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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 07/08/2025

It’s tomato season! 🍅 Meet April’s Heirloom Club colorway, Purple Tomato, and its new coordinating tonal, Sweet Pea. Both beauties will be available to preorder on Aug 16 at 4pm MT when our Q2 preorder for the Heirloom Club goes live. #yarn #handdyedyarn #indiedyer

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 18/07/2025

Color Corner: a daily dash of inspiration pulled straight from our in stock yarns. Today’s combo is Billy the Kid + Clyde + Rio Grande del Norte + Valles Caldera #handdyedyarn #indiedyer #fiberart #knitting #crochet

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 16/07/2025

Color Corner: your daily dash of inspiration pulled straight from our in stock yarns! Today’s color corner inspiration is Gentleman Pirate + Hot House + Beauty Queen #handdyedyarn #indiedyer #yarn #knitting #crochet #fiberartist

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 19/05/2025

We’re kicking off colorway reveals for the Tropical Collection with Rum Runner. It features swirls of mango, coral, and fuchsia with speckles of aqua, neon purple, and bright orange.

RUM RUNNER

1 1/2 ounces dark rum
1 ounce banana liqueur
1 ounce blackberry liqueur (like crème de cassis or Chambord)
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
1/2 ounce grenadine
Cocktail cherry and pineapple wedge, for garnish

Each of the variegated colorways in the collection takes inspiration from a classic tiki cocktail. RUM RUNNER features swirls of mango orange, bright coral, and fuchsia pink with speckles of aqua blue, bold purple, and fluorescent orange. Does anything sound more delicious to enjoy while swinging in a hammock, watching the sunset over the ocean?

The Tropical Collection preorder launches on June 14 at 4pm MT. This collection will have a 10-12 week turnaround time.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 02/05/2025

A Whole New World, inspired by the song from Disney’s Aladdin, on Shaniko Silk and Corriedale. It might not actually be my favorite song from Aladdin (hello, Friend Like Me!) but I couldn’t resist these colors. 😍 Coming May 10. #handdyedfiber #spinnersofbluesky

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 01/05/2025

Our next Disney song inspired colorway is Colors of the Wind. It features repeating shades of sunflower yellow, rich gold, teal green, lilac, and deep eggplant that capture the hues that swirl through the air around Pocahontas during the song. #spinnersofbluesky #handdyedfiber

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 30/04/2025

Guesses at which Disney song our next colorway is inspired by? 👀 #handdyedfiber #spinnersofbluesky

Two coiled braids of fiber lie on in the corner on top of white cotton cloth next two a stretch of handdyed fiber in the hues of eggplant, lilac, teal, sunflower yellow, and gold.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 28/04/2025

Disney songs + creating new colorways in the dye pans have been my go to escape from reality lately. So I’ve combined the two to make some new hand dyed fiber inspired by some of my favorite Disney songs. Coming to the shop 5/10. #spinning #handdyedfiber

You may have noticed my (not so subtle) hints having to do with some of my favorite songs from Disney soundtracks and lots and lots of fiber. 🎶🤭 I’ve had the idea to do something like a Disney’s Sing-a-long collection for awhile now, but lately I’ve been finding myself randomly turning on my Disney songs playlist as a way to escape reality and the never ending chaos of today’s news cycle. Combining that happy place with the creative outlet of dyeing fiber has brought me comfort and fulfillment over the last several weeks and it’s a habit I hope I can keep up whenever I have some spare time & fiber in the studio.

So let me introduce our first batch of fiber inspired by some of my favorite Disney songs! I hope they can bring a little bit of joy and magic to you, just as they have for me. ✨

The first song I absolutely knew I wanted to dye a colorway for was UNDER THE SEA from The Little Mermaid. That soundtrack was truly the hardest to narrow down to just one song. The whole thing is just jammed full of my favorites, but the scene and the song are just so colorful and upbeat that I could immediately imagine the colorway I wanted to create.

Our Disney inspired fiber will be available May 10 at 4pm MT. These braids are ready to ship, but our inventory will be limited in this first drop as we gauge interest in this idea.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 23/04/2025

Have you seen the Heirloom 🍅 sock sets that have sprouted in the shop?! 🧶 #handdyedyarn #indiedyedyarn

Three hand-dyed skeins of yarn with coordinating mini skeins sit on a wooden serving board surrounded by different varieties and colors of ripe tomatoes and fresh basil. Each set of yarn is inspired by a different variety of tomato and is the perfect way to make tomato-inspired socks, a hat, a cowl, or a small shawl. The Heirloom sock sets are now available for preorder at longdogyarn.com.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 21/04/2025

Our Heirloom Q1 preorder is now open through the end of the week! This is you chance to grab your favorite colorway from the first quarter of our tomato-inspired yarn club. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn #handdyedyarn

Six skeins of hand dyed yarn in colors ranging from rich purple and ruby, warm gold and coral, and leafy green sit on a black marbled background surrounded by fresh tomatoes and basil. These tomato inspired yarns are now available to preorder through the end of the week from longdogyarn.com.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 13/04/2025

We’re keeping the tomato theme rolling over here with the reveal of our May Heirloom 🍅 Club inspiration: Queen of the Night. Club sign-ups open on April 15.

