Atlas Insider
Atlas Insider: Turn On the Yarn Spigots
My second non-lawn-mowing-related job was working at a movie theater concession stand and oh lordy did I think I had hit the big time with that access to all-I-could-eat popcorn (this was literally a benefit that was offered at the time of my hiring: all-I-could-eat popcorn. Where do I sign?).
Day one: work a little, eat popcorn a lot. Day two: same. Day three: same, minus ten percent. Day four: eh….where are we going for lunch? By the end of the first week, I never wanted to see popcorn again, even freshly armed with the what-seemed-like-insider-knowledge that Skittles + popcorn = tastes like Froot Loops (hey look, this Atlas Insider came with a recipe!).
I was thinking about this earlier this week when the MDK World Headquarters crew was unpacking boxes and boxes (there were a lot of boxes) of a new-to-MDK yarn for an upcoming Field Guide. It’s really beautiful and brought out some ooohs and ahhhs in me (but my lips are sealed!) and I thought for about ten minutes about how best to use it . . . and then by the end of unpacking the third box, all I could think was GET IT AWAY FROM ME! WHY ARE WE NOT DONE WITH THIS YET?! IF I HAVE TO TOUCH THIS FOR ONE MORE SECOND I WILL SURELY DIE.
Now. Some people think I am a little exaggerate-y, but no, I really was going to die if I had to touch it one second longer. D-I-E, die.
I guess it happens to everyone; you occasionally get a little jaded about the thing you’re involved with every day, the thing that allllll the other people are insane with jealousy over. We occasionally get inquiries about MDK World Headquarters warehouse visits, and while we aren’t set up for them, it’s fun to imagine guiding visitors around the space, with people geeking out over the shelves of ordinary, well, office supplies. “I just mean . . . look at all these post-its!” [Faints.]
But the minute knitters find out I work here, there’s no telling them it’s just an ordinary shipping space. They get very excited and want to know allll about it (that’s when I usually get accusatory: “Wait, you’re not reading me every week?”)—like do the water faucets pour out yarn and where do we keep the flock of sheep?
We’ve got a big warehouse-based workshop coming up this fall (Snippets subscribers are signing up for it already, so you really should subscribe!), and we’re already trying to figure out ways to make the warehouse look a little more warehouse-y; I think we’ve done too good of a job making it neat and organized. I suspect people want it to look like something out of a Hoarders episode.
So excuse me now; I have to go knock over a few aisles of shelves and strew some crowbars around like I’ve been opening crates. People will be here soon.
A Giveaway
To help us make ready for workshop visitors, enter our giveaway. The prize? A Mystery Bag of skeins from the free-flowing faucets at MDK World Headquarters.
How to enter?
Two steps:
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Step 2: Leave a comment letting us know the yarn that would be flowing from the spigots at your house, if you had yarn spigots.
Deadline for entries: Sunday, August 8, 11:59 PM Central time. We’ll draw a random winner from the entries. Winner will be notified by email.
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Please…Open the taps to New Zealand. We would love access to your store. ALL THE WOOL
One spigot of fingering with a mohair and another spigot of DK weight as it knits up faster.
Any and all as long as it’s wool
Sock yarn would be coming out of my tap. All kinds to suit all kinds of projects
I’d have three spigots: one for alpaca, one for Rambouillet wool, and one for linen. And a top secret spigot for qiviut…
Love these spigots!
Sock yarn, sock yarn, sock yarn. And just got into cotton for throws. And worsted for house socks!
Anything flowing from the tap would have me jumping for joy. Cotton, wool, cashmere, sock yarn, blends, alpaca… goodness! What’s not to love about ANY of them.
Any yarn from the Neighborhood Fiber company….
Open the spigots in Texas. Gorgeous cashmere DK in all the shades of beauty.
My spigot would flow with Rowan felted tweed because I never have been able to afford all the colors that I would need to knit the patterns I want.
My favorite is wool, therefore, send me LOPI please. Thank you
Oh my, so many but Spincycle would definitely be pouring out along with some woolly wool. Oh the many colors!
Fellow Kiwi here – I stan this comment! Always gutted that I can’t buy all the lovely things I see in your shop.
Rowan Felted Tweed & Organic Studio Sock.
Cotton, cotton and cotton
Single ply. Lovely soft single ply yarn would stream from my faucets. If I had yarn faucets that is.
I’m dying to try the new atlas yarn!
Torn between de Rerum Gilliatt and Mohonk light. Depends on how far the taps are turned on.
A yarn spigot dispensing anything from La Bien Aimee would be a dream come true!
So hard to decide! A spigot of Spincycle would be a given and then can I have another? Anything with speckles!
Cotton yarn is my favorite by far! I make dish cloths, that’s it! I’ve never seen a color that I didn’t love. Oh, and just to be sure I’m not missing out, I have sock yarn, for socks, and plain old acrylic for watch caps that I donate.
Anything Malibrogo!
I have way too much Icelandic unspun that I really should do something with….
Sock yarn!!! Skinny skinny yardage in millions of colors of wonderful wool!!!
So hard to choose… Sylph on hot tap and Mohonk on cold tap
ROWAN chunky cashmere!
I can’t get enough of it.
Barnyard Knits Colorway Amethyst —just LOVE the colors in the hand dyed yarn!
Where do you keep the sheep? Please keep the yarn flowing and send some organic worsted or any of your beautiful wool to me!!
Zauberball Crazy!!!
Euro flax mini skeins dripping out all the time in every color imaginable.
I agree Nancy. Mini skeins for me too!
Variegated sock yarn!!
Bella Hand Dyed Yarn would come out of one spigot and Rowan Handknit Cotton from the other.
Sock yarn! In every color. So versatile. Socks, sweaters, scarves, shawls.
Yarn spigot-in a perfect world! Mine would flow with Nua Sport and Barnyard Knits!
My first spigot would have cashmere flowing, the colors are always beautiful. The other spigot would have mohair/ silk blend. I love how it knits up into a luscious finished piece.
Bad Sheep Yarn always gets me with her moody forest beauties.
I’m with Sandy
It would be superwash wool in every colour of the rainbow to match the rainbows we see frequently in the Aloha State.
Organic worsted!
So hard to choose! A sampler selection of beautiful shades of linen would be wonderful, since I live in a rather warm climate.
Nua Sport! It is glorious to work with and so not itchy!!
Kauni, forever. The colors, the wooly wonder, I could knit it every day
My spigots almost do flow with Neighborhood Fibers worsted and chunky weight. Y’all’s next swag design should be a spigot flowing with yarn. Could be like a thing where you stitch it with oddments of actual yarn. (As if you creative geniuses needed ideas:)
Organic studio chunky!
You can open my faucets and have la bien aimee or organic studio dk flow.
Organic studio DK! Love the squooshy goodness!
I love your posts DG! Yarn spigots with any of your yarns would be welcome here but especially love Felted Tweed, Nua sport and Dyed in the Wool.
The hot water faucet would flow with Rowan felted tweed and the cold water faucet would flow with Louet Euroflax linen. The water bill would be crazy!
Neighborhood Fiber Sock! All of it! So so gorgeous!
Oh, what a dream it would be to open a spigot and have the yarn of my dreams…a wonderfully drapy fingering in vibrant colours, flow out! I would be knitting up lovely shawls whenever I wanted.
I’m a huge fan of De Rerum Gilliatt. So squishy, beautiful colour palette and not too expensive.
It’s SO GOOD for cable knitting!
all the sock yarns!
I’d love to have Rowan Felted Tweed flow from a spigot! But I could make do with just about any yarn flowing. . .
Yarn spigots, what a great idea! Oh, to relax in a tub of soft squishy yarn! All the yarns all the time…a dream come true!
I’d have Spincycle Dyed in the Wool flowing!
Ooh yes I agree that would be lovely especially if it’s all of their beautiful colour ways because picking just one colour would be hard to do!!
Rowan Felted Tweed from the kitchen faucet, Big Wool from the bathroom faucet, and Neighborhood Fiber Studio chunky from the others
Hue Loco at my house!
Zauberball cotton!!!!!
My spigot would flow with beautiful squishy sock yarns! I’ll try them all!
I’ve been reveling in Handknit Cotton – the intense colors and soft hand make me joyful.
Please participate in the 2021 and future Dutchess (Rhinebeck NY) Sheep and Wool Festivals along with your contributing designers!
Malabrigo Rios!
Any yarn is welcome to flow out of the spigots! Lately I’ve been getting hand dyed sock yarn, starting those holiday gifts of socks.
You all are too fun!! Organic and lots of color for me…..
I’m with you, Lisa!
It would be all the yarns and colorways I haven’t tried yet, so many.
Love your posts and love yarn! It keeps flowing into my house. I even have a whole room for my supplies and there’s lots of room left! I would love, love, love to take some of your gorgeous yarn off your hands!
Any variegated sock yarn
My spigots would flow with organic studio DK and sock yarn in every color!
I discovered silk, cotton, and linen last summer. Now I am hooked on summer knitting, not just wool.
Any yarn carried by MDK!
Hot and cold running Felted Tweed, please.
There aren’t many Yarns that I wouldn’t want to see in my stash.
Open a spigot with all the yarns I have not yet tried that would look great for all the projects I’ve not yet tried. That’s lots – I didn’t knit for 50 years and renewing my addiction was a covid project.
Spincycle spigots!
Organic studio DK looks glorious and I think it would flow beautifully out of my spigots.
I’m not picky, any yarn will do. I do love the colors and feel of Miss Babs Yowza.
Mohair!!
Cashmere!!
Lichen and Lace – can’t get enough!
It’s too hard for me to choose one favorite yarn! Right now I would love to have any yarn from Hedgehog Fibers flowing from my taps!
Maybe Lettlopi??!
Any type of good workhorse sock yarn, I do lots of projects but always come back to socks and it they hold up and need little mending I am sold!
Nua Sport ,a beautiful yarn to knit with and wool/silk fingering spigots would be amazing fun.
Any cotton yarn for my warm weather knitting
Yarn flowing from spiggots you as say!?! Yikes, there aren’t big-enough bins oe space in my apartment to store it. Bedroom has a wall of bins in it already!
Wait…a spigot can control the flow I want it all from the finest to the chunkiest! .
All of the yarn….all of the time! I tend to fall in love with what I’m knitting in the moment, so there isn’t a wrong answer to this question as far as I’m concerned!!!
Sock yarn! The squieshiest and springiest!
I’m swooning over that orange organic dk!
Ooh endless yarn coming from the turn of a faucet sounds wonderful! Although it would be fun to have something expensive I’ve never tried yet flow out, I think mine would be Berroco Vintage DK — soft, drapes well, machine washable, and comes in so many colors!
Organic studio sock!
If the taps were flowing it would be moving my handspun out the door. There is a lot of it!
I think I have fleece spigots in my house. That would explain why I have one full closet full of about 16 fleece’s worth of roving ready to be spun. (It’s possibly related to the three Shetland sheep in my backyard.) But I must confess to always grabbing the colorful hand-dyed braids lately. Much as I adore my sheep’s wool, it’s all brown and black and lately? I just want color.
Neighborhood Fiber Co. Studio Worsted – one giant skein has always been exactly enough for a baby gift without having to know what I’m making yet. They’ve recently started making the skeins smaller, but I’m still sold because the yarn is a delight to work with and there’s a color for everyone!
Anything with colour. Intarsia and colour work are my passion!
Mohonk in every color would be flowing out of my spigot like a huge rainbow.
Spincycle in all its glorious colours
Oh! Is it one of those high-flow spigots? Something nonsuperwash like luscious Cormo would be perfect!
Sock Yarn FTW!!!
Indie dyed sock yarn. It’s my go to souvenir yarn. I can always make something out of one skein (socks, shawlette, or a hat) or combine it with another skein or several to make a shawl, sweater or anything.
I would create a spigot wall like a hardware store display to have as many yarns as possible! Love Neighborhood Fiber Company!
Wow what a thought! Anything by Three Irish Girls!
Peaches ‘n Creme yarn from before they shut down and revamped or whatever!
The amazing color palette of Rowan Felted Tweed would be glorious out of the fountains.
Ooohhh any yarn please, especially Rowan felted tweed.
My spigots are open and flowing yarnbeauties. What an awesome prize! It doesn’t matter what kind it’s all soft and squishy and luscious.
All the sock yarns!
No one has mentioned the deep yearning for endless Noro yarn!!!! I can’t resist it’s siren song. I know it has its faults, but it’s all so so pretty. Every skein is desirable. An endless supply would be this knitters dream.
I feel exactly the same way!! Noro just makes my heart sing … and makes me want to keep knitting “just one more row” to see the colors changing.
ROwan Felted Tweed for sure.
I have a real weakness for single skeins of sock weight yarn, I love buying it even if it takes me forever to get around to using it for something. In fact any time I go someplace new I look for a LYS just to check out their sock yarn.
The vision of yarn flowing from my craft room bins fills me with joy as well as anxiety over what to knit first.
Zaureball Crazy, no doubt!
Nua Sport for sure!! Wonderful to work with and splices like nobody’s business!!!!
In my perfect yarn house the spigots would be flowing with Gleem lace and Mohonk light. The colors would just dazzle everyone!
I would like to upgrade my single spigot to a soda fountain type dispenser! There are so many things I haven’t tried. While a wine tasting type experience would be more respectable, I’m thinking having several yarns on tap is the way to go. It sounds like MDK headquarters is like those “new” soda machines at the theaters where you can mix and match all the flavors.
Bring it on!
it,s seeing all those fresh, new skeins of yarn and dreaming of all the possibilities they could become. all the wonderful projects finished, and being loved by someone.
Single ply merino…my Kryptonite
Free-flowing La Bien Aimee….. or Spincycle……..or………
Spylf would be flowing. It looks heavenly
Malabrigo. A different weight from every faucet too.
All colors of Malabrigo Rios! So beautiful!
neighborhood fibers!!!
Organic Studio Chunky!
Anything fingering weight and wool, that’s what I use the most. Cold water tap, superwash for socks (Zauerwool!). Hot water taps, everything else – and if I don’t shut it off tight it’ll drip lace weight….
Love the softness of Malabrigo yarns.
I would be delighted with a solid color of feltable wool. Delighted.
I’d be happy to see all shades of blue to come flowing out!
Hand dyed lichen and lace fingering, helix, felted tweed in jewel colors….
Freia yarn bombs!
Rowan Felted Tweed, or maybe J&S Jumper weight, even though it makes me sneeze when I knit it.
All the Lopi! (Which makes zero sense as I live in FL, but I love to knit with it)
Spincycle Dyed in the Wool! All those beautiful colors making each skein unique! Gorgeous!
What fun! La Bien Aimee or Neighborhood Fibres in gorgeous blues, ferociously fabulous fuschias or vibrant violets…..not to mention all the other stunning colours!
Whatever is flowing would make me happy
Plied. The color combinations are glorious.
I’d like to choose something fancy and amazing, but I just LOVE LOVE LOVE (and use a lot of) my local Briggs and Little Heritage, Regal, and Tuffy, also their Sport and Durasport… so from my taps I’d probably go with the Tuffy.
I would love ANY yarn that would flow from a faucet, well except maybe the furry/eyelash yarns that were so popular in the mid 2000’s (my stash has plenty of that).
Yarn spigots are definitely flowing here!
La Bien Aimee!
buckets of variegated DK skeins, zauberballs, knitted wit sock, old rusted chair … I can’t pick just one!
That would be sock yarn: Regia, Berrocco, Lion Brand and Zauberball as well as the indie hand dyed skeins I’ve picked up at Stitches West.
The yarn that seems to be flowing from the spigots at my house is Cascade Ecological Wool. What I’d prefer to be flowing from the spigots is anything with some silk or cashmere content. Or Neighborhood Fiber Co Studio Sock. (Instead of a spigot, maybe I should have one of those nozzles with buttons you sometimes see behind a bar…the kind where you push a button to change the flavor of soda that comes out. Only with yarn.)
orgainic worsted for me. Fingering will do just fine too, or maybe a little DK?
Some beautiful Autumn colors, burnt orange, greens and deep reds. My sister’s colors!
Rowan felted tweed please !!!
Blue of course! Oceans of blue.
May the faucets run with a Kaffe rainbow of Rowan felted tweed.
I’d love them all! But if I have to choose I’d say Barnyard Knits. I’d love to have a never ending supply of Kim’s yarns for making a never ending supply of knitty things!
