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How Would You Wear It?

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

A couple of weeks ago we kicked off the Kelbourne Woolens Volume 1 Blog Tour, and it was quite a blast. With outfits from some of our favorite designers and featured stores, the tour took advantage of the infinite closet that Polyvore has to offer. We loved seeing the looks everyone put together, and now we would love to see yours as well!

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How to Enter:

Post your style board for your favorite item(s) from Kelbourne Woolens Volume 1 to our thread on Ravelry. You can submit more than one style board, but each must be in a separate post and please post the actual board and not a link to it. You can find photos of all of the garments on the Kelbourne Woolens Polyvore Page.

The winner will receive a copy of Kelbourne Woolens, Volume 1 and one of our new project bags!

Style away!

Kelbourne Woolens: Volume 1, Blog Tour! {+ a chance to win!}

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Last week we released our new book, Kelbourne Woolens: Volume 1, a collection of some of our favorite, and most popular patterns from the past five years. When putting together this anthology, we were able to take a look back and bring some of our favorites like Alice, Give a Hoot, and Hawthorn back to our daily wardrobe, and by giving some of our favorites a new look, it made us look at our closet as well.

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We turned to Polyvore, an online-styling website, where people can generate outfits from different online merchants.  From small Etsy stores to large companies like Gap and Madewell, Polyvore takes online shopping and puts it all in one place, allowing the participant to see how that grey sweater will look with those mint jeans.  So, for the Kelbourne Woolens Volume One Blog Tour, we decided to ask some of our favorite shops, designers and bloggers, “what is your favorite item and what would you pair with it?”.  So far we’ve received some pretty amazing outfits, but you’ll have to follow the tour to see more!  To kick it off, here’s some of our favorites paired with our infinate Polyvore wardrobe, enjoy!

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Kate chose to showcase Hawthorn, a simple and feminine cardigan, paired with an adorable pair of mint oxfords and a utilitarian leather purse, this outfit is perfect for a Saturday filled with activity.

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Leah planned for a transitional night out on the town, the classic combination of black jeans with a simple white shirt compliments the Rhodalite colorway of the Alice cowl. Throw on a jean jacket and some ankle booties and you’ll be set to dance the night away.

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Maura was inspired by the need for warmth when running errands on the town during the winter months. She paired the Give a Hoot Mittens with this amazing vintage poncho and fair isle inspired leggings. Add a pair of knee-high lace-up boots and you’re set for any temperature!

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For Courtney she chose to showcase the Linden Shawl, a non-traditional lace shawl in our Cabernet colorway.  Throw on some mint jeans, black motorcycle boots and a black denim jacket and you’re ready to go out to an awesome concert or to a small hole in the wall bar for a drink.

However, we’re not just sharing our outfits, we’re also sharing signed copies of our book! Leave a comment on this post and one person will be randomly selected to win a signed copy of Volume 1! {one comment per person, please. Contest will be open through Feb 18th midnight EST}

Next up, we head over to one of our favorite craft-inspiration blogs, The Sweatshop of Love. From sewing to knitting, The Sweatshop of Love keeps inspiring us to pick up even more hobbies, and we hope you get as inspired as us. While you’re over there check out these awesome Quilted Tea Cozies and don’t forget to keep an eye out for the upcoming stops on our blog tour!

Guess Who is Going to TNNA… Us!

Friday, February 1st, 2013

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It’s that time of year when yarn shops and distributors come together under one roof and we can’t wait!  If you follow us on Instagram you’ve probably seen our preparations.  From gathering yarns, to tagging samples and finally packing everything up in boxes.  We have a plethora of new and exciting things that will be at our table, so come stop by, we’ll be at booth 537!  Plus we’ll have plenty of copies of the highly anticipated, Kelbourne Woolens Volume 1 for everyone to flip through.  Also, are you an LYSO looking to purchase copies of our new book for your shop?  We have copies in stock and ready for order!  Happy TNNA everyone, and have a great time!

Announcing…Kelbourne Woolens, Volume One

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

It’s been hard keeping this a secret all year, but we are so pleased to finally share with you our celebration of the first five years of Kelbourne Woolens!

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Five years ago, in 2008, Kate was in her last year of graduate school, earning a degree in textile design with a weaving focus, and Courtney’s son was just six months old. Being in our late 20s and already pretty busy, owning our own business seemed impossible and wonderful, and at times like a terrifying dream come true.  But by August of 2008 Kelbourne Woolens was official, and jammed into a 500 square foot subleased office space, we took our first order.

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Much has changed in the last five years—Courtney’s son is now an active and precocious five-year-old, and she and her family have moved from the city to a house on the river with a large organic garden. Kate finally finished her graduate degree, got married, and has a baby of her own. One thing, though, has stayed the same: our commitment to distributing beautiful yarns that are both wonderful to knit and wear, and creating knitting patterns that show off the best qualities of those yarns.

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The very first patterns we released were all free patterns—The Springtime Bandit, Selbu Modern, Give a Hoot Mittens among them. We just knit things we liked, photographed them on our friends with Courtney’s point-and-shoot camera.  We wrote the patterns, Kate laid them out and we posted them on our website and crossed our fingers that people would enjoy them as much as we did!  It’s hard to notice the progression from where you began to where you end up, so to honor the journey we have rewritten, rephotographed and re-edited eleven of our most popular designs and compiled them into a fantastic new book. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

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We are so happy to bring you this collection of our most popular patterns over the first five years. It would not exist without your support, and we count ourselves lucky to work amongst such talented and dedicated knitters. Thank you!

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View the Lookbook for Kelbourne Woolens, Volume One here, and pre-order through Amazon here.