Five small tomato graphics that fade from peach to deep plum sit in a background of a photo of the Queen of the Night tomato. The tomato is shades of peach, coral, and plum purple. Openings for this mystery yarn club are available for one week starting on April 15. Clubs ship by the end of May.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 11/04/2025

I'm going ahead and calling it: this is my color of the summer. Hot House is a rich, fiery, coral red. Am I becoming an orange-red person?! I want to make all the summer tops in this color and just live my best life as a tomato person soaking up the sun. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn

HOT HOUSE 🔥

I'm going ahead and calling it: this is my color of the summer. Hot House is a rich, fiery, coral red. On the red scale, this one leans more orange than the reds I typically dye and I am way more obsessed with it than I thought I would be. Am I becoming an orange-red person?! I want to make all the summer tops in this color and just live my best life as a tomato person soaking up the sun.

Hot House is the perfect pairing with Beauty Queen to give your mood and your yarn stash a pure injection of summer warmth and whimsy. I cannot imagine more cheerful duo.

The Heirloom Q1 preorder opens on April 19 at 4pm MT. All colorways will be available on your favorite LDY yarns along with our summer line up of bases.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 10/04/2025

Our Feb inspiration, the Beauty Queen 🍅 lives up to its name, being one of the most beautiful (and yummy) tomatoes that I added to my garden last summer. I love watching the green tomatoes subtly shift to shades of pale yellow and then to gold with streaks of orange and coral. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn

BEAUTY QUEEN 👸

February’s inspiration lives up to its name, being one of the most beautiful (and yummy) tomatoes that I added to my garden last summer. I love watching the green tomatoes subtly shift to shades of pale yellow and then to gold with streaks of orange and coral.

Our Beauty Queen colorway features a swirling base of straw yellow and tangerine with streaks of coral and speckles of golden yellow and bright peach.

The Heirloom Club Q1 preorder will go live on April 19 at 4pm MT. All colorways will be available to order on 9 yarn bases, including your LDY favorites & our warm weather line up of cotton blend yarns.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 08/04/2025

Is there anything better than a fresh, warm, juicy slice of a beefsteak tomato? 🤤 Add some bacon, lettuce, and Duke’s mayonnaise & you have my perfect sandwich. Beefsteak is our first new coordinating tonal colorway designed to pair with Cherokee Purple. It is a rich ruby red. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 07/04/2025

Let’s kick off Heirloom 🍅 club quarter 1 reveals with our January colorway: Cherokee Purple. My favorite type of tomato to grow in my home garden and not just because it’s purple-ish (it’s also delish). Preorder hits the shop April 19 at 4pm MT. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 05/04/2025

I started working on a crochet hexi blanket using my hand spun yarn from the Heirloom 🍅 club colorways. I love seeing how each skein of handspun works up. Each little hexi is like a snowflake: slightly different in its own way. 🧶 #crochet

Crochet hexis in shades of green, yellow, and orange are scattered across a wooden tabletop.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 03/04/2025

Something new is sprouting soon in the shop. The first three colorways from our Heirloom 🍅 club will be available an array of yarn bases & fiber along with three new tonal colorways. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 18/03/2025

A little peek behind the scenes as we finish up dyeing for our Yarn of Enchantment collection. Today the dye pans are full of the Rio Grande del Norte colorway on fiber. We have just 2-3 days left of dyeing to complete this collection! 🧶 #handdyedfiber #indiedyer

A woman in black pants and a gold sweatshirt pours dye onto fiber in hotel pans. In front of her are completed pans of fiber with colors inspired by the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico. The fiber has been dyed in a gradient from deep teal to sandy brown.

Trays of dyed fiber sit on a table. The fiber is dyed teal in the center with a gradient from sage to cactus green and ending in sandy brown.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 16/03/2025

April’s installment of our Heirloom 🍅 Club is now available to order through next Saturday. April’s inspiration is the delightfully colorful Purple tomato. As the name suggests, we will be inspired by the rich, jeweled purple tones of this new tomato variety. www.longdogyarn.com/search?q=hei...