A yarn spigot in my house would not discriminate on yarn any and are welcome. But I would love the Organic Studio DK 🙂
For me? All the non-superwash you can fit in a trailer.
For me to knit for my little grand nephews? All the superwash (momma friendly) yarn you can fit in the second trailer!!
Everything in moderation, I say. I don’t want spigots of Rowan Felted Tweed and Zauberball Craxy to become DG’s all you can eat popcorn.
All the sock yarn!!
All kinds and sorts of fingering.
My spigots would also be wayback machines: Sheep Shop wool and Mission Falls cotton.
My current favorite…a blend of merino, yak and alpaca…great stitch definition and not too drapy!
Flowing out the spigots in my house is quilting fabrics and sock yarn but what I would absolutely love to add are: Rowan felted tweed and Spincycle dyed in the Wool any color variation would be loved and appreciated!
Bosa, by Little fox, a gorgeous blend of super wash merino, yak, and silk!
Hot spigot: Rowan handknit cotton; Cold spigot: Hedgehog fibers merino DK; Garden spigot: Zauberball Crazy!
(I know I have more spigots around here…!)
Wool, wool, wool. All kinds, all weights, sometimes now and then a blend.
Love felted tweed, but really want the spigot to give me a bit of everything. After all I am apparently only going around once!
pink yarn, all shades, all fibers. pink, pink, pink!
I agree with the folks who say a different yarn from every spigot! One with Spincycle Dyed in the Wool, one with something plant-basednfor summer knitting, one with Barenaked Wools Breakfast Blend, and maybe one rotating tap. Gotta have variety!
I would insist my yarn spigots spilled out Caravan in the morning and Hektos in the afternoon. Lovely!
I’d like the yarn spigots to pour out whatever yarn I needed for my next project, whatever that project might be.
Oh….wouldn’t that be fun?! Sock, fingerings and DK weights of alpaca and wools, kids silk haze, and some chunky and super chunky, and on and on.
My 2-skein “grab bag” was delivered just yesterday from The Periwinkle Sheep. Hand dyed with care and so beautiful! I can’t wait to knit it up!
How can one decide on one? I would like all new to me yarn to flow like chocolate on a conveyer belt (I Love Lucy anyone), in which the yarn comes out so fast I am overwhelmed!
Something in Hektos – probably Alpin or Alcott! Love a silk-wool blend!
Tonals or semi-solids, I love the nuance-y colors, they give variety, but work with tons of different patterns.
Spigots pouring Silk/wool naturally dyed DK and fingering weight get my vote
Any and all Neighborhood Fibre Co bases of all colors!
Love it
I definitely have S.A.B.L.E. and now that I am retired, I am knitting every day and trying to put a small dent in my yarn stash. I am also avoiding any large yarn purchases, although recentl in order to participate in a Portuguese knit a long, I ordered the yarn from Portugal!
I have a fair amount of yarn. Ok, I confess to having an abundance of yarn. But every skein is special and beautiful and my job, now that I am retired and on a very low income, is to bring the beauty of each skein to life in a beautiful pattern. I would love to add some MDK yarn to the mix!
The yarn flowing from my spigots would be hand dyed tonal and lucious in all weights! The kind of yarn you just want to pet!!
Yarn from the tap, what an idyll! I’d take it however it comes – perhaps squishy cashmere from the shower head, a cotton blend from the kitchen faucet, and wooly DK from the bathroom one?
Mohonk of any kind
weekends are supposed to be for relaxing, instead I’m fretting on how I can pick the bested friend out of all my best friends 🙂 hmmm I think you need two yarns for your spigots. One hot and one cold. and while only a recent best friend — hot would run Organic Studio Chunky and cold would run with Freia Yarn Bombs. But I think I’d be calling the plumber a lot.
Rowan felted tweed
My yarn spigots would pour out Barrett Wool Company woolen spun yarn.
Picturing the spigots flowing with all sorts of color, a beautiful thing. I love surprises!
Linen, linen, linen. Euroflax of course, but also there are others…
My spigot flows fingering yarn. Why? I don’t know because I don’t tend to knit socks! I fall in love with a skein and can’t resist. If I buy a sweater quantity I am a happy girl because I do love knitting sweaters. I see a lot of scarves and wraps in my future.
Freía minikins in the picket fence color way.
Organic Studio DK in Lakeland to knit the Debut. But in the summer, the yarn spigots would also have roving, and linen. Really any yarn with some wool, but no Angora, which makes me sneeze.
How to choose?! My favorite thing about knitting is discovering new fibers, textures, and colors. I’d love to try Spincycle Dyed in the Wool or Nocture.
I might already be addicted to collecting yarn. I find it so beautiful!
Organic studio sock in all the colors!
I’d love to try SpinCycle or LaBien Aimee. But there are so many others I would love as well
Merino fingering. So many ideas.So much yarn. Where to start.
Turn on every color for Rowan felted tweed and other Rowan yarns. And no need for a yarn plumber
Anything for warm weather since I live in the eternal summer. As much as I would love to knit something fast & fun in super chunky wool, it could only be used as a rug here!
Seems like the only yarn flowing from my spigots these days would be anything DK weight. Fun post.
EuroFlax…gorgeous colors
Spin Cycle or La Bien Aimee. But there are so many others that I would love.
Organic Studio Chunk!
Oops, make that Organic Studio Chunky!
Whole Knit n Caboodle and Cake Yarn!
I would like a new breed of wool to flow from my faucet, every time I turn mine on.
I’m into single wool breeds right now.
Any yarn from La Bien Aimee –
Love, Love, Love Barnyard Knits sock/fingering, Walk in the Woods, Shipwreck, MonarchMeadow, Lemongrass tea!!
Brooklyn Tweed from the bathroom, Malabrigo form the utility room, and Neighborhood Fiber Company from the kitchen!
Anything Malabrigo so soft!
Zauberball!
I love all merino!
What a dream! La bien Aimee, sock yarn and spincycle please.
Hmmmmm….choices , choices! I think one spigot of woolfolk, so soft and squishable! One faucet of malabrigos, so silky…..and one of neighborhood Fibre’s running in different weights! I love that yarn, use it all the time..Lol
At my house, in he kitchen hangs a sign that says, “Cooking makes me happy. Yarn makes me happier.”
I would have a soda fountain that spit out a variety of yarns depending on which spigot you picked. Some Zaurball here, a little Rowan Tweed there. You get the idea
Shetland wools
My upstairs is already flowing with yarn, I guess it would be ok to open the yarn faucet on my downstairs. I do really like the Neighborhood Yarns, now that I have met them!
All the yarns!!
Yarn Spigot? I have a delivery crew of my own. USPS, FedEX, UPS. They all bring me yarn. After spending two hours over the past two days crawling around behind the Knitting Book Bookcase, going through every tote, every bin, every basket to look for yarn for a KAL no more yarn needs to come here.
Righto…………………..
Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Isn’t the goal to have enough yarn to make an i-cord to reach the moon?
Tosh Merino Light. It’s my favorite for all the things!
Right now, lightweight, summery yarns for lightweight, summer shawls. My favorite is Zauberball Cotton. Beautiful colors and feel!
My spigot would flow with sport/DK weight yarns. That would be delightful to see!
A yarn faucet! What a lovely idea! Any malabrigo could flow out of mine!
My yarn spigots would flow with worsted leftovers – walnut-sized balls of goodness that lead to scrappy fun! Full-sized worsted skeins are welcome too, of course, but it’s so satisfying to use up every little bit!
Fingering weight for socks, socks, and more socks (aong with my well-worn Wanderlust MDK Field Guide).
John Arbon’s Knit By Numbers yarn — luscious colors and heavenly feel!
So hard to choose… Sylph on hot tap and Mohonk on cold tap
Euroflax linen in every color!
A spigot for Karrida Collins’ yarns or Bare Naked Wools would do me for life:)
Organic Studio Chunky, as I’m a beginner knitter! Although might that clog the pipes and spigot?! I say we take our chances! Thanks for askin!
Rowan Felted Tweed
ALL THE YARN! I have so many many loves❤️
Hit and cold running merino silk blends
I would love to have speckled yarn of any and all weights flowing from my spigot!
I love Lichen and Lace wool. It was my very first MDK purchase and I am almost finished with the sweater I am making with it. It is wonderfully soft and so pretty!! I even like the name of the color: Marsh Lily!!
Spigots in my house flow mohair to mix with sock yarn to make cozy winter socks. Delicious.
Barnyard Knits
I choose the brand new Atlas yarn to flow from my home’s spigots!
I can’t remembering meeting a yarn I didn’t like. I would love to be surprised about what flowed out!
I have one milk crate that is waiting to be filled with some lovely squishy surprise. Blankets – here I come!!!!!!!!
KDD & Co. Milarrochy Tweed. Lovely to work with, blooms beautifully after washing, and snuggly warm to wear.
Brown Sheep sock yarn. Oh how I love it….wait does this entry count if its not a yarn you carry?? Should I rethink this? Have I just guaranteed that I won’t win the yarn??? Arrrggghhhhhh…..
Pebble would be coming out my taps.
Anything with a tight twist and a little cashmere!
Sock yarn of all types would flow from my yarn spigots!
Cold faucet = worsted breed specific non-superwash wool for war sweaters and felting projects. Hot faucet – fingering weight wool or wool/linen blend for lighter weight sweaters, vests, hats, fingerless mitts and more.
Any wool yarn, in any color,
Yarn flowing from spigots: Wonderland, Miss Babs, Freia, Lichen and Lace, Double Sunday from Sandnes Garn, Onion (made from nettles)—I could go on endlessly…
Oh gosh, my yarn faucet would just be piped to the MDK warehouse. I want it all.
A collaboration with Moen might be in order for the new yarn-dispensing faucet! I’d love Euroflax Linen on tap…
Bring on the Louet Euroflax linen. I’ve called the plumber to install new spigots next to my knitting chair!
My hands (and neck) love cashmere!
Something soft and snuggly. Like the makings of a hug of a sweater.
A yarn spigot would spew out any fingering weight plant based yarn, preferably in exciting colours. Thanks for the smiles.
Studio Sock from Neighborhood Fiber Co.
Sock yarn. So. Much. Sock yarn!
I would like to see hot pink and cool aqua flowing from my spigot, shower, or garden hose.
I would need different yarns coming from each faucet! Spincycle. Zauberball Crazy. Neighborhood Fiber Rustic. All of the new colors from To The Max. And mohair… LOTS of mohair!
How do I choose, even in an imaginary game? I’ll take all the superwash merino of any brand in all the weights!
La biennale aimée de from my faucet please!!
Sweet Georgia fingering weight. Love how soft this yarn is for a shawl or scarf. Malabrigo is a close second, for their beautiful colors!
Manos del Uruguay Alegria. Or any of their yarns. Their colours are amazing and they’re a Fair Trade Organization that was started to support women so they can stay in their villages and by extension, the villages are supported too. Did I mention their amazing colours?
Also, anything from The Blue Brick. Her colourways are to die for.
Yarn!! All on full blast
Since I’m in the Hudson Valley, I think it would have to be Mohonk or Windham coming out of my yarn spigot.
Anything Malabrigo!
I’m not picky. I’d settle for any merino or cashmere blend!
Linen…yes it would have to be linen
It would be blue yarn. Obvs.
If wool were coming out of the spigots at my house it would be flooding, you think I was going to live forever!
Like A painter you can never have to many colors!
I would love a turn-on-the-tap, unlimited supply of Neighborhood Fiber Company’s Rustic Fingering in all the colors. Love that stuff!
Oh my, what an impossible challenge, to choose just one? I’m with those who wished for different yarns to flow from every faucet, or the soda fountain ideas with different flavors (yarns). I thought of many, especially those whose price gives me pause, but even those prices are justifiable, given what goes into their creation. In fact, if I think about that, along with how much time I spend with it whilst knitting, they are worth the money at twice the price! Any of the yarns you feature would be a winning option!
Spincycle dyed in the wool. No doubt. Love that stuff.
Open up the taps to run Miss Babs Yarns and Rowan Felted Tweed, ahh, now that’s perfect.
Linen! And cotton! And all the beautiful colors of all the sock yarns!
As long as we’re dreaming, let’s go big. Turn on the cashmere!
Single skeins, primarily fingering weight but also sport and DK. They are the result of shopping for the emotional satisfaction of what could be. Luckily for me, my friends’ children are starting to have babies and I can start turning some of it into hats, mittens, and blankets.
Definitely Karida’s gorgeous Hampden colorway in any of her lovely organic yarns would flow freely from the taps of the house of my dreams! What else would??
Barrett Wool Woolens. Love the smell, the feel….
Tiny spigots for sock yarn
I think I’dlike to have organic NFC merino: DK because it’s 3 ply. I like 3 ply. Even thoigh I’ve yet to knit with NFC. I’ve been on a yarn diet for a ling time to use up stash. Wish it took less time and effort, just lime food diets. That one I’ll start after summer fruit is out of season. (Yes, I need to ban fruit for a bit on the diet that works for me.)
Oooh! I would love anything DK to flow out of the spigot!
Love, love, love DG’s posts. I love any and all fingering/sock yarn and would love it flowing from my faucet.
After the year I’ve had I need some fun stuff – Zauberball Crazy!
Alpaca, soft wonderful to the touch, and fabulous to spin especially mixed with angora. But actually I love the yarn I am knitting with at the moment!
Casbah,by fleece artist amazing blend of merino and cashmere, silk.
Oh my hands tingle, my eyes adore the colourways and my heart is full
Gimme CASBAH anytime
Definitely Spincycle Dyed in the Wool, with Miss Babs Killington coming out of the shower heads.
At my house, the right faucet would run jewel tones, the left with neutrals.
Organic Studio DK to make lots of comfy sweaters.
If I had a spigot that flowed yarn, I’d try out ALL the fibers! I am relatively new to the knittng world (3.5 years) and I’m on a budget so luxury fibers have been out of my reach. I want to experience colorways of Indie dyers too!
This is the easiest quiz ever! Karida’s Neighborhood Fiber DK in ALL THE COLORS❤️
I would be like a bar with a rack of beer spigots so I could have one spigot for each weight of yarn!
I would like to have a faucet for every weight of yarn!
I think my yarn spigot is attached directly to the mailbox. My husband brings in the mail and says “you got another sheep in a bag!”
Oh, this is the best 🙂
Organic studio. I am dying to try it.
I’d have forest green yarn coming out of the taps at all times. I’d be happy with any weight or natural fiber content as long as it was green.
Dream in Color Classy with Cashmere. It makes the softest hats and cowls.
When are you opening a second store/tap on the west coast, like in Washington state? All that lovely flow of color and softness!!!
Sock yarn for sure! I don’t think anyone can have too much sock yarn, fingering weight is so versatile.
Anything Neighborhood Fiber, Malabrigo, 3 Irish Girls, or Knitted Wit … YES!
Give me a spigot splash of Rowan Felted Tweed and another of Malabrigo Rios. I could definitely keep myself happy with those two on tap.
Wait, I DO have spigots, and last I checked, there IS MDK yarn coming from them, YAY for dreams!
An endlessly open spigot of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride in every color. I would knit a home, a felted hut.
Woolly wool! Anything nonsuperwash like Helix and Felix from La Bien Aimee! And mohair and suri alpaca!!
Hello, DG, I felt the same way about eating Pizza after I had my first job at a pizza shop. I would love some of the Gleem Lace to fall into my basket. The colors are beautiful and would be great for an Aperture stole, especially in sunny Florida. The colors Blueberry is so rich and Pebble Beach so inviting to accompany anything in my wardrobe . Thanks for you lively comments, as I really enjoy them. I really like the one about the Motorcycle gang next door, I shared that one with my hubby and we both laughed as he was one of those guys in his youth.
Any merino, cashmere, silk blend!
Any non-superwash yarn, DK or worsted!
Yes indeed it would!
All the yarn! Who can choose — do you have a favorite child, two-legged or four-legged? LOL
My spigots are pouring out Rowan Felted Tweed, ALL the colors!
I have waaay too much yarn, too many projects to be waiting in line, etc. etc. etc. . . . but I NEED MORE! Open the taps!
Oh my….so many possibilities! I’ll have to say Organic Studio DK and Sock. Amazing colors!
Any and all of the Neighborhood Fiber Co bases!
Green merino!!
Mine would flow with all the blue-green shades of yarn – from palest aquamarine to the deepest darkest teals.
DEfinitely use the yarn for charity knitting – so many in need, so little time.
