LYS Day is one week from today, Saturday, April 25th. Appreciate your LYS next weekend. Pop-in, say hi, and see what’s new at your nearest shop. Or in our area, all the nearest shops. There are 6 Austin area shops! They all have a different vibe and have different yarns and notions. There’s a fun little local yarn hunt that 5 of the shops are participating in. Find all the details for the Lost Skein of Austin in the previous blog post below.
Fiber Fate will have two Trunk Shows for LYS Day weekend. Both are local small businesses. Rachel Matyastik is launching her brand new business, Oracle Made – handmade project bags and knitting organizers. I am so excited to be a part of Rachel’s first show. She’s got some really great bags and organizers. An Austin favorite, indie hand-dyed yarn by Yarn Matter will also be featured at Fiber Fate to celebrate LYS Day. Erin’s Homegrown Sock and Homegrown DK bases will be available at the show. Use the links below to connect and see more of who they are and what they do.
The trunk shows will run Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Fiber Fate will be opened 11-4:30 all three days. Rachel will be at the shop to assist you Friday and Saturday. I, me, Angela, will be manning the Fiber Fate booth at Yellow Rose Fiber Fiesta. If you’re feeling particularly giddy and energized to fit in as much yarn and fiber as possible next weekend, drive to Seguin for the fiber festival too (find info in the Events tab). I will be back at the shop Sunday. I’m thinking I’m see you soon one way or another.
Trunk Shows for LYS Day:
One: Oracle Made – Austin Maker Debut!
Oracle Made, where we like to ‘om’ like you mean it. Handcrafted project bags and knitting tool organizers in playful, vibrant prints to keep your craft portable, organized, and inspired. Designed to protect your WIPs and spark joy, so you can unleash your creativity—wherever you stitch. Created by Rachel Matyastik, a knitter, sewist, and craft enthusiast based in Austin, TX. Follow Rachel on IG
Two: Yarn Matter – More Wonderful Yarn from Austin Indie Dyer, Erin Battle. Featuring Erin’s Homegrown base in both sock and DK. Homegrown is U.S. grown 100% Shaniko wool. It’s a lofty squishy yarn made from U.S. grown wool. Like all Erin’s bases, it’s soft and lovely to work with. Naturally dyed on non-superwash wool. More about Yarn Matter
LYS Day Weekend Fun!!
Hey yarn & fiber craft lovers! We’ve got a thing going on April 25th & 26th. It’s a yarn hunt! 5 Austin area LYS’s, 5 fresh skeins to find, 1 grand prize.
Shops
Yarning Fiber Arts, Worldyarns, Knit ATX, The Sated Sheep, Fiber Fate
The Lost Skein of Austin
Visit each of the five shops on LYS Day and the following day, Saturday & Sunday. You will receive a clue or riddle. Search for the shop’s special LYS day skein. Once you have found the lost skein, there are 2 ways to enter to win a grand prize. Either post and hashtag on Instagram or get your printed map stamped.
Please note: If you are posting to IG, do not reveal the actual skein or the clue in your post. No spoilers. Tag each post #lostskeinofaustin.
If you are choosing the paper entry, turn in your map at your last stop of the weekend.
Grand Prize:
$50 gift certificate from each store.
Additional info:
Rachel, Yarning Fiber Arts, will consolidate all the entries and draw the winner. Drawing will take place the week of April 27th. FYI, Rachel is the creator and organizer of the yarn hunt.
No purchase is necessary to play. No purchase is necessary to enter the grand prize drawing. Visit all shops to enter drawing. Play even if you can only visit a few shops. If no one does all 5, the minimum number for the grand prize moves to 4. We are working on a second prize for those that visit 2 or 3 shops as well.
Paper maps: print your own map from the image online or ask for one at your first shop.
Gauge is not able to participate in the hunt this year. They are a core LYS located in north Austin. Don’t forget to visit Gauge on LYS Day, Saturday, April 25th.
It’s been all about the yarn and knitting so far this year. I’ve been adding and swapping out yarn at the shop. Working to bring you yarn options – colors, textures, fiber types.
The little shop has come a long way in the past year. When Fiber Fate opened as a brick & mortar shop in 2024, there was one brand, Fiber Fate – hand dyed and handspun. Since then, the yarn selection has been growing. Fiber Fate offers local yarn from four Austin area hand dyers and yarn producers – Yarn Matter, Dyeon Yarns, Rowdy Ranch Custom Yarns, and Gothfarm Yarns. Most recently added small batch hand dyed from Terrapin Fiberworks. Lovely organic cotton dyed in Maryland.
At the beginning of 2026, more yarn! A quick influx of colors and textures by including yarns from Queensland, Lana Gatto, and Elsbeth Lavold. I’ve also currently got British yarn from World of Wool – Distilled DK tweed and Big Bang super bulky (on sale). Paused there for a moment; taking some time to evaluate next steps. The one thing for sure is there will be more yarn options coming soon.
I am so happy about the way Fiber Fate is shaping up. 2026 is off to a very good start. Starting super small is challenging on multiple levels. In my case, particularly in the physical sense. Those of you who have visited the shop in-person know, space is limited. It’s a juggling balance act to fit all the yarns, notions, bags, fiber, etc. in and have it be comfortable and nice to shop. So far so good! Challenging, but fun. See the organizational feat at 503 S. Loop 4, Buda, TX 78610. It’s not perfect, but I’m kinda proud of it.
–Angela
An entrepreneurship urge drives me … a little bit crazy. It whispers, it whines, sometimes it howls, it nags at me. It seems like the right thing to do. Haha, but I’ve been down this road before! Can’t fool me. Business is tricky. Having a little single person business is like riding a teeter totter alone. Up and down, the other side always needs your attention as much as the side you are on. To keep it going in it’s intended motion, you either have to move to the other side or push hard from the side you are on to keep it moving. If you decide to sit in the middle, it basically feels like each side is neglected just a bit. The balancing act never ends. But hey, that is just life anyway – sustenance, balance, sanity…we were made for this. Here I am, gonna give it a go.
“This time it will be different!” – always announced with bright ambitious energy.
Fiber Fate is small, for now. It’s a tiny business with small quantities of handmade and hand processed goods. Fiber Fate is a place to find unique yarns and wool in all stages of hand processing for spinning. I thought others could benefit from my curiosity. My interest to find out what wool is like straight off the sheep for all the different sheep breeds in the world. Hilarious – I doubt I’ll get to all of them. So steadily and slowly I’m working and sharing via Fiber Fate. I want to share my love of wool and yarn and things that are earth friendly and natural. I love making yarn. I love working with wool. I love the practice of less trash, less plastic, offering alternatives within this modern throw away (majorly polluting) system. As tiny as Fiber Fate is, even small can make a difference – a lovely yarn here, a totally functional reusable bag there, a small section in a weavers weft, a head protected from the cold.