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Spectacularly speckled and boldly colorful yarns hand-dyed in Santa Fe, NM.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 14/03/2025

April’s Heirloom 🍅 club opens on March 15. Next month our inspiration is the Purple tomato.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 08/03/2025

I finally got around to snapping a few pictures of my Grid Gambit cowl and it started snowing on me. 🧶 #knitting #knittersofbluesky

Pattern: Grid Gambit Cowl by Samantha Guerin
Yarn: Handspun Rambouillet in the Cherokee Purple colorway by Long Dog Yarn with Hypothesis Yarn DK as the contrast color

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 06/03/2025

February’s Heirloom 🍅 club fiber is all spun up into a deliciously cheerful and bright 2-ply skein of fingering weight yarn. I’m planning on getting this year’s crop of tomatoes started from seed this weekend and I can’t wait to have more Beauty Queen tomatoes in the garden. 🧶 #handspunyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 25/02/2025

Our February tomato inspiration for the Heirloom 🍅 club was the Beauty Queen. Beauty Queen is a swirly whirly combination of golden yellow and pale orange with a splash of coral red. Who’s craving a tomato sandwich for lunch now? 🤤 #handdyedyarn 🧶

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 24/02/2025

Our February Heirloom 🍅 club was inspired by the Beauty Queen tomato. For the fiber, I decided to create an ombré that blends from a pale golden yellow to orange and fiery reds to bring in all the hues of the deliciously beautiful inspiration. #handdyedfiber #indiedyed

Two braids of fiber are swirled together in a small basket surrounded by different varieties and colors of large and grape tomatoes and eucalyptus branches.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 20/02/2025

Say you got cheese? Baby, he knows. He’s that Rufus doggo.

Black and tan wire hair dachshund is investigating some tantalizing smells next to a grey sofa.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 19/02/2025

Our first Happiest Club on Earth box was inspired by the iconic attractions & food of Adventureland. I had so much fun curating these boxes and dyeing up all of these colorways. It’s very exciting to release it out into the world. Extra boxes will be available this Saturday at 4pm MT. 🧶

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 15/02/2025

March’s Heirloom Club 🍅 is now open for sign-ups. March’s colorway is inspired by the Green Giant tomato. Our Heirloom Club is a monthly mystery club inspired by the subtle and delicious beauty of the tomato. Sign-ups will be open all week: www.longdogyarn.com/search?q=hei... #handdyedyarn 🧶

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 12/02/2025

If you guessed White Sands National Park, then you are correct! Our dye pans are full of this perfect pastel colorway as production of our Yarn of Enchantment collection continues in full swing! 🧶 #indiedyer #handdyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 12/02/2025

Can you tell which of our YOE colorways were dyeing up today just from the very first layer of color? 🧶 #indiedyer #handdyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 11/02/2025

Next month’s Heirloom Club inspiration is the Green Giant tomato. Compared to previous months, March will be a little more subtle, combining different shades of green into one deliciously beautiful colorway. Sign-ups for the club open on Feb 15. #handdyedyarn #indiedyer #mysteryyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 06/02/2025

We shared our January Heirloom club on fiber, but how about some juicy tomato yarn?? 🧶 Cherokee Purple on yarn pulls in the peachy pink hues, alone with lovely bright red and deep purple with speckles of cherry red and eggplant. #indiedyer #handdyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 06/02/2025

These precarious towers of Balloon Fiesta in the dye pans means we’ve officially started production on our Yarn of Enchantment collection. #indiedyer #handdyedyarn #studiolife

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 04/02/2025

Here’s a peek at January’s Heirloom club on fiber. January’s tomato inspiration was the Cherokee Purple, one of my favorite tomatoes to grow in the garden because it’s beautiful AND it tastes absolutely delicious. 🍅+🧶 = ❤️ #handdyedfiber #spinningfiber #indiedyer

Two braids of fiber are nestled in a woven basket and surrounded by a variety of heirloom and grape tomatoes on a dark background. The fiber is dyed in shades of pale pink, mauve, eggplant, and blush red.

