Hi Everyone, I have some news. I’ve decided to step back a bit from the dye pots for a little while and possibly longer. When I started my journey with fiber and dyeing, I did so as a means of creative expression and even as a meditation on color. It has helped me spiritually, emotionally, and mentally in so many ways. However, recently, with a [...]
Many of you have probably heard about the AMAZING Staci Perry of VeryPink.com. Well, Staci has a special place in my heart. She is the person who taught me how to knit! Staci’s patterns and video tutorials are some the best available and the easiest for me to work with. I am always going to VeryPink.com when I need to learn a new technique or am [...]
I am so excited to share two very cool things that have happened to me this past weekend. First, a month or two ago, I heard about a very cool project by the amazing Kyle Kunnecke featuring male fiber artists in the United States called FiberGuys. I decided to apply to participate and am so excited to have been selected as the representative for Texas. [...]
Well, since we made the decision to return to more of a yarn studio, we’ve been having a blast playing with colors that have not been in our catalog. Whether it’s playing with some eye-popping shades of pink or the muted nature of grays, Ty and I have been allowing the world of color to expand a little more for our yarns than normal. And [...]
Well, it’s been a long time since my last post, and there is a LOT to update y’all on. First of all, we’ve decided to take White Bear Fibers in a slightly different direction in 2012. Our focus is going to be more on creating a “hand dyed yarn art studio.” I would love for White Bear to be hugely successful, but not at the [...]
We are excited to have our yarns featured at Texas’ premier fiber festival Kid ‘n Ewe (and Llamas too) 2011 in Boerne, Texas November 11 ,12 and 13. We’ve dyed up some of our most colorful yarns and joined up with the amazing Wendy and Susan of The Tinsmith’s Wife (to whom we are very grateful) to bring you some very special limited edition fibers [...]
We are proud to announce White Bear Fibers is now available in Houston exclusively at Kitting in the Loop. We had a great visit last month with Judy and her team and are excited to have our yarn available in such a fantastic location. We also have scheduled a Dye Your Own Workshop for Saturday, December 3, 2011 at Knitting in the Loop, so if you [...]
White Bear Fibers is excited to announce a special edition yarn that is making its debut at the 5th Annual Hill Country Yarn Crawl, October 7th – 10th, exclusively at GAUGE KNITS in Austin. This luxuriously soft 100% local alpaca arrives from our friends at Bluebonnet Hills Alpaca Ranch in Navasota, Texas. We dyed up skeins just for this weekend, and are really proud of [...]
We are so excited to finally announce a very unique project we were asked to work on with the amazing team at Edwards + Mulhausen Interior Design. The Austin Museum of Art in conjunction with the current Herman Miller Good Design Exhibition are holding a Good Design Contest that invited Designers to take a Herman Miller Eames Chair and turn it into a Piece of [...]
Recently I was looking for a pattern to use for a sample project to leave at Gauge in Austin. I wanted something that would really show off the drape and silkiness of the Southern and Northern Silk Sock yarns. I found a pattern called “Fracture” by an amazing UK-based designer named Paulina Popiolek, or PaulinaP on Ravelry. I absolutely fell in love with this pattern [...]
Today is a very exciting day for us at White Bear Fibers! Earlier today, we took the first 27 skeins of White Bear Fibers yarn to one of our all time favorite stores, The Tinsmith’s Wife in Comfort, TX. This warm and welcoming store is like what I imagine a store would be like in Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley. This store is floor to very [...]
Peace and Fiber is more than just a tagline for White Bear Fibers. It’s also at our core what we’re really about. We want our yarns to be more than just fantastic fibers for you to work with. We want the colors and their symbolism to have a deeper impact on you adding a soulful dimension to your work. For us, it’s about adding the [...]
Welcome to the Online Home of White Bear Fibers! We’re honored that you’ve come for a visit. Our hope is that our yarns and colorways will inspire you creatively and speak to you soulfully. We began White Bear Fibers on 01/01/11 and the love we’ve experienced from all of you out there has just been amazing! Although we’ll always be on Facebook and Ravelry, this [...]