Color Me Happy Fiber Arts Studio

Yesterday was a blast! First, helping Courtney and friends play with natural dyes in a class with mini skeins. Then, getting to play with the leftovers while we cleaned up. Thanks Ainsley for being my helper yesterday!

FO Friday! 🍃

It feels like it’s been a minute since we have had a Color Me Happy finished object—but Linda finally finished her pillow based on the Adelphia purse pattern from ! Let’s just say the knitting got done a LOT faster than the sewing part of this project…😅

The short row leaves are so fun to knit that they really keep you going to get just one more done. Linda added 10 extra stitches to the cast on to make it more of a square, with the main yarn being our naturally dyed CMH Tweed DK in Pine and Natural. She also used two different green shades of fi*****ng weight mini skeins held together (a yellow green and a darker forest green, last pic) for some parts of the leaves to add some movement and shading.

Blocking is key to getting the pillow into a square shape prior to sewing. Linda backed the knitted fabric with a natural cotton and then sewed the front piece to the blue green twill fabric back.

And who knew after 20 years the buttonhole setting on her sewing machine still works!

This pillow was a housewarming gift for Linda’s son in San Francisco, so it was only fitting to get the buttons there at the lovely store there.

And if you’d like to give this pattern a try (highly recommended!) you can find our CMH DK Tweed in Fishers!

We can't wait for this! Well, Linda can't wait, and .haley is super excited to be with Linda for part of the festival. I will be at Eleni's wedding that weekend, but will be with you all in spirit!!

is always such a fun event -- swipe for just a few scenes from prior years.

Did you know you can find our yarns here?! Wednesday through Sunday, come see them (and touch them!) in person!

Hello ! We’re so excited to welcome you to our shop. Here are our regular store hours.

Monday & Tuesday: By Appointment - we will have a way to request this on our website or you can call our store directly.

Wednesday: 11am-8pm (with an open craft time from 12-2)

Thursday: 11am-8pm

Friday: 11am-8pm (with an open craft time from 6-8)

Saturday: 10am-5pm

Sunday: 12pm-4pm

Details will be available soon about upcoming classes and other events.

Let us know which open craft time you’re coming to first!

Michelle got to spend a little time helping Beth and family with shearing this morning. Feeling blessed for this opportunity 💕

Such a wonderful class with these lovely friends from Terre Haute and Dayton!!

So glad they made the trek to do our Handpainting with Natural Dyes class—can’t wait to see their finished skeins!

Grab a few of your yarny friends and message us here on through our site to schedule a class!

See you again soon Suri Silk!
Today we started packing up the studio to bring things over to the new shop

Suri silk is one of our favorites to work with. It’s so light and soft and it makes anything you are working on very snuggly.🥰 These are, of course, all naturally dyed!

We can’t wait to see it in its new home!

Something between a finished object and a work in progress—the Adelphia pattern by , slightly modified to become a pillow!

This pattern, designed as a purse, uses simple wrap and turn in garter stitch, which is such a fun and forgiving way of doing bold, graphic patterns of stylized leaves and other shapes—check out more of Linnea’s patterns that incorporate this technique in shawls, hats, and all sorts of objects!

Linda added 10 stitches to make the piece more square and also used two fi*****ng yarns left over from other projects to add a mottled green shade to some of the leaves. You can see in the last photo where she used the trick of winding the two yarns around her finger to get an idea of how they would look together with the main green shade.

Next steps: block (very important to smooth out the knitted fabric), then stitch on a cotton backing before joining the front piece to a back piece which will be dark blue-green with a button closure.

Have you tried a short row piece like this? Would you like to?! Let us know if you’re interested in a class for something like this !

Pattern: Adelphia
Designer: Linnea Ornstein
Yarn: Color Me Happy naturally dyed Tweed DK in Pine and natural, and Merino/Cashmere/Nylon mini skeins in Rainforest and Sage.

Four weeks from today, we join to open the doors of Flax & Fiber Yarn Collective. We are so excited for this new venture!
Learn more about it (including the joys and challenges) on our new YouTube episode.

We are definitely feeling the spring vibes here in the studio💚💕
OK, and maybe just a little wicked, too😉