fbpx

The Yarnist • 2024 Season 2: Summer of Color

27%

$4983

raised of $18,000 goal

63

Supporters

Become a supporter and unlock Yarnist Insider.

The Story

The Yarnist is a daily knitting newsletter dedicated to exploring the world of knitting culture.

We love finding unusual yarn fibers, unique knitting tools, and knitting murder mystery novels. Our goal is to make you a better, more informed knitter in just 5 minutes a day. And we always leave you with a smile.

In 2024 we need your help to create the best knitting content online.

Your support allows us to focus on doing research, writing great articles, and explore knitting experiments not given much coverage. We strive to shine a light on unknown artists and techniques, and give you unbiased recommendations on the products you use most.

We’re breaking up 2024 into 3 seasons. 

Each season will have its own theme and focus. We’ll still cover a variety of topics, but there will be a common *thread* from week to week.

Season 2: The Summer of Color

For our second season of 2024 we’re going to explore the wonderful world of color.

Color is an intrinsic part of knitting, from the colors we choose for our yarn, to the method of colorwork we use for our projects.

During the months of June, July, and August we’re doing a DEEP DIVE into all things knitting with color.

Here’s the plan:

Explore Colorwork Knitting Methods

There are many types of colorwork, from simple stripes to complex intarsia charts. But there are all kinds of ways to use color in your knitting. And no matter what your skill level, there's something new for you to explore.

Each week we'll highlight a different type of colorwork knititng.
Maybe even some that you've never heard of before...

Discover the World of Hand Dyeing

There are many ways to get color into yarn. We're going to take a look not only at different yarn dyeing methods, but also the techniques used to create unique patterns and effects.

Plus we'll be partnering with some hand dyers to create exclusive colorways of our own yarn.

Learning Together LIVE

As part of our exploration, I'm going to host 3 LIVE workshops, each on a different colorwork topic:

  • • Colorwork 101: Stripes & More
  • • Intro to Marled Knitting
  • • The Secrets of Shadow Knitting
These workshops will be FREE to attend LIVE and recordings made available to all YARNIST+ members

We’ll be using a mix of podcast interviews, YouTube videos, newsletter articles, and LIVE workshops to explore this topic.

And all of this will be available FREE to our audience.

But we’re also working on something special for a select few of our biggest supporters.

The Yarnist YarnCrate

It’s been a long time in the works, but we’re finally ready to release our first yarn crate.

We’re partnering with 3 hand dyers to explore different yarn dyeing methods.

This crate will include 3 skeins (100g each) of our Zephyr DK yarn.

Each skein will be dyed using one of three techniques:

– Hand painted

– Gradient

– Naturally (botanically) dyed

In addition we’re working with Lemonwood, creators of the viral Mini-Minder skein holder.

They’re developing an exclusive Mini-Minder design just for this box!

And we’re throwing in some additional goodies as well.

Here’s everything you’ll get inside:

  • – 1 Skein Handpainted Yarn (100g / 260yd) – $35 Value
  • – 1 Skein Botanically Dyed Yarn (100g / 260yd) – $35 Value
  • – 1 Skein Gradient Yarn (100g / 260yd) – $45 Value
  • – 1 Exclusive Mini-Minder – $45 Value
  • – 1 Exclusive Summer of Color Enamel Stitch Marker – $10 Value
  • – 1YR Yarnist+ Membership – $52 Value
  • – And a few extra goodies…

BUT

This kit is limited to 150 boxes

Discounts are given for the first 100 orders, first come first served.

The Goal

My goal is to raise $18,000 (USD) to help with our operating costs over the next 3 months. This will allow me to focus my attention on researching and writing the newsletter, and provide some space to develop our podcast relaunch.

This money will be used to cover a portion of our operating expenses, including web hosting, software subscriptions, tools and labor used to put together and distribute the newsletter. 

We’ll also use a portion of it to pay our hand dyeing partners for their hard work and fulfill the YarnCrate kits. 

We will still offer classes, bootcamps, and our membership for sale but with limited promotion. We may also take on some select sponsors if they are a good fit. However, any additional funds can be directed toward growing our team, including hiring additional writers.

It will also allow the New Stitch A Day website to stay mostly ad free.

The Stretch Goals

If we are able to sell out the reward levels we have made available we will raise a little more than our stated goal. In case this happens we will unlock additional bonuses for everyone.

