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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Also a big fan of these two together!! Left to right: Julia on Worsted and Suri, Ora on Worsted and Suri

Four skeins of yarn on cream tablecloth. From left to right: two skeins that are teal and navy blended together, then two skeins that are a purpley magenta. The right skein of each pair is fluffy Suri yarn.

Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

From left to right: Ink & Blood and Weyward Cottage on DK, Heritage Way on Suri. I put these together for a The Snuggle is Real Cowl, but would make a great Doppio combo too!

Three skeins of yarn on a cream tablecloth. From left to right: a very dark purpley black with pops of navy, violet, and magenta. A pistachio green yarn with brown, gold, ruby, teal, and dark green speckles. A fluffy dark teal yarn.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Hi #knitsky! Today’s the last day to preorder from the Murder & Magic Collection! I’ll be closing it down around 10pm PST. I never really shared color combos over here on Bluesky - maybe I’ll add some of my personal favorites to the comments here?! 🧶💙 #knitting #crochet #handdyedyarn

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Our four most popular colorways for the Murder & Magic Collection! So far our most popular base has been Cosmic Sock, but Cameo DK is up there too. I love that it’s two of my books and two (well, three) of my moms books 🥲 🧶💙 #knitsky #knitting #crochet #handdyedyarn #indieyarn

A book and a skein of yarn are laying on top of several unwound hanks of yarn. The yarn is an orangey salmon pink. The book is Holly by Stephen King, and it has a Victorian house with an orangey sunset on the cover.

Two books and a skein of yarn lay on top of several unwound hanks of yarn. The books are Butcher & Blackbird and Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver. The covers have building silhouettes, skulls, knives, chainsaws, and a couple embracing. One book is hot magenta and black, and the other is bright turquoise and black. The yarn is similar - hot magenta and bright turquoise swirled together, covered in black speckles.

A book and a skein of yarn lay on top of unwound hanks of yarn. The book is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. The book has a scepter, a blue rose, brown thorns, an emerald snake, and icy blue drips of water. The yarn is light blue, and looks slightly like worn denim. It fades in and out of white blue and slate gray-blue.

A book and a skein of yarn lay on top of several unwound hanks of yarn. The book is Weyward by Emilia Hart. It is a pistachio green cover with a blue black raven and a lot of foliage and bugs all over. The yarn is pistachio green with brown, ruby, dark green, gold, and teal speckles.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🩵🩵🩵 I think people get so wrapped up in pattern theft/copyright that they forget that not everything has to be completely original. It’s very different to plagiarize than it is to create art that is similar to someone else’s art.

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Marly ✨ Little Wing Fibers @littlewingfibers.com · 11/02/2025

LOOK MA I’M IN A COOL PODCAST anyways pls give it a watch it’s a great time with some neurodivergent crafters ✨✨

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So anyways we will have like 8 of these plus quite a few others at Purlside in Hermiston, OR on Feb 22nd and 23rd!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We made these little cuties by using up some leftover dye from some of the Murder & Magic colorways - The Orbweaver, Righteous Rage, and The Light in the Window. We hate wasting dye so we save everything we can and then do fun experiments with whatever we have left!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Idk what it is, but I always feel like giving Bluesky more sneak peeks and behind the scenes stuff! We’re in the home stretch for prepping for Purlside Fiber Fest and we will be bringing OOAK minis to make DIY sock/mini sets! 🧶💙 #knitsky #handdyedyarn #knitting #crochet

A hand is holding a bushel of small mini-skeins of yarn that have a sunset look to them - they fade in and out of yellow-orange, orange, fuchsia, and magenta all up and down the skein. There is clearly lots of yarn mess in the blurry background.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Murder & Magic is LIVE!! You can shop the preorder on our site, or come visit us in a couple weeks at Purlside Fiber Fest! 🧶💙 #knitsky #handdyedyarn #knitting #crochet #tunisiancrochet

5 skeins of yarn lay on a cream tablecloth. From left to right, they are yellow, then green with brown/gold/teal/ruby speckles, then teal, then dark purple blended with black and blue, then salmony pink.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sometimes I wish I could truly see something I made through someone else’s eyes.. I always see every single error glaring out at me!! I know many others have said so, but your work is beautiful!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Finally got the website preview done - sorry it’s so late 😬 it at least gives anyone who wants it a chance to see the layout before the preorder goes live tomorrow at 2pm PST. I will need to take it down around 1pm to get the listings updated, though! 🧶💙 #knitsky #knitting #crochet #handdyedyarn

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The preorder goes live tomorrow afternoon, but we will also be donating from our sales at Purlside Fiber Fest later this month! We will update you on the donation amount and post for accountability - that will be likely be in the week after we get back from Purlside! 🩵 Kristen and Sari

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

…because let’s be real, we don’t make a profit yet 😅 we are just a wee baby business! We hope to someday be able to increase our donation amounts, but again, we are resisting the helplessness and just want to start where we can.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Spectrum has specifically helped our family, so they had already been high on our list. As for our donation amount, we went back and forth a lot on how to go about it - a dollar amount per skein? A perfect of profit? We settled on a smaller percentage of total sales.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

When we started Apple Blossom Yarn, we knew that we wanted to make it a priority to donate to local organizations. We started feeling overwhelmed and almost paralyzed with deciding what causes to try to help support - but that is how they want us to feel. So we just chose!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

From Spectrum, continued: Spectrum’s Gender Affirming Products Program (GAPP) has assisted over 300 clients through the legal name change process and provided over 700 individuals with gender-affirming products and services.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

