Knotty By Nature Fibre Arts
1919 Fernwood Road V8T 2Y6 Victoria, BC, Canada

We just received this beautiful double drive Leclerc spinning wheel on consignment. I gave it a bit of oil and a new drive and and it spins like a dream! The seller is asking $350, send a message if you’re interested.

Not that it is really dryer season right now, but here is pile of dryer balls (waiting to be felted). They are fun toys too! #dryerballs #wool #wetfelting

Experiments in texture. #wetfelting #learningbydoing

Combining ALL the colours in this latest felt piece! Every bit of it dyed by moi. #wetfelting #handdyedwool #handdyedyarn #contrast

We will be open today from 11-3, hop on down and get yourself some spring supplies!

Because we care about you and in accordance with today's Public Heath Order, we are redoubling our efforts to contain Covid. This means we are temporarily suspending our scheduled classes. Classes will still be available, outside and by appointment, for 2-4 people who are already in each others' bubble of 10. As always, masks are required inside the shop, and no more than 4 customers are allowed inside at a time. If you want to avoid coming all together you can order most of our products through our website and we can either ship them set them outside for you. Thank you for your understanding and patience. We are close to the end, this last stretch will be something we can all get through, especially with a little care and lovingkindness. #keepcalmandcarryyarn

Our bookshelf contains many treasures! Can you spot any of your favourites? @ Knotty By Nature Fibre Arts

Love it! And it's for a good cause to boot.

Buttons, buttons, buttons! The hard part will be to remove them from their awesome vintage cards to use them!

Bernie says get your mitten supplies and inspiration at Knotty!

Here is my latest hand dyed silk/merino roving. Trying to branch out from the jewel tones that I normally gravitate towards. What would you make with this?

These beautiful creatures are back at Swan lake, and they have inspired our local needle felting kit maker @farmlass to make up a brand new kit for us! #needlefelting #swan #swanlake @ Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society

We are stocked up on every available colour of Illimani yarns ‘Santi’ and ‘Amelie’, two of most beautiful yarns we have ever seen! I took these photos to put up on the website for online ordering, but they looked so nice I had to put them here too! @ Knotty By Nature Fibre Arts

These beautiful creatures have returned to Swan lake and they have inspired our local maker to create a brand new needle felting kit for winter! Get your Swan kit here in the shop, and check out more of Farmlass's work here: https://farmlass.blogspot.com/

I feel very honoured to have been gifted this beaded poppy by @renegaderoseartistry one year ago, and I am still wearing it today on Remembrance Day. I’m thinking about all of the brave people that fought for our freedom and also that there is a long way to go for Indigenous people in this country to have those same freedoms. Scroll down for some truthtelling. . .... . Throughout World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, it is estimated that between 7000-12000 declared and undeclared indigenous people served in the Canadian forces. Unfortunately, the relationship between the Canadian government and servicemen and women was abysmal. Veterans were denied the same recompense as their non-indigenous counterparts under the War Veterans Allowance Act. Land was illegally taken from treatied territory and given to non-indigenous growers of crops to support the troops. That land was not returned. Forced conscription of treatied First Nation peoples, though illegal, was enforced from 1942 through 1944, until the courts upheld the rights of First Nations peoples abstaining from fighting in the Queen’s military, as provided for in treaty negotiation. Unfortunately, many who voluntarily left to fight in WWII lost Status upon returning and were no longer allowed to live on their Nation’s land with their own families. This was due to a clause in the Indian Act that prevented First Nations people from being absent from their reserves for longer than three years; in some cases this was also due to voluntary surrender of Status to be able to enlist, and sometimes with the promise of status recovery upon return. Many Metis people were afraid to identify for fear of losing their children, and so declared themselves French or European when enlisting. Many, many other important inequalities lasted well beyond the 1960s allowance of Indigenous veterans accessing Veterans Services and of entrance into the Legion. Indigenous Veterans were not allowed to lay wreaths at the National Monument until 1995.