$21,000 • No ADS in Yarnist Newsletter

Recently we started including ads in our daily newsletter. These are more prominent and intrusive than previous promotions we’ve done. While we may continue to partner with brands that are meaningful to our readers, we will remove all other ads from 3rd parties if we hit this milestone.

$24,000 • BONUS LIVE Workshop (Audience Choice)

If we reach this goal I’ll host another LIVE workshop on a topic that our audience suggests and votes on.

This workshop will be held at the beginning of September and will last 1.5-2 hours. It will also be made FREE to everyone to watch LIVE. The recording will be made available to all YARNIST+ members.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is This Donation Tax Deductible?
No, The Yarnist is not a non-profit. Donor is not the best term for this campaign. Your contribution to the campaign is more as a supporter or patron of our work.

Why not use a platform like Patreon for this?
There are three reasons why we are not using Patreon:

  1. They take an 8% cut of all revenue.
  2. They primarily offer subscriptions and we wanted this campaign to have a set end date.
  3. We don’t want to manage another platform as we already have a membership option available.

When will I receive my reward?
Notion bundles will ship in July.
The summer of color kits will ship at the beginning of September.

Can I choose my mini-bag design?
In an effort to streamline this process and ensure items are sent out quickly, we are selecting colors and designs at random. We don’t have a current inventory of every item so this also ensures we don’t oversell colors that we only have a couple skeins of.

Support

Choose your amount

If you do not wish to receive a reward or you live outside of North America, you can use the button below to choose your support level.
As a thank you we will unlock a bonus section of the newsletter called Yarnist Insider.

Available Rewards

Only shipping to the US and Canada

Join YARNIST+ • Bonus Bundle

Total contribution of $52 (USD)

6 Items included

• 1YR Yarnist+ membership
• SoC Behind the scenes videos
• Yarnist Insider Access • Bonus Notion Bundle

Ships Mid-July 2024 • 15 of 100 Claimed

Summer of Color YarnCrate
($40 OFF)

Total contribution of $110 + S&H (USD)

9+ Items included

• 1 Handpainted Yarn • 1 Botanically Dyed Yarn
• 1 Gradient Yarn • 1 Exclusive Mini-Minder
• 1 Exclusive SoC Enamel Stitch Marker
• 1YR Yarnist+ Membership • Yarnist Insider
• Behind the scenes videos + voting
• Additional bonus items

Ships September 2024 • 10 of 10 Claimed

Summer of Color YarnCrate
($30 OFF)

Total contribution of $120 + S&H (USD)

9+ Items included

• 1 Handpainted Yarn • 1 Botanically Dyed Yarn
• 1 Gradient Yarn • 1 Exclusive Mini-Minder
• 1 Exclusive SoC Enamel Stitch Marker
• 1YR Yarnist+ Membership • Yarnist Insider
• Behind the scenes videos + voting
• Additional bonus items

Ships September 2024 • 13 of 20 Claimed

Summer of Color YarnCrate
($20 OFF)

Total contribution of $130 + S&H (USD)

9+ Items included

• 1 Handpainted Yarn • 1 Botanically Dyed Yarn
• 1 Gradient Yarn • 1 Exclusive Mini-Minder
• 1 Exclusive SoC Enamel Stitch Marker
• 1YR Yarnist+ Membership • Yarnist Insider
• Behind the scenes videos + voting
• Additional bonus items

Ships September 2024 • 0 of 30 Claimed

Summer of Color YarnCrate
($10 OFF)

Total contribution of $140 + S&H (USD)

9+ Items included

• 1 Handpainted Yarn • 1 Botanically Dyed Yarn
• 1 Gradient Yarn • 1 Exclusive Mini-Minder
• 1 Exclusive SoC Enamel Stitch Marker
• 1YR Yarnist+ Membership • Yarnist Insider
• Behind the scenes videos + voting
• Additional bonus items

Ships September 2024 • 1 of 40 Claimed

Summer of Color YarnCrate

Total contribution of $150 + S&H (USD)

9+ Items included

• 1 Handpainted Yarn • 1 Botanically Dyed Yarn
• 1 Gradient Yarn • 1 Exclusive Mini-Minder
• 1 Exclusive SoC Enamel Stitch Marker
• 1YR Yarnist+ Membership • Yarnist Insider
• Behind the scenes videos + voting
• Additional bonus items

Ships September 2024 • 7 of 50 Claimed