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Thank you to everyone who came out to the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival! It was an absolutely gorgeous weekend and we were so happy to share our new larger space with you.


We have lots of upcoming opportunities to connect on Zoom - read on and register!

Lemon Spritz - 4 Day KAL


We are thrilled to be a sponsor of this year’s 4 Day KAL hosted by Marie Greene of Olive Knits!


The project: Lemon Spritz Tee

This light & breezy summer top is perfect for warm weather wear! Lemon Spritz is knit seamlessly in the round and is perfect for Adventurous Beginners and beyond. We’re knitting up a sample in our silk-linen blend, Damask, and meeting with Marie to chat about the KAL.


Important dates:

Pattern Pre-Orders begin Friday, May 26

Zoom chat with Marie Friday, June 2, 4pm eastern

Knit-along begins Friday, June 30 and runs through July!

Get all the details about this year’s 4 Day KAL, including yardage and sizing, on oliveknits.com.


About Damask

Damask is a flowing, lightweight blend of silk and linen, perfect for summer tops and accessories. The silk is sleek and smooth, punctuated by the less uniform linen fibers. The yarn has a 4-ply construction to create a balanced fabric. Like all yarns with this fiber content, Damask has very little memory or bounce, but excellent drape. We love the way it works up, getting softer as you go. We’re working on our own Lemon Spritz tee in Damask right now!


Our colorways will appear different on Damask than on our wool yarns - the dyes we use are only taken up by the silk, not the linen, giving the yarn a softly heathered appearance.

🍋🧶 We’ve got all the juicy details about this year’s 4 Day Knitalong! 🧶🍋


We're excited to invite you to a special Zoom event to meet best-selling author and designer Marie Greene of Olive Knits! Join us for a delightful hour with Marie, where she’ll share all about this year's highly anticipated 4 Day Knitalong featuring a zesty summer top. 🍋👚


Don't miss this amazing opportunity to get up close and personal with Marie, learn her tips and tricks, and discover what makes this breezy tee the ideal project for this year's knitalong. PLUS! We’ll share our perfect yarn for this year’s design! 🌟


Pour yourself a lemonade and join us! 

✨ Zoom Event Details ✨

🗓️ Date: Friday, June 2, 2023

⏰ Time: 4pm Eastern

💻 Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87255295472

Please register early so we can save you a seat!

MDSW Colorways



Did you miss out on this year’s special show colorways? We have a selection left in both Golden Anniversary and May Morning.

Golden Anniversary


We're celebrating the golden 50th anniversary of the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival with this soft rose gold with red and gold speckles. It's a perfect contrast for rich, warm jewel tones.

Shop Golden Anniversary

May Morning


May Morning evokes the freshness of soaring spring skies. Rich celestial blues shade to soft clouds, and each skein is speckled with deeper cobalt and ultramarine. 

Shop May Morning

Avon


Avon is one of our featured yarns for May - if you order from us this month you may receive a 10-yard sample of Avon to swatch with. Avon is a fine fingering weight blend of non-superwash Merino wool and silk, perfect for all kinds of accessories and shawls. We also love holding Avon together with mohair-silk Moonglow for a soft, lofty, fuzzy effect. Avon has a generous 490 yards per skein.

Shop Avon

Join us for a Studio Update live on Zoom today, Thursday, May 18, at 3pm Eastern! Join us as we recap Maryland Sheep & Wool, show off our featured yarns for May, discuss new samples, plus some exciting upcoming knit-alongs!


Register for the zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkc-qprDIrEtwj2AMPmguddKERNtJW_nSZ#/registration

Yarn & Chat tomorrow


Join us for a friendly Friday afternoon hang out. Knit, crochet, show off your latest project, ask some questions, meet new folks. This is open to anyone who’d like to join, just bring your project and maybe a snack and we’ll be there.


Alternate Fridays on Zoom, from 3-4:15 PM Eastern time. Click here to register for the Zoom.

Trunk Shows

Just a few more days!


Charlotte Yarn Trunk Show, May 12-21

We’re sending a selection of your favorites to Charlotte Yarn, including Yummy 2-Ply, Toes, Sets, and Mini Bundles; Yowza and Yowza Minis; Moonglow, Avon, Damask, and Katahdin.



James River Yarn Crawl, May 12-20

We’ve created a beautiful exclusive colorway for The Yarn Club in Virginia Beach, VA, called Little Blue Heron. Check out everything the James River Yarn Crawl has to offer! They’ve designed a new shawl pattern featuring Little Blue Heron, called In Flight, below.

New Designs in Miss Babs Yarns

A Question for You…

We know it’s way too early in the year, but we want to plan ahead. Would you be interested in a DK-weight Festive Set / Advent yarn calendar? For price and yardage considerations, we’d probably have to keep it to 12 mini skeins, but could do 25. Please give us your feedback!


We’re planning to put our Festive Sets on sale in late August.

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2023 Show Schedule

Here’s what’s up next!