KnitPicks Sale: Save Up To 25% On Yarn, Needles And Knitting Supplies

If your yarn basket has been looking a little too sensible lately, this might be the nudge you needed.

KnitPicks is currently running a sitewide sale with up to 25% off using code 5SUMMER26, which makes it a lovely time to stock up on yarn, needles, crochet hooks, pattern kits, and those extra little notions that somehow always disappear right when you need them.

This is the kind of sale I like for planning ahead — not just grabbing one pretty skein because it winked at you from the screen, but thinking about upcoming winter projects, handmade Christmas gifts, baby blankets, socks, shawls, and all those “I’ll just make something quick” projects that somehow become a whole new stash pile.

You can use the sale to shop for:

soft everyday yarns for beginner-friendly knitting and crochet projects
cotton yarn for dishcloths, market bags, and summer makes
sock yarn for portable knitting projects
needle sets, crochet hooks, and handy tools
pattern kits and value packs for gifting or stash-building

If you’re new to knitting or crochet, sales like this are also a good time to pick up the basics without spending a fortune. A few reliable yarns, a decent pair of needles, stitch markers, and a good project bag can make the whole process feel much less chaotic. Ask me how many times I’ve lost stitch markers down the side of the couch.

Shop the KnitPicks sale here and use code 5SUMMER26 to save up to 25% off.

When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations.

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind.

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca.

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl.

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions.

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic).

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only.

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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