Say hello to the SportTee, our April Sample of the Month 🏀
We are officially HEADING into spring, and this fun, bright pop of color feels like exactly what we needed for this month 😍 The SportTee was knit up by the incredible Aro on our Rockies DK base with one of my favorite EKF colorways: Pike Place ❤️ After taking a visible mending class class this February when I was in Copenhagen, our SportTee sample caught my eye, and I couldn’t help but wonder what it would look like if we…zhuzhed it up a little 👀😏 Jenn, one of our wonderful EKF team members, took my wonky doodles and duplicate stitched lil cutie accents all over this sweater!! 🤩🥹
The colorways we used for the duplicate stitch also happen to be the colorways that we’ll be offering in addition to Pike Place for April’s SOTM. We’ve got Glacial Melt, created allllll the way back in 2019(!) for our Soldotna Sweater kits (this was pre-Colorado times even 🤯), and Pollen, created in tandem with Gates of the Arctic NP, all the way back in 2020 💛 this trio feels like the EKF version of the primary colors, and it makes my lil heart so happy 💙❤️💛
We’ll be offering the three SportTee kit options as well as all three colorways available as single skeins on Rockies DK tomorrow, April 2nd at 7pm MT. Hope to see ya there 😉🏀
April Sample of the Month: SportTee ⚽️
Our fourth EKF Sample of the Month for 2026 is the SportTee by Park Williams.
Aro, one of our lovely sample knitters, knit this adorable tee up for us last year for your Middle of the Map Collection launch, showcasing the first collection of colorways that were established in the coast-to-coast lineup: Seattle ⛴️🌲🏔️
When I first saw this design, it felt like my two style loves were being perfectly melded - knitwear + athleisure. Park's clever boxy design, wide and longer short sleeves, and cropped fit make this feel like the perfect top to wear on an evening walk, or to play a pickup game of basketball 🏀 When we decided to zhuzh the sample up a bit with our complimentary color duplicate stitches, it made this sample soar up in the ranks for favorite samples for me. We all need more fun and whimsy in our wardrobes, don't we?! Isn't that what this is all about? 🌈
Pollen, our 'grellow' aka gross yellow, aka green yellow, colorway was created in tandem with our Gates of the Arctic National Park colorway back in 2020, and I must say, my love for it now is just as strong as it was for it the moment I created it. Glacial Melt, our icy blue created back in 2019(!) for our Soldotna Sweater Kits hasn't seen a return to the EKF studio in AGES! When the team and I were looking through the EKF Colorway Library and spotted this one, we knew it was the perfect third for this month's colorways 😎
All 3 colorways will ALSO be available as single skeins on Rockies DK, Rockies DK 50g, and Linen DK in our SportTee: à la carte listings!
April's Sample of the Month launches Thursday, April 2nd 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 coming to New York! 🗽🌃✨
We are so excited to be popping up at Brooklyn General Store this spring for the Brooklyn Yarn Crawl 🌷☀️🍃 I am absolutely SMITTEN with the collection of colorways that Catherine put together for our pop-up and cannot WAIT to hang with y’all in Brooklyn for the day 🥹
We’ll have all of the colorways you see here on both Denali Sock and Rockies DK, as well as Linen DK for all of the tonals ✨
It has been almost 4 years(!!) since some of these colorways have made an appearance in the dye studio, and it has made me even MORE excited to share them with all of you this April at one of our favorite yarn shops ❤️🌃
We’ll be at Brooklyn General Store on Saturday, April 18th all day — I hope to see you there!! 😎
Brooklyn General Store Pop-Up ☀️
Saturday, April 18th
Featuring Colorways from: Ice Cream Social, Monochrome, Farmers Market, Wicked, Middle of the Map, Spain, Elements, Woolgatherer
Yarn Bases: Denali Sock, Rockies DK, and Linen DK (tonals only)
Brooklyn General Store Pop-Up ☀️
Saturday, April 18th
Featuring Colorways from: Ice Cream Social, Monochrome, Farmers Market, Wicked, Middle of the Map, Spain, Elements, Woolgatherer
Yarn Bases: Denali Sock, Rockies DK, and Linen DK (tonals only)
D.I.Y. is BACK! 💃🏻🌈👩🏻🎨🎨✨
It’s D.I.Y. time, y’all!! For the third year in a row (🤯 what is time???), we’ll be opening the doors to the EKF Studio for our yarn dyeing class this summer ☀️ and, because I’m the person who can’t help but constantly switching things up, we’re coming in hot this year with a brand new palette theme 😈 we’re going back to our nature-loving roots and transitioning from our original Moody, Vibrant, Neutral DIY Palettes to The Land, The Sea, and The Sky, and I couldn’t be more excited!! 🥹 Peek below for a closer look at our palettes, along with more info about the class!🌲🌊🌄
Sign-ups for D.I.Y. Level 1 are coming next Sunday, March 29th, at 7pm MT 🌈✨The team and I cannot WAIT to have you back in the studio to dye some yarn with us this summer!! 💃🏻👩🏻🎨🎨
march in-stock update 🌈✨
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.
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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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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!
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