Gamp on the Loom

What is a Color Gamp?

January 12, 2024

We have been weaving gamps for a long time, and we love to answer to the question “What is a gamp?”. A color gamp is a cloth that contains a set of color stripes in the warp that are crossed by the same set of color stripes in the weft. The resulting fabric will show […]

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Peach Fuzz Color of the Year

Peachfuzz! Pantone Color of 2024! – Blog Post

December 22, 2023

  Pantone has released their color of the year for 2024!  This coming year’s selection is a gentle color from Pantone, called Peach Fuzz.  Pantone number 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. As they say on their website: “Pantone’s Peach Fuzz is a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit […]

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EZ-Spin cotton sliver, Easy to Spin

Have you tried EZ-Spin cotton? – Blog Post

April 21, 2023

Ready to Spin? We are thrilled to announce that we are now the exclusive suppliers of EZ-spin cotton!  Lura Moore and Jill Holbrook, the owners of Brookmoore Creations have passed the cotton spinning torch to us at Lunatic Fringe Yarns.  The EZ-Spin cotton sliver is a wonderful complement to our own American Maid™ Cotton yarns.  […]

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Water Rabbit - Grace Noel 2023

Lunar Year of the Rabbit – Blog Post

February 9, 2023

Welcome to the Lunar Year of the Water Rabbit!! In the Lunar Calendar, this is the year of the Water Rabbit. Bunnies Galore! It feels a bit full circle to have the rabbit again in our universe.  We began creating bunnies with handwoven cloth back in 2019.  Michele had the wonderful fortune of working with […]

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Finished Ripples on Lunadette

Rippling Along

November 22, 2022

Post written by Michele Belson   We LOVE the Ripple Scarf by Denise Kovnat in the Nov/Dec 2022 issue of Handwoven.  In part, because it uses our beautiful 20/2 mercerized cotton yarn and the exciting active Linen Crepe yarn.  20/2 mercerized cotton yarn is a favored child of mine and combining it with a yarn […]

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Intentions and the Lunar New Year

February 1, 2022

“Luna” = moon Here at Lunatic Fringe Yarns we have a special love of all things Lunar.  “Lunatic” is a word derived from “luna” the Latin word for moon because many people believed insanity was caused by the phases of the moon.  We prefer to think of the word “Lunatic” as it relates to creativity […]

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Pantone Color of 2022!

December 23, 2021

Pantone just released their color of the year for 2022!  This coming year’s selection is a brand-new color from Pantone, called Very Peri.  Pantone number 17-3938. Pantone chose this color to describe the courage that encourages personal inventiveness and creativity.  As they say on their website: “PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri displays a spritely, joyous attitude […]

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Starting and Stopping Colors in your Color Gamp–Split Plies

November 3, 2021

When you weave a color gamp, you weave weft stripes.  And each time you start or stop weaving with one color and are ready for a new color, you have to deal with the weft ends.  There are several techniques to do deal with all those weft ends, and one of these techniques is to […]

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Support Your Local Yarn Shop!

April 17, 2021

This past year has taught us many lessons.  Among all the lessons, a few have emerged as cornerstones in our lives…Family and Friends can help you through hard times, Good friends should be cherished, and of course…Yarn is a necessity for life.  We are so grateful for being part of the well kept secret of […]

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New Year, New Baby Socks

January 22, 2021

Knitting in the New Year for a New Baby! Michele’s niece, Jessy, has been a helper in the Lunatic Fringe Yarns booth at yarn shows, where some of you may have met her. In December, Jessy and husband Alex became the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl, Matilda Moon, and we wanted to knit […]

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