Lots and lots of non-superwash wool! I love semi-solid hand-dyes, Rowan yarns (how do they get their colors to always go well together?) especially Felted Tweed, and a few crunchy yarns like Brooklyn Tweed.
The first wool I ever knit. I can’t remember what it was, but knitting wool after knitting acrylic is a relevatory joy. By the way, when my sister rips out old sweaters to re-knit, she wets the wool and wraps it around the bathroom sink faucets to get the knits out. So I grew up in a house that did have yarn come out of faucets – sort of!
Anything from Lichen and Lace. Canadian yarn for a Canadian! I will get to Nashville someday, and will stand outside your warehouse. It will be a pilgrimage, like when I stood outside Paul McCartney’s house!
Oh yarn gods how do I love thee, let me count the ways
Malebrigo, Manos, spin-cycle, Rowan and euroflax of every color and variety from neutral to bright and crazy, from fine to bulky and throw in some Lettlopi for extra cuddliness.
Malabrigo
Summerlite 4ply would Br my favorite! I’m A Cotton Girl, what more can I say!
Anything Neighborhood Fiber co.
I an so in love with Rowan Felted Tweed! It is just perfect for making the patterns of my favorite, Kaffe Fassett!
I love the randomly dyed skeins of sock yarn. I have some but I neeed more.
BFL fingering
The tonals and gradients are to die for from The Blue Brick!!! I have knit with some and I hoard as well! Hard to get hold of …
Ooh, a warehouse visit – what fun! “Come for the music, stay for the yarn”!!! My faucets would spill with Freia fingering and anything Hedgehog .
Fun! I’d have a blend of silk and wool in jewel tones flowing freely from my faucets!
something with natural dyed wool…so pretty
I.think my granddaughter just became ‘hooked’ on knitting so ANY yarn would be as exciting and welcome as cold water flowing on a hot summer day!
Something wooly with a touch of silk. . . I’m not picky.
I love yarn. All of it
My spigots would have a a slow and steady flow of cashmere!!!
The largest yarn battle on my lockdown-tidy shelves? Studio Donegal (I toured the workshop & stood in awe of the looms) vs Loki vs Spincycle. Determined to use what I had til y’all introduced Neighborhood chunky. I’m doomed…
Freia Shawl!!!
Any Freia yarn bomb!
Sock/fingering with a touch of cashmere!
I’m still pretty big on lettlopi. I have plans for more trinket mittens
I would love to try Sylph!
Do y’all have a flock of goats in addition to the sheep? Cashmere baby, everything cashmere!
Spincycle-all day every day!
The yarn spigots in my house would flow with all the Euroflax mini sets and Neighborhood Yarns sock.
We are having a bad drought here in California. I could do my part by letting yarn flow from my spigots, thereby saving water!
Well, ALL the yarns! I do love me some Dream in Color Smooshy with cashmere tho!
I am currently shopping for a new kitchen faucet so the yarn can flow out uninterrupted! And to think I originally had the idea that this would be a faucet for grabbing a drink of water. Silly, silly me!
fingering weight and DK, although the visual of a yarn spigot makes me feel a bit gaggy…
Stay strong, Mr Strong!
Wow! Yarn spigot Spincycle Dyed in the Wool!
I would love yarn spigots flowing with every color of Jamieson&Smith for infinite fairisle knits❣️
Yarn spigots of sock yarn! That’s the ticket. Or homespun.
My spigots would flow with oh so many beautiful and squishy yarns! I love to try new patterns with lovely new yarns!
It’s been in the 90s here so Rowan Cotton would be dripping from my faucets, the instant hot water spigot might have Freia Yarn Bombs.
I’m a fingering weight junkie, so just about anything in that weight coming in a stream from the spigot would make me happy.
Sylph, organic dk, mohonk……
I definitely have organized chaos going here, and for this simple (and only)reason: I must hide it all from my husband!
I have organized plastic tubs, bags under the bed, bags, in the corner, loose skeins on the bed (it’s a spare bedroom, so more flat surface). And then there’s the sun room where even more is in a basket next to a comfy chair.
And who am I kidding? He knows I have a collecting problem, so he knows about what looks like a small Etsy shop in the closet (I’m not selling anything!). I only started knitting a little over a year ago and added weaving (to help use up the stash) more recently. Exquisite colors abound! But now i do need to sell off all that needlepoint stash that I collected for 15 years…..
Zauberball and Freia yarn bombs!
Rowan Felted Tweed! I have almost all the colors in my stash!
I’d love to wake up to Rowan Felted Tweed flowing from my faucet.
Sock yarn, for sure – the softer, the better!
Anything soft and cozy that would make a great blanket or scarf is what I would have come out of my spigot.
Wool, with lots of random color changes!
I live in MN so any kind of wool coming out of the faucets would be nice most of the year! But I definitely prefer superwash since my life goal is to bundle the entire state in wool. And despite this being the hottest summer I can remember deep down I know, winter is coming…
My yarn taps would flow with ANYTHING silk and or alpaca!
If I had yarn spigots I would need it to be sock yarn because adult children have a standing order for socks, as well as my son-in-law (he found the way to my heart). Cold would be solids for my sock-conservative son and hot would be anything-goes for my adventurous daughter and son-in-law. Let the water flow!
I like a mix of yarns but right now I’d like to try one of the new sock Neighborhood Fiber yarn by Jillian
Rowan Felted Tweed!!!
Please send ALL your Spincycle to me!
Nua Sport by Carol Feller
I understand! Waitresses in college. Free meal on every shift, but after week one, could barely eat toast. Can’t wait to see your new yarns.
I would need multiple spigots for all the different yarns to pour thru: one definitely for sock yarns, another for all the Neighborhood Fiber Co’s Organic Studio yarns, another for Rowan yarns.. I could go on and on!
Linen, linen, and more linen!
Uneek sock yarn. So many colors in each skein! Then I don’t have to choose just 1or 2 colors. Love it!
All the Spincycle!
Tahki Chelsea Silk. Sadly, it’s the discontinued yarns I long for…
So much yarn and I bet half of it is what I call souvenir yarn. If there is a local yarn shop, I will find it and that’s where I find my kind of souvenir. No silver spoons for me.
A constant flow of Spincycle would be glorious!
my yarn spigots would definitely spew silk and cashmere. But would that get old? I mean how many things can you actually make using those materials? Might need some good old fashioned wool. AHHH! I’m already wishing for more and I don’t even have a yarn spigot!
A hairy,wooly,thick and tweedy powerful stream of Aran or worsted with bits of weeds from Shetland would emanate from my dream spigot! Any color as long as it’s greenish!
The yarn coming out of my spigots would be Organic Studio DK in ANY color!!!!
Spigots! How amazing! Yarn would be eye catching , finger loving and project perfect!
Wool, wool, and more wool. I love me my wool!
Wow, so hard to say! I’m really partial to any hand dyed super wash merino. Fingering, DK, worsted, bulky in a rainbow of colors. I’d love that!
Organic Studio Worsted, would be a dream come true.
Any weight in the wonderful colors of fall, especially orange & gold.
I have some la bien Aimee and spincycle stashed away but if money was no object (I live in canada and after exchange, shipping, taxes, brokerage fees each skein is over $50!) I would have more.
Barnyard Knits yarn in blue colorways
I think John Arbon…all of their yarns are delicious.
Cashmere Silk, any colors.
All of the NFK Organic DKs. Flow on…
My spigot would flow freely with Fiberstory yarns!
I really need yarn for the spigots in my second bathroom! There is plenty of room in the unused walking shower for new yarn and UFOs.
Sock yarn would flow from my faucet, especially in the colors of fall.
Sock yarn in any shape or color or whatever
Atlas yarn!
It’s all good! But Organic Studio anything would so enjoyable.
Open the taps for me.
Merino would flow, unstoppable….
Organic studio all the yarns. I lust after them all but unable to afford.
I would have said linen yarn, but now I love fingering yarn, especially since I started stranded knitting! Yep, I’m swimming in fingering yarn!
The spigots would spout fingering weight all day, every day. I don’t think I’ve ever met one I didn’t like. All wool is good wool
If I had a yarn spigot it would be fingering weight yarn flowing from that spigot in all colors.
Anything from Miss Babs, Brooklyn Tweed, or Shibui!
I love it all, but especially the Organic Studio anything. I recently made the Wave of Change Jacket out of the chunky and the yarn is exquisite with super stitch definition. I would like to try the worsted, dk and sock! Thanks for the great giveaway!!
Rowan Felted Tweed
i’d have to have yarn spigots in every room in this fantasy house. rowan felted tweed in the library, noro silk garden in the conservatory, dream in color smooshy with cashmere in the bedroom, hempathy in the bath…
I would love silk or silk-blends, light weight and shimmery like gleam lace but in 50-50 silk-cotton for my warm climate, in as many colors as felted tweed, so one could use them together to get Kaffe-like effects or marl them together like spincycle. I don’t think this exists but if you find this, sign me up!
Oh, what a dream, fountain of Yarn flowing with spigots of every variety, brings a smile…
Oh my word, what a question! Hmmmm. Well, after going into a trance and zoning out for several minutes, I think I’d love De Rerum Gilliatt to flow from my spigot. Because who doesn’t love a yummy cabled-y something in gorgeous yarn?
Hand dyed fingering weight. But I’m moving back more towards solid classic yar.
Malabrigo!!!
In natural fibers in delicious shades of cream to espresso!
Flowing out of my spigot is a combination of colors by Jamieson & Smith.
Any and all yarn! No way to pick just one!
If I had yarn spigots, there would be magenta yarn flowing from them!
I love yarn and fiber. I don’t need to make anything or have a project in mind. It’s all about the color and feel. It calls to me like a raven craves shiny sparkles of jewelry. I must have it with all that color and it must surround me in my tiny office so I can bathe in the color while I weave and knit. It doesn’t matter what the material is linen, wool, yak, mohair, cotton or blends. It doesn’t matter what the diameter is lace, fingering, sport or chunky. It’s all wonderful and feeds my soul. It flows like water into projects, socks, scarves, vests, or hats to be given away to family, nurses, aides, and doctors in this time of COVID. It’s a gift of appreciation for those that care for us.
My Spigots are flowing now more than ever-as a nurse I need all the help I can get to counter burnout. Love that Organic Studio DK in that fabulous persimmon color.
A wide open waterfall (yarnfall?) of Malabrigo Ríos
No spigots at my house, but maybe a pipeline: bag after bag of “legacy” yarn and UFOs that I turn into finished projects for charities. The very nice things go to silent auctions and online shops that support good causes related to the original owners of the fiber. Everything that is machine washable and dryable goes into hats, mitts, sweaters/ponchos, and blankets for street medicine and similar organizations.
Organic Studio Sock, please! Just keep the spigot on!
Sylph, I like Sylph…no wait…Caravan, mmm Caravan…er…or (shuffling feet, where do I put my hands?) Nua… is really pretty…but Sylph is too….how about a kit? I like the Stranded Stripe Throw Bundle…and some Sylph…or Nua..TMI…I’d be happy with almost anything….No Polyester….Sorry…And thank you! Happy August
OMG, alllll the yarn… multiple spigots for Barrett Wool Co, La Bien Aimee, Clinton Hill Cashmere, Plucky, and De Rerum Natura.
Rowan felted tweed all day every day!
a spigot flowing Zauberballs of all colors
My yarn spigots would be pouring out a steady stream of yarn suitable to knit loads and loads of baby items for my first grandbaby who is scheduled to arrive this month!!!
A plethora of fingering weight yarn in pinks and purples, mostly, which sometime don’t match enough and therefore require new purchases. So painful, right?
(though I do try, valiantly and at times succeed)
Love MDK. You start my morning off right every day. Thank you. My stash has encroached upon my husband’s office. Spigots watch out; you’re next.
I’m fickle; whatever yarn I’m working with is my favorite, so right now that would be Zauberball cotton. After that it’ll be Dyed in the Wool & Wilder because I have a plan! And I’m possibly going to stick to it, and not be distracted by a beautiful new pattern that I have ALMOST enough yarn for.
I laughed out loud at the “where do you keep your flock of sheep” line! I’m up for any type of yarn the MDK yarn gurus select. As long as I can knit with it, it’s all good.
All sock yarns!
Variegated wool sock yarn!
Spincycle!
cotton/silk yarns please…..and lots of color
Malabrigo Rios would be awesome flowing from my yarn spigot! So soft and versatile!
Sock yarn… I am not a fan of making socks I do when requested however sock yarn makes great sweaters and cardigans. The really expensive ones I pair with a cheaper yarn that plays nice with it and alternate stripes of solid cheaper with expensive tonal or variegated or otherwise painterly yarns.
I would love a surprise every time I turned on the tap! Most anything that’s grown and produced sustainably and is kind to the plants, animals and people that produce it. Natural and coloured. I can never decide! Spigots like a quality LYS!
I would have taps for fingering weight wool yarn, and taps for dk weight wool yarn.
Neighborhood organic studio DK–wonderful for sweaters!
Malabrigo Rios, and on Sundays some Stitch Together Sock!
I’ve been very tempted by Freia lately! I feel a Freia project coming on.
Indie dyed sock yarn Honey Girl Farm or expression fiber arts; however, everything and anything would most likely run from my spigot.
Any sock yarn would be in my spigot.
Let it flow Brooklyn Tweed!
Yum!!
As long as it as shades of fushia/rose or teal/jade…I say let it flow! Nua sport hatters tea party…Rowen tweed Barbara… heaven
I’m imagining a long white enameled farmhouse sink (appropriate) with multiple spigots (like in the basement laundry room at grandma’s house when we used to visit when I was a kid). One spigot for soft, fluffy wool, one for cotton, one for blends (wool/ alpaca, kid/ silk, suri/ silk, cashmere/ just about anything), the luxury spigot (pure mulberry silk, qiviut, Buffalo gold, vicuña), the sturdy wools for felting, mittens and outdoors in the nasty-cold-sleety weather hats and sweaters. I think I’m gonna need a bigger sink. Just as an aside, what types of post-its and crowbars will you be scattering, because I love a long, slow browse through an office supply store and a crowded (stuff, not people!) hardware or farm supply store almost as much as a yarn store/warehouse. (Ooh- fountain pens, grommets, a squirrel-proof mealworm feeder for the woodpeckers, ergonomic desk chairs with a cooling back panel and lumbar support, 487 shades of white paint!!!)
Anything from Rowan, but especially Felted Tweed! I’ve been revisiting my stash of books and getting inspired by fairisle again.
Ah, in my wildest dreams the spigots would flow with squishy, color drenched yarns like Neighborhood Fiber Co, Spincycle and the eagerly anticipated MDK Atlas!
Just wound Organic Studio DK -Charles Village into cakes, for the Debut Pullover. I feel like a concert pianist, stretching out my arms, cracking my entwined fingers, taking a deep breath, and picking up the needles. Let the music begin.
Silvery white yarn; something close to the color of the delicious Pacific Northwest water!
Anything by Kate Davies on hot and cold! Love her yarns and her patterns.
I do love me some Spincycle!
neighborhood sock and nua sport or dk.
Flowing from my Yarn spigot would be “Chasing Rabbits”, a luxe worsted/aran weight yarn that is just pure joy to knit with!
Zauberball!
Lettlopi yarn would be flowing from the yarn spigot for me. Love the colours and feel of the wool.
I would like a yarn bioswale of yarn in my front yard.
Mohonk for sure!
Oh my. My spigot would runneth over with worsted weight non-superwash merino, alpaca, Llama, cashmere, yak and everything else wool. All wool, all worsted weight, all the time. Heaven.
Hot and cold running Spincycle!
A fierce flaming red from the hot tap and an aqua-teal from the cold.
DG, I read all your articles! I love your writing! What ever you write, transforms me. Your articles make me laugh, think, visualize and put me on a positive note for the day. You are extremely talented. Popcorn + Skittles equals = Fruit Loops. Laugh out loud! Thank you, and just know I am out here, reading and enjoying your work. Keep it coming please.
Malabrigo Rios.
My husband already thinks there’s an open yarn spigot hidden somewhere in my work room! But if I really had one, it would dispense Mohonk, Nua Sport, and every possible sock yarn. What a dream!
How to choose? Right now, any Organic Studio or Barnyarrd sock.
Sock yarn in the kitchen and a bathtub overflowing with superwash dk.
Anything by Jill Draper Makes Stuff but particularly Mohonk and Windham,
Sylph because it looks so soft and silky!