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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky

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Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores

Indie bookstores miss out on millions of e-book sales to big companies like Amazon. Bookshop.org's new platform could help them turn a new page.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 02/02/2025

Woke up at 6:30 to a big bang outside and the power is now out. Good thing I have a gas stove to make coffee and a me-powered spinning wheel to keep me caffeinated & entertained. How’s your Sunday going? 😆

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 01/02/2025

I swatched up six different color combos from the Yarn of Enchantment collection for the Doppio sweater. And honestly it’s impossible to choose. 😅 Which one is your favorite? 🧶 #knitting #handdyedyarn #doppiosweater

Six square knit swatches of different color combinations from the Yarn of Enchantment collection by Long Dog Yarn lay together on a marbled surface.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 30/01/2025

Our Yarn of Enchantment collection is inspired by the people, places, and culture of New Mexico. We’re leaving ordering open through the weekend, so there’s still time to grab a few skeins of your favorite New Mexican inspired colorways. 🧶 #handdyedyarn #newmexico #indiedyedyarn

A collage of nine colorways of hand dyed yarn inspired by different people and places in New Mexico.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 29/01/2025

Today in the dye studio we’re testing out February’s Heirloom 🍅 colorway. Dyeing tomato fiber is basically the only thing keeping me sane until actual tomato season is upon us. Just 106 days until I can plant the garden. #indieyarndyer #smallbiz #studiolife

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 28/01/2025

Stacks upon stacks upon stacks of Happiest Club on Earth boxes in the studio today. We’re working hard to get these shipped out by the end of the week, so subscribers can look forward to a Disneyland delivery soon. 🧶 #handdyedyarn #disneyyarn #mysteryyarnclub

Black and white photo of piles of boxes full of hand dyed yarn, a candle, and stitch markers inspired by Disneyland’s Adventureland.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 27/01/2025

Currently on my needles: Sheep Camp sweater by Jennifer Berg I couldn’t resist making this sweater by a New Mexican designer in my New Mexican inspired colorways. I chose Georgia as my main color with colorwork accents in my White Sands NP colorway. 🧶 #showyourknits #handknit #handdyedyarn

A Sheep Camp sweater in the deep lavender Georgia colorway with colorwork motif in the pale, variegated White Sands National Park colorway from my Yarn of Enchantment collection. The sweater is hanging by a hanger on a coyote fence in the sunshine.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 26/01/2025

Obsessed with the cutest knitwear model ever.

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Cinema Knits @cinemaknits.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If you need a wee break from 😰🤯😱 I put together a blog post with knitting patterns inspired by all the lovely knitwear in All Creatures Great and Small. That show has such great knitwear throughout and I found some great patterns matches for many of them. #knitting 🧶 cinemaknits.com/2025/01/25/k...

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Knit the World of All Creatures Great and Small

I have been a fan of the Masterpiece show All Creatures Great and Small since the first season aired in 2020. The show is based on the wonderful books of real-like Yorkshire veterinarian James Alfr…

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 26/01/2025

Spinning away the Sunday scaries. Working on spinning up my braid of Shiprock on Polwarth. #handspunyarn #handdyedfiber

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Larkspur Knits @larkspurknits.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Lets do it! A Knitalong to get the community going here on @bsky.app! Start something new (or pick up an old project) using blue yarn, any shade and use the #SkyKAL hashtag to post progress or finished projects. We will let it roll until the end of February. To keep things simple. See comments…

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 25/01/2025

Our Yarn of Enchantment Collection is now live for preorder in the online shop. www.longdogyarn.com/collections/... Thank you all so much for your support and love for this collection celebrating my home state! 🧶 #handdyedyarn

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 25/01/2025

Currently on my spinning wheel: Shiprock on Polwarth from my Yarn of Enchantment Collection. I’m currently thinking this may become my first sweater quantity spin, but I’m still nervous about the idea of spinning enough 🧶 for a full sweater. #yarnspinning #handspun

Purple, mauve, and earthy orange single-ply spun yarn on a bobbin in the flyer of my Spinolution Pollywog spinning wheel.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 24/01/2025

You know you can’t resist a sock set. That’s why I’m coming at you with 11 from the Yarn of Enchantment collection. 🧶 #indiedyedyarn #sockknitting

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 23/01/2025

Well now I’ve really gone and done it: custom new goodies just for our Yarn of Enchantment Collection. A piñon pine candle from Wax & Wool that is the best damn thing you’ve ever smelled. And special mini minders from Lemonwood.love for holding all your new favorite colorways.

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 23/01/2025

Seems like more fiber friends are jumping over to 🦋 so I wanted to reshare the indie dyer starter pack: go.bsky.app/Vra2f82 If you’re looking for your favorite dyers on Bluesky, I’ve got you covered! 🧶

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Brandy @longdogyarn.com · 22/01/2025

Fiber is an essential part of your crafting diet. Fuel up with our six new colorways coming soon on Polwarth and Rambouillet Silk. #spinning #handdyedfiber

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