About The Yarn Bowl
The Yarn Bowl is a boutique yarn store in Brisbane that strives to source quality, hard-to-find yarns and notions. We aim to offer both locally and internationally sourced yarns and notions that will inspire and energise your creativity. The Yarn Bowl will be a creative destination that you will want to visit again and again.
Welcome Aleks Byrd
Aleks Byrd is a knitwear designer with roots in Estonia, Canada, and the USA. Aleks' passion is creating modern patterns with a connection to the past using little-known traditional techniques for unique wearable designs that are fun and rewarding to knit for all levels of knitters. Her portfolio of designs includes individual patterns as well as those published in The Knitter magazine and Laine Magazine. Her book Traditions Revisited - Modern Estonian Knits brings together her designs and teaching as an introduction to Estonian knitting both traditional and traditional-inspired.
Aleks teaches workshops to demystify the deceptively easy techniques used in her patterns all over the world in the UK, Europe, Canada, the USA, and Australia, most notably with sold out workshops at Vogue Knitting Live in New York.
Aleks especially loves sharing traditional knitting techniques from Estonia with knitters around the world to expand their view on what knitting can be. She works with yarn shops and knitting event organisers to bring engaging workshops to knitting communities.
We are thrilled to announce that Aleks will be teaching workshops at The Yarn Bowl 29-30 August. Information and bookings will be available from 9am AEST on Monday, 27 April.
What's new
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Be Inspired
You have a project in mind, now it's time to make it a reality with some quality supplies. Visit The Yarn Bowl for all your crochet and hand-knitting needs. We source high quality yarns and notions so that you can create a quality item. If there's a specific product you can't find, please don't hesitate to get in touch. We're always happy to do our best for all our valued customers.