Beginnings
Knitting Notions is a family owned and operated business. Our business opened in 2005 with our first product, handmade Yarn Swifts. What initially began as a second income in the beginning has now grown to be a full time sole income for us. Product development is an on-going element which includes all aspects of our woodworking, yarn dyeing and pattern publishing.
Wood Knitting Tools
All of our own products are developed and produced from a home-based workshop in Nashville, Tennessee. We have added to our product line regularly in the years since then to include many unique wood tools and accessories. At the present this includes Sock Keepers, Nostepinnes, Darning Eggs, Shawl or Hair Sticks, Yarn Boxes, and Bowls.
Hand Dyed Yarn and Dyeing
Around the same time, in addition to wood working, we began a custom yarn and fleece dyeing service. Soon after that time we developed a line of hand dyed merino wool yarns in a curated palette of 32 repeatable colors which we added to our growing product line.
Many knitters appreciate our large range of semi solid colors. Our specialty is custom mixed colors that look natural and are easy to wear. We use only the highest quality professional dyes, selected for their superior light fast and color fast ratings and for their excellent selection of primary pigments for mixing.
The yarns we dye are selected for their versatility in a wide range of knitting and crochet projects. We love merino wool yarns for its properties. It looks amazing when dyed and is very soft and comfortable next to the skin. Our line focuses on finer gauge yarns ranging from fingering weight, sport weight and DK weight. We hand dye two fingering weight yarns; a 65% superwash merino wool and 35% rayon of bamboo blend and a 100% superwash merino wool. Both our sport weight and our DK weight are 100% superwash merino wool.
Knitting Patterns
A great line of hand dyed yarns is made even better with pattern support and knowledgeable yarn substitution help. We are knitters ourselves and have over 40 years of knitting experience. I have knit extensively with all of our yarns and provide information about their uses and applications. Help with selecting the correct yarn for a project or pattern support is only an email or a phone call away.
Contact Us
Do you need help ordering? Need pattern, yarn or other product support? We welcome your inquiries, suggestions, and are happy to address your customer service needs.
You can contact us by email at catherine@knittingnotions.com or knittingnotions@gmail.com or by phone between the hours 9:00 am – 9:00pm Central time Monday – Saturday and between 1:00 pm -9:00 pm on Sunday. (615) 585-1077.
How to Purchase or See Our Products
Are you looking for ways to see what we have to offer? There are a few ways you can find our products. One way is at our website. Second you can find our booth at many fiber festivals and conventions throughout the United States. Check out our Events Calendar to keep up to date with our road schedule. Third, is to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and our Blog. We update our social media feeds regularly and this is a great way to see what we are up to.
If you are in the Nashville area and would like to arrange an order pickup or browse our products in person we can setup an appointment for you to come by our location when we aren’t at a festival. For those of you who aren’t in the area, we have an active and full Fiber Festival schedule for you to view and purchase our products in person. We love to meet our customers and are happy to help facilitate ways for you to find us and our products.
