Description: Hamptons Yarn offering handspun yarn, handmade yarn and spinning by crochetier, fiber artist Amanda Schaefer in the Hamptons, Long Island, New York.
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home about portfolio fiber events contact links muttikam Hamptons Yarn offering 100% hand-made handspun yarn (from raw fiber to finished yarn) and hand-made knitwear including crochet, knitting and by expert crochetier / knitter and fiber artist Amanda Schaefer.
It has become an all too common story in the yarn world: You go to a fiber fair and see racks upon racks, booths upon booths of the same product, "superwash Merino sock-yarn". The yarn market has become flooded with this mass-produced conformity and I feel it has led to a severe lowering of the standard within the hand-crafting community. It is within anybody's power to register a wholesale account with a yarn mill and order 50 skeins of yarn - that is not original or creative. I chose not to take the e