Welcome to Feral Knitter! My goal is to create a place where you can find the yarns, books, and patterns you need for a lifetime of colorful knitting, whether traditional Fair Isle, untraditional stranded patterns, or lacework.
I carry 210 211! colors of Jamieson Spindrift; the pages are divided into color families to help you make your decisions. If you are swatching for a new design, every color is also available as an inexpensive 20-yard mini-skein!
Enjoy your knitting!
Janine Bajus, Feral Knitter
What’s New
2/13/12 A new color! 320 Steel, a medium-value blue gray, perfect for sequencing between 122 Granite and 315 Heron. Thank you, Jamieson’s Spinnery!
And a new book: I Can’t Believe I’m Fair Isle Knitting by Sheila Joynes! 
Sheila has created six patterns of increasing complexity to teach new knitters how to be confident with stranding techniques. Good photographs illustrate the techniques she introduces, the projects are good looking, and the book is priced well—excellent introduction to the art for beginners and nice projects for the experienced knitter.
2/2/12 Snow Sky by Ann Swanson.
Pattern for a beautiful sweater in two colors, reprinted from Sweaters from Camp. This sweater would be a good first project for the uncertain knitter!
1/20/12 Knitting with Two Colors by Meg Swansen and Amy Detjen.
A veritable bible of stranded knitting techniques and design tips! In a slim book the authors cover, well, what don’t they cover? Centering patterns, Armenian knitting, dominance, steeks, increasing and decreasing in pattern …. it’s all here for $24.95.
Latvian Dreams by Joyce Williams
I can’t believe I hadn’t added this long ago! Not only is this book filled with lovely stranded designs (some of which are knit out of Shetland jumperweight yarn), it also has at least 200 charts, from small to very large, that Joyce found in a book of Latvian weaving charts.
Knitting Around the World by Lela Nargi
This big, beautiful, ambitious book filled with pictures, many from historical sources, takes the reader on whirlwind tour of knitting around the world. I didn’t intend to add it to the shop because it’s not specifically about stranded knitting, but I fell in love with it!
