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Weird dark bookish yarn colors dyed by a former librarian 🧶📖 exlibrisfibers.myflodesk.com/signup

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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 26/02/2026
Five heavily-speckled hues inspired by concepts and characters from Frankenstein are the newest addition to the Ex Libris Fibers color library!
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Collection Highlight: Frankenstein
Speckled indie dyed yarn inspired by characters and concepts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 23/02/2026
sorta-Spring events, coming your way! 3/6 - RCYC Trunk Show at Weird Sisters @weirdsistersyarn.bsky.social Apr. 11-12 - YarnCon @yarncon.bsky.social Apr. 25-26 - Salem Fiber Witch Festival @fiberwitchfestival.bsky.social (tix on sale!) 5/1 - Yarncentrick @yarncentrick.bsky.social (tix on sale!)
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween 🦇 the full reveal for Victorian Ghosts is up! exlibrisfibers.com/blogs/margin...
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Victorian Ghosts Countdown Reveal: October 31
The final reveal of the Victorian Ghosts countdown! And more... October 31 On October 31 we read The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly by Rosa Mulholland, a thrilling little tale full of haunting imager...
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 24/10/2025
Counting yarn and unpacking this week - event leftovers will go live Saturday morning! exlibrisfibers.myflodesk.com/signup if you'd like a nudge in your inbox
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Notes from the Underground
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 22/10/2025
Reveals for the first three mini skeins in the Victorian Ghost Stories countdown are up on the blog! exlibrisfibers.com/blogs/margin...
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Victorian Ghosts Countdown Reveal: Oct. 19-21
We're counting down to October 31 with ghost stories and yarn! The Victorian Ghost Stories mini skein countdown was available for preorder in June 2025 and includes 12 mini skeins, each inspired by a ...
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 15/10/2025
Friday: You, me, bookish yarn, Hudson Valley! Indie Untangled is almost here and there‘s so much to see in the Ex Libris booth. Here’s a preview. exlibrisfibers.com/blogs/margin... #indieuntangled
Edgar Allan Poe mini skein sets of indie dyed yarn
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 24/09/2025
lots lots lots lots 🫠 and more lots happening behind the scenes for Indie Untangled in October!! A few new Poe colors on a new U.S. worsted base🕯️ and event exclusive Ursula K. Le Guin color 🌲 on two yak bases(!) Indie Untangled tickets: shop.indieuntangled.com/collections/...
Moody autumnal worsted weight indie dyed yarn inspired by Edgar Allen Poe.Midnight blue and green and lilac indie dyed yarn inspired by The Word for World is Forest
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 24/09/2025
very excited to bring Ex Libris Fibers back to Nash Yarn Fest in 2026! April 17 + 18, 2026⁠📍The Fairgrounds Nashville 90+ vendors and a happy horde of fellow knitters and crocheters 🧶 Tickets are available now! www.nashyarnfest.com/pages/tickets
Nash Yarn Fest 2026 Tickets on sale now at www.nashyarnfest.com text shown among colorful ticket illustrations
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 19/09/2025
Also of note if you preordered Victorian Ghosts Halloween Countdown: they're shipping soon & they're so good!! Please let me know if you have had an address change since June 💌 exlibrisfibers.com/blogs/margin...
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Victorian Ghosts Shipping Information
If you pre-ordered the Victorian Ghosts Halloween countdown, it's almost time!! Your haunted yarn has been materializing all summer, and your countdown box will be ready to ship this month. Have you m...
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 19/09/2025
You should come to the Bottlerocket Bookfair tomorrow in Pittsburgh and/or Knitter's Day Out next weekend, because I'm bringing this exclusive, Arsenic in the Blackberries. She's very pretty.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 30/08/2025
The yarn is back! Just uploaded so so much to the online shop - sock, yak sock, & DK in some swoon-worthy bookish colors exlibrisfibers.com/collections/... #indiedyedyarn #booksandyarn
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August Restock
The yarn is home! A post-summer event restock awaits with much superwash DK, Yak Sock, and Sock!
