Dye Mad Yarns

A hand knit child’s sweater in progress. There is nondescript airport carpet in the background.

Airport knitting (Fire Pink and Virginia Bluebells from @dyemadyarns.bsky.social)

Graphic with hands knitting advertising a weekly stitch night at Dye Mad Yarns, located at 1530 South High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Event is every Wednesday starting at 5:00pm.

It’s a Wednesday! This week and every week, we host Stitch Night from 5-7pm at our store front, just south of downtown Columbus! It can get busy, so we suggest bringing an extra chair if you’ve got it! Masks heavily encouraged (you will look weird without one tbh). #knitting #crochet #columbusohio

A twisted hank in light greys and browns on a bed of untwisted hanks in the same colorway

The judgement card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

Our newest tarot yarn is live: Judgement! dyemadyarns.com/products/jud...

A pic of a crocheted triangle-shaped shawl made with Dye Mad Yarns fingering weight yarn in the color OPAWAL (it’s variegated blue and pink and purple - very trans flag adjacent). The pattern is the Fall Festival Shawl by Tara Briggs.

What are you making today?

I’m working on a shawl that has some amazing texture!!

🧶 Yarn by OPAWAL @dyemadyarns.bsky.social

📝 Pattern is Fall Festival Shawl by Tara Briggs

#CrochetArt #YarnLove #OnlyBeautifulThings #Crochet #MakingThings #ArtYear

Thank you so much for coming to see us!! 🥰

We! Love! Wool Gathering!!!!!!!!

A yarn dyeing booth in a field under a tent!

A table in a field under a large festival tent adorned with fiber arts goodness

It’s A Wool Gathering weekend! Join us in Yellow Springs today and tomorrow!

A collection of people sitting, knitting and crocheting. The room is painted a light purple and there are flowers on the right side of the frame. Everyone is wearing masks.

You know what’s a good way to take a break from the internet? Your local stitch night. We do ours every Wednesday, 5-7pm.

Hand knit sock in progress with an apple tree motif around the ankle. The heel and cuff are are a dark red, the main color is a light brown.

zoomin on these socks 🧶 yarn from @dyemadyarns.bsky.social

Our yarn is all set up at For Ewe in Oberlin, Ohio for the Yarn Discovery Tour! Check it out through next weekend 😎🧶

And so many of us knew this would happen, because we know where our supplies come from.

yes!! Lindsey @stillyriveryarns.com has all of her videos up on Bluesky from four months ago about how tariffs are going to hurt the fiber arts industry! great in depth stuff if folks want to go look!!

hey look, Lindsey was talking about this four months ago!!

Trump’s Tariffs Are Destroying Something You’d Never Expect Not even your favorite sweater is safe from the trade war.

“destroying something you’d never expect” except!!!! WE DID EXPECT THIS AHHHHH

Our August colorway is called Weirdmaggedon!! dyemadyarns.com/products/aug...

A finished skein of handspun, twisted like a Bismarck, in shades of lilac & rust

A collage of the process, top left is spun singles, top right is plied yarn, bottom left is the bobbin end cross section of the yarn, bottom right is yarn off the bobbin, before wet finishing

The hand dyed mill-spun yarn in the same colorway for comparison

#spinningSunday

This is “Thank You for Being A Friend” by @dyemadyarns.bsky.social (November 2024 club colorway) on Piper Fiber - 85/15 Polwarth/Tussah Silk

Spun on my EEW 6, and plied on my Hansen MiniSpinner!

🧶 #handspun #handspunyarn #handspinning #spinyourownyarn

weird white gal holding up their arms in a mirror selfie wearing a knit tshirt with a bike motif

Knit tshirt (turquoise) with a bike motif (royal blue) with a cat (silver tabby/white (maybe a Siamese mix?)) laying on it, on a bed

Bike shirt complete! Yarn is @dyemadyarns.bsky.social Summer DK base #knitsky

Blue and many other colored yarn with some grass and a bit of a brightly colored dress showing.

Knitting outdoors waiting for the start of the abba tribute band. More @dyemadyarns.bsky.social yarn. In a hitchhiker shawl this time.
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An aqua bobbin of lavender, gray, red and green plied yarn is held in hand over green grass

The same yarn, before wet finishing

The finished yarn, after a nice bath!

#spinningSunday is back!!

This is “Merino Village” by @dyemadyarns.bsky.social

Spun on my EEW 6, and plied on my Hansen MiniSpinner!

🧶 #handspun #handspunyarn #handspinning #spinyourownyarn

Graphic with a spinning wheel with text overlaid that says “INTRO TO SPINNING”

A dye pan of yarn with text overlaid saying “intro to dyeing yarn: tonals”

A pair of hand knit socks, the second one still in progress, with text overlaid saying “intro to knitting socks, Sunday 9/7, 9/14, 9/28”

We have our September slate of classes on the website if you’re interested in learning something new this fall! You may not be in school, but there’s always time to be a student 💃 dyemadyarns.com/collections/... #knitsky #columbusohio

Two white fem presenting people with dark hair, caption in the video says “I had nightmares about being”

We took zero photos of the crawl today, pls enjoy this screen shot from our thank u video

Thanks for coming to see us!!!!

A crocheted tapestry banner of the trans flag with “PROTECT TRANS FOLKS”

New shop decor woohoo 🏳️‍⚧️ Ashley crocheted this tapestry in our Aquamarine, Pink Diamond, and Pearl colorways :) 🧶

A twisted Hank on a bed of untwisted hanks of yarn. It is a variegated yarn in purple, coffee, and corn yellow

Graphic advertising a coffee pop up at Dye Mad Yarns for a latte called WILD GOOSE CHASE with espresso, milk, blackberry and vanilla corn cream! This Saturday, Aug 16th, 11am-3pm!

We’ve got a coffee pop up for this weekend’s craft crawl and naturally had to make a yarn to match! This is YEE-HONK, a blackberry, corn, espresso and milk combination! 🤠🪿🌽☕️

Rainbow yarn in Tunisian purl stitch. The colors are so beautiful and pop next to each other.

I just can’t get over how beautiful this yarn is. Thank you @dyemadyarns.bsky.social

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A cyan embroidered patch with purple thread for the design of a skull with a knitting needle and crochet hook behind it and the text “Craft Local”. The edge of the patch is neon green. It is being held by a light colored hand in front of a background of hand dyed yarns in various colors.

Are y’all doing the Columbus Craft Crawl this weekend?? 16 shops across the city! Get five stamps and be entered in to win prizes! We’ve got a DIY embroidered patch bar AND a coffee pop up from 11am-3pm! All day, this Saturday, August 16th!!

A small booklet entitled “CBUS Craft Communities”

An 8.5x11 flat zine with all (most?) of the central Ohio craft meet ups through the week and months

Our draft of the Columbus Craft Communities zine is done!! We’ve got copies at the shop for pick up, or you can print your own! It’s just one 8.5x11 sheet of paper, printed on the front and it makes a lil booklet! #knitsky #columbus #ohio #crafting

A screenshot of a discord message with a list of the central Ohio craft meet ups (that we know of)!

We’re compiling all the Columbus Craft meet ups, but are there ones we’re missing?? Let us know!!

happy Friday 🎣

How Private Equity is Reshaping the Crafts Industry - Craft Industry Alliance Many of the recent shakeups in the craft world were instigated by private equity investors. A new book explains their motivations.

Good piece from the @craftindustryalliance.org about the leech that is private equity and how it is changing the craft industry (not for the better) craftindustryalliance.org/how-private-... #knitsky