From The Farm.

Yarn Right Now

Aug 10

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The world's best trend forecaster convened 50 people in Rome to talk about sheep. She was not wrong to.

Lidewij Edelkoort, the woman who has been right about nearly everything in textiles for four decades, recently gathered designers, farmers, and thinkers at a private estate in Rome for the World Wool Forum. Fifty seats. Sold out. The agenda: the future of wool, from pasture to product. When the most influential forecaster in fashion makes sheep the subject, you pay attention.

In the Netherlands, Reina Ovinge left fast fashion to found The Knitwit Stable, a regenerative farm producing traceable wool and mohair. In Portugal, Burel Factory rescued a 19th-century wool mill from insolvency, rehired the artisans who knew how to run it, and brought in designers to reinvent burel, a traditional shepherd's fabric, for interiors and contemporary clothing. One blanket. One sheep. Two weeks from shearing to finish.

Provenance is the new colorway.

"Turns out knowing exactly where your fiber comes from is the most luxurious thing about it."

Yarn Right Now: One trend. One find. One opinion.

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From The Farm.

The world's best trend forecaster convened 50 people in Rome to talk about sheep. She was not wrong to.

"Turns out knowing exactly where your fiber comes from is the most luxurious thing about it."

In case you missed these….

Take blue. Not a blue. Blue in its entirety.

Before the skein, before the pattern, before the stitch: a sheep standing in a field, wearing exactly the color your living room needed.

The entrance hall is the most honest room in the house.

Ambistitcherous. /am-bih-STITCH-er-us/. Adjective.

The 1970s are back and they brought the lace doilies, the oversized crochet vests, the big retro wall weavings, and the bell-sleeve cardigans with them.

It starts innocently. One cupboard. One basket.

Estate sales. Charity shops. Online classifieds. Fiber arts communities.

Lanuginous. /luh-NEW-jih-nus/. Adjective. Covered in fine, soft down.

Brioche is a two-row repeat: knit, yarn-forward, slip. That's it.

That idea you keep talking about with your friend? It's time to do something with it.

The loom was done with them. They had other ideas.

Wine tourism built an entire industry on the idea that knowing where something comes from makes it taste better.

Charts aren't a different language. They're a shorter one.

Late, mid-story, already laughing. She's the reason you stayed. She derails everything. She makes everything better.

Start with what you already have. A glass bottle, a ceramic vase, a found object with a good silhouette. Yarn does not need to start from nothing.

You spent hours on it. The fabric is beautiful. The stitches are even.

It starts innocently. A pattern calls for DK weight and suddenly you're standing in a yarn shop holding a merino in one hand and a cotton in the other, wondering what you actually believe.

The most countercultural thing you can do right now fits in a project bag.

Every pattern you've ever knitted started as someone's hunch. A stitch combination, a silhouette, a color sequence that wouldn't leave them alone.

The pattern that works in every room and every craft.

When the forecaster talks, the fiber world listens. Wool is having a moment. The sheep knew first.

There is something almost comic about asking an algorithm for help with crafts that predate electricity by several thousand years.

There is a stitch that does not lie flat. It rises. It folds back on itself, catches shadow, creates depth where there was none.

KOEL MAGAZINE

A digital magazine, reimagined… yarn and wool stories, published one by one.

In-depth interviews, original patterns, and ideas worth making.

From The Farm.

The world's best trend forecaster convened 50 people in Rome to talk about sheep. She was not wrong to.

"Turns out knowing exactly where your fiber comes from is the most luxurious thing about it."

In case you missed these….

Take blue. Not a blue. Blue in its entirety.

Before the skein, before the pattern, before the stitch: a sheep standing in a field, wearing exactly the color your living room needed.

The entrance hall is the most honest room in the house.

Ambistitcherous. /am-bih-STITCH-er-us/. Adjective.

The 1970s are back and they brought the lace doilies, the oversized crochet vests, the big retro wall weavings, and the bell-sleeve cardigans with them.

It starts innocently. One cupboard. One basket.

Estate sales. Charity shops. Online classifieds. Fiber arts communities.

Lanuginous. /luh-NEW-jih-nus/. Adjective. Covered in fine, soft down.

Brioche is a two-row repeat: knit, yarn-forward, slip. That's it.

That idea you keep talking about with your friend? It's time to do something with it.

The loom was done with them. They had other ideas.

Wine tourism built an entire industry on the idea that knowing where something comes from makes it taste better.

Charts aren't a different language. They're a shorter one.

Late, mid-story, already laughing. She's the reason you stayed. She derails everything. She makes everything better.

Start with what you already have. A glass bottle, a ceramic vase, a found object with a good silhouette. Yarn does not need to start from nothing.

You spent hours on it. The fabric is beautiful. The stitches are even.

It starts innocently. A pattern calls for DK weight and suddenly you're standing in a yarn shop holding a merino in one hand and a cotton in the other, wondering what you actually believe.

The most countercultural thing you can do right now fits in a project bag.

Every pattern you've ever knitted started as someone's hunch. A stitch combination, a silhouette, a color sequence that wouldn't leave them alone.

The pattern that works in every room and every craft.

When the forecaster talks, the fiber world listens. Wool is having a moment. The sheep knew first.

There is something almost comic about asking an algorithm for help with crafts that predate electricity by several thousand years.

There is a stitch that does not lie flat. It rises. It folds back on itself, catches shadow, creates depth where there was none.

KOEL MAGAZINE

A digital magazine, reimagined… yarn and wool stories, published one by one.

In-depth interviews, original patterns, and ideas worth making.

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