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 22/08/2025
Deep in dyepots this summer 😮‍💨 but taking a little above-ground break for book & craft supply swap (& few skeins for sale) tomorrow in Pittsburgh @ Greenfield yard sale! Bring usable books/craft stuff to swap or just come browse if your shelves/stash are in need exlibrisfibers.com/blogs/margin...
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Book & Craft Supply Swap
Have you got books that could use fresh eyes or craft supplies in usable condition that you'd love to swap out for new stories? Bring them on over to the Ex Libris Fibers tent on Coleman Street during...
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 03/08/2025
Pop up today at Yarn Bits and Bobs in Pittsburgh, 11-5! A moody autumnal crawl-exclusive shop color awaits in shop & I’ll be bringing lots of new and old favs on sock, dk, yak sock 🖤 #steelvalleyyarncrawl #indiedyedyarn #yarnbitsandbobs #pittsburghyarn #yarnseason
Yarn Bits and Bobs exclusive color Yellowjackets in superwash DK merino by Ex Libris FibersThe Picture of Dorian Gray indie dyed yarn color by Ex Libris Fibers
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bojomc.bsky.social @bojomc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@exlibrisfibers.com Finally got my shrug in Where the Wild Things Are completed and ready to wear!
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 23/07/2025
Steamy dye pan summer continues with a vengeance! 🔥 Lots of bookish yarn happenings upcoming for the Heartland Yarn Adventure & Steel Valley Yarn Crawl: exlibrisfibers.com/pages/upcomi...
Ex Libris Fibers summer events graphic. See full listing at https://exlibrisfibers.com/pages/upcoming-events
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 12/07/2025
Apologies for being terrible at the internet! Getting lots ready for various yarn crawls, Victorian Ghosts...and an online restock tomorrow for you! 😘
black and red indie dyed yarn on a drying rack. The colors are Mina Murray and Aniline Black.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 01/07/2025
Preorders for next round of Indelible, a limited banned book yarn of the month-or-so, are open through July 5! Inspired by Fun Home; mood board in link (or preview in listing if you’re not into mystery yarn) #bannedbookyarn #funhome #yarnofthemonth #booksandyarn exlibrisfibers.com/products/pre...
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PREORDER -- Indelible: Fun Home
The Indelible Collection is a series of indie dyed yarn colors inspired by banned & challenged books.
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Terry Matz @terrymatz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Happy Birthday to M. C. Escher born on June 17, 1898. Also commemorated as World Tessellation Day in honor of Escher's iconic tiling and morphing art. 🧶 Celebrate with knitting patterns inspired by Escher's artwork like these on my Escher knitting post intheloopknitting.com/escher-knitt...
Collage of knitting projects: Two people holding a knit blanket of tessellated seahorses. A closeup detail of On the Shore Blanket
inspired by Escher's art of interlocking tortoises, ducks, and fish. Woman wearing a sweater of tessellated cats in black and white. A sweater inspired by M. C. Escher’s woodcut Sky and Water I of fish morphing into birds. One Fish, Two Fish Socks with a tessellating fish pattern in blue and red. Sweater of interlocking graphic ducks in various colors.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
AI is not useful.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 15/06/2025
*insert your Type O Negative soundtrack of choice*
Emerald and black indie dyed yarn damp on a drying rack. Colors are Ex Libris Fibers The Green Lion and Aniline Black shown on yak sock, sock, and dk bases.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 13/06/2025
A friend who doesn't use social media shared their finished project using The Catcher in the Rye color! (pattern info in alt text & yarn info in 2nd image)
A close up view of a finished Storm Shawl, a lacy knit shawl pattern by Joji Locatelli, knit up in Ex Libris Fibers limited banned book fundraiser color inspired by The Catcher in the RyeA skein of dramatic dark red and paper colored yarn with black speckles sits next to a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Part of Ex Libris Fibers Indelible monthly limited color fundraising yarn series; a percentage of sales benefit ALA's Unite Against Book Bans & the Queer Liberation Library
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 10/06/2025
Victorian Ghosts is this year's mini skein Halloween countdown, with a ghost story reading list to enjoy 13 spookiest days to Halloween through yarn & haunting tales 👻 Preorders are open today & box ships late September! exlibrisfibers.com/products/pre...