I worked in a coffee shop for years. Funny thing is that you can’t smell the coffee after a while; even when it is brewing. Took a few years after leaving there that I could smell it again. I’m an ice cream freak– someone told me, years ago, that if you work at Baskin Robbins (31 flavors); you don’t ever want to eat ice cream again….unverified report. Thank you for all that you are– you are so inspiring!!!
Forgot to tell you about my yarn spigots–yes, multiples!!!
Anything malabrigo or extra fine Marino. Wouldn’t mind a side spigot for 000 double points coming out. Thx fir the best in all things knitting…Ebullinger
Magpie fibers swanky sock yarn
I am addicted to anything malabrigo right now!
New field guide?? No 18? Lichen and lace yarn for my first rib lace scarf from field guide Open. And I’m working on your log cabin field guide blanket using Cascade yarn. I’m a beginner and 71 years old!! Love your field guides.
Malabrigo Rios
ALL THE YARN IN ALL THE COLORS!!!!
[slinks back to her introvert approved knitting spot on the sofa and dreams of the day she’ll feel worthy of all the yarn in all the colors]
Spigots: Spincycle & Feederbrook, please.
A surprise! Something wonderful and different each time I turned on the tap – at least a hat’s worth.
Neighborhood sock yarn
If I could turn on the yarn tap and be flooded with an endless supply of Mitchell’s Creations’ Ca C’est Bon DK, Lettlopi, or anything Julie Asselin has dreamed up, I could die happy.
Anything from NFC could flow at my house!
I’m sure have yarn spigots all over my house, and if I don’t I’ll make sure to get some!
Yarn. Any yarn. I have lots of experimenting left to do in my life!
Oooh! Nua Sport first off as it’s such a joy to work with and wear. Then, of course, there’s Studio DK – enough to make a sweater – that I’d love to try.
Malabrigo Sock, of course!
I had a huge THING for Rowan Big Wool back in the day, and it always makes me think of my honeymoon, so…that.
I seem to have a weakness for Ella Rae Lace Merino fingering. The colors! The soft squishyness!
How about some glorious cashmere!
Literally any yarn!
Dream come true! I’d behave like someone stranded on a desert island. Who cares what comes out of the spigot…as long as I can knit it!
Malabrigo!
Warm colored mini-skeins from the hot side and cool from the cold side!
Tahki cotton in all the bright colors to make mitered square blankets for the rest of my days.
Yarn flowing from Neighborhood Fiber Co. Spigot would be so very hard to turn off. I love their colors!
I would like yarn to flow from my spigots but it has taken years to get my husband and son to wash their hands before touching food. They would love the excuse not to have to wash their hands. Yew!
That’s like asking which child (or pet or anything dear to you) is your favorite! I would welcome any yarn flowing from my spigots, but if I have to pick one – Malabrigo Rios it is.
One spigot for linen and those intriguing Japanese yarns made from fibers like stainless steel and paper and another spigot for all the animal fibers please.
I love fingering weight Barnyard Knits but have never tried a DK or Worsted weight. bring it on!
That’s such a hard question. At this minute, I’d say garthenor no 2. It’s so lofty and sheepy.
Anything with cashmere please!
I need the spigots to flow the other way. My stash got out of hand and I need to make room, because yarn acquisition – not just knitting – is my hobby.
There would be yarn spigots in EVERY room, so I could tour my yarn domain daily
Oh, my! Not having tried most of your yarns, I would be happy to have a spigot that pours out a different yarn each time I turn it on! What a surprise and delight that would be! 🙂
I love the Rowan Cottons, especially in blues – takes me back to first book of yours that I bought with a lovely baby blanket made out of squares in rowan cotton denim colors. Also love self-striping sock yarn.
Zauberball crazy
Oh my, you mean I have to choose a yarn?! When there are so many lovely choices?! Uh, maybe the euroflax? Hmmm, or maybe superwash yarn for socks?! Oh, wait, maybe the mohonk?? I give up….
Organic Studio yarns from Neighborhood Yarn Co and Felted Wool from Rowan and a dribble of Uneek.
Organic Neighborhood Fiber yarns. It is not sole near me.
I would have fingering weight come out of the hot tap because it’s my favorite, &worsted out of the cold tap bc I make hats with it for unhoused persons in New London CT
Malabrigo. All the malabrigo.
Any wool noro yarn. Love their colors.
I would love to have new to me yarn on tap
I like Lara’s idea about upgrading to a soda fountain type dispenser. Need more spigots! Problem is I have a good stash started already and I’m just a beginner!
My spigot would flow with Organic Studio DK or Worsted…… bring on all the colors!
I think it would be Cormo. It has all the qualities – sturdy, squishy, sheepy and soft.
All the sock yarn. Since we’re here at MDK, let’s make it Nomade.
I would have to open the sink and the tub – silk, linen, wool with silk, cotton blends
They would be flowing with sock yarns in beautiful variegated colors! What a lovely daydream this is!
Organic studio DK…
Hektos!
Surprise me! Something different every time I turn it on.
My yarn spigots would flow with cheerful colors of lace and fingering weight yarns!
Thanks for the opportunity.
yarn spigot with a new yarn everyday!
Nua Sport!! I love the colors and the drape and hand of this lovely yarn!
One spigot is not enough! I want to try Fiber Optic Yarns & Upnorth Yarns so bad (I’m on a “keep my marriage happy” yarn fast)! But after reading these posts I have to investigate these loves -> Rowan Felted Tweed, Nua Sport, and Spincycle wool!
All the lovely colors – wool, wool blends, skinny yarn to thick yarn – squishy to crunchy – I love yarn and fiber – yummmm!
Everything non-wool. Naturally dyed colors, beautiful!
It’s sooo hard to choose — I’d love the chance to rry any of your gorgeous yarns!
Fill the taps with Rowan felted tweed please!
Hot tap would run cotton!
Cold tap runs super wash wool!
Rowan felted tweed and spincycle dyed in the wool!
Gloves for me and the fam, and neighbors
Love barnyard yarns and the Kaffe Fassett colors/projects. Love your newsletter; wish I could knit faster!!
Rowan felted tweed on hot and kid silk haze on cold. That way I can adjust the mix as needed.
In times past I would have responded with fingering weight the better to knit beautiful lacy shawls with. But now I have 3 beautiful, much loved grandchildren to knit for and I now would love worsted or dk yarns flowing from my faucets.
Balls of Shetland 4 ply appear on every floor in my house.
spincycle(hot) and la bien aimee(cold) flowing continuously
Those taps will be flowing with linen and silk!
Hard to say, but probably jade sapphire cashmere!
I love yarn…but a rustic dk, or any tweedy yarn is on my brain for some fall knitting. I toggle from baby hats and sweaters to adult, mostly me, sweater in cables or lace or the fun colorwork…and I throw in some socks and shawls.
I have to find peeps to knit for because my kids are overwhelmed and my closet is overflowing.
Nua Sport. So easy to knit.
At my house, the yarn taps pour out all the fingering weight yarn. Lots of it.
That’s tough to choose, so I’m opting for multiple taps. One tap for Euroflax, and one for Lettlopi 🙂
Oooh that’s a tough question who’s going to turn off a yarn tap of squishy gold?? For me I’m going to say Hedgehog and Life In The Long Grass I just love knitting with these yarns the hanks are super easy to wind and the colours are just amazing.
A North American yarn I would go with I will go with the Organic Studio in any weight I love the colours and the name of them!
I would have malabrigo pouring out of my spigots. All types and color combos of malabrigo.
Working in the yarn warehouse becomes the same thing as working in the library. All those wonderful new books but you have to get them ready to check out, and no, you don’t get to read them all first. Just get ’em out there. But, there’s always a favorite book you linger over opening, just send me Nua Sport! Phyllis
As long as it’s not brown and discolored — and there isn’t a boil advisory coming with it, it’s all good!
Definitely something color changing, like Spincycle or Freia!
Spincycle or freia would be fun to try out on my needles!! I second that previous comment.
Love your posts!
The yarn spigots in my house are magical, and change randomly. Just last month I saw Lite Lopi, Felted Tweed, Zauberball, and Jill Draper’s Mohunk. The colors change all the time!
Tamar Lustre by Blacker Yarns, a scrumptious tossed salad of rare British breeds.
Anything from Spincycle would follow from my tap. I am such a color whore.
Turn on both faucets with Neighborhood Fiber Company organic worsted. Turn off the faucets and turn both on again with La Bien Aimee.
Neighborhood Fiber organic studio dk for the debut pullover
I have more yarn than anyone knows what to do with, stored in my “yarn barn” as my husband calls it. It’s out of control yet I love seeing the colors everywhere. Love yarn so much!!! Thanks for your emails each day.
I would love the Organic Studio Sock yarn, uneek sock and Zauberball yarn. I just love all the yarns actually, and knitting up new projects.
My spigots are open.
I’ll take any wool or wool blend from the Plucky Knitter coming from my spigot, please!
Koigu fingering weight, solid or painter’s palette. Zauberball. Rowan Kidsilk H aze. Noro Silk Garden.
I forgot Freia!
Merino wool in jewel tones!!
My spigots would flow with dk or worsted weight hand dyed/tonal/speckled yarns in perfect quantities for the next project du jour!
The spigots at my house would be flowing with fingering yarn.
I love Malabrigo, and linen yarn.
All the Malabrigo.
Yarn spigots! A great gift idea! I would stock mine with sock yarn of any kind…
Oh, my yarn spigot would dispense anything from Rebecca at Wild West Dye. It’s ultra soft, squishy, knits up beautifully, comes in stellar colorways, and I keep coming back for more!
Rowan felted tweed and Gleem lace!
All the natural fiber yarns! Be it silk, bamboo, wool, flax, or a combo that includes camel, let’s make the spigot flow until the whole house, yard and neighborhood is filled with lots of luscious yarns!
My yarn spigots would pour forth yarns of natural fibers—cotton for spring and summer, wool and alpaca in the fall and winter. Linen and flax year round.
Thanks to Ingrid Klove for the hot/ cold tap idea! Hot tap – Madelinetosh vintage. Cold tap – manos del uruguay alegria.
Any or all types of yarn from West Yorkshire Spinners
I wish that when I turned on a spigot in my house a beautiful skein of yarn would come out before the water. If another appeared I would think I was extremely lucky and then if a third came I would have to say “Hot Damn I’m so lucky”!!!!! So Please I need a lift and this would be fantastic!!
A deep teal or a beautiful dark red in pretty much any smooshy yarn would be just fine!
Rowan Kidsilk Haze
The yarn spigot would be flowing skeins and skeins andskeinsandskeins of Malabrigo Rios, even though I live in hot sunny Florida. Yummy yum yum
Spincycyle yarns for me. Love all of the colors!
Rowan Felted Tweed please! Love the thought of a yarn spigot coming from my stash closet!
Something blue-ish. And not too fuzzy.
Any kind of fingerling or sock yarn is my choice if I had a spigot. My husband would not be happy though.
Anything Rowan !
Wool of many colors since I love colors LOL
Would love to touch Organic Studio DK.
Oh, I think yarn spigots flowing with Freia Minikins would be dreamy!
Wow, it depends on the day… Maybe Mohonk or something from Neighborhood Fiber Co. or Helix or….
Me: If we had a magic house and yarn came out of the spigots, what kind of yarn would it be?
My son: What’s a spigot?
Me: A faucet.
My son: Cashmere? I’ve heard that’s a thing.
Nua Sport in all colors would be flowing from my spigots.
My yarn spigot would be spewing DK yarn in all manner of hues with lots of shiny, silky stuff mixed in the wool!
La Bien Aimee is fabulous!
Rowans Felted Tweed would be flowing from my spigots. I can’t get enough of the colors, the feel, the fun mixing and getting crazy with design. Love, love, love.
The yarn would be wool (non superwash) with worsted weight coming from the hot side and DK coming from the cold side. Colors would vary depending upon the mood.
Right now I’m all about colorwork. So give me all the Jameson and Smith. All the colors!
Crazy colors spewing out till I scream for some calming neutrals.
I would love a flowing faucet of whichever yarn is recommended for whatever pattern strikes my fancy on any given day.
I’m pretty sure Rowan felted tweed would do the trick
How can you single out one yarn?? I just know it is blue
Yarn spigots. Hmmm. I am trying to decide but I think I am fickle and would want to have different yarn for the new WIP that push what I have on my needles now it UFO status. I just love yarn. Perhaps I should come help unpack boxes. I do not think I could ever get tired of it.
My yarn spigots would flow with color, wonderful rich warm color!
Sock yarn. I could knit (colorful) socks for an army. My Father-in-law wears black socks. That’s what I’m knitting now. Plain. Black. Socks.
Homespun, so much texture or failing that any yarn from Quince a made in Maine yarn.
Anything Noro and all things Rowan would flow freely from the tap.
Spigots of Malabrigo Rios ❤
Oh boy, what a thought. I can’t abide plant fibers, really. Splitty! My yarn spigots would spew qiviut, yak, cashmere, silk, merino, mohair and angora. I’d happily die drowning.
Alpaca out of the hot water faucet and bamboo out of the cold water faucet!
Magpie Fibers Swanky DK
100purewool merino worsted 3-ply
Spigots of sock yarn please!
For sure, it would be organic studio worsted in ALL the colors!
Well I just found out about yak down,so.
Zauerball yarns
Oh, if there yarn spigots at my house, there would be puddles of yarn EVERYWHERE!!!
The yarn flowing from my spigot would be some hand spun from the Isle of Skye.
During the weekdays, the spigots would flow with Nua Sport by Carol Feller in the evenings, and in the morning would change to Mohonk, followed in the afternoon with La Bien Aimee. However on the weekends, the spigots would alternate between Brooklyn Tweed Shelter and Neighborhood Fiber Co. Organic Studio Worsted. ♥️ One can dream!
Never-ending spigot of Malabrigo, from Sock to Rios to to to. All of it. I’m sorry, I adore it.
Spincycle Dyed in the Wool
Sigh. Just open the spigot. I would gladly roll in the stuff.
The yarn that would be flowing in my house is Fyberspates Gleem Lace in Burnished. I’m finally making the Mood Cardigan, and I love the golden colour! Knitting with two strands is worth it because I see two shades of gold at times.
If I had two taps, the second would flow with Hand Maiden Flyss (65% silk,35% linen) inTulip, a beautiful lavender shade I’ve never seen before.
It’s a long weekend here, so happy Simcoe Day to all!
I too am a big fan of sock yarn I’d love to overflow the bathtub with it!
Something that feels like home. Soft and special but holds up to wear.
For me, right now, it would be linen. 100% linen; linen + wool; linen +cotton; chainette structure; single ply; fingerling; dk. Not to mention some skeins in the same dye lot that I’m about to run out of…. Right out of the spigot, please.
Soft fingering weight yarns in lots of colors.
All of them! Starting with Rowan Felted Tweed, Neighborhood Fiber Co, Zauberball, Spincycle…
Red Yarn, all shades, bulky and soft!! So pleasant to think about….
I’ve got more Plucky Knitter yarns than anything else in my stash but there are so many other indie dyers I want more of and several that I’ve only seen online but am dying to try. Plus I live in a very warm climate so really want to get more cotton and linen and blends with them.
If I had yarn spigots, it would most likely be some sort of cat fur yarn, since that’s what my house is full of already! Though I would love if it were sock yarns!
My yarn spigots would pour out Organic studio Chunky so I could make a scarf out of field guide 18 and organic studio sock so I could try knitting some lace!
Just discovered Oink Mystic. The softest merino ever!
I’d love cashmeres in wonderful colors
Soft natural fibers in wonderful colors, but not angora
I want worsted wool running so that I can knit more cabled sweaters.
Any of Rowan.
It would have to be Lettlopi 🙂
Handspun would be pouring out all the taps – spinning kept me sane through lockdown after lockdown.
Any non superwash fingering wool will make my heart sing!
A cashmere yarn would flow nicely; many colors randomly flowing. Terrific thought, thank you!
All taps in my house would flow with either Jade Sapphire cashmere or La Bien Aimee.
I’m not too particular as long as there is yarn flowing! wool, cashmere, alpaca, sock, cotton…
Zauberball?
Freia yarn for sure. I love the color changes.
This is a perfect question for me right now. Ordinarily I would struggle to come up with an answer, But, I just started the hat in the Refresh Field Guide using Nua Sport yarn and am so in love with this yarn that the answer to your question
is NUA SPORT!!. I keep thinking as I knit round after round “this yarn is so soft and lovely to work with; I have to get more!”
