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Hi I’m Janis, the dyer and co-founder of Queen City Yarn.

We are a dye studio in Charlotte, NC, where we hand-dye all of our yarn. We strive to offer beautiful colors on bases your customers will love. We began Queen City Yarn with a love of offering beautiful handpaints paired with vibrant tonals. We have since expanded to offer specialty bases that have quickly become customer favorites.

Our most popular base is Coleman, a 65% Silk, 35% Linen blend that is a great DK weight base perfect for hot and humid summers, but also great for layering pieces in cooler months. Our other best seller is Latta, our sport weight, 100% Non-Superwash Merino/Rambouillet wool. Latta comes in multiple sizes, from petites to super skeins, making it a perfect choice for a contrast color or as the main color of your project.

You’ll still find us dyeing our original bases ranging from fingering-weight NoDa Sock to our newest fuzzy alpaca/silk blend, Bernice.

Our colors are inspired by our beautiful surroundings and the breathtaking places we have visited. While we dye each color to be beautiful on its own, we also strive to design coordinating colorways as well as colors that contrast beautifully with one another.

WE CAN’T WAIT TO MAKE WITH YOU!

Our Process

Our process begins with dyeing beautiful handpainted colorways. As makers, we fall in love with these skeins, but sometimes struggle to find ways to use them. We wanted to make choosing colors for your projects easy, so we have created coordinating tonals that work effortlessly with the handpaints. These coordinating tonals are great if you need a second or third color for a project. We also dye contrasting tonals that make the handpainted colorways really pop - perfect for color work or a striped project.

Getting Started with Wholesale

Local yarn stores are SO important to the continued growth of our creative community. Queen City Yarn would not exist today if Christen and I had not met at a knitting group hosted by one of our local stores. 

That's why when it comes to selling wholesale we want to start you off on the right foot!  

We've put together a wholesale starter pack for this reason. It's a well-rounded mix of our best sellers and tried and true colors. Want to build your collection out more? We've put together a supplementary collection of more fan-favorites, to make sure your in-store display pops.

We know the importance of keeping your stock fresh, seasonally up-to-date and inspiring for your customers. Our Monthly Specials make it easy to add diversity to your shop. Want a custom color? We do that too.