Ex Libris Fibers Victorian Ghosts Halloween Countdown: An Autumnal Yarn & Reading Tradition. Text over a Victorian ghost story illustration and ornate details mimicking a Victorian book cover.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 10/06/2025
@weirdsistersyarn.bsky.social and @tworiversbooks.bsky.social are hosting a Banned Book Challenge and ALA fundraiser this summer, starts June 15! We came up with 2 exclusive mini sets inspired by Banned Books to stitch with while you read: tworiversweirdsisters.com/products/ex-...
Moody mini skeins inspired by the covers of 5 classic banned booksA rainbow of mini skeins inspired by the covers of five contemporary banned books
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 05/06/2025
The tuxedo boss and I have been getting lots of stuff ready for Saturday at Fayette County Fiber Festival! More ice dyed totes, Dorian Gray & Dorian deconstructed, and lots and lots of bookish mood for your stitches
A small tuxedo cat defiantly rests on a pile of ice dyed tote bags that need to be ironedYarn skeins and sets inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray damp on a drying rack in a dark basementPromo graphic for the Fayette Coutny Fiber Festival showing text Saturday June 7 Fayette County Fairgrounds, Dunbar PA sponsored by Youghigheny Yarns. 10 AM - 4PM https://fayettecofiberfestival.weebly.com/Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are rumpus pages open on top of matching indie dyed yarn
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 05/06/2025
“The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time.” - Dracula, Bram Stoker …though these colors will also live on, preorders for any Undead color (on multiple yarn base options!) close end of Sunday June 8 exlibrisfibers.com/products/pre... #indiedyedyarn #draculayarn #gothyarn
Graphic with text showing vintage bats in belfry illustration and nine indie dyed yarn colors inspired by vampires. Text: ex Libris Fibers Undead, Nine Colors inspired by classic literary vampires. Preorders open through June 8. Www.exlibrisfibers.com
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 30/05/2025
Very excited tomorrow to bring Ex Libris back to the library for the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival! Find a few good bookish yarns & totes & stickers under the vendor tent 📚 The book festival is free & full of amazing author talks & more, all held at the best historic library building in the city
Ice dyed Bury Me in Books and Yarn tote bags illustrated and dyed by a human, RitaInfographic for the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival, May 31 2025 at Carnegie Library
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 24/05/2025
Bringing a very Maurice Sendak mood to a few Pgh area events in the next few weeks 🧌🌴
Dark variegated earth tone indie dyed yarn hangs to dry in a dark basement workspace
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 07/05/2025
“Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?“ - Angela Carter, who would have turned 85 today
A person holds a paperback copy of Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, trees in background, while in a forest during a quick break from windowless basement work
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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social @meerbuschknitter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Update! I've reached the point on this yoke where every row takes forever. I'm having fun with it though. 🧶 #knitting #dansemacabre
Knitted sweater yoke with dancing skeleton motif
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 07/05/2025
The yarn guardian. #tuxedocats #catsky #catsandyarn #wipwednesday #catswhoknit
Small black and white tuxedo cat sits next to eight wound mini cakes of indie dyed yarn and a set of wooden circular needles. On top of the cat is a handknit blanket, also small.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 03/05/2025
Fresh off the needles is an AquamarLite just in time for #showmeyourknits DK week! One wear in and it already feels like a favorite 💘
A blue and black handknit sweater with puff sleeves is flat on a white duvet in artificial lighting. A person smiles in front of a wall of yarn and wears a handknit sweater with puff sleeves, faded top to bottom in three indie dyed yarn colors (Ex Libris This Insufferable Darkness, Timewalker, and Hangsaman)
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 01/05/2025
Almost time to invite Dracula into your inbox: draculadaily.substack.com
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Dracula Daily | DraculaDaily | Substack
Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. Click to read Dracula Daily, by DraculaDaily, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 28/04/2025
"One more time for the folks in the back: it’s not about the books." The latest roundup of book censorship news courtesy of Book Riot. bookriot.com/operation-ca...