Malabrigo Rios for sure!
Organic studio sock, please! Or mohonk! Love them all. Thanks for the giveaway (and I hope I win).
Mohair. Anything with mohair I’m obsessed lately.
Yarn spigot surprise me, I have a lot of babies to knit for
All The Yarns — I want to see an ever changing spigot of colorful yarns! (Is that too greedy? I think it would be pretty).
Organic Studio sock yarn…you had me at “organic” and the colors of the hand-dyed sock yarn blows me away!
Lol! Like any knitter can choose just one…or two…or three even!
But let’s see….when it’s on a trickle, I think it would be the Jamiesons flowing, maybe Harrisville Designs… then as you turn it up it would transition through some Rowan dk weights…to a sport weight-maybe Neighborhood Fibers -and finally worsted weight at full blast…Shepherds Wool, I think…but there are so many to choose from!!!
In recent years I haven’t done much with lace weight (which would really start the trickle, and I do have a stash!). I’m not such a fan of the superchunky yarns, although they can make for quick works!
Laura
My spigots would flow in all the beautiful colors of Dream in Color Classy.
My current favorite is Malabrigo
The beauty of the in-home yarn spigots would be the magic – whatever yarn I need at the moment is the yarn that would flow freely! Even if I didn’t know I needed it, it would magically appear and its beauty and purpose would be understood.
Any kind of sock yarn!
Sylph and Spincycle Dyed in the Wool
I’m moving back to one color sock yarns with a bit of shading.
Oh my spigots are flowing all the hand dyed fingering weight yarn!
Oooh oooh… merino is my jam and makes me so very happy. Thank
You
This is just not even a fair question. I think I would like all the yarns, please? Wool, cotton, alpaca, silk, blends? Yes please! Lace, fingering, DK, sport, worsted, bulky, super bulky? Yes please! I do not discriminate.
Squish DK from Spun Right Round in every colorway
Sadly, even in my imaginative life I can’t forget the water bill … so mine would pour Wool of the Andes.
any yarn from Manos del Uruguay.
Since I am awaiting a visit from the plumber, you might as well know, yarn is oozing out of the valve and pooling around the pipe.
hmmmmm. I am literally in the middle of building a new house here in FL. i wonder if it’s not too late to ask the builder to add a yarn spigot. It can’t hurt to ask!
My yarn spigot would flow with Malabrigo yarns. Tub faucets: Rasta. Shower faucet: Lace. Kitchen faucet: Chunky. You see the pattern.
all the lovely naturally dyed yarn from Europe and the UK..then maybe I’d have enough for a large-scale project!
BFL!
Fingering yarn by the oodles. For making shawls, all kinds, everyday, lace, parallelogram, etc.
If yarn flowed from spigots in our house, the cats would be very entertained. One of them likes to play with the water as it is!
A faucet pouring out merino would be so lovely!
Ooh, yarn spigots! We’re just coming out of the mid-atlantic swamp times here in North VA, so I would say some nice cotton or linen blends, maybe even some that have nice variegated colorways, since I feel that’s less common for those yarns!
Noro silk garden sock
Organic Studios DK and Euroflax Linen. Lovely sock yarns that I can’t stop knitting into hats and shawls. May your faucets runneth over!
Linen-silk blends. Lighter than worsted weight, please (as working with larger yarn makes my hands hurt). Seasonless wearing, lovely for clothing and warm-season wraps.
Wool fingering/sport for winter things.
Rowan felted tweed! Love it.
My yarn spigot would flow with good, ordinary, small-carbon-footprint wool. If you turn the tap on wide open it would splash out worsted weight; if you slow it to a trickle you’d get lace weight.
I don’t think my yarn spigots would be just a single brand but it would definitely overflow with hand-dyed fingering weight yarn!!!
Yarn on tap? And I have to choose one? There are too many beautiful yarns to choose just one! Malabrigo, Mad Tosh and NFC are contenders though.
Hand-dyed with long stretches of multiple colors in unexpected combinations. Smaller than worsted. In wool that feels like wool.
All super-bulky spigots at my house. Fast and warm!
On hot tap anything from Magpie Fibers would flow with abandon. Cold tap would run with Brooklyn Tweed Peerie… but when combined, Hedgehog Fibers Merino Aran.
(I realize this plumbing arrangement is nonsensical)
Two taps with rivers of yarn overflowing the sink: one of Louet Euroflax, one of Cascade 220.
Malabrigo yarn, any weight! I love the feel of their yarn, and the colors….oh my!
Wow, after reading all the comments I definitely need to try Rowan Felted Tweed. However, until I do and maybe change my favorite, at this time I am particularly fond of Shibui Silk Cloud.
Ooh, a yarn spigot that dispenses mohair/silk blends would be divine…but huh, maybe that’s why there’s already so much of that around here already!
Spincycle anything
Organic Studio Worsted or indeed any #4-Medium-Worsted weight yarn suitable for hats, scarves, shawls/wraps, etc. And occasionally cotton for dish or wash cloths.
Wow! I could go for hot and cold running Spincycle Dyed in the Wool!
No problem. Three spigots. Purple. Grape. Rose. All different weights. I could knit my whole life with these. I mean LIFE, like sweaters, coats, hats, pillow shams, baskets, blankets, window and toilet seat coverings, fences… well. Thank you for listening. I’m going to go lie down for awhile now. Heart rate up, you know.
What flows through my yarn spigots at home, more often than not, is hand dyed sock yarn. I love it so much!
Cashmere!
wool, wool, wool
On my goodness–I don’t know how I could choose just one, but my yarn faucet would definitely be dispensing fingering weight/sock yarn! It would tend towards blues, greens, purples, and grays, and would include a nice mix of solids, kettle dyed, and self striping. A girl can dream, right?
Barnyard Knits! I became acquainted with their yarn at Vogue Knitting Live in New York and love the colorways. They are only 20 minutes down the road from me. I really wish they had a retail outlet so I could go and buy.
Rustic, non-super wash, hand dyed colors inspired by nature…that’s my jam, that’s my spigots!
Happy to get ideas for great yarn from the comments. I guess if I have to choose, I’d like colorful sock yarn – I have some socks made from Regia in Kaffe Fasset’s colorway that I love.
The yarn spigots in my dream house would flow hand dyed woolly wool…Jill Draper or Julie Asselin would be just the thing!
I love the colours in the Organic Studio Sock collection. A win just might inspire me to try my hand at making a pair of socks!
That would be a direct pipe from Handmaiden Yarns and Fleece Artist in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia!
I’m one of the “open the tap and just let the yarny goodness flow” campers.
Merino DK
Sweater yardage of dk (because I am fully loaded with single color singles of fingering)
Do you even have to ask?! Yes, I have many yarn spigots, including much Lopi, Brooklyn Tweed, Neighborhood Fiber Co, Miss Babs…the list is lovely but long. I refer to it as my retirement dreams or “if I win the lottery then I can just knit all the time and really put my stash to good use.”
Hard to choose. Right now I’m knitting with Rowan Tweed and am loving it. But I also love the colors of Malabrigo yarns. So many yarns 🙂 Prefer wools to cottons.
i loved the idea of different yarns flowing from each hot and cold spigot – I just counted 16 in our house! But I won’t be greedy – will be happy with one dedicated yarn source – but a different yarn each day would be a welcome surprise! It could start with Bien Amie – haven’t tried it yet!
Anything DK and under, occasional worsted,
I love all kinds of yarn, but my go to is fingering weight for socks and light cowls/shawls. I also love all of the hand dyed yarn with the great color combinations.
iId love a sinkful of Zauberballs!
Thanks for the daily inspiration and this drawing.
Lopi, Lopi, Lopi would gush from the spigot!
Anything for fingering or sport weight sweaters
Beautiful, warm, cozy sock yarn. Solid colors from cold tap and variegated colors from hot tap! We have six bathrooms here, surely one of them could be yarny converted!
I have a veritable vat of Spincycle Dyed in the wool ready to be tapped for the perfect projects!
Madeleine Tosh DK! 1000% So many colours and makes the best garments you really want to wear.
Anything with cashmere in those boxes?!
Any Sock Yarn flowing out of the faucet would be wonderful for me. So many options: Socks, shawls, sweaters, held single, double, triple…..
Cashmere. Any size. Any color. 100%. No blends. It’s free, right? It’s got to be cheaper than my water bill in Los Angeles.
I’m new here and want to try it all!
Will work for yarn and popcorn, lol! My yarn spigots would flow with Zauberballs I think…. and all the sock yarn
I am a fan of all animal fiber yarn, there is always something you can make.
any yarn from nature is wonderful, there is something to be made with it all, big or small. My spigot would surprise me everyday.
Ombre and semi-solids
The hot tap would have a merino or merino silk blend for warmth. The cold tap would have cotton or linen (or a blend of both!) for something w bit breezier.
Hmm. Not really needing more yarn at the moment, but would love a tap flowing with the needles in the right size… they always seem to be somewhere i cannot find them!
Sylph & any yarn blended with silk
I LOVE La Bien Aimee – the name always makes me think of my beautiful daughter, Amy – and my other beautiful daughter Brooke who are due with babies within 7 weeks of each other so I need more yarn for baby clothes! Yarn spigots? I need a yarn hydrant! 🙂
Ok, living in western PA, ( notice I didn’t say Pennsylvania- no one here does) it’s spicket in Pittsburghese. But I would love any sock yarn as socks are my current obsession.
Ooo, Barnyard Knits Yarn would be flowing from my cold valve and Nua-yak blend from the hot. That is a jolly spigot!
Solid colors in fingering and sock yarn.
It would be silk fingering yarn of every color imaginable.
Too many choices to pick just one – but I’m loving all yarns Rowan at the moment!
The spigots at my place all spew odds and ends. All too long to let go of, too short to make anything with by itself.
If there was wool especially mohair flowing out of Taos I would think I was in heaven
If my yarn faucets were on they would be fingering weight yarn preferably with a bit of cashmere in it like
Dream In Color Smooshy!
My dream yarn spigot would spew beautifully paired color combinations. I always need assistance choosing either matching or contrasting colors for a project. When I bring my selections to the counter at the LYS… the startled looks are priceless. Thankfully, the yarn muses always have suggestions on how to achieve the desired effect.
I haven’t tried enough to pick just one! Anything fingering weight or sock yarn.
Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift. Endless possibilities
A nice wool/cotton blend for our hotter climate here in N. California. Or any kind of Zauberball — so fun!
Sock yarn it to me, please! I’m so into socks right now and love it’s portability
Tukuwool running wool would be a dream come true
It would be fingering weight yarns in solids speckled and gradients.
I’d dial in my spigot to dispense a wooly dk in all the bright colors for a cozy winter sweater. I’m especially obsessed right now with deep purples with lime green and magenta and cobalt. Maybe it’s the pandemic fatigue.
So many yarns, so little time! As others have said, the hot tap could have wool, from the thinnest lace to the chunkiest, and the cold tap would have linen and cotton blends, all in the swirling colors of the Great Lakes (where I live), blues and greens and moody grays with the froth of white spume when the winds get to pushing the waves around…
What a decadent thought! Since I am constantly starting a new project on my house, I would guess each spigot would be a different color and fiber content with a changing daily range from fingering to chunky.
Brooklyn tweed shelter or shetland wool for colorwork!
Nice giveaway! I’d say that the most yarn I have right now is sock yarn….I’m a semi-beginner knitter and I foolishly thought that I would knit my family socks for Christmas…of 2020. Obviously that didn’t happen, but when it does, I’ll be ready!
Dyed in the Wool, no doubt!!
I’m an equal opportunity yarn consumer. Bring in all on.
My house is old with old plumping. My considerable stash is mostly classic wool yarns. They are wonderful but I think it’s time to upgrade my plumbing. It would be fun to have some lovely tonal yarns with some crazy dyed yarn to spice things up or bred specific yarns to explore. Heck, what am I saying? I would welcome almost any good yarn!
Oohhh… imagine a yarn spigot. Mine would flow super chunky all winter and beautiful varigated in all the other weights the rest of the year.
Of course I have yarn spigot! In fact my spigot have magic handles. They know exactly which yarn I need to wallow in like spaghetti! (Patch Adams anyone?)
Tosh Merino Light!!
I just signed up for ur Newsletter and now I’m entering ur Drawing. I also bought ur App. For some reason, I’m having trouble learning to purl, sooo in my magical spigot of yarn, there’s a bunch of hues of pinks, which is my favorite color and would easily help me to learn to purl. Lol Ty!
Lichen and lace or Euroflax and linen
Sock yarn,changing colors cool to hot
I really don’t have an absolute favorite brand of yarn or type of yarn, I love it all. So my spigots would be pouring out everything in all colors of different fiber!
My yarn spigot would be sock yarn. No, wait, Christmas colors for Christmas balls and stockings. No, wait, super squishy merino wool that feels wonderful in my fingers while knitting. No wait, Jameison and Smith for beautiful color work hats and mitts. Arghh, decisions, decisions…
Worsted and/or cotton! Please! Many thanks!
Oh my, yarn spigots? I imagine it would be like a candy store, where depending on my mood, I’d get a big bowl, turn a faucet on, and collect a passel of whatever I felt like playing with; lace weight for smart moods, chunky yarn for instant gratification (or last minute gifts), a nice workhorse merino for that sweater I’m going to wear for the next ten years, cashmere for making something that makes my hands happy just touching it.. And inviting friends over to share in the joy. Wow! Now I have a new happy place!
I would love to have some Nua (Carol Feller) yarns and any organic wools flow out of my spigots.
Plucky Knitter Lodge Worsted. I love that stuff.
I’d like a magical tap that varied the yarn coming out of it! Then I wouldn’t get that over-popcorned feeling
I’d love to have any yarn by la bien Aimee on tap along with Nua , heaven .
Hmmmm…I do love the Lichen & Lace sock…it could pour out for a long while!
Swoon-worthy Spincycle Dyed in the Wool for me. Such a wide array of colors, and no 2 skeins exactly alike? Yes, please!!
I don’t have a favorite, so I think I’d have different yarns flowing from each of the spigots in my house! Lovely image!
Ohhh…spigots of cashmere, qivuit, silk… (sorry, drooling…)
Currently at full force from my spigots would be woolly rustic yarns.
Crave Caravan! Most luscious yarn I’ve worked with and so nice to wear.
I would have a surprise rotating faucet where each week a new glorious yarn tumbles out! And each time it would be a yarn I’d yet to work with so the exploration would be eternal.
haven’t bought much yet, but everything I have purchased from MDK has been a joy to knit, so I’d trust you all to convert my plumbing from water to yarn any day!
Kiwis united here. But if the wool did flow I’d love anything dark and dreamy with a touch of angora.
What an image… my spigot flowing with beautiful soft Worsted for all the baby blankets I’m knitting.
Brooklyn Tweed Shelter
I would have fingering weight flowing. What a dream that would be.
Spigots would be bursting out with Spincycle Dyed in the Wool in my yarn dream.
I love all the yarn on your website. Let whatever you have beyond your space come to me.. as long as it is mailable! I am too far north to come down there.
Because all yarn is good, I’d like the supply to change monthly. Then I can learn new things with different types of yarn.
Blue Cottons!!
Wait?! I have yarn spigots? It’s going to be difficult to leave the house!!!!
I want this beautiful yarn flowing from the spigots!
Rowan Felted Tread all colors can flood from the pipes 24/7.
Any of the mini-skeins for a lovely, free-flowing kaleidoscope of color!
Repurposed alpaca yarn..
i frogged a large project from years ago adding to this an aged alpaca stash and have been knitting scarves exploring color.. a challenge.
I think a wooly DK would be my default setting if I could only have one choice. But I would need all.the.colors! The idea of a yarn spigot sounds heavenly – new DIY project?
Ohmigod, ohmigod you have no idea how much I could use a surprise of beautiful, gorgeous yarn. Here in South Jersey, 2.3 miles from Philadelphia, the yarn spigots flow with fingering weight yarn because I was making Barbie dresses for my grand daughter and experimenting with knitting jewelry for me (Barbie made out better than I did) Anyway, I,m ready for a change so please send me something lucious that will get my knitting fingers itching with excitement. Hooray for MDK – I look forward to your Saturday snippets 😀
If I had more yarn, I could start something new and shiny to distract me from my terrible fears of COVID-19’s Delta variant — More. Yarn. helps almost everything be better.