Thanks to my three brave drop spindle students who were ok taking my class in the fresh (read, brisk) air today! I’m grateful to live on Vancouver island for so many reasons, not the least of which being the people and the climate! #teachingoutdoors #dropspindle #yyj #yyjbusiness #yyjarts

A tutorial on dyeing wool (and silk) with my electric turkey roaster:

My parents got a new puppy and I’m in love. She really loved sleeping in the sun on this lovely wool sweater!

Edit: after four hours of waiting, my surgery was cancelled (surgeon was too busy). Thanks for all the well wishes everyone! So I’m having a bit of elective surgery today and need to stay off my feet for a week or so. So naturally I have lined up a hundred hours of fibre arts to do during my down time! These include, about 5 spinning projects, a 32 inch woven wool mat for my parents’ puppy, and a macrame ‘tree of life’. We shall see how many of these get done but it’s nice to have options!

Just squeezing in a live video in between customers...

I went ahead and scheduled classes through until the end of February! Including three brand new classes for you. Due to COVID cautiousness our class max is 4, so classes fill up fast! Find more details at www.kbnfibres.ca

Macrame pumpkin hangers, why not?!

Posted @withregram @kingmoth dropped off some needle felted owl friends at @knottyknews a few days ago! I’m hoping they will all find nice homes soon . . . . .... . . . #art #artistsoninstagram #pnwartist #yyjartist #buymoreart #yyjart #yyjartists #bird #birds #owl #barnowl #homecraft #felt #felting #needlefelting #dryfelting #craft #needlecraft #fiberart #softsculpture #fiber #wool #corriedale #crafting #handcrafting #handfelting See more

I’m excited (and a little nervous) to teach my first ever four person drop spindle class this morning! It is such an enjoyable and productive hobby, and although it is quite simple the learning curve can be a bit steep, and for this reason for the past 10 years I have been teaching it one-on-one. However there is too much demand and not enough of me, so here goes! #dropspindle #dropspindlespinning

We gave it our best! Thank you all for your support.

Got a commission... stay tuned to see what it is!

The choice is clear, Vote for Papik!

We sell their wonderful hand made booties here at the shop!

Posted @withregram @stephpapik The NDP is more than any one person. The NDP is the people, and these are the #peopleforpapik. I’m running to be your NDP candidate in the provincial riding of Victoria-Beacon Hill. You can learn more about me, my background, and my priorities at stephaniepapik.ca. #votepapik #papikforvbh

People for Papik!

As many of you likely know by now, our very own @stephpapik is in a nomination race right now to represent the NDP in the Victoria/Beacon riding (that means Fernwood, Downtown, James Bay, and more). If you want to show your support and intention to vote for this incredible Indigenous women, we encourage you to take a photo with yourself holding a Vote Papik sign! No it doesn’t have to be as large or yarny as this one, but if you want to swing by the shop today or Monday you could use mine! Thanks in advance for your support. #votepapik #indiginous #power

One more hurdle has been cleared! Now to win the nomination.

Demonstrating how to use wool combs on this local cotswold fleece.

Stephanie has some very exciting news to share!

Awww! A fresh batch of hand made dolls just came in on consignment... Eeyore might have to come home with me, that grumpy cutie.

Spinning up some batts, wrapping them with some super bulky merino I over dyed and some rayon that is so old the label says it was made in Yugoslavia!

Come spend the evening with us this Friday! We will be on our back deck and in the parking lot to allow for social distancing. The store will be open for business too in case you need to get some fibre! As always, 5 customers maximum and please bring your masks :)

One of my first sales of the lockdown was a whole bunch of merino roving that I shipped up island. Lo and behold my talented customer spun it all up and knit it into this jaw dropping fair isle sweater!

Went camping for the weekend and left it to our wonderful helpers to freshen up the store displays

Here is my entry to the @themakehousevic 8 year anniversary photo contest. This reverse appliqué patch combines my love of weaving and my love of bicycles! It was on a dear sweatshirt of mine for years. #themakehousesews #reverseapplique #bicycle #patch