Say hello to our March Sample of the Month 🌲✨
I am especially excited to be featuring this sample this month, because this one right here is the one that sparked the idea for Sample of the Month in the first place 🥹 Because of that, I must admit that I am truly delighted to be bringing the Forest Keys Vest into our lineup this month with high hopes of spring being right around the corner 🌿
The Forest Keys Vest was knit on Denali Sock with two of our New York Collection colorways — Central Park Bench as the Main Color, and Brooklyn Brownstone as the Contrast Color. In addition to this color pairing, we are bringing two more options that I am BEYOND excited about! Three of the four colorways are from a collection that, well, marked the beginning of immense change for EKF, and I cannot wait to share them with you again.
We’ll be offering the three Forest Keys Vest kit options as well as all six colorways available as single skeins on Denali Sock this coming Wednesday, March 4th at 7pm Mountain Time.
March Sample of the Month: Forest Keys Vest
Our third EKF Sample of the Month for 2026 is the Forest Keys Vest by Teti Lutsak.
Maddy, one of our most wonderful sample knitters, knit this vest up for us just under a year ago for our Middle of the Map Collection launch, where we released our New York Collection colorways for the very first time 🌃
There are SO many things that I love about this vest, but one of them is how boxy and oversized it feels, but still has my go-to cropped look. Huge bonus points, of course, that it is inspired by the forest, one of my favorite places to escape to 🌲✨ It is such a whimsical design with such thoughtful details and a wardrobe piece that you will find yourself grabbing for time and time again. I truly didn’t think I was a vest person until this cutie came around ❤️
Because I love this sample so much, I knew that the colors I brought back for it had to be extra special. Extra special, as in, the collection y’all keep asking us to bring back over and over again, special 😂 I am ABSOLUTELY smitten over our two additional color palettes, Fiore + Formaggio, and Balsamico + Rain Shadow, that will be available this Wednesday night.
Fiore, Formaggio, and Balsamico are some of the best colorways I believe I’ve ever created, and the Italy Collection is one that makes me tear up every time I think about it. This was the collection, launched in June 2020, that changed the trajectory of EKF. It was the collection that made me realized I couldn’t keep running EKF alone, and the one that required me to take a huge leap in confidence - in myself and EKF ❤️
All 6 colorways will ALSO be available as single skeins in our Forest Keys: à la carte listings!
March's Sample of the Month launches Wednesday, March 4th at 7pm Mountain Time. Sample of the Month, our 2026 Club, will be a monthly offering that has a turnaround time of four weeks.
EKF is heading to the Pacific Northwest 🏙️🏔️🌲🌧☕️
We are SO excited to be returning to the Pacific Northwest for the fourth year in a row for the Rose City Yarn Crawl in Portland, OR, and a pop-up on Bainbridge Island, WA, a quick ferry ride from Seattle!
We'll be at Knotty Lamb on Saturday, March 7th at 10am-5pm for the Rose City Yarn Crawl with the Ireland Collection and a few of our other favorites! ☘️
The following weekend, we'll be at La Mercerie on Saturday, March 14th at 10am-5pm to hang out on Bainbridge for the day! We're so excited to be back on the island with our entire Butterfly Effect Collection for you all 🦋
Knotty Lamb RCYC Pop-Up 🇮🇪
Saturday, March 7th, 10am-5pm
Collection: Ireland + a few EKF Favorites
Yarn Bases: Suri Alpaca Lace, Denali Sock, Rockies DK
Linen Sock + DK (tonal only)
Knotty Lamb RCYC Pop-Up 🇮🇪
Saturday, March 7th, 10am-5pm
Collection: Ireland + a few EKF Favorites
Yarn Bases: Suri Alpaca Lace, Denali Sock, Rockies DK
Linen Sock + DK (tonal only)
La Mercerie Pop-Up 🦋
Saturday, March 14th, 10am-5pm
Collection: Butterfly Effect
Yarn Bases: Suri Alpaca Lace, Denali Sock, + Rockies DK
La Mercerie Pop-Up 🦋
Saturday, March 14th, 10am-5pm
Collection: Butterfly Effect
Yarn Bases: Suri Alpaca Lace, Denali Sock, + Rockies DK
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 ✨
D.I.Y. Classes are BACK! 🎨👩🏻🎨🌈
D.I.Y. is BACK! And we are SO excited to announce our first-ever exclusive class with one of our local yarn shops, The Tangled Ball ❤️🥹
The Tangled Ball has created such a wonderful community and is known for all of the wonderful events they put on to continue to build an inclusive and happy space for makers ❤️ When they reached out to us last fall about working together, it was an easy yes for us. So, this April 4th, we’ll be hosting our first-ever D.I.Y. Class collaboration with The Tangled Ball, with an exclusive colorway created just for TTB based on their inspiration photos that created the color palette for this class.
- Regular price
- $225.00
- Sale price
- $225.00
- Regular price
- $225.00
- Sale price
- $225.00
WICKED DYE TRACKER 💚✨🩷
Curious whether the colorways in your Wicked order have been dyed yet?! Check below to see where every colorway from the Wicked Collection: Acts 1 & 2 is in production 👀 We'll update the dye tracker weekly, so make sure to check back in soon ❤️
A quick reminder that the Wicked: Acts 1 & 2 Collection had a turnaround time of 10-12 weeks, with all orders shipping by May 3rd at the latest!
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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