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multi-organ transplant recipient | professor | photographer | ADHD superpowers | ally 🏳️‍🌈 | indie yarn dyer - finchmod.com
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🧶 How incredible is this community. In just a few hours we raised $1,008 for the Immigrant Rapid Relief Fund!! Thank you all so much. xoxo
January 28, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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🧶 This has been so awesome. One skein left! finchmod.com/products/hel...
Image of inventory of hellbent to help yarn
January 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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🧶Hellbent to Help is here. I’m dyeing a limited run of deep red yarn to pair with the Melt the ICE Hat. For every skein sold, $18 goes to Minnesota’s Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. One skein, one hat, one person kept warm, a little bit of resistance knit right in. LFG
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If you’ve been with me for a while, you probably remember Purls, Chucks & Zero F*cks, the colorway I dyed to raise money for the Harris/Walz campaign. Y'all proved how generous and badass this community can be, so it feels right to show up again. Hellbent to Help is a limited red colorway I’m dyeing to pair with the Melt the ICE Hat pattern. The red yarn at the top of the graphic is the color of this yarn. It’s a gorgeous crimson red, very similar to the hat in the pattern. It’s currently "drying" in barely-above-freezing weather, so I’ll post photos as soon as it’s ready. “Melt the ICE” hats, inspired by Norwegian resistance in the 1940s, are being knit and worn in solidarity with immigrant-led and immigrant-supporting organizations in Minnesota. People are sharing, wearing, and donating these red hats through local yarn shops and community organizers, and a whole lot of hats are going straight to folks who need them most. I can’t organize protests, but I can dye yarn, and this is the best way I know to make a difference. For every skein of Hellbent to Help sold, 18 dollars goes to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (IRRF), launched by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota to support immigration-related emergencies. The fund is working to raise millions to support Minnesota nonprofits on the front lines serving Somali, Latino, and other communities, and to provide fast, community-led support to immigrant and refugee families in crisis. My goal is simple: I want to use every bit of undyed yarn I have left to raise as much money as I can and feel like I made a difference, even if it’s a small one. And I would love for you to join me in not feeling quite so helpless. Make something warm, whether you keep it, donate it, or hand it directly to someone, and help send real support to people who need protection right now.
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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🧶 Who else is making the Melt the ICE Hat??? I am seeing if my heating cabinet gets warm enough, and I may dye some red yarn, too. I will donate all proceeds as well.
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melt the ICE hat pattern
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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🧶 Here is our tentative timeline for our KAL! Link to join if you are interested. These are VERY loose goals and no one has to do them! Some people like them so I create them :)
discord.gg/yAEWSV2c
the pink peppermint timeline of weeks we will knit in our knitalong
January 26, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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🧶 There is still time to join our Pink Peppermint KAL! We start Feb 1st and already have almost 50 people in our group on Discord. This is my gauge swatch. I am obsessed. This Make it Tweed is magic. Come play!
The pattern - www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Our Discord - discord.gg/pGHtBemX
the pink peppermint knitalong image with the pattern images my gauge swatch with Concepts by Katia Cotton-Merion and Rico Make it Tweed in rainbow my gauge swatch with Concepts by Katia Cotton-Merion and Rico Make it Tweed in rainbow
January 26, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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🧶 A little Tähkä Cardigan update. I'm about halfway done with one sleeve and then have the other. I need to finish it before our Pink Peppermint KAL starts! Last night I did a ccd for the first time in almost 50 years of knitting so that was fun. This is the pattern - www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tahka-cardigan body completed without sleeves on my mannequin showing the sleeve of my https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tahka-cardigan and how I learned how to do a cdd for the first time!
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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🧶Happy 2026! If anyone is looking for a new project and knitalong I am hosting one for Tanis Fiber Arts’ new Pink Peppermint sweater on Discord. We have almost 20 people already. We start Feb 1st Details in the image! Join us!

