Introducing: Harvest Flower x Rhinebeck 🍂🗽🌺✨
We are SO excited to announce our next collection: HARVEST FLOWER x RHINEBECK!
This year, the team and I decided to take a break from vending and head upstate together just as a group to get some quality time in and swap the dye studio for a long weekend of coziness in the woods 😌 Of course, in addition to lots of crafting, exploring, meals shared, and reconnecting with old and new members of the team, we’ll be attending some of the festivities of Rhinebeck weekend, including NY Sheep & Wool on Saturday.
Ever since I told the team I wanted to bring them all out here, we knew we had no choice but to do a lil EKF knit-a-long for the occasion 🥹❤️
15 sweater pattern submissions and a few rounds of voting later, and we narrowed it down to one: the Harvest Flower Sweater by Jessie Mead Designs.
Since we decided on one sweater, that meant we had a LOT of room to play with something we know and love: COLOR. One sweater. 12 palettes. 38(!) COLORWAYS!!
And it was in that moment of realization that I knew we couldn’t keep this knit-a-long to ourselves anymore. As we all know, community and togetherness feel more important than ever, so instead of launching our next phase of the Monochrome Collection right away, we decided to pivot and make space for this 🥹
The Harvest Flower x Rhinebeck KAL Collection will be launching this Sunday, August 23rd at 7pm Mountain Time. We will be offering 38 colorways, across three DK bases (did ya peep the exciting news in this post?? 👀), with a turnaround time of four weeks so you can get to knitting on your Harvest Flower sweater asap (even if you won’t be attending NY Sheep & Wool this year)! We cannot WAIT to share each and every palette with you, we know you’ll be especially excited to see some of these colorways that have been DYEING to be back in the studio for some time now 👀
The Harvest Flower x EKF Team Color Palettes
I am SO jazzed to be sharing our first six color palettes for The Harvest Flower x Rhinebeck KAL Collection, curated by the EKF team (and, as you may have noticed here, a past EKF team member that will be joining us on the east coast this fall for Rhinebeck 👀❤️).
One of the main reasons that sparked me wanting to launch this collection was how I felt after mocking up the first few versions of these color palettes for the team. Glancing at each one, I saw so much of their personalities in their choices. And for someone who is quite fond of and endeared to this incredibly special group of women, it really warmed my heart. And, it made me want to share a piece of that with all of you. I know it might sound silly, but I look at these photos and see every one of them — their personality traits, them hanging out in the studio, laughing, them working incredibly hard always, showing more care and love towards EKF than I ever thought I’d have in a team. They’re pretty fckng wonderful, and I am so happy that we get to make a sweater together with y’all this fall 😌🍂
🌀🐑 SPINDLEWILD 🌲✨
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 🥰🦋🌈✨
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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