Yarns all kinds, but on tap I’ll take old school, scratchy unpredictable Noro Kureyon, the first yarn to make me gape in wonder at the possibilities.
Mohonk Light is Shell or other light color. I live in South Florida and it would be perfect for cool nights and winter mornings here.
La Bien Aimee forever! All the colours, every blend, every weight. Please.
One tap would be for DK yarns, the other would be for fine and lace weights. Natural fibers, wool, silk, alpaca, etc. I live in the deep south, don’t need the bigger yarns as much.
No brainer, people! When I turned on the yarn, out would flow whatever yarn is needed for the current MDK knit along!
Charles Village DK please and thank you ! But I have more faucets….hmmm
Would be happy with any Neighborhood Fiber Co. or Malabrigo wool pouring from my spigot.
Natural sheep colors from your variegated flock!
I’d pick some lovely Jamiesons Shetland Spindrift to knit a beautiful Marie Wallin fair isle jumper
Well water comes from the spigots at my house – and how hard or soft is directly dependent upon the last time we loaded the softener with salt. Since the softener is buried under a corner of my stash…sometimes the water can get hard, and every day can be a new adventure. My yarn spigot would be like that. Never sure what will come out. Always useful. Anything from the cheap workhorse yarns, to the softest, squishiest surprise…all is good, all has a purpose. And lately, I have been grabbing a bag from my stash and “challenging” myself to empty it. So fun! And so blessed to have a stash during these strange times!!
All the cashmere, any brand, both spigots!
Super wash DK for more knits for my new granddaughter, Ellie Rose.
I think my family would agree – ALL the yarn! I love trying out new bases and once I find something I like, I purchase extra in various colors. In summer, I like to work with cotton, silk and linen. In winter, I pull out wool, both superwash and non.
I’m new to knitting, allergic to polyester, and have trouble with wool… Alpaca anything would be top of my list.
A wool – silk blend
SweetGeorgia CashSilk lace!
I like all yarn
Sock yarn is my favorite to knit with! I love wearing items made out of sock yarn. Sometimes even socks!
Anything DK bc the sweaters knit up so quickly and the patterns pop.
Anything but alpaca (allergies). I would love to see every faucet have a different yarn but Nua sport would be a favorite.
Would love to make a sweater with Lettlopi
Chunky yarn is what I long for! I am elderly and want to knit a blanket or sweater for each grandchild.
Love all your yarn and wish I could buy all of the beautiful colors.
From the spigot would come some hand-dyed Suri alpaca from my niece that my granddaughters selected for hats.
Oh, anything wooly, from sock weight to worsted/Aran. My happy place is full of wool and color!
I’d take any, I mean any free yarn and find a project for it, but I just love reading DGStrong! His writings make my day
I’d go with Kelbourne Woolens – it’s based here in Philadelphia so the magical yarn pipe between the company & my house would be a short one. And somehow there’s always a weight of yarn that will work for my project & a color I’m intrigued by
Thanks for the recipe!
I spent way too much time thinking about a yarn-spigot this morning. How fun would that be! I want it to flow with Uneek sock yarn! Oh the colors!!!
I have to pick just one? It would be a sock or DK, maybe Koigu or Brooklyn Tweed or La Bien Aimee.
Love the idea of yarn spigots! So hard to choose, but there’s always room for more Rowan Felted Tweed.
Wool is life and I’ve currently been loving Di Gilpin. Open those taps!
Please sir, more sir?
Felted tweed, in every color.
Wool, glorious wool!
Oh, I’ve got spigots. Believe!
Rowan Handknit Cotton
What a cool idea! Thank you! Zauberball, or lettlopi would find a great home in my house!
Lately, washable yarn for baby things.
I just did the Chicago Yarn Crawl last weekend with some of my knitting buddies. I bought a lovely skein of Huasco Sock yarn in Plaza Cusco and it’s calling to me to knit some fall socks.
My taps would flow with beautiful jewel toned yarns of all weights and fibers.
Ooh! A yarn spigot at my house?! ALL the DK yarns! They go with all the seasons and I’d love to try every yarn house!
What makes you think I don’t have my own yarn spigots?
Neighborhood Fiber is one of my favorites!
Anything Malabrigo!
Merino is my go to. Lean toward fingering weight and then worsted for sweaters.
Long colorway, gradient shawl making yarn in a silk and alpaca.
Would love it if my spigot was running with anything from Spincycle
La Bien merino Aran from one spigot and zauberball from the other would be amazing! That would cover sweaters and socks.
Anything merino and hand dyed!
OOH! I see streams of silk and kid mohair flowing from my spigots along with alpaca, cashmere and soft, soft camel. I love luxury yarns next to my skin. Also when I turn the knob a bit, merino, soft cottons and bamboo join the stream. What a fantasy! Thank you for sending us on this journey.
My yarn faucets would be pouring out highly variegated merino cashmere silk fingering
Love soft cashmere, baby alpaca and Qiviut! My spigots would have to be slow!
I was thinking beer tap faucets, limitless colors and weights
Looking forward to hunkering down when the season changes and knit Socks!!!
May the taps in my house flow with any weight variegated yarn. Greens , blues and purples would be my dream!
Cotton for dish cloths and lovely colored balls waiting to become scarves
So hard to choose! But I’m leaning towards the cold tap with a never ending supply of organic studio worsted and the hot tap with uneek sock yarn!
I love organic studio worsted!
Hand-dyed silk linen fingering. It works up so beautifully.
Wishing for multiple free-flowing faucets directly from MDK warehouse accessing the full collection.
how fun! Studio sock yarn fountain, please!
I love many colors when knitting I would be using the yarn for hedgehog pin cushions.
I’m a luxury gal – give me cashmere, yak, alpaca. Blends are sumptuous and so versatile. I could use Hektos or Nua Sport ANY DAY. My favorite for shawls is Shibui Staccato or the ever-delicious Malabrigo Dos Tierras.
Lily cotton yarn from my being on a knitted dish cloth kick a few years ago.
Oh my, a spigot giveaway of lightweight yarns in.cotton or wool sounds wonderful!
I’ve been trying to knit in lighter weight yarns, as the climate warms more and more.
Thank you for your generous offer.
One of a kind sock yarn from every vacation taken where there is a local yarn shop. They serve as my trip souvenirs.
the utility sink in my laundry room would be the magical faucet. the cabinets of my laundry room are where my meager but growing stash is stashed.
Rowan Felted Tweed and Rowan Handknit cotton in Kaffee Fasset colors.
Anything from Neighborhood Fiber Company!
so hard to choose — dyed in the wool, organic studio dk or worsted, whatever!
There would be two yarn spigots at our house: one for Shetland, the other for Lopi. Each would deliver color in a completely random way. I might install turn-off valves . . . or not.
Oooooo! So many to choose from! Barnyard knits, La Bien Aimee, Studio Sock… Actually all of your yarn is so beautiful it doesn’t matter!
I love, love, love the hand dyed worsted. Any color works for me!
If my spigots poured out yarn I would never check to make sure they were off before leaving on a trip!!
Different types, depending on the temperature setting.
My spigot would be piping up everything from Manos del Uruguay, especially Fino. Maybe the utility sink in the basement could offer up some nice workhorse worsted wool in pretty colors.
I’d love to turn on the taps for long color shifting worsted weight yarns!
Lichen and Lace for me!!! Thanks
Stolen Stitches Nua!!! But it could actually be almost any yarn
Mohonk for days. It’s my desert island yarn.
I would love to have your Mohonk Light gold yarn coming out of my taps. I love the color and would make a beautiful sweater.
No doubt if yarn flowed from my home it would have some content of ALPACA! It is uncanny how it seems every time I gravitate to a skein there is some from in it. Not such a bad thing after all!
Any yummy sock yarn would flow from the spigot. That said there would be a huge bucket under said spigot to catch every fiber drop.
An ever-flowing fountain of cotton would be my preference! Turn it to hot, I get the reds, oranges and yellows. Turn it to cool would be the greens, blues and purples. I’m picturing it now!
Organic studio DK would be flowing from my faucets! It’s my fav weight for sweaters. I didn’t make them for years because my size changes, but I’m on my second in less than a year and plan to keep going! Thank you!!
I’ve been knitting through my mother’s basement stash so she can enjoy the yarns instead of just looking at them in rubbermaid tubs.
My own basement would be much less creepy if it was filled with luscious yarns from the spigot safely displayed in ziploc bags on pale barnboard shelving with strings of edison bulbs (am I too late for that trend?). Some distressed reworked old garbagepicked 70s dressers as worktops. Luxury!
And I could add some more light by opening up a door to the backyarn for my ‘garden yarn apartment’. In Toronto’s realestate market that basement yarn apartment could add a million to the value of my house.
I can’t wait for the yarn spigot to turn on so I can have a yarn hoard too!
Laceweight and worsted seem to be my gotos. Hot and cold running lace!
I am so open to exploring yarn surprises!
Definitely would have to be sock yarn and cotton yarn but any other soft yarn would be fine, also. I like the feel of yarn while knitting or crocheting.
Any of your sock yarn, flowing freely into giant pots that barely fit under the faucet.
The spigots would be drowning me in skin and chunky recycled blends with silk, wool, cotton … you name it!
Right now, the spigots would be pouring out Lettlopi. Hopefully all of that friction doesn’t lead to felting.
Definitely some sock yarn on the thicker side
The breeze this morning hints of apple and pumpkins seasons, both of which make my fingers itch to hold Rowan Felted Tweed. To have those lovely colors pour out of a tap in my home – well, that would be a dream, indeed.
No Culligan for me—only non-superwash DK in all the colors on the cold spigot and Shetland fingering (in all the colours) on the hot. There would be a secret spigot with Kureyon…
Jamison all day,,,,,,,,,
Hmm my spigots would flow and sometimes overflow the basin with mohair (to add texture) along with sock, worsted, and chunky yarns for various projects from lacy shawls to pup-dog baby blankets -featuring each family’s pup dog – to colorwork sweaters to cabled aran inspired blankets. Busy needles need spigots of all weights of yarn.
Gradients…. Cool colors on cold tap, warm on hot. Weight of yarn varies from lace to chunky as you turn up the flow!
Sock yarn all day.
The flow would be heavily wool! Heavy in terms of volume, any weight will do! Shawls, socks, sweaters, gifts – knitting is a passion that sustains my creative inner soul! What to make, and then how to create (I often change a pattern) waters my very being! Ahh, to slurp up a project!! Thanks for asking!!
I could use a Harry Potter-esqe “spigot of requirement” for all of the 1:00 am pattern-browsing that results in I WANT TO KNIT THIS RIGHT NOW mania, but I’d settle for one that reliably dispensed a good merino single.
Oooh, so hard to choose! Love all
The Indie dyers for that special one-is-a-kind skein! But Madelintosh and Berroco for the workhorse yarns and MDK yarns for the perfect patterns you all feature! Guess I bette elevate the faucet running!
Sock yarn would be coming out of my tap. In the near future I would then see socks, shawls, scarves….oh the possibilities!
Hard task! Zauberball? Freia Minis? Big Wool? Felted Tweed? Ack, too hard!
Opening the spigot now for anything soft and amazing! Exploring all types these days.
I WOULD BE IN HEAVEN IF MY SPIGOTS FLOWED WITH YARN!!!
natural fibers, wool, cotton, alpaca etc.
worsted weight or thinner
every colour
sock yarn
Rowan felted Tweed so I could knit all sorts of multicolor things.
Oh, man! The yarn spigot at my house would be anything spin cycle for sure!
The colors are gorgeous and invite the knitter to think of Fall scarves, cowls, and cabled sweaters. It would be dream come true to win these yarns.
My best knitting comes from the challenge of using gifted yarn! Cotton potholders with patterns from Andrea Rangel are the best!
Speckles!! Self Striping. Fingering or Sport weight of course.
OMG. Can I get hand-dyed sock yarn, and adjust the color by turning the tap? “Just a little more purple in that blue, please… Turn to the right!”
Sock yarn definitely, and all different colors!
The alpaca that makes those multi-color peruvian sweaters.
Where to start? Lopi, Spincycle, Rowan, any Neighborhood. You people are awesome!
Wow! What to choose? Any La Bien Aimee or maybe Nua Sport
Brooklyn Tweed
My dear hubby would say that the yarn spigots are already open here!! I love Felted Tweed and anything Brooklyn Tweed, but would love to try Sylph and Lettlopi. I’m trying hard to knit from stash, but yarn that is won doesn’t count, does it?
I love fingering yarn so my spigots would spew out all the colors!
Oh oh oh. My spigot would poor out anything sock weight; especially Organic Studio Sock yarn. Soooo squishy! Thank you.
Love reading Snippets every Saturday!!
Hi,
If I could have 2 spigots, it would be Rowan and Neighborhood Fiber Co. If I had to select one, it would be Neighborhood Fiber although I could be happy with either one!
Minis skeins in every color, kind of like a skittles commercial but yarn.
Having yarn come from the taps is a great idea! One year at TNNA someone had yarn going into a meat grinder and Zauberball coming out! So cute, so I bought an old grinder which sat on my desk unused until COVID did on the shop. Oh well!
I’d like to hope our faucets would pour out a bit o’ silk or cotton, but let’s face it: it’d totally be a chunky mohonk.
How could I possibly have a favorite yarn? All yarn is wonderful. Whatever I’m using right now is my favorite!
Spincycle would pour forth from the left spigot with coordinating Mohunk Light from the right!
All the Neighborhood Fiber Co. yarns so I can make all the things in Beginnings!
Yarn spigots in my home? Well fine, soft wools would pour forth of course, sometimes silks, and sometimes linen too. Usually I’d be able to set the taps to get just the specific yarn I wanted for my chosen project, but sometimes, sometime the yarn would turn out to be a complete surprise – much like a “mystery” box. It would be so much fun!
I want a yarn spigot that dispenses whatever yarn(s) I’m using for my current project at the same rate as I knit, so that I never have to pull out more yarn from the ball and can just keep knitting.
Felted Tweed! All the colors!
Oh, yes, a yarn spigot would be super!
All the yarn!!!!
Exotic yarns from all the different sheep. I want yarn from every kind of sheep there is. I turn on a tap and it’s a new kind of sheep, or alpaca, or llama or yak.
Limiting myself to two spigots—one foe each set of knit worthy grandchildren. Organic Studio DK and Uneek sock yarn.
La Bien Amie and Spincycle…but which is hot and which is cold? Doesn’t matter…they both are so fab!
All the sock yarn would be flowing, especially Zauberball.
Sock yarn in all colors
I can’t seem to get unhooked from socks – so all the sock/fingering yarn in my spigots!
Make mine something sheepy, please!
Yarn with all the bright colors, please! I love colorwork and have dreams for some fair isle sweaters with popping neons.
Bright, colorful and soft wools!
Cotton and socks would come pouring out of the faucets here. Plus all those random single skeins that were so beautiful I had to have them.
Madelinetosh and malabrigo would be flowing from my spigots.
Oh how can you make me pick? It’s like being asked to choose your favourite child. Right now I am all about sock yarn and Rowan Felted Tweed, but really just give me soft, squishy colour and I am in!
Fingering
Ah, a spigot that would flow with yarn and perhaps the hot and cold taps could adjust for hue and shade….
My yarn spigot would surprise me with a different kind of yarn each time I opened the tap.
Organic studio sock and lett lopi!!
Anything from Sweet Georgia or Marineated yarns
Hard to choose! I’d like one tap to dispense sock yarn and the other to dispense surprise yarn. And the surprise yarn would change in weights nd colors each time you turned it on.
Cashmere would be the main yarn flowing. 🙂
I would love to see many glorious colors of Gleem Lace flowing from the faucets. A yarn that works for me with my itchies from wool while also having a lovely flow to it. Do it!
Streams of sock yarns spurting from the spigots,
Studio worsted would make some fabulous cardigans!!! Let it FLOW!!!!!
We have two taps per sink here in Maine, so I would pick any wool sock yarn for one and
Lopi for the other.
Sock yarn. I have buckets of sock yarn. A lot of it is souvenir yarn. Its the perfect treasure to bring home from any trip but i especially love the sock yarn i buy after my annual backpacking trip with my friend. We’ve been backpacking together for 20 years and the past several years i always stop in a shop after we come off trail and buy a skein of sock yarn from a local dyer to remind me of the trip.
