Say hello to August's SOTM: the Simultaneous Sweater ✨
Just under a week ago, the ever-talented Megan Monroe released her new design, the Simultaneous Sweater, using four colorways from our Butterfly Effect Collection. Some of you were lucky enough to order this kit when we released BUTTERCHROME at the end of April and will be getting your shipping notifications any day now (if you haven’t already). However, when this pattern dropped last week, we were FLOODED with DM’s asking if we were going to offer kits for this breathtaking design! So, we pivoted and switched our SOTM for August to the Simultaneous Sweater to accommodate all of your requests 😎
We will be offering three color palettes for this release on our Rockies DK base, including the palette used in our original sample, Megan’s sample, and a brand new one we’ll share in a couple of days 👀 Since we’re pulling this together REAL QUICK, we won’t have a swatch for our final palette, but trust us, we know it’ll be SO good. As always, every colorway (12 total this month), will be available a la carte for you as well if you need to pick up a skein (or two or twenty) for this launch!
August’s Sample of the Month will launch on Sunday, August 9th at 7pm MT with a turnaround time of 4 weeks
August Sample of the Month: Simultaneous Sweater
Our eighth EKF Sample of the Month for 2026 is the Simultaneous Sweater by Megan Monroe.
Originally knit up for us when we created our Butterfly Effect Solstice Collection in 2025, this jaw-dropping design deserved its moment in the sun as it just released on Ravelry this past week!
We have now had the pleasure of working with Megan, our wonderful sample knitter turned friend and collaborator, on five of her designs! She continues to raise the bar when it comes to intricate and complex patterns being made available in a way that feels approachable and manageable, which we all know is not an easy feat. Working with her gets our creative muscles flexing, and every time she showcases our yarn in a way we never could've imagined 🥹
This month's Sample of the Month includes twelve colorways: Metamorphoses, Ephemeral, Emergence, Chrysalis, My Future is Unlimited, On the Fly, Duck, Duck, Freefall, Pollen, Beet Juice, Charmed, + Red Herring.
All 12 colorways will ALSO be available as single skeins on Rockies DK in our Simultaneous Sweater: à la carte listings!
July's Sample of the Month launches Sunday, August 9th 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 x Flock Fiber Festival '26 ✨
Introducing our brand new collection debuting at Flock Fiber Festival this coming weekend: INTO THE WILD: Sea + Sky!! 🐠🌊🦆✨
Inspired by our original Into the Wild Collection back in 2021, we are bringing 12 BRAND new colorways inspired by our water and sky dwelling friends to Flock (😏) — read: some of our favorite birds + fishes 😍❤️🦆 We’ve got six variegated colorways to show you in addition to their six tonal mates that you’ve already gotten a sneak peek of with our EKF Spindlewild Palette 👀
Our variegated colorways will be available on: Suri Alpaca Lace (NSW), Earthy Sock (NSW), Denali Sock, Rockies DK, + Carlsbad Worsted!
Our tonal colorways will be available on: Suri Alpaca Lace (NSW), Linen Sock (NSW), Denali Sock, Linen DK (NSW), Rockies DK, + Carlsbad Worsted.
This collection has been flying around in our head for MONTHS, and I am BEYOND excited to show you these colorways celebrating some of the team’s favorite lil wildlife creatures out there 🥹 Colorway reveals start tomorrow, and we’ve sprinkled some hints into this post…any guesses who we’ll be seeing?!
INTO THE WILD: Sea + Sky will be debuting at Flock Fiber Festival this coming weekend!
New to Flock? Check out all of the festival details here and come see us at booth #39! Can't wait! 🎉
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…
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 🌲
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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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