About Freia Fine Handpaint Yarns

Back in 2003 I started Knitwhits, a knitting pattern and kit company offering small accessories and patterns for the knitting market. Six years later I veered towards designing ready-to-wear using self-striping yarns. It became increasingly apparent that though there were some gorgeous self-striping yarns on the market, there were elements still missing. It is those missing elements that I bring to Freia Handpaint Yarns. In 2010 I developed gradient yarns - a color method unlike any multi-colored yarn that existed before, beginning one of the most marked and copied trends to hit the yarn market of the decade. I straddle the line somewhere between an indie dyer and a large yarn company, providing a unique hand-dyed yarn, but at a scale big enough to cater to Local Yarn Stores globally. The custom-spun fiber I use is soft and lofty (or smooshy as I prefer to call it). It has a wonderful rustic character to it, without the itch. The Ombré yarns have gorgeous extra long gradients – that cannot be replicated in mass production – with a lush depth of color only we can bring as hand dyers. We also offer self-striping and semi-solids to give a knitter enough flexibility to combine all sorts of colors in a project in a base to match the other yarns we supply. All our fibers are sourced in the US and dyed at our studio in North Adams, MA.Read their story