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Operation Caged Bird Seeks to Unban Books from Naval Academy: Book Censorship News, April 25, 2025
Old Fox Books in Maryland is offering books banned from the Naval Academy to Midshipmen free of charge. Plus, more book censorship news.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 29/04/2025
Little bouquet for your Tuesday morning 💐 Wuthering Heights is a regular and so is Renfield, but the middle kid below (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) is just for #yarncentrick on Friday 🧶 can’t wait! #yarn #indiedyedyarn #yarnbouquet #springknitting #springcrochet
Three indie dyed DK weight yarn hanks in moody spring colors, held in front of a shelf of old books.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 28/04/2025
It’s dark & spooky underground this week 🦇🩶 Taltos, Dark Alchemy, Haunting of Hill House, Dollanganger, & Fin de Siècle mini sets getting ready for Friday at Yarncentrick! 🧶 @yarncentrick.bsky.social #yarndyer #miniskeins #gothyarn #bookinspired #yarncentrick #yarninspiration #workspace #knitsky
Mini skeins in darker book-inspired colors hanging to dry in a dark basement
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 27/04/2025
Good morning ☕️ One last round of minis for yarncentrick (& working on some wholesale!) #handmade #yarndyeing #weekendplans #workspace #makersgonnamake #yarnlove 🧶
A giant skully mug of coffee is held, ready to face a dutiful row of yarn dye pans, in a basement workshop whose walls are gently and unintentionally decorated with dye drips
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Annalisa @travelinglawmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Sadly, I no longer have a local yarn store, but absolutely have some favorite indie dyers. Here are two of them together in a lovely, but as of yet unblocked, Doppio Sweater. @desertpandafiber.bsky.social @exlibrisfibers.com #knitsky #showmeyourknits #knitting🧶 #handdyedyarn #indiedyedyarn
Three cakes of yarn held in someone’s left hand. The top cake is purple and is stacked on top of a moody green cake, which is stacked on top of a grey blue cake of yarn.A marled purple, green, and blue sweater hangs on a bookshelf.A close up view of the right front shoulder of the purple, green, and blue marled sweater showing the halo from the mohair strand of yarn.
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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 25/04/2025
Since tomorrow is #IndependentBookstoreDay in the US & Canada, it's a good time to check out these two Starter Packs of #IndieBookstores. Give them a follow or, better yet, make a purchase from one or more. Help them survive & thrive. go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm go.bsky.app/9bTR428
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 26/04/2025
🌙 “Beneath the trees it was not dark as a room is dark when the lights are put out, the artificial darkness which comes when an artificial light is gone; it was the deep natural darkness which comes with a forsaking of natural light.” - Shirley Jackson #yarn #shirleyjackson #knitting #crochet 🧶
A twisted hank of Hangsaman indie dyed yarn color by Ex Libris Fibers held up in front of several untwisted hanks of the same color hanging on drying racks in an ill-lit basement. The yarn is dyed in a variegated and subtly shifting blend of black, dark magenta, bright aqua, and absinthe green.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 26/04/2025
Subtle color shifts make this sweater hard to stop knitting, and it’s bringing so much satisfaction to see the yarns morph together as it works up 🧶 & pattern in alt text #knitsky #knitting #sweaterknitting #aquamarlite #kniturday #yarncraft #knithappy
Two sleeves and a partial body are shown laying flat on a wooden table. Each is still on circular needles. The sweater pattern is AquamarLite by Park Williams using indie dyed yarn from Ex Libris Fibers in horror-inspired colors Hangsaman (black variegated), Timewalker (dark blue) and This Insufferable Darkness (bright blue)
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Radnor school board votes to restore banned books including Gender Queer after impassioned pleas from community members to reject censorship and support LGBTQ students. www.inquirer.com/education/ra...
