2025 Advent Skein Pre-Order

Round 1 Pre-Orders Open on April 1st at 10 am CDT. It will show as sold out until this time. 

Round 2 - To Be Determined (not guaranteed)

Please do NOT add anything else to your cart  with the Advent Skein during check out. These items will be refunded and cancelled. You may order multiple Advent's in the same order. 

Refunds or cancellations will NOT be granted, so please be sure in your purchase. 

Hello Friends!!! Welcome to the PRE-ORDER of my 2025 Advent Skein. This is my fifth year doing an Advent skein and it has been so much fun! If this is your first year, welcome!!! If this is a returning year for you, welcome back!! I appreciate each and every one of you! 

If you've received my Advent skeins the last two years, you may have noticed that the sequence is light then dark, then light, then dark and so on, through each color. I've done this for a few reasons. One being is I think it looks fantastic! Second, and most important in my opinion, is that you can tell when each stripe begins and ends, which is especially important if you are using a pattern that depends on this demarkation. On top of that, I just think it looks more cohesive as a sock. This year's Advent will fall into that same line of light/dark for each stripe. This colorway will also NOT scream Christmas and I would say if you like the colors of Autumn, you will like this color way too :) That's it. That's all the hints I am giving....lol!

The idea behind the Advent yarn is starting on December 1st, you knit one stripe a day, and by Christmas you'll have 24 stripes.  Now, of course, if you want to make socks out of it, you'll likely have to knit more than one stripe a day, and on two socks to have a completed pair before Christmas morn, but I think you get the idea. Just taking a few minutes a day to get away from the hustle and bustle from this time of year can be a mental health saver!

Here are all the details:

1. This will be a surprise color way, never been dyed before! Each of the 24 stripes will be it's own unique color, no duplicates, until the stripes repeat of course. Not all skeins will begin at the same color! The stripe length will be the same as the last few years have been so if you've knit my Advent before, you can use that as a gauge. 

2. All skeins will come as a set of two 50 g matching skeins (100 g total). Each skein in the set will start at the same spot. You can start from either end of the skein. Please wind each 50 gram skein individually. 

3. There will be an option for a 25 gram mini skein to add if you would like. This mini will be a DYED mini skein. You are welcome to order more than one mini should you feel you need it for your project. 

4. As in previous years you will have 3 bases to choose from: Serendipity, Splendid, and Serendipity DK.

Serendipity (Fingering)  75% SW Merino, 25% Nylon | 460 yards / 100g - (25 g mini is 115 yards)

Splendid (Fingering)  85% SW Merino, 15% Nylon | 437 yards / 100g (25 g mini is 109 yards)

Serendipity DK (DK)  75% SW Merino, 25% Nylon | 245 yards / 100g (25 g mini is 61 yards)

Shipping will be from Illinois (USA) and will begin in  mid-October, starting with any international orders since those will take longer to be received.  Once all international orders are out the door, all US orders will begin to ship.  My hope is to have all skeins shipped on or before November 15th. My ultimate goal is to get all skeins that were ordered in your hands before December 1st!!! Please know this is subject to change as we all know, life happens sometimes. 

With this said, once I drop the packages off at the post office, what happens is out of my control.  This time of year, there can be shipping delays and I have zero control over that.  However, this is why my goal is to ship them by November 15th!!! 

Let's Hashtag and Knit Along with each other!!! #FreckledWhimsyAdvent2025 --- Please tag your photos!! I would love to see how everyone gets along with their projects.