Right now, what would be flowing is soft, fluffy yarn that’s slowly becoming a baby blanket.
Definitely Bien Aimee from one tap and Rustic Fingering from the other. And then I would have to install a prep sink so I could have another tap for Rowan Felted!
If I could dream of a free flowing yarn spigot then it would it would also flow with whatever yarn takes my fancy that day. Dare to dream!
Baby llama yarn!
Oh my what an image! I think Spincycle would flow from my faucets, to keep me watching to see what color flows next! Is it a gusher of gloomy grape? A rapid of rushing red? A serene stream of silver??
What yarn would be flowing through my yarn spigots? Lichen and Lace 80/20 sock!
Honestly, I think I need a magic spigot that would produce exactly the right yarn for the project I am currently thinking of. At the moment I have a design idea based on Hever Castle for my sister in law who loves Anne Boleyn. I know I want a worsted weight that will show good stitch definition in a purple, dark enough to look rich and royal but not so dark it hides the stitches — just don’t know what yarn that is.
Failing a magic spigot I do have a tendency to pat the Malabrigo all the time so a steady stream would be welcome
Anything from Shetland
Merino, alpaca, cashmere… in all possible hues near the blue end of the rainbow. A slow and steady trickle of La Bien Aimee would certainly do the trick!
My spouse would say the yarn is ALREADY flowing from the spigots at our house (!), but I promise you, there is ALWAYS room for another skein or box of yarn. And in case I can’t find room, I have a knitting group who will LOVE poring through whatever I can part with.
Sock yarn spigot turn on!!!!!!!!!!! Please?
Rowan Felted Tweed! Love it!
Woo chick wants to turn on the taps. Never too much yarn. Still rebuilding stash after a couple of moves.
Dear MDK Santa,
I want to try it all!!
Oh hard to decide. Some organic cotton yarn would probably be the most useful. But then I do love organic wool from Iceland or New Zealand. And I’m partial to Italian skeins.
My spigot would absolutely gush Organic Sock Yarn of every shade, especially Truxton Circle! ❤️
Quivit. All soft and beautiful and strong!!
Sylph!!
I would love to have an endless stream of Rowan handknit cotton flowing from the spigot. It is sooooo soft and has such a nice hand, I can work with it all day long.
Always accepting yarn into my taps.
Zauerball crazy is flowing from my pipes as I start a 2nd Black Forest Ruffle scarf. Hard to knit (so much counting!) and just gorgeous.
Any fine wool, with lots of colors…colorwork is my current passion!
I’m a fairly new knitter and have recently found this site and love it. I, like Peg below knit a lot of dishcloths and therefore love all cotton yarn and would love it if flowed freely. I’m starting to venture into sock knitting (a tad nervous and excited at the same time) so if I could alternate what comes out of the faucet it would include very colorful sock yarn.
My yarn spigots would overflow with single skeins of self striping and awesome club colorways in fingering weight. So many bins!!!
Spincycle Dyed in the Wool–thanks for the giveaway!
Dyed in the Wool, more Dyed in the Wool, Sylph, Uneek plus any eco-friendly yarns to match my water saving spigot.
Lots of oranges and lime greens. I’ve always like those brights; but never really used them. I think now is a good time.
I’d like to see Organic Studio Chunky in a Mystery Box.
Vuorelma Satakieli – I so wish I had stocked up on this yarn before it was discontinued.
Flowing yarn like fish of the coral reef.
I love a nice fingering wool/nylon blend for sock knitting. For sweaters DK is my choice of weight , but worsted is great for some projects. I’ve already started hats for Christmas gifts to great nieces and great nephews.
My yarn spigots would spew Malabrigo Rios in all the color ways!!
We were blessed with 4 grandsons in 2 years, so I knit with lots of super wash so the new moms don’t have to hand wash. I look forward to an occasional “me knit”’with yummy alpaca or other squishy yarn!
I’m thinking I’d have DK weight flowing from faucets. I always forget to buy it. I would reposition my knitting chair to be adjacent to the faucet and knit away in all the DK projects I’ve missed out on.
A spigot of anything Malabrigo would be heaven for me!
Never thought of a yarn spigot, where do I find THAT in my local diy store??? That’ll be in my dreams tonight, for sure, all weights and wonderful colors streaming at the twist of a knob…..
If I opened the spigots there’d be a flood of all my pretty string! Thanks for adding me to the give-away!
Organic studio worsted…thanks for giving away some of the treasure!
I love wool but it’s too hot for wool in Texas. Blends of linen, cotton, silk, hemp are my go-tos now that I have left the Northeast and live in Dallas.
How to choose? Anything Noro. Anything Rowan. Cashmere-enhanced sock yarn, hand-dyed by a variety of indie dyers. Madtosh. All the J&S for color work. Bring it on!
I long for brown sheep worsted and super bulky and anything else they make. I want to make another Kiki mariko once it gets cold again!!!
Spigot yarn would be wool and cotton blends in sport/DK/fingering in teals, greens, yellows, violet ,periwinkle, warm grays and warm pinks for my coastal Santa Cruz, California climate. We are having a drought so extra from the spigot would be heaven sent.
Spincycle and Barnyard…oh happy days. My husband already thinks I have a spontaneously growing stash!
It would be lovely to see Sock and DK yarns flowing…
I have a rather embarassingly large collection of sock yarns because who doesn’t need more socks? Also quite a few balls of DK because someday I’m going to knit that amazing sweater.
All the fingering yarn ya got! To make all the fingering weight sweaters I can!
Lace yarn, definitely. No, wait! Sock yarn. Definitely sock yarn. But then again, lace yarn is so…lacy.
I’m really loving summer blend yarns — linen + something bc I live in a warmer climate. I knit 4+ summer tops this year and love wearing them.
Anything buttery soft!
It would be sock yarn in a rainbow of colours!!
Mohonk, Nua Sport, and anything soft for socks! I love everything I’ve gotten from MDK!
All the yarn, as long as it’s soft to touch and multicolored in some way.
Superwash merino please from only one spigot!
Guess you’ve tapped into something all knitters want – a free yarn spigot! I’d like mine to spew forth with yarns I’ve never tried before. Something new everyday!
Lace weight cashmere! Not just for lace, but for all sorts or warm-but-not-heavy wearables.
Anything and everything from Neighborhood Fiber Co, turned all the way up for maximum flow! I’d never turn it off.
Freia Shawl Balls, one color after another.
Either Yama Yarn’s merino-linen yarn (because it’s so hard to snag some!) or John Arbon Textiles yarns… sitting here working on 3rd consecutive project in yarn from their Knit By Number range. …
Merino fingering or sport. Especially LaBien Aimee or Nua Sport or Jill Draper.
I wish I had a sock yarn tap!
Neighborhood Fiber Co. Organic Studio DK – my dream yarn!
I love yarn of all types! Any yarn coming from a spigot would be appreciated!
Not a named yarn. Just a good sturdy cotton that doesn’t separate
ALL the yarn!
My yarn spigots would be flowing with wool worsted & bulky weight yarns, deep rich hues & texture. They would also feature novelties with beads, sequins, and metallic threads.
I would enjoy having lots more tarn from the Mineville yarn company, Mineville, Nova Scotia.
A flowing tap of all the ocean- , sky- and lake-colored yarns would suit me fine.
My favorite is SHEPARD’S WOOL – STONEHEDGE FIBER MILL – MICHIGAN – USA, my favorite color is: GREAT LAKES. Absolutely beautiful green-blue just like the great lakes here in Michigan!
Fingering and mohair yarn would be coming out of my spigots.
anything Lopi-ish in any color!
My yarn spiggot would be filled with Julie Asselin yarn! What a lovely thought.
Sock yarn so much sock yarn
La Bien Aimee or Spincycle!!!
This week, the yarn flowing out of my spigots would be colorful wool yarn!
I would have all the Big Foot Fibers yarn flowing from my spigot.
My current favorite yarn is quebecois. I an planning a yoke sweater.
Oh goodness! My yarn spigots would change hourly – because my favorite yarn is the one I’m currently touching.
Any baby alpaca.
Something with a really big variety of weights and contents…maybe Malabrigo or Madelinetosh.
Organic studio chunky would work its way through my spigots!
If the spicot were what I wished for, DK sock yarn — generally hard to find but oh, so versatile! Or else any weight in colors that I don’t normally knit with — all about pushing beyond one’s reflexive choices.
All the colors….rainbow moods that shifted with the temperature…..good mental images!
As a sock knitter, I have recently rediscovered a skein of Misti Alpaca that has to have been lurking around in my stash for years. I have no recollection of where or when it was purchased, but it has been a delight to knit. The change in colors keep me on task and the “hand” I almost seductive.
My yarn taps would flow with fingering yarn. Would love a bag of yarn.
Turn on the super soaker with Merino Aran please.
In my most extravagant imagination, the faucets would be flowing with a lush cashmere/merino mix, but since most of my knitting right now is gift dishcloths, the true flow would be Sugar”n” Cream cotton or something similar.
Juniper Moon Farm Cumulus or anything from Freia Fibers!
I’m pretty sure I already have a spigot of sock yarn somewhere, that somehow gets left on regularly, considering that probably ⅔ of my stash (by weight) is sock yarn.
Oh my, how does one pick from such a variety!!! I love all the fingering weight yarns from MDK. Joined a few of the knit alongs and enjoyed every minute. Now, it’s time to figure out what to make with the left over pieces!
OH I AM READY!!!!
My yarn spigot would be flowing with a mixture of Spincycle and La Bien Aimee yarns (in sweater quantities!).
Looong subtle shifting gradients, any weights, in luscious colors and beautiful natural wools. That most elusive of color changing skeins…oh to have my taps overfloweth with choice!
Organic Studio Worsted would flow out of my spigots into loving hands
Neighborhood Fiber Company yarn would be flooding my yarn room!
I’d leave the faucet dripping for shawl balls.
Ooooh – fingering weight and cashmere DK flowing please
Unusual skeins from long ago yarn fairs that my mother in law attended. They’ve come to me upon her passing.
I would love to have wool yarn flowing from my faucets! I’ve learned so much from your educational writers-your site is great
Dk wool.
So hard to choose, perhaps Zauerballs as balloons with the Akerworks swatch gauge (pictured in this weeks Snippets) attached as a weight. No one should touch yarn without one!!
sorry..Zauberball..
If i had a magic yarn spigot it would magically change yarns when i finished a project, just in time to cast on another one. Organic cottom, rare breed wools, alpaca, yak…
I have so many favorites it’s hard to make one. I love the colors of Hedgehog Fibers, any fingering weight merino will flow nicely here.
Fingering merino with a touch of silk, please!
Well I would want it to put out cold weather yarn at first, and then if I kept it running- hot weather yarn. Or anything Knit Circus.
My Spigot flows with sock yarn, the more colorful the better!
Since I can not pilgrimage to the free-flowing rejuvenating spa of yarn, at MDK World Headquarters, please may I be a lucky recipient of a mystery bag of those same yarns!
Oh my, I think the Rowan Felted Tweed would be flowing from the cold spigot (it’s on hold for the summer, which started early and has stayed much hotter and drier than normal this year). The hot spigot would be flowing sock yarn – both solids and variagated, and a variety of brands – mostly for shawls, not socks, though I am now trying my first sock from Wanderlust – yeay!!
Oh, there is definitely room in the pipes ready for linen to flow through the spigots to cool this wicked heat at my place!
My yarn spigots would all be fingering or dk yarn in beautiful jewel tones.
Malabrigo! Although I am currently knitting with a skein of Hedgehog Fibres singles ( colorway Swamp) that is absolutely amazing!
I would be “flowing” anything sock yarn related — I have just discovered the absolute fascination of sock yarn and designs. Yummy!!
silk in all forms, colours and weights
love the organic studio sock- and alice gadzinski looks wonderful!
It’s too hard to choose; therefore, I would have a mystery spigot. Every time I opened the tap, different yarns would flow-different yarn companies, different bases bases, different dyers. I would get to try so many new yarns!
Oh, most definitely!
So hard to choose. I’d love a random mix of yarns – some merino wool, a bit of cashmere, and some cotton. To suit the variety of projects I make. In a variety of colours, of course.
Noro Noro Noro all day long
My spigot would be an endless supply of exciting squishy sock yarn! Solids, speckles, striping, the more variety the better!
If I had yarn spiggots, from them would flow lots of Julie Asselin’s hand dyed yarns.
Spincycle and Neighborhood Fiber Co would be flowing from the hot and cold taps respectively!
Rowan tweed.
Maybe spincyle- love their yarn, or maybe Rowan, or…. Actually doesn’t matter, I get excited about most every yarn.
All the hand dyed skeins!
One tap would have Neighborhood Fibre Co. and the other would have Lettlopi. Very different yarns but such beautiful colors it would make me smile every single time I turned on the taps.
If I had yarn spigots, I’d want them flowing with silk or silk blends!
My yarn closet has flooded the house!
Can’t I just have all the spigots? If I can only choose one, it would probably have to be Merino.
Yarn would be flowing from my yarn spigots if I had them as I never go anywhere without my knitting
Yarn spigots at my house would indiscriminately spew sock yarn, Rowan Felted Tweed, and vintage mohair inherited from my mother-in-law.
Flowing yarn taps?! Yes please, I’ll have Rowan Yarns Soft Yak, and Pure Cashmere.
Nua Sport, Sylph and Secrotos sock.
Turning on one side would surely produce Dyed in the Wool; the other would produce something coordinating from Neighborhood Fiber Co., resulting in the most swoon worthy flow from my spigot.
100% wool not superwash – for felting, sweaters, fingerless mitts and even wall hangings. I can send a photo of a felted wall hanging if you like.
Love the image of a yarn spigot! ❤️ For me it would be magenta, raspberry, blueberry, purple in soft soft fiber.
I have found very few woolen yarns I don’t like – have been enjoying many of the British yarns, as well just purchased my first LettLopi yarn recently, looks like it will be fun to knit.
This is just too tempting to even consider as I’ve promised to use stash before acquiring anything new, but since it’s just for summer dreaming, let’s say a sweater’s worth of cashmere!
If there was a spigot of yarn, I would think the “hot water” would be a luscious merino and the “cold water” to be more of a cotton. Turning on to “warm water” would be a wonderful blend of animal and plant fibers with a dazzling amount of color.
The gorgeous sock yarns and minis would flow full force from my yarn spigots!n
My yarn spigot spits out lots of wool and wool blend yarns. I tend to gravitate towards jewel tones.
any kind of multi-color yarn would come out of my yarn faucet!
Open taps to here. I’ll share liberally with knitters in kneed but I do reserve first pick rights.
Chunky wool is missing from my stash. Always love to work with sock yarn
Yarn spigots! What a great idea. Mine would flow with beautiful hand dyed lace weight merino/silk/cashmere yarns with sparkles now and then. Gonna dream about it.
A spigot of anything with mohair/silk would be my wish.
My yarn spigots (oh, that there were such a thing!) would flow, absolutely FLOW, I tell you, with merino, mostly in dk weight and the occasional worsted. Also, on the most special of days, my other yarn spigot (you never did say how many spigots we could have, right??) would flow unstoppingly with Spincycle Dyed in the Wool, which I STILL haven’t found an excuse to buy.
Any colorful fingering weight yarn would be coming from my spigots:)!
We have low water pressure so the water that comes out is “thin”…like sock yarn!
Truxton circle. Love this color.
Right now, with a grandchild on the way it would be a yarn spigot spilling out lots of nice yarns for babies
Sock yarn! And I’ve yet to knit a pair of socks! But I’ve knit lots and lots of other garments out of it.
Hmm … The kitchen sink would likely put out Nature Spun Sport (I make a lot of socks), the bathroom sink would dispense Spindrift Jumper Weight (hats and mittens), the fridge water dispenser would give cobweb Shetland (LACE!!!), and the bathtub would have to give easy-care acrylic in every color for weaving chemo shawls. Then I would install more faucets.
BFL
I have a lot of sugar and cream yarn from my first days of learning to knot. I bought it as an inexpensive way to find out if I would like knitting as I was learning. Hanging into it for future dishcloths and tea towels.
I think the hot water tap would give us silk yarn and the cold tap would be the softest cotton ever. So you could always blend the two to be exactly what each project would need!
All the yarn, yes please, but I’m a delicate flower and I prefer merino or merino blends.
My spigots would flow with LOPI and Louet Euroflax linen in calming neutral COLORWAYS. And of course, overflowing would be wonderful!