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Radnor school board votes to restore ‘Gender Queer’ and two other banned books to library
The board voted to return 'Gender Queer,' 'Fun Home,' and 'Blankets' to the Radnor High School library, reversing a committee's decision that the books weren't age appropriate.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 25/04/2025
“I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!” - Jane Austen + Seth Grahame-Smith Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 🧟🪻find it at @yarncentrick.bsky.social next week! #yarncentrick #indiedyedyarn #yarnsky
A deep violet indie dyed yarn with darker accents of forest green, gray, and red-violet. Shown flat and twisted in hanks with Ex Libris Fibers wraps, next to a red hardcover copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 24/04/2025
#yarncentrick dye fest continues! 💜 🧶 ♾️ See you next week at @yarncentrick.bsky.social ? & promise I’m more awake than previous post before tackling the rest of today’s agenda ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ but readily accepting any good audiobook recs ya got!
A plethora of nearly-dry yarn, hand dyed yesterday, hangs on two very full drying racks in a disgusting yet functional basement workspace.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 24/04/2025
She doesn’t know what day it is (and frankly neither do really) I so let’s make it #FrankieFriday 🐈‍⬛ #catsofbluesky #tuxedocats #catsandknitting
A ridiculously small black and white tuxedo cat is wrapped up in a knitted blanket and stares intently at the camera
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 23/04/2025
Defying the “year of sad beige,” green has been flying out of the pans this spring 💚🌱🧌🐍📗 L to R: The Green Lion, Ashmole 782, Renfield, Lord Ruthven 🧶 #yarnlove #greenyarn #sockyarn
Five twisted hanks of varying green indie dyed yarns lie on top of more green yarn in front of a green book.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 22/04/2025
Lots of double dye shifts, basement drear, & an ill-timed equipment failure this month 😮‍💨 staying sane by working on an Aquamarlite in daylight when I can! #knitsky #knitting #aquamarlite #sweaterknitting
Two sweater sleeves being knit on one circular needle. The yarn fades from a variegated black and neon cool tones, to dark then light speckled blues. Ex Libris Fibers colors, from top to bottom: Hangsaman (forthcoming, inspired by Shirley Jackson), Timewalker (inspired by Discovery of Witches), and This Insufferable Darkness (inspired by Nosferatu); Carson base superwash DK Merino wool
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 22/04/2025
Happy Tuesday to you from The Little Prince 💫 + Iron Gall Ink 🩶 #knitsky #yarn #yarndyeing
Damp indie dyed yarn in sock, yak sock, and dk weights, on a drying rack in a poorly lit basement. the color on top is a variegated pink with spring pops and the color on the bottom is a cool blue-gray.
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 19/04/2025
last month’s limited banned book color inspired by The Bell Jar is en route! The next banned book yarn is up for preorder today through April 26
A monochrome image of a hand holding indie dyed speckled sock yarn inspired by The Bell Jar with Ex Libris Fibers labels
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 19/04/2025
Good morning ☕️🧶 #yarnsky #yarndyer
Two full drying racks strewn with colorful indie dyed yarn in a dull and dark basement
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Ex Libris Fibers @exlibrisfibers.com · 18/04/2025
Frankie asked if we could revive #FrankieFriday and since there’s a nice knit blanket and a feed-cleansing sunrise involved…let’s do it. #kitting #catknits #tuxedocats
The smallest black and white tuxedo cat naps on a heated blanket while covered in a knit blanket. In the background the sun rises outside while spring green begins to pop on bare trees.
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