CHAOS BLOOM 🌀
I am truly relieved to finally have the colorway that I’ve heard the most about on our grid 🥹 Honestly, the fact that so many of you loved this one so much makes my chaotic little heart so, so happy 💙
From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to create a colorway inspired by the Blue Morpho. However, when the name came into place, it took the depths of this colorway to entirely new levels for me.
Chaos Bloom was inspired by the growth or beauty that is born from disorder or unexpected circumstances. For me, this is a feeling I experienced so intensely internally over the last year that it actually started to feel physical. Disorder can be so, so incredibly uncomfortable. Like an itch you can’t scratch, or a feeling of unrest that is so potent you can’t sit still. Like the chaos is a storm inside your mind. But when there is no option, no escape from the chaos, something truly spectacular starts to take place — growth. And from growth: beauty. You start to recognize what is literally being shed from you or your life in the chaos, and how, despite it all, you bloom 💙
Welcome to Explorer Knits + Fibers 🌲
EKF is a women-owned and operated business that warmly welcomes all adventurers, knitters, crocheters, makers, hikers, and yarn lovers alike. Our goal is to create a safe and inclusive space that encourages diversity and does not tolerate hatred of any kind.
Black lives matter. LGBTQ+ lives matter. Equal rights matter. Mental health matters.
Our colorways are inspired by my favorite places around the world + the whimsical musings that come to me in my daydreams ✨
EKF IN-STOCK COLLECTIONS 💃🏻🎉✨
The Rollover Sweater ❤️
I am so incredibly delighted to share our final collaboration of the year with @meganmer
To me, this truly feels like The Sweater of All Sweaters — the one you throw on with sweats to grab a coffee, the one you wear to your holiday party, the one you dress up with a cute plaid skirt or down with baggy jeans. I genuinely can’t stop thinking about all the magical ways to wear this one.
Megan’s stunning sample was knit in one of my favorite EKF colorways of all time: Heirloom (photos to come 👀). And one of our very own, Jenn, knit hers in another favorite EKF colorway: Rioja 😍🍷
We’re so excited to be offering kits for The Rollover in both Heirloom and Rioja on Carlsbad Worsted. Kits will be in the shop Sunday, December 14th at 7pm MT, and will ship by January 26th!
AVENUE PULLOVER KITS ✨
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Avenue Pullover Kit: Rockies DK in Court of Dreams (PREORDER!)
- Regular price
- $116.00
- Sale price
- $116.00
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Avenue Pullover Kit: Earthy DK in Butterfly Pea Flower (PREORDER!)
- Regular price
- $120.00
- Sale price
- $120.00
WICKED DYE TRACKER 💚✨🩷
Curious if the Wicked colorways you ordered have been dyed yet?! Check our Dye Tracker for the latest updates on where each colorway is in our dye schedule.
A quick reminder that the Wicked Collection had a turnaround time of 12-16 weeks, with all orders shipping by February 1st at the latest!
EKF Leave No Trace x Small Business Saturday Sale 🌈✨
This year, for the first time ever, from Small Business Saturday through Giving Tuesday, LNT skeins will be available as single skeins at $15 each 🤯 Since the early days of EKF, LNT has almost exclusively been sold in 4-skein packs, but we finally decided it was time—for this weekend only—to give things an upgrade 😎
Leave No Trace yarn will always have a bit of mystery for online shoppers since it would be nearly impossible for us to photograph every single colorway and base we offer. However, this weekend, all Leave No Trace listings will be sorted not only by base, but also by Tonal vs. Variegated, and then by Color Family 🤩🌈 This will take away most of the mystery while also letting you shop in a way that feels more tailored to whatever project you’re dreaming up next!
Quality control has always been extremely important to me, and because of that, our Leave No Trace collection has grown quite a bit! We now have an entire room FULL of Leave No Trace yarn that we’d love to send to new homes so we can make room for exciting things just around the corner for EKF ❤️
Meet Explorer Knits + Fibers, a hand-dyed yarn company.
ever wonder what it looks like to run a hand-dyed yarn company? come take a peek behind the curtain with us and learn what Explorer Knits + Fibers, a women-owned and operated small business, is all about 🤍
this short film was shot by Gretchen Powers, a professional photographer + videographer, knitter, + close friend of the EKF team
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