Fairmount Fibers, Ltd.
U.S. Distributor of Manos del Uruguay Yarns

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Can-do Colorwork

Are you confident with colorwork? The online Stitchionary from Vogue Knitting presents a great quick visual to a variety of colorwork techniques ra...

New Pattern Round-Up

Knitting is a relaxing activity for most, so it makes sense to continue that activity as the lazy days of Summer stretch out ahead of you. If you a...

Captivating Cables

Love them or hate them, cables found in sweaters or other accessories are time-honored classics. The cabled texture can be made with as few as two ...

Alegria: Above and Beyond

Alegria is an easy-care blend of ultra-soft superwash merino with durable polyamide. We enjoy hearing the response of "Oh, sock yarn from Manos!" f...

Summertime Stitches

If you are traveling this summer, relaxing poolside or enjoying lazy days at home, don't forget to keep your knitting and crochet projects at hand!...

Don't Fear Fingering Weight!

Are you a fan of fingering weight yarns? Just as some are drawn to bulky woolen sweaters, many equally feel the pull of fingering weight yarn.  Man...

Free Pattern Round Up

Are your needles in need of a quick project? We have three new free patterns from our design contest ready to download.Each project works up quickl...

LE 5 & The #77 Dream Hat

Start the new year off right with the latest offering in our Wool Clasica Limited-Edition series!  This month, Santiago created a bold, bright vari...

Free Pattern Round-Up

It's that time of year when small projects you can make quickly using only a few skeins of yarn reign supreme. We've released two new FREE pattern...

New Pattern: Keeping Rosita Warm

Ever since the Missoni for Target collection debuted in September, crafters of all persuasions have been revisiting the chevron motif made famous b...

Clasica Design Contest Winners

We received some really creative submissions to our Wool Clasica design contest – and while they didn’t number many, they were in such high quality...

cowl crazy

The blog post before this one was a tutorial on some of the techniques used in the Electric Reversible Shaker Cowl. If you've been following us on ...