A Verb for Keeping Warm

JOIN US! Free Mushroom Dyeing Lecture at 7pm TONIGHT on Facebook Live via SOMA Mushroom Club -- https://www.somamushrooms.org/ - Become a member!

Visit us Friday morning via the Vogue Knitting Live Virtual Pop Up Shop!!! 10 AM Pacific Time Register at VKL https://www.vogueknittinglive.com/marchvirtual to attend this exclusive event! #virtualknittinglive

Check out this very nice article by Jan Newberry !

AVAILABLE NOW! Though the ever popular knitting and crocheting conference, Stitches West is not happening this year due to the pandemic - we are still going to have our annual collaborative mystery knit-a-long with Romi Hill! Today - Purchase a kit - choose your favorite color and base yarn.... Friday, April 9th - Official start of the Mystery KAL! You will receive your first clue! For the following four Fridays, you will receive additional clues until the shawl pattern is complete! Before your eyes the pattern's design will reveal itself. Inspired by Spring flowers and on a quest for joy we have selected and created 6 juicy, heart-centered colors - with the hope of giving you a big ol' dash of serotonin! KITS INCLUDE: + 2 skeins of yarn in either Floating, Annapurna, Rumor, or Doodle in the Spring 2021 Mystery KAL colorways + 1 shawl pin designed and made by Romi exclusive for the Spring 2021 Mystery KAL + 1 Spring 2021 Mystery Shawl KAL pattern + a special Spring 2021 Mystery KAL pandemic-edition gift! Follow the link in our profile to order! #avfkw #averbforkeepingwarm #naturallydyedyarn #virtualstitcheswest

New video tutorial! How-to Save and Clean Persicaria tinctoria seeds so you can grow, process, and dye with your own homegrown indigo. // Check out our stories to learn more. (After 24 hours, the tutorial will be saved to our Indigo ‘21 highlight). // It only takes a few simple tools (a baking pan and a sieve from your kitchen) and a bit of elbow grease. A pinch of the fingers and the seed pops out of its papery husk. Store in a mason jar to keep dry. Easy peasy! // To read more about growing indigo, check out our book Journeys in Natural Dyeing. // Gotta love those pretty pink flowers. And of course nothing beats indigo blue. #indigo #persicariatinctoria #growingdye #avfkw #journeysinnaturaldyeing #growingindigo

We will be giving a studio tour, teaching and vending this beautiful virtual event. https://www.knitsocial.ca/vancouver/welcome

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! The AVFKW Newsletter is out and filled with awesomeness! Indigo Full Moon Project Bag / Indoorsy Tunic / Merchant & Mills Fabrics - https://mailchi.mp/averbforkeepin/verbivore-nov2017-1182123

Join Kristine and Adrienne in a virtual conversation TODAY with Melanie Falick and Demetrio Bautista Lazo at 10 am pacific! We’ll be talking about textiles as a core of the human experience, the joy of creating color from locally grown and foraged materials, and the making of Kristine and Adrienne's new book JOURNEYS IN NATURAL DYEING.

We are LIVE right now on ZOOM. Check out the newsletter link below for access. Every Wednesday at 12pm PT we do a LIVE review of what’s happening here @avfkw! Join us! Ask questions! Say hello! https://mailchi.mp/averbforkeepin/verbivore-nov2017-1182075

Auction for the Vote ends today at 6pm PST // Go to @togetherweraise_ and check out the amazing items - then comment with your bid - there are a lot of amazing items! Plus you will be supporting 5 incredible organizations: The Alliance for Youth Action, Black Voters Matter Fund, Mi Familia Vota, Montana Native Vote andWoke Vote - thank you and don’t forget to VOTE!

Packing the naturally-dyed fabric mask kits to race them over to the UNITED STATES POST OFFICE. Why the all caps? Because the USPS helps us, our business and many other small businesses tremendously, employs approximately 500k people, and is at risk of closing this Summer if they do not get support from the government. If you can, please take a moment to tell your representatives to save the USPS. Soon, so very soon, those of you who pre-ordered these kits will have them in ...your hands - some of you as soon as tomorrow! Because the mail is magic! // we will do another round of pre-orders of these kits in the next week or so. We invite you to sign-up for our newsletter, The Verbivore (https://www.averbforkeepingwarm.com/pages/monthly-newsletter), so you can be the first to be alerted love Aday (an avid stamp collector)// #diymask #savetheusps

Preorder Making Magazine No. 9 / Simple! This new issue features wonderful summer projects - sewing, dyeing, knitting, rug hooking, and practical items, like AVFKW Everyday Utensil Roll pictured on the cover. Kit coming soon! https://bit.ly/39p0SpB

Are you on instagram? We have been doing a series of short IG LIVE sessions checking in with ya’ll and curbing the loneliness! We are LIVE right now so check it out @avfkw in instagram https://www.instagram.com/avfkw/?hl=en! #oakland

UPDATE! The AVFKW retail brick and mortar store will be closed to the public from now until Wednesday, April 8th. Our online store will stay open during this time as far as we know. We are so grateful to everyone who has placed an order! We will be in contact with all students signed up for classes during this time. We are currently completing the dyeing for all @romidesigns mystery KAL kits, Thornbush sweater kits, and Musings kits. We will be shipping the...m as soon as they are ready. Thank you for your patience. Right now, we are ahead of our promised March 25 ship date. So some of you may be seeing them appear in your mailbox. Others will be seeing them very soon. As we have a reduced staff, please be patient with our timing of email responses as we are working very hard. Thank you so much for understanding! We send love and good health!! - Kristine, Adrienne, and all of us at AVFKW https://www.averbforkeepingwarm.com/ #verbalong #avfkw #averbforkeepingwarm #oakland #covid_19 #flattenthecurve #washyourhands #naturaldye #naturaldyeing #indigo #farmyarn

Looking for a project to dive into right now? The shop is open and our online store is stocked with great options. We'd love to help you find the right yarn, fabric, or kits. Shop online at https://www.averbforkeepingwarm.com/ Stop by or call us at (510) 595-8372 & we can help in person.

Hey Everyone, we have decided to cancel / postpone all classes this weekend at Verb (@cocoknits and crochet). If you are signed up for class, you should have received an email from us letting you know. We have also postponed all of @olgajazzyknits classes for the following weekend. We are saddened, disappointed and concerned for the physical, mental, and financial health of our community, neighbors, ourselves, and you. This weekend, the shop is OPEN regular hours. ... We are happy to take phone orders, online orders, deliver packages to your car. For this weekend, we are offering FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING! so if you can stay home, please do. Let’s flatten the curve. Buy ourselves more time, so we can understand more about the virus and how we can take care and alleviate pressure on our health professionals. All of that said, we genuinely do believe in the positivity on one’s mental health and in turn physical health of making textiles. And luckily we do have platforms where we can gather, make, and support one another. So please do try to get in some time this weekend making textiles. Please take care - Kristine and Adrienne #flattenthecurve #avfkw #keepitoakland #lys #averbforkeepingwarm #washyourhands #selfquarantine

Feeling the need for a good project to keep you busy and your mind at ease? We have several options! Check out our Full Moon Project Bag, indigo dyed right here in Oakland: http://bit.ly/34iWhmw , a Moving Forward Wrap http://bit.ly/37fAY7T or a Chroma Project Bag http://bit.ly/ChromaKit

We are taking pre-orders for the 4th and last printing of 52 Weeks of Socks! Get your copy. http://bit.ly/2QmP3d5 And we have a selection of Lazy Daisy & Mica sock kits online and in-store. These two patterns by Kristine are great quick knits and gifts! http://bit.ly/39IP7LJ