From Spectrum: Spectrum’s mission is to create a safe, intersectional, intergenerational, 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual) community through social connectedness, support, arts and culture, access to resources, and education.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We are excited to announce that 5% of total sales of the Murder & Magic collection will be donated to a local organization very near to our hearts: Spectrum Center! More details about Spectrum’s mission below! @spectrumcenter.bsky.social 💙🧶 #knitsky #knitting #indiedyedyarn #yarn #crochet

A graphic with a maroon background has two logos - Murder & Magic, with swirly lines, moons, and sparkles; and Spectrum Center, with a large pink triangle and large black triangle overlapping to a smaller purple triangle in the middle. The text reads: We are incredibly excited to announce that 5% of total sales of the Murder & Magic collection will be donated to a local organization very near to our hearts: Spectrum Center! More details about Spectrum’s mission below!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thank you!! We’ve had so much fun putting it together and we hope to do a similar collection every year 😊

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The listing photos are what you should reference for the MOST COLOR ACCURACY, but please also remember that all screens are different and colors can vary in different settings/lighting 🩵 Thanks for reading!!! Again, let us know if you have any questions 🩵🥰

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are photographing the whole collection across the bases, it’s just taking a while to make sure all the pictures are as color accurate as possible! As soon as that’s done, we will open up a website preview so you can take a look before Sunday.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Sock Sets! We are offering DIY Sock Sets, so mix and match to your hearts content! You will be able to choose ANY color for the 100g skein, and then choose from the 4 tonals for the mini (Ora, Heritage Way, The Light in the Window, Finders Keepers). Sock sets will be in their own separate listing.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are offering 4 bases: Cosmic Sock, Cameo DK, Cameo Worsted, and Aurora Suri Lace. All our base info is on our site and it is also featured in every single listing to help make things easy for you!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The initial preorders would dye and ship first, followed by the second batch. We never want you to have to panic buy or rush, so hopefully this will allow everyone plenty of time to purchase thoughtfully 🩵

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Orders will ship on or before March 17th. If we exceed our capacity fairly quickly, we will close the initial preorder and reopen a for a second round, with a longer turnaround time (likely would ship by April 17th, but we will announce an official date if the time comes).

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Preorder opens on our website this Sunday (Feb. 9th) at 2pm PST. It should be open all week! Turnaround time is 5 weeks.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Murder & Magic housekeeping details! I think I’ll just add all the info to the comments. Let us know if you have any questions!

A graphic that says “Murder & Magic preorder details!” There are swirly lines and moons as well as some magical sparkles around the “Murder & Magic” text.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We interrupt Murder & Magic programming to bring you BEBE ELEPHANT 😭😭😭😭

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The information about the ply of sock yarn is so interesting!! Thank you for putting this together!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I think the bottom two are my favorite but they are all sooo beautiful and unique!!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Sorry, previous link was weird. Trying again! We will have a preorder for these colors and this base on our website starting February 9th at 2pm PST! www.appleblossomyarn.com And if you’re in the PNW, we will be at Purlside Fiber Fest in Hermiston, OR on February 22nd and 23rd with these as well 🥰

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I posted this over on the other app but it’s kinda cute so I wanted to share it here too 🥰 we’ve added suri to our lineup!! 75% baby Suri alpaca, 25% mulberry silk. 459 (!!!!) yards per 50g skein! 🧶💙 #knitsky #crochet #yarn #indiedyedyarn

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cameo DK (4 ply): 100% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool. 246 yards per 100 grams. Cameo Worsted (4 ply): 100% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool. 219 yards per 100 grams.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Aurora Suri Lace (1 ply): 75% Baby Suri Alpaca, 25% Mulberry Silk. 459 yards per 50 grams. Cosmic Sock (4 ply): 90% Extrafine Superwash Merino Wool, 10% Nylon. 437 yards per 100 grams.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Bluesky limits how many photos I can post, so we are just gonna share some fun ones of the different bases for this collection! I’ll try to get a website preview up soon so that you can browse the different options. See the comments for the 4 bases we will have for this collection! 🧶💙 #knitsky

11 books with spine up, surrounded by yarn

Several skeins of yarn with books in the background

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Ugh thank you!!! I love enabling people to add to their TBRs 😇

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is the final colorway reveal for Murder & Magic!! We hope you enjoy our interpretations of these books, and maybe you’ve found your next read for this year?! Stay tuned to see these colors across all our bases. Thank you for all your likes, comments, and shares - they mean so much to us!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I wanted it to be black, but not too dark; I wanted the blue to shine through to represent Ink; and I wanted the purple to lean more red to represent Blood. This was harder than I thought it would be! I’m so happy with our final results and that all that hard work and trialing paid off!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Ink & Blood is a purple leaning black, blended with plum and navy. Occasionally, the plum and navy mix for a more violet purple as well. This colorway took us the most tries to get exactly right.

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As soon as I saw this book in one of my favorite local bookstores, I knew I had to read it! It’s about a library full of magical books that needs protecting at all costs. I loved pretty much everything about this story and I know I’ll be keeping an eye out for more from Emma Törzs!

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Kristen & Sari 🌸 Apple Blossom Yarn @appleblossomyarn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Ink & Blood” Based on: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs Read by: Sari, July 2024 More details in comments! 💙🧶 Murder & Magic - open for preorder on February 9th at 2pm PST!

Three skeins of yarn and a book lay on a cream tablecloth. The yarn is very dark purple blended with plum, violet, and navy. The book is “Ink Blood Sister Scribe” by Emma Torzs. It is a black background with a light blue plant that has partially turned into a fountain pen pointing straight down and dripping ink onto an open purple book. The book page trails away and swirls all around the cover.

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