knitting

Stitch Exchange: Interview with Gudrun Johnston

Our fourth and final designer interview for the upcoming year of our Pro-Verbial Club is with Gudrun Johnston! Gudrun is from the Shetland Islands, where her mother ran a knitwear design company c...

Stitch Exchange: Interview with Grace Anna Farrow

Our third designer interview for the upcoming year of our Pro-Verbial Club is with Grace Anna Farrow! You probably know Grace from her strong sense of geometry and the bold lines of her designs. S...

Stitch Exchange: Interview with Susanna IC!

Our second designer interview for the upcoming year of our Pro-Verbial Club is with Susanna IC!  Beginning her training as a visual artist and art historian, Susanna is now a prolific knitwear des...
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Stitch Exchange: Interview with Andrea Rangel

Hi everyone! As you probably know, our Pro-Verbial Yarn & Fiber Club is just starting out on its fifth year! Sign-ups are currently open, and we would love for you to join us. Click here to re...
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Stitch Exchange: Pro-Verbial Yarn & Fiber Club Year 5!

What a wonderful year it's been! This year in Pro-Verbial we've had four beautiful patterns, lots of marvelous yarn and fiber, and tons of knitting and spinning! We've seen lace, beads, beautiful...
dyeing

Up and Coming: Special Verb Colors for S&S!

In our last blog post about the upcoming Stephen & Steven Tour 2014, you got to see all the exclusive color ways that are arriving at the shop in time for Stephen and Steven's visit THIS WEEK...
knitting

Up and Coming: Stephen & Steven Tour 2014 Extravaganza!

Get ready for the event of the summer -- the Stephen and Steven Tour 2014! Stephen West of Westknits and Steven Berg of StevenBe are coming to Verb on June 28th and 29th, to teach a variety of f...

Blooming Cosmos! Dye Garden Update

Welcome back! This week we have some fun news to report in the dye garden. This week the maroon cosmos and orange coreopsis started to bloom. One of the Hopi black dye sunflowers is getting very...

Stitch Exchange: DIY Weaving with HonestlyWTF

If you're an avid reader of the blog honestlyWTF, you've likely seen this tutorial about making your own DIY Woven Wall Hanging.  And if you didn't see it there, I'm sure you've been seeing simila...
dye garden

The Dye Garden - Garden Update

Happy Summer!Here in Northern California our weather has been warm and sunny.  This means a lot of exciting news around the garden.  Let's take a tour and see what is growing right now on our bac...
Stitch Exchange

Stitch Exchange: Cloth by Cassandra Ellis

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful" - William Morris This quote at the beginning of Cassanda Ellis' new book sets the tone for the majestic...
knitting

Stitch Exchange: Eiregal, a new shawl from Designs by Romi

Romi has just released a new shawl pattern, using our Floating yarn! Meet Eiregal, an elegant lacy shawl with a beautiful leaf motif and picot bind off. Eiregal uses one skein of Floating, our l...