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Welcome to the Wool & Wyrd blog—where craft meets season, spell, and story. You'll find free knitting patterns, how-to tutorials, nature-inspired projects, and witchy reflections. Come be part of a creative community rooted in rhythm, wonder, and wool.

Person in yellow top walks while knitting a shawl with hand dyed yarn on a mountain path. Yellow flowers on left. "Wool & Weather My Fiber Festival Strategy" text visible.

A Fiber Festival Strategy For Connection & Comfort

Heading to Flock? This fiber festival strategy guide has tips for planning your visit, avoiding sensory overload, and making meaningful maker connections.

Wool & Weather

Sönna Schuttner

A hand dyed and spindle spun gradient of mini skeins of yarn lay on a deck railing. They range in color from blues on the left through purple, red, orange, yellow and into cream on the right. A greenhouse and hillside are in the distance.

Gradient In Motion: My Tour De Fleece 2025 Spinning Project

Tour de Fleece 2025 has wrapped up alongside the peloton in France, and here in my corner of the desert, I’ve finished spinning and plying a stunning six-ounce gradient of BFL — all by drop spindle — and I’m thrilled to share the results of this project!

WitchCrafting

Sönna Schuttner

Hand dyed spekled yarn for knitting and crochet

Demystifying Hand-Dyed Yarn: Knitting with Speckled Yarn

This is the third post in a three part series on Demystifying Hand-Dyed Yarns. This post will focus on speckled yarns.

Pattern Support & Tutorials

Sönna Schuttner

Demystifying Hand-Dyed Yarn: Identifying and Making the Most of Variegated Yarn in Your Hand Knit Projects

Explore the unique qualities of variegated hand dyed yarn to make the most of pattern and yarn paring with your next knitting project.

Pattern Support & Tutorials

Sönna Schuttner

Knitting Tutorial: How to Alternate Skeins and Achieve a Stretchy Edge

In this tutorial will guide you step by step through the process of alternating skeins to ensure constant knit fabric and a stretchy edge.

Pattern Support & Tutorials

Sönna Schuttner

Achieving a Seamless Finish: Alternating Hand Dyed Skeins For Invisible Transitions and a Stretchy Edge

Learn how to knit a stretchy edge with alternating skeins to avoid visible lines when changing yarns.

Pattern Support & Tutorials

Sönna Schuttner

All About Tonal, Variegated and Speckled Yarn and how to work with them in one project!

Learn about tonal, variegated and speckled yarn how to work with all of them in one project!

Sönna Schuttner