Our Winter Solstice Box: ART (inspiring) ART will be available Sunday, July 19th at 7pm MT 🎨✨

meet SPINDLEWILD 🌀🐑🌲✨

a Spincycle Yarns x EKF collaboration

debuting at Flock Fiber Festival August 1-2 in Seattle, WA

learn about spindlewild here

The EKF Spindlewild Palette

SPINDLEWILD will debut IN PERSON for the very first time this year at Flock Fiber Festival in Seattle.

Our 24 colorways have been thoughtfully divided into two palettes that stand beautifully on their own, but are even more magical together. Half of the collection will be available at the Spincycle booth, and the other half at the EKF booth (#39)!

You can meet the entire EKF Palette below. A hot tip…if any of the names sound lightly familiar to you, it’s because they’re one of the existing EKF colorways in the Spindlewild lineup, but with a little twist on their name, as these 70g skeins make the colorway appear a little differently than you know it at EKF…

Don’t recognize the name? Six of those colorways hint at the brand new EKF Collection we will also be debuting at Flock Fiber Festival…

ART (inspiring) ART

This year's solstice box theme is a celebration of the artists and their work that have inspired and influenced my own – and, most importantly, whose work has reminded me why making art matters in the first place

Art Inspiring Art is an exploration of play, experimentation, and embracing a creative spark even when it flickers in an unfamiliar place, where you have to be a beginner again. It’s an exploration of trust: in artists, in the creative process, and in the things that move us.

This year, I am creating our Solstice collection as a tribute to artists ranging from Sheila Hicks and Mark Rothko to Olga de Amaral, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annie Albers, and the unknown artists whose work I’ve stumbled upon at exactly the right moment. It is a celebration of art made by human hands and hearts.

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ART (inspiring) ART

Over the last two years, there has been a single thread that has kept my creative soul alive, and it has been absorbing art in every capacity I possibly can. Whether I stumbled upon it in the street, sought it out intentionally, or learned about it in a tiny restaurant tucked into the corner of an alleyway, art has continued to find me. It has continued to make me feel something —anything, really. It has brought me back to life. It has devastated me. It has made my smile split open and burst into laughter. It has carried me through hard moments and crazy days. Most of all, it has inspired me. It lit a fire that I thought had burned out, little sparks flashing toward me when I needed them most.

So, with this year's Winter Solstice Box, I am shining a light on the art that has inspired my art. The art that tugged at my heartstrings and made me feel. Primarily, art by badass women whose stories are about making something from nothing. Women who went down paths no one had gone down before. Who defied the odds. Who pivoted. Who found themselves again through their work. Who ignored the voices of people determined to keep the status quo. Who reminded me what it's like to play. To experiment. To forge.

learn about our solstice box: art (inspiring) art

EKF x The Punnett Square

After sharing our BUTTERCHROME Suri Punnett Square, we got LOADS of messages asking us for the design so y’all could make a version yourself!

Well, the lovely Sarah (knitwear designer + EKF team member), wrote the pattern up for free for y’all to use as a guide if you want to make a version yourself!

Click below to snag the pattern for free 🥰🦋🌈✨

download Suri Punnett Square pattern here!

BUTTERCHROME DYE TRACKER

Curious what colorways and bases are ready to ship from the Butterchrome Collection? Check out the gallery and click on your colorway to see which bases are Ready to Ship! We're finishing up the dye schedule this week (July 20), so you can expect to start seeing shipping notifications soon 🥰

In addition to Butterchrome dyeing, the EKF team has been working really hard on dyeing our recently announced Spindlewild Collection and our new collection for Flock Fiber Festival!

As always, we really appreciate your patience as we hand dye our way through this entire collection. We realize it takes a little extra time, but we promise the attention to detail and care that every skein receives is worth it ❤️

Friendly reminder that The Butterchrome Collection turnaround time is 12-18 weeks, with all orders shipping by August 30th at the latest.

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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 ✨

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