My spigot would flow with anything form Lichen and Lace. I can make it easy for you, just run the pipe from the studio to my house, we only live five minutes apart. Sackville, NB.
Rowan Felted Tweed & Zauberball would be fantastic.
If I had a yarn spigot, I would probably leave it on a lot at first and then, as the yarn started taking over my house, would use it more judiciously… maybe…
Lettlopi and Zauerball Crazy would flow from my taps!
OOooooo…yarn, loves yarn, especially unrepentant, ecologically good citizen yarn! DK or sport, even better….
Waterfalls of Spincycle … and colorful hand dyed sock yarn!
Spincycle died in the wool, euroflax mini skeins, neighborhood fiber company and anything DK weight….Some may say I’m fickle…I just love many different yarns.
Sock yarn and more sock yarn!! BFL or wool silk blends (hand spun mostly) are my faves. Shetland for colorwork is in big supply in my stash.
My spigots would be like one of those fancy soda dispensing machines where you cycle through and pick the soda from a screen. First time I saw one I was reminded of making a suicide drink (all the different sodas in one glass) when I was little – we thought that was so much fun! But this spigot would let me choose any weight of yarn in any color combo – those variegated ones I love to buy and the plain colors I need too! So I could make hats to socks as my fingers desire!
I would kill for a Malabrigo spigot at my house!!!
I can’t just choose one yarn but I love knitting up freia yarn bombs and I’m quite smitten with lichen and lace
My spigots would be pouring Zauberball Crazy!!! LOVE the flow of colors.
Pada sock. (It has a new name though.)
Lopi from Iceland–scratchy, but warm!
Gotta love some wool and supporting small companies is a plus. Maybe Swan’s Island or Harrisville Designs or Long Island Yarn and Farm or Stolen Stitches by Carol Feller (wool, linen blend – yum!) or….really any.
Cashmere and silk … and kid mohair … and baby alpaca oh my!
Spigot? Could we really get fall colors of fingering and deep wine and mossy greens in dk’s to flow out?. Wishful thinking for sure. Thanks to all of you at MDK for Snippits!
Something with silk, obviously. I am knitting a shawl with Zen Yarn Garden Serenity Silk Single and Blue Sky Fibers Metalico. They’re both so gorgeous.
I love bulky yarn of any type. I keep myself very busy all the time and with knitting bulky yarn I find fairly immediate gratification for all my work. This would be free flowing for me.
Ahhh – if I had yarn spigots…..Shelter and Loft – two handles – right?
I’d love to have yarn spigots for every size of yarn except bulky! I HATE BULKY YARN! Give me fingering, DK or worsted weight any time.
Sock yarn of all types!!
The yarn that would flow from my spigot would be natural colored DK weight wool in sweater quantities.
Oh yes, and since most faucets have 2 spigots, my 2nd one would have an unending supply of Malabrigo in shades of blue and purple
My yarn spigot would be Malabrigo Silky Merino. I think!! My answer would probably be totally different 5 minutes from now!
For me…Julie Asselin, Jill Draper, La Bien Aimée, The Farmer’s Daughter Mighty Mo, or Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino. BUT HOW CAN I POSSIBLY CHOOSE?
Nua Sport for sure from one tap; Lopi from another!!!
Anything from Malabrigo – any color, any weight, and the alpaca/wool/silk blend from Juniper Moon Farm. So delicious.
Hmm…Mohonk Light would be lovely, but so would the Cityscape Scarf Kit, (those blues and purples get me, every time.) 🙂
If my spigots would run yarn, it would definitely be Jill Draper yarns.
All the colors of the rainbow, fauceted according to the light spectrum . . .yummm!
If I could turn on the faucet and see yarn to come out I would want to see fingering weight yarn, especially sock yarn. I am not new to knitting but fairly new to socks. I am hooked! I want socks in all different color ways and socks for every day of the year!
I travel for a living and just discovered another new and amazing store, full of the most colorful yarn (the name). I have a cat on my lap (finally back at home) and yarn by my side that needs winding. If I could just add more fingering to my already lovely stash, oh, but I would!
Neighborhood Fiber Company cascading from the rain shower head, and Mohonk pouring into the bathtub …. I’m sorry, what were you saying?
If I had yarn spigots, they’d be flowing with natural, soft (probably fingering) yarn in rich blues and purples. Yum!
I’m sitting in my recliner. knitting, knitting and knitting
Mmmmmmmmmm…..malabrigo rios
Yarn spigots! A fun surprise every day. Rich, hand dyed Fingering or DK.
I desperately want to work with the gorgeous colors of Rowan Felted Tweed. And I’d have Euroflax Sport weight on cold tap for wonderful summer sweaters!
Sock yarn, especially squishy soft sock yarn like uneek
All the faucets would be spouting sock yarn and maybe a cashmere blurble or two from time to time.
The cold spigot should emit Lettlopi and the hot spigot should flow with Lichen and Lace yarn!
Hmm, which yarn would be flowing at my house? Good question. I think my conclusion is good old J&S yarn or Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift. I’d love to have a collection of every single color of both. Love that yarn. Although thanks to you guys, Rowan Felted Tweed comes in a close second!
I’d like a spigot that’s unpredictable, pouring out something different every time I turn it on!! Sometimes, I want something like Lettlopi to make a sweater; maybe Rowan KSH for a beautiful gauzy shawl; or a Crazy Zauberball for fun socks. I love it all!!
The lyfe so short, the projects so many to knit …
looking forward to making a sweater in DK yarn
Whatever sock yarn is handy.
Rowan felted tweed, any laceweight, and Jameison jumper weight! All colors, of course!! Ooooo…just thinking of all the things I could create… 🙂
I have way too much wool in my stash so I need some Euroflax linen to go with it.
De Rerum Gilliat – oh so cozy and dependable. Can’t get enough of it!
I really don’t have a favorite, as I love everything. If I must pick one let’s go with BFL fingering.
Anything from LA BIEN AIMÉE!
Organic studio sock!!!!
Yarn spigots! What a grand idea! Send some my way.
Oh my gosh those Freia Shawl Balls!
Wait, doesn’t everyone have yarn spigots in their house? How uncivilized. My spigots flow with sock yarn because it is so versatile! I can turn on the hot and cold fingering together and get DK. If I turn on both taps of DK, I get worsted. (Do you really read 2,000 comments! I’m sorry!)
Any kind of wool would be lovely, but would especially love to see at my house Shetland wool.
Lopi!!!!
all lovely wool yarn!
Anything from Madelinetosh!
Lightweight, soft, earth tones in merino blend
Anything from Neighborhood Fiber Co. and Rowan Felted Tweed if the spigots run from the MDK Warehouse. Otherwise, probably worsted weight Malabrigo and Manos del Uruguy.
100% superwash, please! I’m knitting for the 6,000 Hats for Sailors project.
Mmmm, cashmere in one, alpaca in the other!
My spigot would love to overflow with Jade Sapphire cashmere and anything fingering. What a lovely idea – spigots overflowing with yarn goodness
Dragonfly’s BUGGA
I loved this article. It reminded me of when I worked at a coffee bean store (not a cafe), surrounded by bags of beans. At first, walking in to the store, I would breathe in the aroma and enjoy that amazing coffee scent. About a week in, I couldn’t get that smell off my clothes, skin…
I’ve since regained my love of the smell of coffee – time heals a lot.
I would opt for the Organic Studio DK. I’ve been knitting w/ fingering so often, I want to return to my first yarn love (DK).
Thank you for the opportunity!
Yummy, delicious sock yarn!
I couldn’t possibly pick one. It’s the array that I love. If I had to, I’d say something cable spun such as that from String Theory Yarns of Maine.
Oh the choices! La Bien Aimee.
i think it’s like you said, that we’d get sick of the same thing over and over again. of course, we’d NEVER get sick of yarn, but i don’t want just ONE kind/brand/weight/source to freely flow from the spigots. that way madness lies! the world needs more appreciation of diversity and so does my knitted wardrobe (and whatever i make to give away as well).
Sock yarn would flow, in all its infinite variety!
Yup, filling all the bathtubs with yarn flowing out the soffits
Oooh, you had me at yarn spigot! 😉 If only one type of yarn could flow, I’d go with a tonal bulky with a little bit of halo. Thanks for the fantasy!
Good thing your faucets are flowing so you don’t need someone to fix them! There’s a shortage of plumbers and every other kind of service worker due to pandemic!
no doubt…fingering weight yarn flows from the wooly spigots here, but unfortunately, it appears that a ton of patterns I’m drawn to lately don’t fall into that category!!! Looking for a new plumber to help install the dk and worsted pipelines!
An ever flowing ever changing Freia shawl ball!
I have never tried or even touched Rowan Felted Tweed, but I’ve dreamed about it for years because the colors are so beautiful and it looks so gorgeous. So I think I’d love a faucet that gave me that.
My faucets would be flowing Yarn ( period)! I love knitting! I find my self trolling Instagram, links to Ravelry, any Yarn shop newsletters, and falling down the Rabbit Hole for hours looking at projects large and small…..ideas for a fade project ( which I’ve never done), and even last night a “ stash buster shawl” oh do I even have enough colors? ( of course I do!, what am I thinking!) , but more colors,more yarn?…..
Yes, Please…..
I would need a hot faucet of Louet euroflax and a cold one of Kidsilk Haze!
Since I seem to be addicted to knitting socks, I would love to turn a spigot and have an endless supply of sock yarn. However, I have also perused your Lichen and Lace and Slyph stock on occasion. Suffice it to say I would not return anything sent to me from MDK.
Mohair. I’m obsessed with mohair these days. The softness, the halo, how it can change the whole look and feel of a project. And if you use a different color mohair from your base yarn, you get a whole new look there too. MMMmm, mohair.
I’d love a spigot of merino – in varying weights and colors
Rowan felted tweed would be my first choice as I never get tired of combining the beautiful colors and it knits up into such a wonderful soft fabric.
I would have softies flowing from spigots, like baby alpaca or cashmere in all colors of the rainbow!
While I love ALL of the yarn, the yarn I use the most is kitchen cotton (and those are the FOs I use daily). So, if I had magic spigots that gave me yarn, then I would pick the original Pisgah Peaches & Creme. Cold would be the aran weight, hot would be the double/bulky weight.
My husband suspects there already is a yarn spigot and the house has flooded. If I could turn on a secret tap, I’d want it to flow with DK merino/cashmere sock yarn. I am longing to try something like that.
Lotsa comments, I am wishing for more baby alpaca
I would love to have lots of beautiful sock yarn.
Hi! I would love to have anything from Freia to try. Their colors look so appealing in your photos!
And thank you.
I love fingering yarn the best – for socks, hats and fingerless mitts
Do I need yarn? NO. What did I do yesterday? Buy yarn. Is the yarn spigot working at my house? Of course.
The yarn that I would like to see flowing from my spigots is Organic Studio DK – so many lovely colors
Hard to choose one yarn. My faucet, like the hot to cold range they spew forth, would have a range of soft, squishy, next to skin yarns to sturdy sock yarns, with a mid range for mitts and sweaters.
Love everything, but would especially love to try any Julie Asselin and Neighborhood Fiber Co yarns!
oh my, what a wonderful thought… yarn flowing from my spigots! they would flow with Organic Studio DK and it would come out in a splash of the colors Oakley, Belair, Canton, Thomas Circle and Oliver.
now that would definitely quench my yarn thirst!!! at least for a little while. 😉
Anything from Shetland.
I would have fingering weight yarn flowing!
Jill Draper Windham from the kitchen spigot; Sincere Sheep Cormo Worsted from the bathroom sink spigot; Lichen & Lace from the bathtub spigot.
I’m not picky. I’ll take just about anything to add to my stash. My spigots like wool and silk and linen and other natural fibers.
I don’t care what type or brand of yarn comes out of my spigots, but I would appreciate them color coordinated so that I could make a beautiful Kaffe Facet project without driving myself crazy.
I would have a spigot full of anything Malabrigo because it always feels like butta’ in my hands!
Wonderland yarns
Anything from Malabrigo.
I wish that time & patience would run from my spigot, into a bucket of friends to sit with and knit.
Yarn, any yarn, I am addicted. Currently on my needles: Koigu and it looks like confetti. It’s a treat for my fingers and eyes
The yarn that would be overflowing around here currently is charity yarn. The charity knitting/crochet group that I am a member of and myself specifically have been getting a lot of donations of “mystery yarn”. It seems that during the pandemic a lot of folks have decided to downsize their stashes and donate the excess. This is awesome! Although occasionally it gets to be interesting try to identify the mystery skeins. I currently have a lot of wonderful cotton that I am working my way though. Fun times!
Fresh, delicious yarn flowing out of my sprinkler onto my lawn-firming mounds of beautiful color-rivaling a flower garden. You bet…
Oh, My Dude! Open those taps, please and add the sprayer too! I would take any Rowan Felted Tweed–can’t afford that wonderful stuff normally, but would love to knit with it. Sylph would be nice, too!
Spincycle, Spinclycle, Spinclcle — I want to know soooo many sweaters with this and maybe a matching hat or two…bring it on!
It would be merino wool flowing for me.
A very hot pink wool will come out of our faucets, enough to knit a mini skirt for my daughter.
Mohonk would/should flow like a river … in a perfect world!
Let flow the Spincycle spigot!
I love Organic Studio Sock as I seem to have a never ending queue of fingering yarn patterns!
If I had yarn spigots I would hope cashmere would flow from the upstairs bath, wool from the mainfloor bath, a linen blend from the kitchen, and cotton from the laundry! Anything so magical would be delightful!
Maybe it’s just a case of “what have you done for me lately,” but I’m knitting a sweater with Anzula Cricket right now (DK weight, 80% SW merino, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon), and it is HEAVENLY! I’ve been frantically knitting all weekend because I can’t wait to wear it. Now I want all the colors coming from all the spigots. 🙂
What a thought provoking question! It was just a great fantasy place to escape to. So many choices wool, silk, cashmere….Then in walked reality literally, one of the three orange and white reasons I alas will never be able to have free flowing yarn spigots. The dog may not be the smartest, but what those three cats could do to him with free flowing yarn…….
But if DG is actually reading these comments what I truly want more than free flowing yarn is to know did you ever actually design the logo and if so can we see it! I followed the rabbit hole down your blog but couldn’t find anymore about it!
Anything blue!
Wow. The comments are inspiring! Wool, soft blends with alpaca or linen or silk or cashmere. Winter will come.
Spincycle, spincycle, spincycle
Only one?! If I had to choose, it would probably be Crazy Yarn from Stonehenge Fiber Mill – I love the unique mix of colors
If I had yarn spigots, they would flow with Nua. Or maybe with Helix, just because I have wanted to try Gotland, but haven’t yet. Yes. It glows.
Full throttle: Local yarn dyer here in my hometown in Oregon, Cathy at Hooker’s Corner. Her yarn colors are truly AMAZING… and soft squishy yarn, she has the corner on that! She made “ORCHID” yarn for me, delivered in a few days, for a project I was happily knitting for a critically I’ll friend. On every level (water seeks its own level), just The Best ever!
2nd artesian spring, turn that faucet on …Malabrigo type yarn please!
I would love some fingering sock weight yarn from Mothy and the Squid coming out of one spigot and another with HueLoco yarn. Then yet another spigot with self striping yarn.
WOW!!! A steady stream of lovely coloured sock yarn would fill my basket and my heart with much pleasure.
In the western areas of the US we are running out of water. If we could turn on a spigot and get yarn, I would happily drink wine, beer, vodka, etc. instead but I can’t. Imagine what my knitting would look like.
Lettlopi
Alpaca, please, and sock yarn. Any and all, reallocation !
My happy place
I would have a spigot flowing with sock yarn. I love it!
A yarn spigot would be fabulous. I have not been knitting forever as some of you so it is hard to be specific but I love fingering and DK yarns. Maybe something with cashmere as that is a bit pricey for me.
Rowan Felted Tweed forever!
Open the taps for a perfect substitute for Brooklyn Tweed Shelter that would be guaranteed to not make me itchy.
Lots and lots of fingering yarn – all fiber contents.
Organic Studio Chunky!!!
I would have a wide spigot
Atlas, of course. All colors in sweater quantities
I would have a different yarn coming out of each spigot. The kitchen spigot would have a sturdy cotton, the outside spigot would have a lovely wool, the bathroom spigot would have a wonderful wool blend. Now I have to go check all of my spigots