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.
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:
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...
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.
As part of our exploration, I'm going to host 3 LIVE workshops, each on a different colorwork topic:
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.
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:
BUT
This kit is limited to 150 boxes
Discounts are given for the first 100 orders, first come first served.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
• 1YR Yarnist+ membership
• SoC Behind the scenes videos
• Yarnist Insider Access • Bonus Notion Bundle
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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