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January 17, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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🧶 Hi y’all! Life has been so busy but wanted everyone here to know I have a huge sale going on this weekend and launched my new collection - wanderlight. The shop is stocked too! Use code - WANDERLIGHT14 for 14% off everything in your order!
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November 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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🧶 Just restocked some sparkle obsidian sock yarn! finchmod.com/products/obs...
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🧶 I have decided that intarsia is NOT my jam. So I’m selling my yarn/project/bobbins/finchmod skein coats for $100 includes shipping in the US. This is the Make Myself Flowers Vest. That includes shipping and it’s more than half off retail! This was a size L but there’s a lot of yarn! LMK!
Yarn for make myself Dlowers vest for sale. 6 skeins of hand dyed cotton merino DK and 8 skeins of Drops Paris and skein coats and bobbins! $100 includes shipping in the US
September 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🧶 Hi all. Don’t mean to go MIA but ended up in the hospital with complicated diverticulitis. I know not everyone is on IG or TikTok but I’m doing a giveaway there. Dumpster fire, but make it pretty. If you are! Or tell me your dumpster fire survival kit here too!

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September 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I have this amazing collection of tonals from Finchmod @scoutj.bsky.social (plus a random skein of white 🧶) that will, I think, be perfect for the Westknits Mystery MusiKAL coming up October 2nd. Excited to dive into a Stephen West MKAL!
Four skeins of yarn in a row … beautiful spring colors: gimlet (light green), Jaffa (light orange), poppy (light pinky-red), and white.
September 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🧶 Dont’t forget today is your last day to get 20% off everything in the shop with the code SCOUTLOVESYOU! I put up some new yarn too!

#knitting #crochet #scoutlovesyou #finchmod #projectbags #handdyedyarn #indiedyer
Wall of hand dyed yarn that is on sale Light purple gray merino cotton DK Confetti DK merino cotton with specks of pinks and purples.
August 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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🧶 Some of the fun orders gone out with my current sales! Such lucky customers! The 20% off sale goes until Sunday night if you need yummy yarn or notions! Or both! Use “scoutlovesyou” for the discount - www.finchmod.com
#handdyedyarn #indiedyer #sale
August 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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🧶 How many of you knit/crochet/cross/stitch/craft in public all the time? I was in a doctor’s office today knitting and looking around and it’s so weird to never see anyone else crafting but me! I don’t leave the house without a project bag and WIP. I need my hands busy. You?
August 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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🧶 I’m celebrating rating my 1 year anniversary of finchmod and 2 years of my new liver with a sale!! Use “scoutlovesyou” and get 20% off your whole order even including my restock of skein coats and new KnowKnit colors! www.finchmod.com lots of pretty yarn still up too!!
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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🧶 Finished Object Friday! A golf club cover with a huge pom pom and some socks with my zebra yarn! #handdyedyarn #indiedyer
August 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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YAY!!!! I love it!!
cgaudy.bsky.social Caroline Gaudy @cgaudy.bsky.social · Aug 9
Almost finished Wingle Hoodie by Jess Haghkerdar in the Journal of Scottish Yarn. Over the moon with this gorgeous design. Yarn by FinchMod @scoutj.bsky.social. It’s BFL in color Ochre. 🧶
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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🧶 Can you tell me which green you like best for a fall/winter collection?? 1, 2, or 3!? Thank you! #handdyedyarn #indiedyer #knitsky #crochetsky
August 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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🧶 Anyone else have this Circular Solutions organizer? I have had mine forEVER and I love it. I keep a needle gauge at the top and even though I mostly use my addiClicks I still have all of these and needles from my mother are 50 years old probably!
August 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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🧶 Golf club cover knitting in the car with my GoKnit pouch helping me out!! Gotta finish this before we play tomorrow. I can’t wait to have this on my driver!
August 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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🧶 Some new colors in the shop while I work on my fall/winter collection called -wanderling. Oh it’s soooo pretty. Buy 4 get 1 free of all ready to ship yarn right now and they are all $28!
#handdyedyarn #indiedyer #knitsky #crochetsky
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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🧶 one 🦓sock done! I absolutely love this yarn and can’t wait to dye more! It’s so so soft too. #handdyedyarn #indiedyer #zebrayarn
July 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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🧶 #showmeyourknits is knitters choice so I picked a few of my favs this year. From my Wingle Hoodie, Laguna Beach, Weekender and now my matching Labubu cardigans it’s been a busy year!!
July 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM