Kira K Designs

06/05/2026

This skein of yarn is going for a ride on the robot vacuum at ! I promise I did not set this up, and that I rescued it before locking up the shop.

06/02/2026

My after school classes are done for the school year and it always gets a bit hectic in the rush to finish projects, but here are a few. I love teaching crafts to kids and seeing what they come up with!

06/01/2026

This past week I wove, knit on new designs plus a rainbow sock, spun for an upcoming magazine article, and embroidered on a visible mending project. I crafted while demonstrating in classes, side by side with students in private lessons, with my virtual craft circle, during quiet mornings, and in the evenings while cuddled up with my dogs.

I completed the Stitch Every Day in May challenge hosted by and it was nice to document the month. I broadened it a bit to include all fiber crafts and never planned to enter the prize drawing anyway.

One thing I noticed while tagging the photos was all of the wonderful friends I have in the craft world. From yarn and fiber to stitch markers and project bags made by awesome people, venues to teach and opportunities to write, they make my life more full.

06/01/2026

Such a lovely day at today! We fed treats and/or petted goats, alpaca, Corriedale and Shetland sheep, and an angora rabbit. Farmer Mimi told us all about wool including bringing out a lanolin rich raw fleece and answered all of our sheepy questions.

I also made friends with a pretty butterfly that kept landing on me, and spotted Peter the cat who hasn’t shown himself on any of my previous visits

Thank you to everyone who came - this was a very friendly group!

05/28/2026

From June through October I’m teaching Visible Mending at six fiber festivals in five states!

I love showing how stains and tears can be opportunities for decorative patches, embroidery, or needle felting, keeping textiles in our closets and out of the landfill.

Are you heading to any of these events?

Wool Market in CO (Visible Mending sold out)
in WA (Visible Mending sold out)
Convergence in LA
in TX
in CA
in CA - special full day workshop

05/26/2026

Two recently finished projects! The Tracery Cowl is heading into tech editing and I’ll offer kits with this lovely yarn soon.

The handspun Spoke Cardigan is ….. a long story, literally. Over a year passed between when I started this combo spun yarn and when I finished it. It only took two months to knit and I posted here saying I couldn’t wait to wear it, and then it sat around waiting for the hook and eye tape. Finally this May, over a year after the knitting was done, I spent a couple hours hand sewing to finally finish it! All together 2.5 years with not a few months of active work and a lot of languishing.

Have you ever let a project hibernate this long waiting for that final detail?

05/22/2026

Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes and hosting crafty events since 2002. Kira’s teaching focus is on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment and supporting students through the learning process. She is also the designer behind Kira K Designs, a line of original knitting and crochet patterns and kits featuring clean lines and intriguing details that are both interesting to make and easy to wear. Kira has taught at Estes Park Wool Market, Flock Fiber Festival, Lambtown Festival, Oregon Flock and Fiber, Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, and Stitches events, as well as guilds and yarn shops.

05/22/2026

There’s just over a week to go with Stitch Every Day in May (amended by me to Craft Every Day in May) hosted by and here are my projects:

🚊 Cast on socks with riding BART train to San Francisco where a young child was fascinated to learn what I was doing and also why I would *make* socks

🐌 Needle felted an adorable snail while leading a kids class at with lots of creative kiddos

🌵Knit a second sample of a soon-to-be-released pattern with some mystery yarn

🌈 More progress on the sock with Always Be Kind Yarn in the Rainbows After Midnight colorway during evening couch cuddles with Friday

💚Swatching yarn for a article that I’m excited about - this is the most boring swatch of the lot

🧦 Sock is well past the place where I’ll add an afterthought heel, my favorite for avoiding interrupting self striping yarn but also accommodating a high arch

05/21/2026

I have some pretty wonderful fiber friends! I reached out to Elissavet to get her opinion on which of her colorways most closely matched the mood board for the upcoming Blends issue of since it can be a bit hard to tell colors onscreen. Not only did she weigh in on color choices, she dyed up two matching braids on BFL/silk just for me.

Along the way Elissavet mentioned she had a new non-superwash organic wool yarn so we got to discussing colors for the upcoming Ribbing issue of that I’m also working on. She offered to try some new colorways and wasn’t sure which was the best so she sent them all to me to decide. This new yarn is amazing and likely to become one of my favorites!

Thanks Elissavet for the fiber and yarn, and thank you Jacey and Karen for hiring me to write for your magazines!

05/20/2026

I love teaching Visible Mending as a full day workshop, and of course I love Lambtown Festival

Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes and hosting crafty events since 2002. Kira’s teaching focus is on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment and supporting students through the learning process. She is also the designer behind Kira K Designs, a line of original knitting and crochet patterns and kits featuring clean lines and intriguing details that are both interesting to make and easy to wear. Kira has taught at Estes Park Wool Market, Flock Fiber Festival, Lambtown Festival, Oregon Flock and Fiber, Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, and Stitches events, as well as guilds and yarn shops.