our sweaters, hats, scarves, and mittens. Unlike your regular tops and t-shirts, handmade knits require a special level of care to prolong their lifespan and keep them in the best shape. Storing handmade knits isn’t difficult, but there are a few steps to take before hibernating sweaters for the winter. Keep reading for our top tips for storing handmade knits at the end of the winter season.   Clean Your Handmade Knits Hand ..read more

  The hand knit Inis Mor Scarf and Hat set capture the spirit of the eponymous Irish island. Knit with Harborside Aran, twisting cables and woven plaits mirror the Aran island’s rugged cliffs and verdant winding trails.   The High Road in Inis Mor   We designed Harborside Aran with the Aran Islands in mind. The region inspired a yarn that could recreate the beloved fisherman’s sweaters known to knitters worldwide.  A rich color palette, smooth, soft feel, and crisp, rounded finish lend the yarn to high relief stitch patterns. You can learn more about Harborside Aran in our ..read more

As a yarn company with more than 15 feltable wool yarns, we love felted projects! And felted holiday projects especially. When the weather turns, it’s a great opportunity to create woolly, dense knits with hot water and a little agitation. This year’s post joins our previous entries in the felted genre: All-Time Favorite Projects to Felt and 9 Felted Holiday Projects. So, if this list doesn’t spark inspiration, be sure to check out those blogs as well! Also, if you’ve never felted before, familiarize yourself with our Felting Tutorial.   Snow Mittens We had to launch this year’s list wit ..read more

The fall and winter seasons are a fabulous time to indulge in knit and crochet holiday crafting. Dressing up the house puts us in the spirit of the season, and it also allows us to use up those leftover bits of yarn from the sweaters, hats, scarves, cowls and mittens we’re making this season! These are some of our favorite, quick knit and crochet home decor items to infuse the home with the holiday spirit. These projects are perfect for scraps of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride, Harborside Aran, Prairie Spun DK, Nature Spun, Lanaloft, and Burly Spun. Love to felt? We also have a blog of great felted ..read more

Over the last year,  Claire Borchardt of A Fiber Collective published a series of beautiful patterns in Prairie Spun DK. The small collection, comprised of sweaters, socks, hats, cowls and other accessories, sparked a desire to cast on her knits.     Claire has made it very easy to access her gorgeous designs. Of the 10 Prairie Spun DK patterns, 8 are free to the public. We wanted to celebrate her beautiful patterns and generous spirit with a knit along!     Each of the accessories featured here are available for FREE on A Fiber Collective. Claire’s patterns featur ..read more

It’s always exciting to introduce a yarn like Harborside Aran to the Brown Sheep family. It’s especially exciting when the new yarn arrives in time for fall and the high crafting season! Harborside Aran is the latest addition to our line of pure wool yarns. Brown Sheep Company have developed a well-rounded and well-respected class of 100% wools, from Nature Spun to Burly Spun, Shepherd’s Shades, Prairie Spun DK, and others. Available in a diverse range of weights, our 100% wool yarns offer crafters a beautiful fiber for knitting, crocheting, weaving, felting, and more. About Harborside Aran Ha ..read more

It’s always exciting to introduce a yarn like Heritage Aran to the Brown Sheep family. It’s especially exciting when the new yarn arrives in time for fall and the high crafting season! Heritage Aran is the latest addition to our line of pure wool yarns. Brown Sheep Company have developed a well-rounded and well-respected class of 100% wools, from Nature Spun to Burly Spun, Shepherd’s Shades, Prairie Spun DK, and others. Available in a diverse range of weights, our 100% wool yarns offer crafters a beautiful fiber for knitting, crocheting, weaving, felting, and more. About Heritage Aran Heritag ..read more

When do you start planning for Christmas? Do you like to celebrate Christmas in July? Brown Sheep have partnered with Appalachian Baby Design to create a selection of 7 Christmas Stockings featuring Lanaloft Sport and Nature Spun Sport.   Each of the Lanaloft Sport kits includes skeins of Lanaloft in colors like Roasted Pepper, English Ivy, Manor Grey, Cottage White, and Ironwood . The kits are packaged in a beautiful gift box with a satin ribbon, knitter signature gift tag, and pattern. The designs include Fox and Forest, Owl, Hare and Holly, Possum and Pine, Winter Hearts, Stripes and ..read more

The Brown Sheep Spring Mystery has wrapped! It’s safe to finally reveal Tonia Lyon’s gorgeous shawl design, the True Blue Shawl. We want to thank all of our MKAL knitters for joining us these last few weeks. The Brown Sheep community made some truly beautiful shawls in Nature Spun Sport. We encourage a visit to the group on Spinning Yarns or a search of the #BrownSheepSpringMKAL2023 hashtag to see more. We’d also like to congratulate our winners of the two $50 gift certificates to BrownSheep.com! We’re thankful for random number generators as it would have been extremely difficult to choose a ..read more