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Great stories happen to those who knit them!

Welcome to our blog, where we celebrate the beauty of natural fibre yarns. Here, you'll find inspiring interviews with designers, expert tips and techniques, and in-depth explorations of different fibres and their unique qualities. Join us on a journey of creativity and craftsmanship and create your own great yarn stories!

The Fell Garth Collection- It's Time to Return to The Fells

In 2015, The Fibre Co. released ‘The Fell Garth Collection‘, 8 pieces worked up by designers Melanie Berg and Emma Wright, all shot at our homestead, Fell Garth. This Autumn...

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Introducing The Waves Collection

Introducing The Waves Collection: Pattern shown, Armadale by Melanie Berg We have a deep appreciation for indie designers here at The Fibre Co. and so we are honoured to introduce...

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The Hikari Collection

Introducing the Hikari collection, a collaboration with Japanese knitwear designer michiyo. The inspiration for this five-piece collection comes from the yarn itself—the world’s most inspiring and beautiful meadows. Each garment...

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New Designs Using The Fibre Co. Yarn

What a week it was for new designs using The Fibre Co. yarn! It’s been absolutely amazing to see The Fibre Co. all over Ravelry’s Hot Right Now pages. Galerie...

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Announcing Luma & the Debut Collection

Introducing ‘April in Paris’, The Fibre Co.’s debut collection for our new yarn, Luma. Six patterns inspired by the ‘City of Lights’ with each design taking its name from a...

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6 Inspirational Knits for 2017

If December passed with you furiously knitting all the gifts in a complete frenzy to get everything bound off, wrapped and under the tree in time for Christmas, January is...

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Nordlándda KAL

The Holiday season for crafters is often the time of year when many of us are frantically finishing gift knits or looking forward to some indulgent time to make for...

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The Fibre Co. Meets The Gilmore Girls

So there we were, our latest work in progress, a bucket of ice cream, pizza, gummy bears and Netflix. It was happening, The Gilmore Girls were back! It was about...

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6 Knitted Hat Patterns for Women

Winter knitting is starting to feel increasingly important as frost and our first sprinkling of snow hit headquarters here in Cumbria this week. When it’s cold outside, we want nothing...

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Meet the Designer... Brittney-Jean Bailey

We love to discover new designs that use The Fibre Co. yarns and, just as much, to find new designers who are using them too. This cosy sweater pattern from...

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The Innisfree Collection

“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore”- The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W B Yeats...

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What is a Knit Along?

Guest blogger, Sally Seed When The Fibre Co.’s founder, Daphne, asked me to write about the Brenna KAL, I had to admit to total ignorance. What’s a KAL? And, even...

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Brenna KAL

Helvellyn, Scafell Pike, Derwentwater As the weather turns cooler in the Northern Hemisphere, we’ve been thinking about long Autumnal walks on the Fells of our home here in Cumbria. All...

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Zen Variations

Knitting, as meditation. Indulging our making, becoming entranced by the movement of the tools and materials as we work, is an act of physical meditation. Our hands making is a...

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Fell Garth

Introducing Fell Garth, an 8-piece collection named after our Lake District family homestead and designed for long fell walks, farmers’ market Sundays and tea with friends. Discover the warmth of...

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Nordlándda

The need for warmth and comfort is starting to reach its peak here in the Northern hemisphere and so it feels like the perfect time to turn to hand knit...

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