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
Cozy little shop in Buda Texas. Opening weekend May 10th and 11th, 10 am to 6 pm.
503 S. Loop 4, Buda, TX 78610. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y573d6GAMjcwBPsb8
Fiber Fate is a specialty shop adjacent to historic downtown Buda. Yarn + Fiber + Spinning. Shop lots of fiber and yarn related things in this unique space – Fiber Fate hand-dyed & handspun yarn, spinning/felting fiber, spinning wheels and accessories. Notably, I’ll have spinning wheels by Schacht, Louet, Ashford, and Majacraft. Not to mention, bags, books, stitch markers, and crafting kits. Classes too! Sign-up for an in-person class. Classes start Sunday May 19th and will typically be held Sundays and Mondays. Class signup and descriptions HERE
See you at the shop soon!
It’s been a really nice year in my fiber world. 2022 was filled with meeting people that love yarn, love wool, love spinning, want to love spinning, and love making with yarn. Thank you so much to everyone who took a few minutes to glance at my yarn work. Especially thanks to those of you who took a chance and purchased my handspun and hand dyed yarn.
It is truly my pleasure to work with wool and make lovely yarns. Then, to see those yarns go out into the world and be appreciated and transformed into functional, beautiful, long lasting, things… brings me a tremendous amount of joy. I look forward to sharing lots more with you in 2023. Let’s keep talking about spinning and yarn and making.
–Angela
I attended this outdoor gathering for the first time last year purely as a consumer. It was a lovely sunny day and I was eager to get out of the house to shop the small businesses and see what the heck was going on out there at the Blue Mule Winery. Lots of us where just coming out of our COVID lockdown at that point, eager to get out and about. Despite a tad bit of wind, it was a wonderful event with lots of yarn (of course) and other fibery things, music, classes, a food truck, and drinky-poos for some extra delicious relaxation.
This year, April 2022, I will be vending and teaching at this lovely event. I’ll have a variety of handspun yarns and spinning fiber – batts, flicked fiber, and washed fleece available.
Sign up for my Beginning Drop Spindle Spinning class and learn some of the basics of spinning yarn. My class starts at 10:30 am and runs two hours until 12:30 pm. It’s a great time slot! You read more about it and sign-up at texasyarnloversevent.com.
If you take my class, you will have plenty of time to get into the event and get your bearings and maybe even browse a few vendors on the way in. There will be plenty of time after to relax, get some food, drinks, sweets, shop, and enjoy the serenity of being away from the city and in the fresh calm outdoors of the Blue Mule Winery. In addition to the big outdoor tent area, there is plenty of one-off spaces to break for knitting, sharing with friends, or some cherished self time. It would not be weird to bring a blanket or a lawn chair to relax on. Hopefully, like last year, it’s another wonderful sunny day.
For all you knitters our there, there is a KAL! It is scheduled to start April 3rd. The knit project is by Designer, Morgan Wolterdorf. She announced the design on her Instagram account @morthunder. Follow her on IG and sign up at her website for additional information about the KAL. The final piece of the KAL will be done at the Texas Yarn Lovers Event, April 23rd, in person with Morgan. There will be a group picture of everyone with their project.
Texas Yarn Lovers Event – Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
Blue Mule Winery – 8127 N FM 1291, Fayetteville, TX 78940
https://www.texasyarnloversevent.com/
So much to look forward to.