Hello everyone!

Today is World Mental Health Day 2020 & I've just released the pattern for the Brain Space Shawl as a fundraiser for mental health services in MN.

50% of the sales from this pattern along with 20% of all my pattern sales in the month of Oct will be donated so you can have fun knitting while doing some good for the community. You can use any of your favorite yarns to knit it up, no colorways are too busy for this shawl and minis would look amazing!

It's available to download in the Yumi Yarns Shop as well as through Ravelry.

Happy knitting! 😘

Shaina ^_^

PS: I'll be doing an IG Live with the dyer, Alive with Purpose, today at 10 am CST. Please join us if you can otherwise I'll also share the replay later to my IGTV account.

In collaboration with Alive with Purpose Yarns, 20% of all YumiYarns profits are being donated to mental health services in MN through the month of October 2020.

Alive with Purpose Yarns

Alive with Purpose is the dyer behind the beautifully vivid colorways used in my sample of the Brain Space Shawl. I've been following her work for months now and was so excited to hear that she donates a portion of all her proceeds to mental health services in MN. We've both had times where we needed to hit pause on life so we could focus a bit on our own mental health and well-being so it makes sense that this is a topic near and dear to our hearts and is one that we want to help others with as well.

If you'd like to find out more about the origins of Alive with Purpose yarns and support her work, please stop by her site, read through her About page, and pick up a skein or two of her super-saturated colorways. You'll be helping to support the community while enhancing your stash & crafting something amazing!

Join Us for a Virtual Book Launch Party!

The Knitmore Girls have collaborated with a slew of sock designers to create the Operation Sock Drawer book (releasing on Oct 20) and a bunch of my friends have designs in it!

The Zombie Knitting Network is hosting a virtual book release party with the Knitmore Girls and a bunch of the sock designers. Join in on this fun & free event to learn about the books creation, the process behind the designs, and even score an exclusive autograph page from the creators!

Come help us celebrate this beautiful collection of sock patterns on

October 10th at 1 pm CST.

Expand Your World View

I've linked a few reading lists below if you're also interested in expanding and improving your view of the world we all live in.